LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1902, 10 November 1913, Page 5

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

INCIDENTS OF THE STRIKE. (To the Editor.) Sir, —Please allow mo to mako a few Remarks in your paper re the strike and its "lied Fed" leaders. Your paper and the "Post" are continually being criticised, by the 'agitators for alleged untruo reports, but what about the strike leaders themselves? . Yesterday, for instance, at the Newtown Park, several of the leaders referred to there being Gatling guns mounted on the Post Office, ready to shoot down . the .crowd. Then the references to tho Specials aro too silly to be taken notice of. Tho Rev. Mr.. Brainsby, too, made a large mistake by mixing up with such fi Red Fed. crowd. I, am sure that he Went up without the consent of our church. His speech, instead of acting like oil upon troubled waters, was quite fhe reverse; in fact, it was hard to distinguish it from the previous speeches. Ho talked a lot of rubbish re the strikers being willing to return to work (they did not look like it), etc. He roost strongly desired it recorded before' high Heaven that the men did not strike the first blow, and were peaceably inclined to the very end. Was ever such a more fallacious.mis-statement uttered? /Now, the average watersider is not possessed .with too many brains, and wnen minister champions the men in such a case, after all' their mistakes and breaches of the law, small wonder is jt 'that the poor, ignorant fellows commit 'larger and more serious broaches. Now, the Rev. Brainsby can thank himself for this, and can see tho wonderful.beneficial (?) effect his speech has had. His twaddle re the, specials was too Billy to comment upon, and if he has any sense of manliness in him, he will apologise to those brave men, who havo fcndured and suffered more insults in a day than our religious friend has in his life. If he has borne his with the fortitude and pluck of the specials, then he can be proud of himself. In conclusion, I should like to quote a few lines from the "Baptist Monthly" re the strike, i.e.: "Wellington is on the verge of civil war. Christian' people have a part to play in these things. . . . They can help to conserve and establish a Bpirit of justice and fair play. Each man of us can d<£ something ,to allay tho fover of prejudice and kindling passion that Truth may lead to a settlement." Kee how our worthy minister carried out the advice of his own church's monthly!' iMay he talk less, and do more in future. —I am, etc., t BAPTIST. . November 3, 1913