The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-09-30 00:00:00

,y-deatag with the facts advanced by the preTions
7yrreepaadent; but we should not be disposed to
With him on thataocount, ssenisto think that
9°We:A ci three years, which Is, be adds, sufficiently
.1,8 base a B.A. degree upon, is too snort •
probation for the Gothenburg system. We should,
only take the statistics for what they ars
yurth ; bUt still we do not, by any MIMI" think
aknt figures which range over three years, and which
to re, emphatic in their siificasioe, should be
ere
„et wide or lightly But than, Professor
lioneeton goes on to scTr,atr.dh:st three years were years
deposed trade and commercial dist:eels in Gotha'.
ee in England; and that may account for less
yyyp being spent in drink. On the other hand,
however, we do not find that the 2seasse correspondent
wet. an imperfect induction from a solitary observa-
tion. His remerks are pummel as to the damage of
druakenons in the townewhereths system has been tried.
Bat Professor Kedleston has not yet done. He
y Luta out that the decrease of drunkenness and the
al:mitigation in the number of convictions for drunken.
new we not one and the same thing; which, of course,
ye freely admit Then he becomes satirical. His
scaedinavian tour hat clearly sharpened his writ. Of
41a, in Gothenburg, he say., there has prevailed
~c,mg the polke a form of clay and night Wndnees
wyteecribed. by oculists, whkb prevents them from
...nig a drunken men. Ones they were so Draconian
that they arrested some English sailors who only die-
phyed a little more hilarity than Professor Holliston
was a Bleb? might have done in an after-dinner
epee,* The system,"a. Profeskr 11011...t0n write.
it, le axiom to avoid scandals. As General Neal
Dow seed to say. "Ile rich man hes his carriage
~tine for him; the poor man has the policeman.
In tact, Professor Holliston more than hints that
the Gothenburg police cook statistics in favour of the
But once more we would urge that if this is
▪ there is a conspiracy among the Scandinavian police
to do the same, and we should be sorry to think so
hay of the peninsula aa that comes to. Then, again,
the Professor for the moment drops his personality,
aeg, to weak a. • publican, " suspects that a good
g,,al of the diminution, besides that which is
accounted tor by (Retro.' and police connivance, is doe
ta the o mathinations and insidious operations of '
Temperance reformers" Oa this point he allows that
heii ro lenitive information, but he to assured that
▪ ,„„n a 5 prosperity return, diminution will ills-
We will not follow Professor Rolleston into
e•
pliere of vaticination The very fact of hi.
"ries into that ethereal region makes us sussect his
previous argument. For some reason or other he does
• want to be convinced, and therefore he questions
the poet, awl draws upon the future for ar otments.
lut the Gothenburg system I. one open to debate we
do not for a moment deny; nor are we otherwise than
econble of our obligations to everyone who helps us to
cogent and tabulate facta in a statistical inquiry ; but
is this instance, we are disposed to think that the
malaise caution of the Oxford Professor has mad*
his craclusions even mare meth than those which were
reached by the wider but confessedly partial induction
of the fines' correspondent. —Pook Telegram.