On inns

Now that schools have started, I have not had too much time to read on in Chesterton's works. Nevertheless, I finally started 'The flying inn', one of the three novels that Chesterton wrote shortly after 'Orthodoxy' and that illustrate some of the concepts from that book.
'Orthodoxy', however, was not the book I was reminded of most: the description of interfering government at the beginning of 'The flying inn' reminded me most of 'What's wrong with the world'. Let me explain.
This novel begins with a few loose chapters that set the stage. Chapter one contains 'a sermon on inns', delivered by an oriental man in a fez. Chapter two moves to an island in the Mediterranean, where we meet Patrick Dalroy, the 'king of Ithaca', and Lord Ivywood, the English Minister. Chapter three introduces us to the innkeeper of 'The old ship', Humphrey Pump, and  'Lady Joan'. Only in chapter four the persons and events come together: the man in the fez and Lord Ivywood have made some new legislation to 'improve the precarious financial conditions of the working class'. Their luminous idea is to practically forbid the sale of alcohol, so as to prevent poor people to spend money on drinks.
In 'What's wrong with the world' Chesterton also discusses if man should be molded to fit its environment, or if we should take the common man and his ways as the basic good to be protected. Chesterton argues there that governments sometimes look from the wrong direction: of course poverty is wrong, but for a solution you need to look first at what is good and right, not try to fit human beings to a situation that is wrong to begin with.