"ESPIONAGE!"

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 568, 24 July 1909, Page 10

"ESPIONAGE!"

\, Sir,—l notice" some.", statements in .your' article- "Espionage" in'this morning's issue; tliat'cail for -reply. .You say, "It may: bo five, .ten, ; it may .be twenty, .years .after' a boy has' left ! the school -' that .'• • a memorandum is sent'along,.to the police ask-, irigf therii," etc.": -I ■■ believe I am -right .111 .saying' that -all inmates; of the industrial; schools'that show: 'thoir fitness to stand alone; are discharge! as early as ;may rbejvtliat,; ;from J the: : tiine •of theifdischarge,:' tbey ■ are ;al}solntely ; beyond tho coiitrol \ot' tbb.'Educatiph - Department; aud v that ■the. police. riiake 'no' .abqutyth'emC" -Other ■arfe.feirt .tu service "at : about, fifteen,'(.arid; ax efiritil :v.th6y ;; -. are .tweniyrgiiej until, their •$ air "iHe'.'-age: j&obcK arid-twenty; all' beyond the Department 1 6 cpirfrol)and:;beyond .its ■ inquiries.- r '' j : ::rf;ybur:?statements : and your picture of the' policeman; visiting* the-homS of a- respectable' 'ex-inmate with' wife/and; 'children 'about hirn iVOTe;';cbrrectj v theyJ ybiiid show; a :stateof' thingijthat -would justly ■rageous. I.ask-ihat y6u'will;now:;:msiko inquiries. in the proper,' quarter. (It was'riot in keeping-, with .what I, in ..common, I; ; think, - inthymost.: of.the;'public,, have regarded ; as: the. high.;aim.iof.your paper,.-that-,you,, mad# an-;.unwarrante-diattack-, on-.the'administration of ia Government Department,-whose: officersj; as/you know, •hivoVlittle' chance of defending: 'thenisolves, ,uhless;ybu- givb them '-tho. 'chance and I do not think, sir, that you can re-'gard'-.;it:jisvworthjr 'ofv your.' •paper,, to have' .made "the; imputation;' implied, in'; the parch-' .thosis- of. tho sontenco beginning: "The 'ier < -}ioi^Bd. ; iiitb'- v ihe ■best pf motiv.M'j .b'olieves it .its duty. :.v, Yours .truly, . . .- :> -

( H. B. ,KIRK . 'Victoria Collegej Juljf 21; ISQ9.' 'J " 1

: "JTrofessor Kirlc ,^vill : ; : ' havb\'S<Sbn ■ from , the statement of- the ; Minister-'fbt : Education pub!lislied' t since_ his letter wis'w'ritteii .that' he- is .nustakeri .'in -'.thinking';'that;'.the/ make, no', inquiries" concerning 'inmates', of /-industrial' .'schools,-after v tkpso.'inmates.'havb .been 'dis-. 'charged ;frpm,;tlie ; . schools;,. .'AATiile';^"wo'dis.agree with -Professor'Kirk'jis to',whether - the '■'attack','i-iwfls ■ or ..not,-. ;we must: .can be wad/intOvthe sentence quoted'lijnjuro Was r u'ndeSferv'fid-. : ' c! jnot. quest'ibh" the miotics <>f th'piDepalrtm'etit; whichi''io'doubt, are, good;; wo "dS -quesfwn tho' wisdom 'of 'its aclioir.fi