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EVERYBODY’S COLUMN
[Welland Tribune, 29 March 1895]
F.F.V. SHORTIS
Shortis was a child
Of rich and noble birth
But sadly growing into years
Of folly, crime and mirth
Recently the pupils of a school section in Wainfleet were treated by the teacher to a description of the recent Valleyfield murders, and requested to write compositions upon it. One of the pupils wrote up the tragedy in verse, which has been transmitted to the TRIBUNE with a request for publication in Everybody’s Column. We regret to say we have room for but the first-which appears above-and that the other thirteen stanzas must remain unprinted and unsung. In fact we question very strongly if the recital of the details of horrible murders to pupils of tender years, and the encouraging of them to write essays and dwell upon the same, is a very proper or desirable course for a teacher to take.
THE MEAT QUESTION
If I understand “Justice” aright in last weeks TRIBUNE, he claims that in the proposed change in the by-law regulating the sale of meat in the market it is not the farmer but the professional butcher the council is after. It makes no difference who they go after, it is the farmer who will be bagged. The by-law at present in force cuts out the peddling butchers, or compels them to take out license. If it is not the farmer they are after why not except him from the scope of the by-law? Justice may be blind as usually represented, but he must not suppose that all others are the same.
FARMER
ANOTHER
I hope the councillors of our town will consider well before prohibiting the sale of meat at retail on the market. Every market day I go to the market and usually buy four or five pounds of beef cut to suit me at 8¢ a pound. If I cannot do this I am compelled to go the butcher shop and pay a shilling a pound; loss to me of say 18¢ every trip. 18¢ twice a week comes to nearly $20 a year, quite an item for us poor people. More than enough to pay most of our taxes. Is it right or profitable that poor people should be compelled to pay from $20 upward a year to benefit four or five butchers, or even to benefit the town to the extent of a few dollars in license fees?
A WIDOW WITH A VOTE
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