DISLOYAL EMPLOYEES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 24, 18 June 1914, Page 6

DISLOYAL EMPLOYEES.

To the Editor

Sir,—ln reply to the individual with distorted vision, and who adopts the despicable method of attaching a false mime to the letter with the above heading, I, as secretary of the lnglewood branch of the Liberal Federation, hereby give his statement a straightout denial. I have no members of the railway on the League's books, nor have any railwaymen been supplied with literature (which would of a necessity go throiHi my hands) for distribution. It is the contemptible jietions of the mythical "Paul Johens" and many of like kidney that cause lovers of fair play to ask 'what our country is coming to. I pre., snnie if any Civil Servant chooses" to subscribe to the New Zealand Times or the New Zealand liberal be is at perfect liberty to do so. Probably the Square Deal Ministry would sooner see them reading the Squatters' Journal. Wellington, or the previous Parte paper, "Light and Liberty." Xo doubt i't would be pleasant to "P.J." and bis hide-be-hind-the-hedge supporters. But we are not quite Russianised vet, though by the actions of big supporters of the Reform Party and by one or two Ministers also, one can easily foreshadow that, given another lease of the reins of power, several of many democratic measures will ibecomc stultified and the right of free speech, etc., considerably curtailed. Xow .Mr "Paul Johens" just act the man if you have ideas that would probably interest the readers if put to paper; stick your -proper name up and do not adopt a similar method as adopted by your ancestors when wishing to gain an advantage—burrowing underground. I am, etc., JOE B. SIMPSON, Secretary lnglewood llraneh Liberal Federation. June M, lfill.