We also desire to endorse the Morning Post's very sound
criticism of the proposal to alter the system under which the value of licenses is now estimated. We are further inclined to agree with the Morning Post in viewing with favour the principle of the proposal made by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1904, that the compensation solieme established by the Act of that year should continue for fourteen years, and that at the conclusion of that time there should be another period of seven years during which the remaining license-holders should be left undisturbed to make preparation for the final extinction of all their claims. The Morning Post ends its article by condemning the argu- ment that to impose a time-limit upon the present licensing system is to set up a dangerous precedent for the destruction or confiscation of all forms of property.
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