Whisky Logic Paralleled

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 17, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 48.

Whisky Logic Paralleled.

A CERTAIN kind of argument not infrequently used by some politico-economists is burlesqued by Mr. W. S. Gilbert, who, in a letter to the London Times, says: "For my part, I could never quite understand the prejudice against burglars. An unarrested burglar gives employment to innumerable telegraph clerks, police officers, railway officials, and possibly also to surgeons, coroners, undertakers, and monumental masons. As soon as he is in custody, the services of an army of solicitors, barristers, judges, grand and petty jurymen, reporters, governors of jails, and prison warders are called into requisition. Really the burglar does more good than harm."