Personal Liberty and Railway Rules

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 24.

Personal Liberty and Railway Rules

“Personal liberty” has gotten a stab in the vitals by the managers of the London tube railways. The Central Railway Company of that city has issued a circular to its employees insisting on strict total abstinence while on duty. The circular says: “Employees are reminded that it is strictly against the company’s rules to obtain or take intoxicating drinks, or enter any public house while on duty; neither should they, when off duty and in uniform, loiter about the station or frequent places where intoxicants are sold.” It is beginning to dawn upon the British mind that the traveling public have some rights of “personal liberty” as well as a tippling train man.—Selected.