HOME RULE, HOLDING THE SCALES IMPARTIALLY.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1916, Page 3

HOME RULE, HOLDING THE SCALES IMPARTIALLY.

To the Editor. ■Sir,—Why do the prc-Germuns rage and the Sein Feinnors inmigue vain things'; the news too good {fßm the fronts Well, this is by the way; but how refreshing it is to strike a letter writer of the Diggins' type, for, unintentially, no doubt, but surely he eonfirms my remarks "that no credence can be placed upon statements made by people blinded with religious enthusiasm, whether orange or green." If I took up a column of your valuable space I could not deal more effectively with this letter than by writing across it six words 1 : "No case, relying solely on abuse," abuse or the bludgeon being the last ressrt of the unsuccessful, but when we wade through such unintelligible imbecilities as the fictitious wonders done by Ireland on her own in 1872, that I was in the rag and bone business (if I were I must have been the biggest in the whole world, for mv monthly trips involved 480 to 000 miles travelling), that I don't know yet that provincial government lias been abolished, and with "Mr. Wright" twelve times repeated, no option is left me but to turn the letter down. This writer Hatters me too much; he takes the person for the movement, otherwise lie would not mention my name twelve times, and for setting that up alone kindly extend by sin- j cerest commiseration to your poor linotype operators. As regards "Reader's" views that loans are no remedy for in- I justice, just imagine Ireland without 1 English gold! We would have another \ specimen of the Balkan poverty-stricken I States; but we don't need to go to the Ualkans. Until its magical advent, soup kitchens were not unknown in New Zealand. Now another wonder worked in Ireland by English gold (we have seen a few in Taranaki) is that the turning of the tenants into landlords has resulted in the brim of a man's hat lasting as long as the crown, for he won't wear it out lifting it to every landlord, agent or bailiff he meets. We can now see the value of "security.'' Dublin Corporation wants three million to restore the city after the re-decoration it received during Easter week, but it will have to be English gold again, although some of the Sein Feinn capitalists in New Zealand might send on a share of their war profits, for they have not given much of thein to the patriotic funds here. Not that we can throw stones at this sponging on England, for have not we sucked every shilling we could get for war and public works expenditure? If the well had not been running dry England would have been "stung" for this last eight millions, Mr. Massey having a great aversion to shearing the fat wether. One excuse for the rising was the appointment of Campbell. Well, why didn't the Protestants "rise" when Ward became Premier, or the Catholics at Mn.sr.ey's elevation? And iE any person writes you, Sir, over his proper name and convinces you that the National llovei'nment would be differently run and taxation altered if Ward were an Orangeman and Xlassey a Catholic, or that Bill passed at Westminster during the last ten years affecting Ireland would not pass here, then I will take a back scat. I want no orange ar green business in Ireland; no more risings where soldiers t. i .civilians were murdered (it never c-or'l be eJled lighting); I want to ' Ireland prosperous and wealthv:

| but it will oniy be "when none were for a. party, but all were for the State." I want the Iris], at bom.' to fix their eyes on the rising sun of improved trade, with its accompanying riches, like the wily Japs (and Japan has had rougher times than evei Ireland 'had), instead of sitting down bewailing the stormy sunsets of the past century, and then ill h'i.-h grievances will vanish, for mont'ymaking, like a drop of John Jamieson, is a tremendous soother of trouble.—l am, etc., w. R. WRIGHT. Raliotu, August Hi.