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Thames Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 8611, 16 March 1897, Page 2

[TO THE EDITOK OF THE THAKM STAB.]

Sir, —In your replies to Mr Serpell you admit that the abuse of liquor is accompanied by great arils. You also state that smoking and tea-drinking are evils. Here, then, we hare two evils. Mr Serpell, we know, is working might and main to put a stop to one of these evils; now, what are you, I Mr Editor, doing to put a stop to the I other ? You advocate moral suasion and force of example.' Ihese Mr Serpell is using in the fight against the liquor traffic. Are you, sir, using these—your own weapons—in endeavoring to suppress what you term the evils of smoking and tea-drinking ? I—l am, &c, I A Bit of a Kid.

[We have always beeen on th© side of temperance and moderation in beerdrinking, tea-drinking, and smoking, we hay« condemned immoderation, and we have looked to moral suasion as the regenerating force. Mr Serpell uses moral suasion plus Prohibition. That is the difference. We should advise the "Kid" to stick to milk, as he is ; evidently not old enough for the moderate use of either tea or tobacco. —Ed. Stab..]