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Sir,—l must congratulate you on being nviviieged to publish a letter from "A True "Moderate" in your Saturday's puper. As I read, the conviction was forced on mo that I had never seen a letter which, for beauty of language, tho careful choice of words, the absence of exaggeration, aid original thought could bo compared with the one referred to. It came, therefore, as a shock to me that 0110 so gifted should be guilty of tautology in his nom-de-plume. Surely, sir, <uiv who writes: "Yet one can obtain that which is the greatest blot on. our boasted civilisation from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.," etc., ami further, "An acquired taste which has not got o redeeming point to support it," stands clearly revealed as "a true moderate" without the necessity of the signature. Would not "Nugacity" havo been more appropriate, though perlian? equally open to criticism as tautological? —I am, etc., EQ.TJATITIY MODERATE.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2824, 15 July 1916, Page 10
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157SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2824, 15 July 1916, Page 10
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