To the Editor of the "Nonta-Cuixa Dany News. destrian" may have a just grievance when he rebukes me for treating a serious matter with the degree of levity in which I indulged when criticizing "Resident's" remarks on the above subject. My cole justification is that " Resident," in advocating " just cause, made use of arguments which were #0 exaggerated that they fell very wide of the mark. When you want to have a thing done stick to facta, and do not let your imagination run away with you.
too, consider the condition of our pavements an abomination and would advocate strenuous reforms but I cannot agree with " Pedestrian's" suggestion that "'n good box on the ears (of the spitting offender) from a policeman now and then would work wonders." You cannot knock sense into heads by boxing their ears. If that were possible I am sure I would myself have been an extremely wise man.
But you can " work wonders," an your correspondent says. In nine hundred and ninety-nine cases vat of s thousand the offender, whose ears had been boxed, would undoubtedly "wonder" why he had become the victim of such an outrage, and as, in the great majority of cases, no explanation to his limited understand be forthcoming, he would be as wise or as ignorant as he was before his ears hed been boxed.
You cannot educate ignorant people by boxing their cars. Educate them, by all moans, that is the only sensible course to adopt: but leave the fist and the police-
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