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LlCENSED^ICrUALLliRi' REPORT.I

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LlCENSED^ICrUALLliRi' REPORT. IT would almost be a pity to allow the report of the Cardiff Licensed Victuallers' Associa- tion to pass without notice. There is in the town of Cardiff a considerable number of Publicans, some of whom, how few we need not mention, have agreed to constitute them- selves into a body under the comprehensive title of tho Cardiff Licensed Victuallers' Association. To a stranger this Hame would be misleading were it Hot that their latest report itself reveals the fact of the comparative unimportance of those who have adopted it. It must, as a general rule, be very agreeable to the gentle- Inenwho have encompassed themselves with 80 large a name to see their speeches and their doings reported in the press, and sent forth to be known and read of all men. But When these gentlemen are honestly com- pelled to admit that after all the trouble and expense, and the persevering energy v which they threw into the late Parliamentary election, they failed to seeure a unanimous trade-vote," it must be very aggravating to themselves, though highly gra- tifying to their neighbours. Any outsider can Bee that an association entitled to the name which these gentlemen have modestly adopted would of necessity have secured a tolerably unanimous trade-vote; but it does not follow that the three tailors of Tooley- Btreet will persuade all those employed in their trade to cut their cloth according to a given pattern. In one of the calamities which have befallen the Association we have a peculiar interest. Ct We find from their report that some of their greatest enterprises have been ignominously defeated by what they themselves have termed "sophisticated third or fourth-rate editorials. We do no admit any connection of our own either directly or indirectly with such editorials, but we cannot help ex- pressing our surprise that such a power- ful body should have been vanquished by such a disreputable antagonist. We should ourselves be ashamed to confess that we had been defeated by third or fourth rate editorials. To be vanquished in argument by a first-rate reasoner has been the lot of many an able man, but "when GOLIATH has been overthrown by a mere stripling whom he disdained, he adds little to his reputation when he stigmatises his opponent as a mere dwarf. Of the Licensed Victuallers of Cardiff, some of whom are among its most highly and deservedly, respected citizens, we should not like to speak in such terms as these. They are a powerful class, and will, we doubt not, always be able to hold their own against any adverse criticism; but no person will be surprised to learn that the body which has chosen to magnify itself by assuming the loud-sounding title of the Cardiff Licensed Victuallers' Association have had their designs upset by third or fourth-rate editorials. The reason why it required even such literary power as this to vanquish them will probably be found in the fact that writers of fifth or sixth-rate editorials never attack such gentlemen. One sentence in their report is, we confess, some- wha unintelligible. It runs as follows :— (( Tn committee, who hare observed many of tin modes that have been adopted to in- flict aiinjury upon you, have either entirely failed to. will surely do ao. Many bf their coffee ..verns will not support their ex- penses, id those gentlemen who have been led by t^gerated and mis-atatements to place tht. money at the disposal of .ethers, no 1ubt for the best intention, will find they lsadly imposed upon by design- ing persons, mask is religious zeal and pious We commend the fore- ( going remarklla piece of composition to the writers of sonicated third and fourth- rate leaders, ÍJthe hope that when these gentlemen hashed some light upon it, we may be able understand it. We fiN happy to hear.jj^ the Cardiff Licensed Victuallers'As^ioj! are free to acknow- ledge that they XTe faithfully endeavoured not only" to old and maintain their just rights andrivj^eg0fl) but the freedom I and individual li^y of Englishmen," but what they mean" intimatíng that their "religious zeal is placing by social dis- carder, communism, materialism" these very rights and privily gurpa33es our com- j prehension. Of thi 'reiigi0J13 zeal we have not had any PP0U8 intimation. If, have not had any PP0U8 intimation. If, however, their zealous 'v MS in getting up { a petition against the 'Is h Sunday Clos- 1 ing Bill be a specim of what they h call their religious we })8,ve < no difficulty whatever comprehending them. That Bill is to have the hearty support of a very majority of the adult inhabitants of Principalityj i and the majority even Luj^ssqcI 7; Victuallers but it is not tc expecte(i that ) all Association representing^ minority of the trade will look wifavour Upon I! such a measure. That thei^jou8 I should replace their just ri^ privi- leges by social disorder, )mmunism, and materialism, create 1 much surprise, but we canno>nceal our wonder at their finding room this ad- mission in their own repott^g may f probably be informed that v mis- I apprehended or misrepresented > TepOTt. We can only reply that, assuming have been written by men who can their < thoughts in intelligible language, have simple accepted it in its literal sen* these gentlemen should rejoice in j pect of a failure among the Coffee | the public will not think it neca inquire. We think, however^ even publicans might Mimi; tI8 right of an Englishman to 18 a cup of coffee instead of a glass of h j he choose to pay for it. We are afrab t < if our legislators were, out ot deference f-e Cardiff Licensed Victuallers'Associate suppress Coffee Taverns, they would give to something more formidable than C munism. So long, however, as Mr B. BLAKE, and those who hold half-yea meetings under his presidency,have no mi influence than they at present enjoy, and SO far remote fromDowning-street,neither i •itixens of Cardiff, nor the inhabitants Wales, will be greatly alarmed at any thi .1 t! 'P they may threaten, or unduly depressed by anything they may accomplish.

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