THE STEAM TUG COMPANY.

Grey River Argus, Issue 126, 1 November 1866, Page 3

THE STEAM TUG COMPANY.

(To the Editor of the Grey River Argus,) Sir — It is with r-eluctunge that I trespass ou yoiu: space with a few words more in reference to your correspondent "Broad Daylight." The lame and impotent attempt at argument in his his.t letter is a fitting sequel to the first. It is hopeless to discuss any matter with a person who does not appear to understand the ordinay j.mport of words.. The naivete with which he says-rrr" mine (his inference) he does not attempt to refute, the truth of his I have denied" — is amusing. So, lam called on to refute his inferences or statements, whilst it is to be sufficient for him simply to deny mine. I do not, as lam told, ignore the fact that directors of siich companies are fairly open to criticism ; but I deny that it is a fact that they are any more so than the mgmbcrs of a mercantile firm. Reckoning on impunity from the conseqnunccs, by the assumption of a fictitious name, he charges a body of respectable merchants with being under sinister infjutweos in their proceedings, and fur. getting (or rather- not knowing) that the " onus probandi" rests with him ho calls upon me to prove a negative. When an individual fancies he is gifted with ideajs that may benefit, the public; he owes it to that public, if he chooses to make them known, that he shall have at least an ordinary knowledge of the grammatical' construction of the language in which he writes. "Broad Daylight's" ignorance on this point is simply ludcrio.ns, But why ho committed the gratuitous impertinence of, writing at all, ho has not informed us. By way of climax to his grotesque exhibition, " Broad Daylight" appears to have taken Johnson's Digtionary, and selecting tho words "sophistry," "sarcasm," " reason," &c, has jumbled them togethei*- in a way so unconnected and so incoherent as to. deprive them of any applicable significance, and to make them appear like "cross readings" designed to perplex or amuse. In parting with "Broad Daylight" I feel that I cannot do less than apologise to your readers for having invested his letters with an importance, that does not belong to them. Yours, &c, Vindex.