CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1079, 25 March 1913, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Excuse me for ng-nn using yom - ••r.’uni'-.s n. »y en-

avour i-o j*n ; 1 AM. s.et (?)” cn the ir.»ck ot the hmh NVw, my intention is to bp curt with hr nr. J t ier him back to bis first fabrication, in which be made such erratic and bombastic statements. The first he makes is in regard to his dislike for the man who speaks the truth upon the street. This he has now wriggied away from, but the “gag” will never work. Stop one, dozens will take his place. Then comes his press facts. Now, I will explain how Mr. “Worker” was trapped on those “tacts.” I asked him did the press publish a certain fa~t: which was opposed to bis argument. He did not see tire move, did he ? No, it was never published that the bullet was produced, but why not ? Now for the correct statement made by Mr Holland : Evans did not have a “bulldog” revolver in - his possession — bis was a second-hand one bought eight years previously—and the one produced would not go into the case that was identified as belonging to Evans’ revolver. That is the statement L heard him make in treat of Mr Perreau’s shop, where he. was speaking, not. at the Triangle. As to staking' bis life, that clearly shows what class of “worker” he belongs to —the class that holds mammon dearer than life itself. Now for some more of his “tacts.” In my reference to those petitions, he put himself right away, as in his first literary efforts he stated that the residents of Huntly and Waihi presented those petitions for protection, meaning the general public; now he states they were business people. Fancy 894 business people in Waihi. I doubt if there are. 200, let alone the balance—but his “facts’ ’ are so erratic. He has not even shown where or what the cowardly and dastardly actions were. As I pointed out before, the town was full of police, and “workers” were taking the strikers’ jobs; yet these same strikers were complimented by the Magistrate tor the clean slate they kept in that direction. Where does his above-mentioned views of violence come in now ? In his last vivisection ot anything but the truth, where he says that some people have no idea of the truth, that applies very nicely to him. That was what I was trying to impress on his mind, but truth to him is like water on a duck’s back. That he has admitted. As to annoying me by adopting a nom-de-plume, well, men like him, who make such wicked aud deliberate mis-statements, always adopt an alias, being ashamed to back their prevarications up over their proper names. Such statements can be taken in the way they are given—worthless. Now, as he shows signs of fizzing out and being beaten by himself—which he did not know, of course, how could he know, being only a “worker”? —he then proceeds to stigmatise ray character, which I can treat with the utmost contempt. But, of course, until he is more educated and impressed with the fact that truth will prevail, and learns the better act of brotherhood of man, which I have already tried to impress upon his gullible mind, and leaves personalities out when he is stating a case, even,imaginary, such as his was, he had better leave it to some more truthful and enlightened person who has courage to do it openly, and without that class prejudice which your literary genius teems with. One thing I will admit, he has outdone even Jules Verne; the latter’s yarns did materialise, but “Worker’s,” well, the less said about them the better. Labour should be thankful there are no such “workers” in its ranks locally. To some the name of “Worker” covers a multitude of sins, and, besides its very convenient at times, is it not, Mr “Worker” ? Now that he has cried “enough,” and being so completely at sea with the truth—which has hurt his feelings so much—and in his endeavours to drag others into the depths of falsehoods wherein he drowns, he will have the comfort of the oblivion in which he had to remain poor “Worker,” only a memory of what was one of a sort. Someday, when he rises a sadder, but wiser mau, it not a G. Washington, I hope he will be as correct as be can. Poor “Worker,” beaten by himself, he did not know it. I'hus my final dictum. Thanking you, Mr Editor, for so much of your space, —I am, etc.,

E. G, Martin

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