Once again we would appeal to cur readers to desist from letters on the subject of the Moral Welfare League and its success or otherwise. Where their opinions differ from the editor's, in respect what should or should not go into the correspondence columns, every Possible consideration should be given to them: otherwise those columns lose all their value open forum of public opinion. But:
M.W.L's work in correspondence, besides being an unsavoury subje an unprofitable one because i: Vads nowhere. Some months og? we received a very Jarge number Jof letters on this question of the Suppression of certain houses and. whom did it convert out of hi original way of thinking?—Not Jone, we venture to say. Some people hold that the M.W.L. has scored a success if only that, in breaking up these houses, it has made their inmates less easily accessible, Others retort that the houses have nly been shifted elsewhere and the inmates are ax easy to find as: ever, apart from the fact (thei: argument this, not our assertion) that street-walking has increased, As regards the question of public health, the arguments appear to be Just as conflicting. There is only one way of reaching a conclusion and that is to put it to the rate-Dayers. Those who believed that the recommendations of the Vice Commission should be adopted took trouble to attend the ratepayers hieeting and to stay on and yo! for it when everybody else hi left. It is now the turn of those who believe that policy to have proved a failure to frame a resolution reversing it and take equal to see that-their ideas pre-When that resolution has.
notified it will be time to have fers on the subject: without any Drospect of such a dénoiiment, we suggest again that they lead now: where,
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