1902.] on Auto-Car 8. 123 



I wrote these words Sir Henry Thompson has said, " The sanitary 

 condition of our great city would be considerably improved, since 

 the streets would no longer be, as they are now, the daily receptacles 

 of many tons of manure, which becomes not merely oflfensive but 

 prejudicial to health. Its components soak into the wood pavement 

 and pollute the surrounding air by evaporation, and in hot and windy 

 weather with dust also, which is inhaled by the inhabitants. This 

 is a cause of deranged health to many. It is second in degree, but 

 the same in kind, as that occasioned by intramural interment, long 

 ago forbidden." 



Finally, Ladies and Gentlemen, one thing, and one thing only, I 

 will ask, and it is, that you will not refuse to realise that the advent 

 of the motor vehicle upon the road is a thing to be looked upon in a 

 broad and not in a narrow spirit. It is certain that it will affect the 

 whole community in many directions — national prosperity, social and 

 commercial convenience and economy. Is it to be a benefit to the 

 whole of the public taken in the aggregate? This is a question 

 which must be considered, and with a serious and unbiassed mind. 

 It will be so considered by you, I feel sure, and when it is I am 

 certain of your judgment. It will be, that although this new mode of 

 traction has its drawbacks, as every great change in this world must 

 have, the advantages which it promises to give do so immeasurably 

 outweigh them, that it is the duty of a good citizen — subject, of 

 course to reasonable legislative control — to give it a fair and a free 

 field. 



[J. M.] 



