...the axiom, in a speech which he delivered some time ago, that the Government should so legislate as to make it " easy to do right and difficult to do wrong," and that was the only reason why he ventured to bring this question before the House. He wished to...

...punishes the tempted, and yet this is actually what we do at present. Our licensing system does not tend to make it " easy to do right and difficult to do wrong," but the reverse. We have ignored the true principle that "prevention is better than cure" and have...

...long-continued cheers.) "A Government should so legislate," it has been ably said by Mr. Gladstone, " as to make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong," and I hope the British Indian administration will always be carried on in a way conformable to the...

...paralyze and stultify our labours for good. To quote again the words of Mr. Gladstone, " Government ought to make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong." At^present it is the opposite of this, for it lends its authority and co-operation to a system whose...

...to remove these temptations. Our Prime Minister said some time ago that it is the duty of Government to make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong ; and I know, from personal conversation with hundreds of prisoners, that they arc really anxious to...

...their relations as citizens, comes confessedly within the domain of law. Indeed, no government fulfils its mission which forgets that the State can in this...the principle that the liquor traffic is a source of grave peril to society, against which it is the right and duty of the State to protect itself by such...

...drunkenness is the drinking of intoxicatin; drinks." — LORD ALTHORPE. " It is the duty of the Government to make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong." — GLADSTONE. THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER. " Is it not a fearful infatuation, is it not our national madness,...

...Legislature has learned that it is their olain and stern duty to put Mr. Gladstone's rule ito force to make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong — until they learn that it is their plain and stern duty to protect from temptation those who are...

...demoralising the people and ruining the commonwealth. As Mr. Gladstone puts it — the Legislature ought to "make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong." And all men anxious for the good of their country should be prepared to take legislation by instalments,...

...that these experts, in their anxiety to realise an ideal of Mr. Gladstone— that of legislating so as to make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong — may have aimed too high, seeking rather what ought to be than what is possible to accomplish. But...