THE DRINK QUESTION
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Dunmore is, of course, well aware that the Oxford Bill, after a three-days' debate, was decisively rejected by the House of Lords on July 8th, 1924. I venture to affirm that it was precisely because that measure did not, to quote Lord Dunmore, provide a fair basis for compensation " that it met with so summary a fate on that occasion. It appeared that, in the opinion of the great majority of Peers, the Oxford Bill contained within its numerous clauses principles so foreign to their sense of equity, and financial provisions so doubtful in security, that it was not worthy of a second reading.
Meanwhile, I am quite certain that short sight is no more responsible for my dislike of the Oxford Bill than for my distaste for the Oxford trouser.—I am, Sir, &c., 36 Hans Place, S.W. 1.
F. P. WHITBREAD.
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