Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Temperance, Politics

Institutions mentioned:

Colney Hatch Asylum

    Begins by savouring Samuel R Graves's abandonment of his aggressive parliamentary bill on liquor and urges the statesman to participate in the related but less insane venture of the National Temperance League, whose president is 'Scott', a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (this is possibly a reference to Robert H Scott).