THAT PUBLIC NUISANCE AND ITS CAUSE.
TO THE J-DITOB. Sir, —It is rather satisfactory to see that the " Drink question" is occupying the public mind a little more lately than, usual, and people are beginning to give vent to their feelings on this subject more frequently. A writer in your issue of Saturday night is " disgusted" at the number of quarrelsome and drunken people who are of late to be met with on the street, in the trams, in places of amusement, and everywhere. Well, what of that? If we must have a "Trade" (with a capital "T") we surely must be willing to put up with the evidences and products of that trade. If people are so disgusted at the effect why do they not remove the cause? A great many of us are, like your correspondent, disgusted, but we invariably go the right way about remedying matters at the ballot box. Every good tradesman turns out a finished article, and the. finished article of the drink-seller is often a drunkard ; so aslong as the drink-seller is allowed to remain I cannot see why anyone need complain or be disgusted at the inevitable product of this particular tradesman.—l am, etc., Common Sense. September 23.
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Evening Star, Issue 11662, 24 September 1901, Page 7
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