A SATURDAY NIGHT SCENE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3493, 7 March 1905, Page 2

A SATURDAY NIGHT SCENE.

to the editor of the manawatb herald. Sir,—Allow me through the medium of your paper to bring before the public sonic facts which, .Also, tend towards exposing the degradation of a portion of the community. First I help feeling that there is a movement in our midst among the young men, backed even by sonic older one*, to desecrate the great moral (not speaking ot a, religious) institution called t,imday, .Sunday is becoming the most boisterous day- of the week; it is the day when the rich man gives his choicest parties, arid the day when the pool man gets drunk in the company of his bomi Companions. What is it that makes this Age in which we live so sad, so careless to rashness and void ai hope and peace ? These are questions which ought to interest each member of Urn community, and tne answer must be given sooner or later. Was it not heartreudering to nave witnessed last Saturday night the spectacle which was presented m the? Main sfr’ccY ? and yet we boast ourselves to be a civilised community, and even more than that, that we are Christians, J^t- Christians Id name, but not in deed! Where arc we drifting to? our children grow iff* when we ali-fw a.icn things to happen ill our midst r ln«v language used on Saturday night was most disguisting, most repulsive. Men were iving drunk ,on the footpaths* and woman had to be accompanied by the kindness of two men in order to act home sately. Is it nececsary that ‘such things should happen ? I say emphatically no. I could not help feeling with a modern writer who used the same expressions in order to show his disgust at a scene familiar as that we have witnessed on Saturday >- “ You are a mercenary, self indulgent, frivolous, boasting, blood-guilty mob of heathens.” I am very sorry to have been forced to use language, but I only say this : If these things won't be stopped through love and kindness, steps will have to be taken to ask the law to protect us from this growing danger in pur midst, k am, etc., Disgusted.