RE P. J. POWER, J. DIGGINS, AND CO.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1918, Page 8

RE P. J. POWER, J. DIGGINS, AND CO.

To the Editor. Sir. —Why isn't there some one to stand out and give these_ contemptible writers to the News the quietus tliey so .abundantly deserve? The mere thought of a nondescript assailing a noble gentleman, Sir A- Conan Doyle! It makes one sick. In intellect it is like a li attacking an elephant. When one sees these malcontents in this world's crisis it makes one wisti they eculd be dumped bag an.l baggage into France, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, or the wilds of Asia Liberty! There is too much of it under the Union Jack. Let them go to America—the land of liberty—where, as ail American said recently, they should cither fight for America and the Allies (which, bye the bye, is England too), or die with their backs to the wall for Germany. Why is it they are not there? Because they are afraid of their skin. I wonder where Meter?. Power, Diggins, and their ilk would come in? Talk about liberty! How many appeal boards are there in Germany to-day? I wonder where their liberty will stand if England falls and these poor mites, so puny in intellect, where will they be and their properties they live luxuriously upon? The pity of it all is that the folds of the Union Jack cover such. Sir A. Conan Doyle is not here to reply. Why is India held to-day by the Union Jack with its hundreds of millions in unfettered allegiance and loyalty? Because of the. cruel and tyrannical Rritish Government? Oh, its intolerable cruelty to Ireland! Thank God there are and have been some noble Irish men who have nobly done and given their everything, their lives, but what about these ignoble contemptibles who, whilst thriving. prospering and feeding under the flag turn and bite the hand that is tending them? The old hatred of Philip of ,Spam and the Inquisition for England if alive to-day in some quarter?. Read of the awful treatment of the Indians of South America, decimated, hunted down, rotting in the holds of ships carrying them —where? To the Inquisition, to convert them, forsooth, to save their souls. Perish the world, perish everything good and true or noble, if only that dastardly England eould be brought down. So say these poor parasite mites! It is enough, Mr. Editor. To enter into further controversy is lowering, only iji conclusion let me advise them to Have the country they so affect to despise, and it will be a good bill of lading. Perhaps they will obtain the liberty they seek in Germany or Turkey—perhaps!—l am, etc,

A- SMITH. Devon street, New Plymouth; April 12