The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1892.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 67, 24 November 1892, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1892.

Our article on gambling, published on Saturday last, appears to have hit the Advocate very hard. That we should have raised such a storm of abuse as our contemporary raged at us in his issue of Tuesday, was not quite a surprise to us. We have long suspected that, although we have been fighting on the same political lines with him, he bore us no good will, and the exhibition of " envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness" he has now favored us with confirms the impression. When we condemned gambling and its sister sin avarice, we were not thinking of the Advocate, and why the* editor should take to himself our remarks on the subject would be a mystery, if one could not read between the lines that he desired to pick a quarrel, and one excuse was as good as another. But still he might have [gone about it with a certain amount of decency, or coolness, and not waited until he could work himself up into a passion. No man but an angry one could have written such a farrago of nonsense as the following, after the subjoined sentence in our article. (Let avarice in its turn, in whatever shape or form it may exist, have a crusade started against it.) :—- " There is the Stab prescription for the cure of sweeps. Let the rev. gentleman say, "Oh ! never mind my stipend this year ; I'll rub along on air for a while"; the " teachers " tell the Education Board to turn their screw over to the beggarly building fund, the storekeeper give bumping weight and small bills, the draper, with kindly cunning, palm off on his customer thirteen yards of silk for twelve, and the newspaper man reckon a twelve inch advertisement as six inches, aud then charge for three — let all this come to pass, and sweeps would be utterly swept away. What an opportunity for the editor of the Star to come right out and lead the van in the movement he advocates. He may be assured that if there is not joy in Heaven over his conversion and that of those he may persuade to be his disciples, there would be in Feilding,. for there are | plenty of people who would be glad to do business with men who are crusad- j ing against avarice, and think nothing of ' money, money.' " For the vulgar profanity in this we apologise to our readers, but in justice to ourselves we \ reproduce it to show to what lengths an ungenerous foe will proceed to in abusing an opponent. We feel the injustice all the more because although it was not unexpected, it was quite undeserved.