AH UNEQUAL CONTEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 28, 3 October 1913, Page 5

AH UNEQUAL CONTEST.

«'HELP!" [To The Editor Stuatjford Post.] gi r , —Mr Thomas Boyle surely deserves the support and sympathy m every scraigiu-iorward, uome-out-in-tlie-open, honest man, in tins community, in iiis great (u unequal) battLagainst the myrmidons of "Jtteform.' j ne„orutal— one might almost say murderous —attacK on two poor defenceies.gentlemen .like Mr Boyie and Mr Sok by that wretched weakling Winkle, is enough to make any straight-out, rightdown stalwart's blood boil. Shrinking cowards with weak backbones aiiu tottering knees, who hide in their dirty shells in the dust of their own making, and who from behind hedge:: pour torth streams of cuttle-fish-like talk out of their piffling petty popguns, with beat of trumpet and clang jf drum, ought to be hung—yes, hung, i say, by tne heels and then after a Jay or .so drawn and quartered. This. sir, may perhaps seem*drastic, but it would, at any rate, be a lesson in fair play which would deter the' one so treated from- ever again lightly tackling a gentleman in the dark, .and bo a .lesson not easily forgotten. Ordinary punishment has no terrors' for tin; sort of miserable, lie-in-wait, lurking opponent that A Winkle obviously is; because if ho isn't, why doesn't he come out in the- sunlight and patronise the School Swimming Baths, 1 say, without fear of contradiction, that the only way to make him squeal is when one meets-him face to face to hit him with a club wmen he is not looking! If Mr Boyle or Mr Sole want another stout right arm to help stamp on the tail of tho blighter who calls himself Winkle, well, let them call oh me—so that hand-in-hand together we may oust rotten reform and rotten fish from the land. Strong meat for me, I sa*y. lted flag up waving in the breezes, and no half measures! Let us unite to drag these Winkles from their pestilential nests and burrows. With Mr Boyle and Mr Sole I raise my pen and cry: ''Winkle, if you're a man, come forth!" Fearlessly I do this in the name of truth and fair play and inquirer and all the bang lot of 'em, and for the present sign *" .. . 'bill bludgeon.