THE ÜBIQUITOUS TRACT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 283, 4 October 1878, Page 15

THE ÜBIQUITOUS TRACT.

The irrepressible tract distributor has found his way into the tram cars. A most benign individual might have been observed yesterday morning in one of the cars on the southern lines with a huge bundle of those offensive articles neatly assorted, so as to suit the age and supposed tastes of the various recipients of his favours. There were nicely-coloured goody-goody ones for young children, and plain and grave-looking documents for the more grown unreflectiye people. This thing is becoming a nuisance, and, if allowed by the tramway companies, will eventually injure their traffic. They should not permit their passengers to be insulted by the cheap and obtrnsivc sanctity of these travelling Chadbands. It is bad enough to be bored in Sackville-street by a couple of groups of " Christian young men," who thrust thdr stock-in-trade almost into your coat-sleeve, but to meet the pest every time you endeavour to get away into the suburbs, as you fancy, out of liis reach, is a ten-fold aggravation of the nuisance. It is an Old Man of the Sea, an incubus, an evil eye, that fastens itself upon you and will not be shaken off. It is, in fact, becoming intolerable, for it has no sense of decency or propriety, and is abashed at nothing. It should be frowned down by every tolerant man and woman, — Dublin Freeman.