THE PERMISSIVE BILL.
To the Editor of the THAMES GUARDIAN. Sir, —You have done good service to the Permissive cause by drawing public attention to the high authorities you have quoted yi support of the proposition that drunkenness is the cause of most, if not all, the crime that is committed. If this proposition were logically carried nut, you have only to get rid of intoxicating drink to get rid of crime altogether. I fear, however, that so long as human nature remains what it is, that theie will be sin, poverty, vice, aud misery. Intoxicating drink may be an incentive to violence, but for a perpetrator of calm, cool, deliberate villainy, give me the temperament of a religious hypocrite and teetotaller ; If you think this view of the mater worth insertion, I will, at some future, furnish you with some statistics in support of this view of the matter. —I am, &c., One Who Likes to Hear Both Sides. Grahamstown, June 3, 1872.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 214, 15 June 1872, Page 3
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