FACTS VERSUS ABUSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1919, Page 2

FACTS VERSUS ABUSE.

<To the Editor.) Sir,—ln connection with your publication of my previous letter, appearing under the above heading, dated 20th. inst, and for which I thank you, I would respectfully ask you lo grant me the favor of one more appearance In fairness to myself, after which, In connection with this matter, I will not troublt you further. In my previous letter I am quoted as saying that "Liberalism, pure and simple in its truest, widest, and most 'lowest' form commends itself to most of us," etc. I need scarcely point out that tho word "lowest" has been inserted erroneously during transmission into print. The word, I used, sir, as you will discover upon further reference to my letter, was "honest" not "lowest." Needless to say, it is a very different matter. Might I also say, sir, with reference to your editoral footnote appearing in conjunction with my letter that there is no Intention or surreptitiously, publishing propaganda as correspondence either for Mr. Hine or his party. No, sir, my letter was prompted solely by a feeling of intense disgust that any member nf a British community ahould make use of. the columns of tho public press to mike such a blasphemous, scrlmllous attack upon »u honored member of our Parliament, none tho less upon our Prime Minister, as that written by Mr. J. Biggins, and couched in the foetid vapourlngs of the language that apparently he so delights to use. Surely, sir, it was his letter, not mine, that was "propaganda," and that of the worse possible type.—lam, etc., J. H. ANGERSTEIN, »t „„ „,,„ Bristol Road, Inglewood. Nov. 29, 1919. fit certainly was, and for that reason wo desire to discourage further communications on political subjects from that source, as well as other sources. Hence the footnote, which was meant as a general intimation, buing aimed not particularly at our present correspondent.—Ed.]