policy of buying tip breweries and licensed houses and placing
them under public management as at Carlisle. He has de- nounced the Carlisle scheme on the grounds that it made ex- cessive profits, that Carlisle was still notorious for drunkenness, and that State Purchase would not give public control but only bureaucratic control. Mr. Sherwell replies effectively to these charges in this pamphlet. The profits made at Carlisle have been large, but they have gone to the State and not to the trade, while much has been done for the comfort and convenience of customers. It is not true that Carlisle is less sober than similar towns: the convictions for drunkenness from 1911 to 1915 numbered between two hundred and three hundred yearly, but numbered only eighty in 1918 and seventy-eight last year. Thirdly, Mr. Sherwell argues for State Purchase as immediately effective compared with Local Option such as Mr. Snowden. prefers.
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