ROGUE OR FOOL ?
To the Editor ov the 'Evenino Mail.' fSiR.—I live in a neighborhood in which several destructive fires bave lately occurred. In one case the owner waa wise enough to m.-ure his property, and he wa-i burnt out. But what a-.li •• i'ublic Opinion » on the m ™/„"° T h »So-and-sr> made a fine thing out of it." « It will give him another start." "He has made bis pile." «Ue W a ß wide awake, ' and olher innuendos of a broader kiud. : In other cases the victims were not insured j and what said the redoubtable
" Public Opinion ? " "Oh, the old fool ou?ht to have insured." «• Sarve hira right." '- insurance don't cost much," &c &o .So tbat when a ncan avails himself of tha adv*ntigts of insurance, and a fire destroys his property. "Publio Opinion steps in and denounces him a« a rogue; and when a man does not mike use of such mean*, the sime " Public Opinion" dub* him a fool.— Tours, &C, DKBOCRITU-.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 111, 2 May 1876, Page 2
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165ROGUE OR FOOL ? Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 111, 2 May 1876, Page 2
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