Committee point out that the Carlisle scheme PYs special privileges
and that these must be remem- bered when the present sound .financial state of the scheme is judged. The evidence laid before the Com- mittee did not convince them that the reduction of public-houses at Carlisle by 50 per cent. had led to a reduction in the quantity of intoxicants consumed beyond that which is common to the rest of the country. On the whole, though they found a good deal to praise at Carlisle, they were "not satisfied that a case has been established for the extension of the scheme." Finally, they have a word of praise for the Trust Movement, though they point out that it does not touch the real problem of the public-house in the worst urban districts. Lord Southborough's Report assumes the need of a wider survey of the licensing question, but our own feeling is that much more could fairly have been said in advocacy of the Carlisle system from which the "incentive of private profit" has been removed.
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