The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, MAY 27, 1912. ANONYMOUS CORRESPONDENCE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1912, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. MONDAY, MAY 27, 1912. ANONYMOUS CORRESPONDENCE.

"liKTTr.ns tu liie editor" afl'or<l avenues lor the )> l! b! iL' expression <il opinions held by different men. Frequently there is merely diflidence behind the anonymity which characterises many of the letters; and chiefly it is for this reason that newspaper editor,s encourage such expressions of opinion. It is an excellent practice to allow unfettered expression of views by antagonists as well as by jsupporten-, and certainly The Chronicle has made no differentiation on this head. All it requires is (hat loiters shall lie free from abusive terms. Recently we had occasion to prune mhiic obnoxious terms from Ihe letter of a correspondent who '"'snorted" at a certain I.evin critic of Labour for beiiu>; ;t Christian. The correspondent, whose leilcr we pruned desired to reply to the other correspondent's arguments by rel'erriioj; to him by a nickname and eallinji him "a wowNor.'" That pi'oce-s of "reasoning" never seemed ri.Lulit lo lis. Therefore we pruned these objectionable phrases from the letter: also a paragraph which asked how a man could lie a Christian and at the same time J speak of Labour in the way this correspondent had done. Lor out own part, we can conceive of Labour misleaders beinjx attacked .justly and fairly by any reasonable-minded liKin, irrespective of Christianity. Budhism, Theosophv or any other personal convictions he mi<iht hold. Our complainant correspondent, however. has oilier views; and lie expresses them tersely. "Dear Sir." he writes. <! I wns n hit surprised to see what a botch the Chronicle made made of my letter. It would have been more dignified lo put it in the W .P.M. and be done with it. T protest. Yours faithl'ullv. ('Name')" All we have to sav to the coniebiin7int is that our ,judgment is better than his, on the present is,sue,