QUACKS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3705, 9 November 1880, Page 3

QUACKS.

(To the Editor of the EvßNiNft Stab.)

Sib,-—There are quacks great and small, political quacks, and municipal, editorial, and religious ; quack preachers, prophets, and teachers, yea, and quack soldiers. Society generally condemns, although it often is the agency of quackery. I notice a leading article in your contemporary that savours much of .quackery. There is a trite old saving that might well be remembered by the writer, " Let him that tbinkefch he standeth take, heed lost he fall." I like a man to stick to his text, and in using Mr Bowen's address to his constituents there is no necessity to throw mud at the candidates for municipal honours; that is quackery. There is another member of the fraternity who holds forth at one of our street corners, and by Mich means he gets rid of some of his wares at a pretty fair price considering -the quality of the articles he offers. Where is Mr Dean or Sergt. Mulville, or even the petitioners. We hare but a short time ago been relieved from the incubus of quack show men, who have done more to foster a depraved taste for wretched, flimsy ornaments and useless nicnacs than true arts will be able to eradicate for the next couple of generations. So, sir, we look to the Press to point the way above quackery, instead of bringing us down to it, there being quite enough of this element in our nature already.—l am, *&c, Obsbbteb.