A DAILY MESSAGE
FAME? A cynic once defined Fame as “ilio privilege of being slandered by people once lias never seen; ” and one need be neither cynical nor famous to recognize the truth of this definition. One of the most extraordinary phenomena in liife is the way in which public persons are slandered and maligned by private jxersons who have never seen or met them. A reason for anything so utterly unreasonable would lie hard to find: but it is ea.sy enough to find the prejudice which prompts jt. A difference in point of view upon public questions is ail that is necessary to set the private slanderer ol public persons slandering. Why it seems so seldom possible to disagree with a. man’s views without maligning the man himself, is difficult, indeed to understand. Hut to those whose prejudices are so strong that they supplant reason and judgment and all sense of fair play, it is quite impossible. It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that some people prefer obscurity, with the privilege of slandering the famous, to Kamo, which is so oiften slandered hv the ini a moms. —M PR FSTON ST A XI. KY.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1928, Page 1
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197A DAILY MESSAGE Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1928, Page 1
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