SILAS ALIAS SNIPER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 201, 14 May 1918, Page 6

SILAS ALIAS SNIPER

Sir,—Your correspondent ' Silas Stark'" mftkea nuother ieeWe attempt to bolsterup bis position. Hβ docs tins, lot it be* observed, in the face of your exposure, of hie letters. You etatod in a footnote, to my last letter that "Silas Stark" is; merely ilie pon-naine of Iho correepondent alluded to. In other words, he lias the impudouco to «cml you letters dealing with public que«:ione under a nom du piuine. Your readers can, ot course, torm their own opinions as to which o the views expressed are the better. J nmn writing about public mutters uudiV ,i false name is a cownid nnd no "sp° rt ' at all. So I hope your readers wilt par don me for taking any notice of a mm fit to do sniper work.

'Silas tlw Sniper" is, however onl; fnir specimen of Die underground war are going on in JJow Zealand. m< deals of some "sportsmen lire truly o i low type. Several institutions fount necessary of Into years arc doing a genu mo patriotic work, and are doing ' openfy, too. No pen-names are used proving the work to be gemuno a Ling the highest intnesta ot the country at heart. Our liberties u* m n KoV, and men of the Key. Howard Ml ot typo should be respected ior c ! r .^\ l ; t s'iko not abuted by persons sniping bC | bynames. SomUe h» remrke that "eternal vigilance is the pna o nucstiun of morals and <ho leal p» "Wfcto the Prohibition Party and. thdri&forN W ZeaUna,theNe» Zealand Alliance for the abolition of the Kquor traffic haa adoutad a part of which I sub oin: 'That the inforests of the nonunion, und^ par icu^rtion called the "Anww diuner ono of the most lamentable scenes . v(>i «iUiu» i,«f interest in racing, and '.In* )» "'."i , - C «w 'Ivtteuipte to juelify. raciiiß ,«, ,i i.K»im» "'ffriviE lk ' Piwbytoriiii Church, KkcUuuin*. Maj 18, W18;