CIDER SHOPS IN CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume 2656, Issue 2656, 20 July 1889, Page 3

CIDER SHOPS IN CAMBRIDGE.

TO THE EDITOR. Km —Your correspondent, "A Resident, of Cambridge West, lias struck a sympathetic chord in my epigastrium when lie, in such forcible language, denounces the cider dens of Cambridge. 1, too, can vouch for the " vital" aspect of the Question. I also have suffered in common with my friend, "A Resident." The vital agony I underwent after a draft of the beverage as brewed bv the average manufacturer of this accused liquid was something to bo remembered. Your afflicted correspondent asks stm.e very pertinent questions, one of them as to the necessity of a license being taken nut by these abandoned purveyors of .iquid bully-ache. Common sense would say Y'es, just as necessary as to require those dispensing pmssic acid to have a license. It is such an experience us this that serves to show us the utter inadequaiiey of our penal code. My afflicted friend seems to fancy that tiie Salvation Army might tackle the abuse with blood, fire and big dimn. but 1 think he expects altogether too much from this all-powerful institution. A very little reflection will serve to show that a man is lost to all sense of "feeling and shame ami self-respect as to take a second drink of the cloniiil cider as sold in the Oamluidge dens, and thereby to become a eontinned drinker of it in preference to the local beer is far removed from the fiooth--111" and benign influences of the -"-"NyNothing remains for his friends but to watch with loving eyes his rapid stomachic and mental decay, nothing can save » coiifimied cider-drinker. 1 should fancy from the tone of his letter some such experience had been that of "A Resident, if no he lias the entire sympathy of Another l'lurn. Cambridge, July 18th, 1880.