'MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 38, 21 February 1901, Page 2

'MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN."

£0 TIJE EDITOR, Sir. —I wish to utter 1117 protest against the habit, which is all too common, of those misguided individuals who, on finding a person insensible, rush to the conclusion that he is intoxicated, and abandon him to his fata. It is not the first time that a life has been lost owing to this blunder. Bei sides even a drunk parson has claims on our humanity, and would it aot be better, in cas .s of uncertainty, to give the poor creature the benefit of the doubt, and tr;at him humanely, In a recent case, a dying man, supposed t;i be intoxicated, waa It ft alono all night, lying on the concre'e floor (if a verandah,"the front of which was opon to the weather. It was pointed out, as if in extenuation, tint though "it wns a very wet night, the man was quite dry," as if dryness werj the only desideratum far a person in such a case and this occurred in this enlightened' era, in a country where we boast cf onr civilisation, and in the midst of a so-ealled Christian community ! " Alas for the rarity of Christian charity,"—l am, etQ., j' ' HUJI&NE. 1 February 19, 1901.