A CONTRAST AND A REMEDY.

Otago Witness, Issue 1189, 12 September 1874, Page 19

A CONTRAST AND A REMEDY.

Under this heading the San Francisoo Bulletin has the following : " A gentleman who has lived two years in France, spending most of his time in sightseeing and exploring, declares that he never during all that time saw a man drunk on the streets of any of the cities of that country. Drunkenness in Franoo is a serious offenoe. If a man is found lying drunk in uny street or public place he tjoes to the workhouse for 30 or CO da>s for the first offence, and a much longer time for the second transgression. If he persists in getting drunk he will finally spend all his time at the workhouse, where he is out of the way, and at the samo time is made to earn his own living and the costs of prosecuting him*

"The same gentleman, in walking less than a miia to-day in the streets of San Francisco, saw two "drunken men lying utterly helplees in the streets. He estimated that if he had explored the entire city he would have found not less than 20 or 30 such cases.

"We need a workhouse for the drunken men of this city, and a law which sends them there for every publio offence of this kind. When this is done, although, tippling is more common here than in France, drunken men on the streets of San Francisco will be as rarely Been as, in the streets of Paris." '