F. M. B. FISHER OF THE BLEEDING HEART

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8360, 21 February 1913, Page 2

F. M. B. FISHER OF THE BLEEDING HEART

(To the Editor “N.Z. Times.") Sir, —Mr F. M. B. Fisher's latest, a# head ot the Government Advertising (Department, is really typical. From your columns and the columns of the squatters’ journal, I read •with interest Mr Fisher’s story of the Karamca woman stalwarts whom with their swags lie met foot sore and weary tramping their way to Scddonville, a (journey of something like 35 miles, With one small pony on which they carried a boy of three years of age. He tells us of their sad plight, and-re-marks that when ho met these pool souls they had many weary miles still to walk. He was on horseback, he tells ns, when he met them, and apparently he still had about IS miles to travel. Ho leads his readers to 'believe that his heart hied for them. (Such a statement is a “Fisherism.” If he really and truly felt for them, why did ho not give them his horse and walk the 15 miles? He had come from Scddonville, he says, and they were going there. They could have delivered his horse back to the stables from .which he got it. Was ho afraid of a tramp which they, poor weary souls, had to walk? Ho is always fit enough to play many sets of tennis on a broiling hot day,, and yet he leaves them tramping wearily and painfully whilo (he rides away. Perhaps it is easier to have your heart bleed than your feet.—l am, etc., “ONE WHO HATES CANT.”