To the editor of the Carlow Sentinal.
6th February 1847
Sir, --Although public attention has not
been called , so far as I am aware, to the conduct of Simeon Clarke and
Co. I think , nevertheless such conduct towards the poor deserves public
gratitude. At the Burrin Mills hundreds of people daily are enabled to
purchase flour and meal per stone or pound, at wholesale prices, and the
consequence may naturally be favoured - the poor are protected from the
hustlers, who retail articles of an adulterated nature at exorbitant
prices. This is a noble example , and should be generally followed,
although I am aware the practice to respectable millers is inconvenient.
- I remain,
- your obedient servant,
- A Subscriber
Source: Michael Purcell (C2006)