CURSING AND BLISTERING THE POOR LABOURER.
In a letter in the London Star, Mr. Joseph Leicester, after adverting to the lato London strike, says: — "Having done so nobly in this direction, could you not lend your aid to crush an evil, million of times more potent than dock-owners in cursing and blistering the poor labourer ? I mean the public-houses in London (nearly 600 miles of them!) — which are like the bloodsucking vampires of the ancients, draining out the very vitals of these poor men. Last night (Saturday) all the neighbourhood of the Newcut, when these ' hells ' let out their victims, was one dismal, howling, screaming, and blaspheming orgie. Will you not lend us a hand in closing these vile and infamous dens, which are sending crime and sorrow over the land like a terrible flood of fire? The Rev. William Horsley says 'that the gaols are never full until trade is good,' which is a most damning impeachment of publichouses. Nearly a million people brought before the magistrates last year ! It is terrible in the extreme, and appeals ' trumpet-tongued ' for the aid of all the good and true to wipe so foul a stain from this seagirt isle."
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 143, 14 December 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)
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198CURSING AND BLISTERING THE POOR LABOURER. Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 143, 14 December 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)
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