We are very glad to see that Liquor Control is
given prominence in the King's Speech. We earnestly hope that the reform will follow the lines of the only experiment in Liquor Control which has proved an unqualified success ; that is to say, ownership and control by the State. We print elsewhere a letter from Canon Rawnsley which is only one of many tributes we have pub- lished to the wonderful transformation wrought by State control at Carlisle. A word of warning, however, must be uttered, even at this early stage. It is essential that the State should have the option to purchase the Liquor Trade at the valuation made by Sir Thomas Whittaker's Committee in 1915. If this valuation be not accepted, we shall be piling up the bill against the nation and making the great Trade monopoly more than ever our king.
