18 MARCH 1893, Page 16

THE VETO BILL.

[To THY EDITOR OF THE " Spitcvoron."J SIR,—I agree with everything in your article of March 4th on Sir William Harcourt's Liquor Bill, except where you claim compensation to the publican for compulsory Sunday closing. I am no Sabbatarian, but when you say that a seventh of his business is to be taken away by statute," I would call to mind that, in exactly the same sense, a sixth of the business of the owners of spinning and weaving mills was taken away 'by the Factory Act of about forty-five years ago, by compulsory reduction of the working hours from twelve per day to ten ; and though the millovvners opposed the Act, I do not think they ever spoke of compensation.—I am, Sir, &c.„