CONTINENTAL INSULTS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 38, 28 August 1900, Page 4

CONTINENTAL INSULTS.

Oh yes (writes Joseph Hutton ia The People), I know there are exceptions; there are generous and nable-spirited Frenchmen/ gentle md lovable Germans, Belgians who don't forget all they owe to England, xnd many Italians who really love us ; but I have seen of late sundry letters faom English people on the Continent whose writers say they have been subjected to most brutal insults in the streets, not from decent people, of course, but from the lower classes, which only shows how much may be done by a lying and irresponible Press. Fighting the Boers with their own weapons in South Africa, backed by a courage that is our birthright, we have swept them before us, and the end is drawing near. Since " afl is fair in love and war" I am inclined to think that if our Intelligence Department had met the conspiracy of the lying French and German Press by an active truthtellmgm other Continental journals our relations with their peoples would not have degenerated into the present disagreeable condition, we could have brought up as many papers (it is not, it seems, a difficult operation on the Continent) as Dr Leyds, and pitted them one againsb the other ; one set liars, the other truth-telters; for the more the truth is told about the Kruger crew and our work in South Africa, the fairer we stand even in the eyes of the most censorious. We ought to take measures to have ouif jfeause and our labours in the worid'l progress honestly put forward in at least a few Continental jourqals, It is true with the drying up of Leyds resources the worst offenders are not as bitter nor as brutal as thej were; but they have inoculated millions of common people with a virus of falsehood that will be active against ub for many a year to come,