The London water supply / by Arthur Shadwell.

  • Arthur Shadwell
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The London water supply / by Arthur Shadwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    All this personal mud-throwing indicate.. existence of an extraordinary animus. That language which would be in bad taste in the case of a com icte ■ felon should be freely applied by presumably sane and respectable persons to gentlemen o< high character of whom they know nothing whatever, amply became of their connection with the water compames-suc.. license can only be explained by a consciousness on the part of those who exercise it that public opinion will sanction, if not applaud, any excesses in attacking those institutions, so great is the odium m which tbev are held. ' Hit him again, he has no friends, ‘s lir cry, and they are nearly right, but^not qul£ They have forgotten that public opinion will m the end insist on fair play, even for the water companies however odious they may be ; and the attemp their enemies to deny it them will raise them up ^Meanwhile, there is no doubt about the odium, and no difficulty in understanding how ,t has an We none of ns love those to whom we have to pay rates We know that it has to be done, but tl.e demand notes have a way of commg at mconvemen times, and the sight of them ,s ,matnig^Then a grievance possesses * toM that te arebadly treated, and we lend a ready ear to such suggestions. Many people, again, delight ,n m te abuse for its own sake. For all these reasons attacks
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