INTOLERANCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2944, 2 December 1916, Page 8

INTOLERANCE

'Sir,—ln your local column this morning! noto a paragraph advertising the fact that a certain young man m khaki refused his tot of rum after parade. Moro power to him, 1 say, if lie did not relish it. But what, as a freeborn Brjton, I object to, is that he should go squealing to his father because the- rest of his companions differed from'him and enjoyed their well-earned refreshment. And, agara, tho cloven hoof of intolerance appears in the bigoted squeal of Ins parent as emphasised in your columns this morning, Su which ho objects to his 6011 being damned, wo suppose, by poor Mr. liaseey or the Defence Minister, or some other fellow who is onen to abuse from bigots and all their kith, and kin. It is passing strange that «o many of those who flatter themselves on their transcendant, virtues should tako such cToligbt in making their neighbours as miserable as thoy possibly can, but it is a solid fact, all the same. 'When tho numbers aro up and tho day of settlement arrives, if we read tho Biblo as wo find it written, I think moro saints will bo turned down for bigotry, intolerance, and uncharitableness than sinners.for drinking a. glass of rum when they arc thirsty.—l am, etc., TOLEIUTION.