THE NATIONAL PERIL

Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1915, Page 6

THE NATIONAL PERIL

(To the Editor.) Sir,—Kindly allow me space Jn your valuable paper to criticise "Subscriber's* letter in Monday's issue. Evidently the article in Saturday's issue has touched "Subscriber" in a tender spot, which, judging by the contents of his letter, would lead people to believe he didn't possess. If "Subscriber" thinks 1 he can frighten the editor of a newspaper by stating that he will cease to subscribe if such articles appear to often, it's in Germany he should be ■ leading his comrades to defeat. "Subscriber" goes on to say that his people ■ are fairly well to do, and that he has ' had an easy life, and questions whether our property would become that of Germans. Probably, sir, our friend ■ is better acquainted with Wilhelm than he would like us to believe, m stating that his nationality is English, and that " the Germans have no right to come here. • If they did "Subscriber" and the rest of " the family can go down on their benders, and prove that they difin't do anything to oppose them. It makes a • white man's blood boil to think that New Zealand, "God's own country," is supporting such wasters as "Subscriber" • and the sooner conscription is enforced ; - the better. "Subscriber" states that j they have given as sparingly as possible to any funds, a thing a trae Britisher ' would <be ashamed to think of, let alone '■ to print. The man that says he thinks • he is a Socialist should be prepare* to 'hand over all his worldly belongings (if not his life) to help keep those poor ' beggars who are accustomed to hardships, and have got nothing to fight for bar their loyalty to their flag (of which '• we are so proud), and under which "Subscriber" is skulking. "Subscriber" evidently thinks the man with nothing is of no consequence, and '.• was sent into the world to have his blood spilt to protect the man with ■• money. If it was not for the working man or men that are not afraid of " hardships, or of getting hurt, New Zealand could take a back seat, or would be better in the hands of the "Square • Heads."—l am, etc., . !OXOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE. ■' Auroa, Sept. 27, 1915.

[Our correspondent's communication does honor to him, but we refer him to our footnote in the previous letter. "A Subscriber" forcibly, though perhaps quixotically, put the whole question of the need for men—and the ignominy of shirkers—before our. readers. —Ed.] ROYAL ARMS CHEESE FACTORIES. (To the Editor.) Sir, —In Saturday's paper appears a letter signed "Fair Play," in which he gives a little account of a meeting of suppliers of the Royal Arms cheese factories. First, he says there was no discussion whatever over a certain clause alleged to have been written in an agreement after it had been signed. Well, air, in all fairness to your correspondent, 1 may say that I am a supplier to the Royal Arms cheese factories, and I also attended the meeting of suppliers on the 16th inst., and there was considerable discussion over an agreement, and about the interpretation of a certain clause therein. "Fair Play" also says it M'as put in with the sanction of the suppliers. So far as I am concerned this is not so. Had "Fair Play" attended this meeting as I did, he might have been able to write from facts, and not catch tit-bits in the street, which I presume he lias done. Of course "Fair Play" might have attended this meeting for all I know, but if he did he was either dreaming heavily or just recovering from a trance. I would like to ask "Fair Play" why the, Press is not invited to the annual meetings of suppliers of proprietary cheese and butter factories?. —I am, etc., F. J. COWLING. Okato, Sept. 27, 1915. [We have had to excise portions from the above to comply with the requirements of the libel laws. —Ed.]