THE SYSTEM OP 'SHOUTING '

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4892, 18 September 1901, Page 4

THE SYSTEM OP 'SHOUTING '

Wordsworth's lines, ' Come, let me hear thee shout, thou gentle shepherd boy, 1 do not refer to the practice which justice Hood, of Victoria, has taken an occasion to animadvert upon with some severity. Nor is the Australian shepherd the subject of judicial reproach, unless indeed he belongs to the clasß of shepherd familiar to the mining fraternity. The old Australian shepherd was for the most of his days necessarily silent and compulsorily abstemious. ' Sboutingj* as »xa Auatralian institution, appears to have commenced with the goldfields era. It is probable that the free and easy life of all goldfields lendß itself to the ' standing treat' idea ; but tradition has it| that in Victoria the habit was fostered by the efforts in Sir Charles Hotham's days to keep drink from the diggers — another proof of the terrible mischief wrought by people abounding in good intentions and deficient in wisdom. Licenses were not obtainable, and storekeepers grew accustomed to keep a keg under the counter and to give a drink to every customer. The ' shout ' was expected. •No shout, no custom,' became an unwritten law, and the habit spread over the land. It must be confessed tbat a great change has been made from these ' good old days ' ; but Mr Justice Hood will nowhere be condemned for insisting that there is still too much of the old practice lingering in some walks of life. His 'Honor knows what he is talking about when he refers to commercial travellers and their customers in country towns as adhering in too conservative a spirit to the old liberal custom. His Honor alluded to the expense, but the temptation to young men who aie commencing life is a consideration of still more importance. Adopting a famous sentence, it may be eaid of this practice that it has diminished and is diminishing, and that the quicker the diminution the better for all concerned.

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