CORRESPONDENCE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3823, 30 May 1891, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

The new J.?. Replies. [To the Editor.] Sik, —As one of the recently appointed Justices reierred to in a letter signed " Queen Street" in your columns of yesterday, as " a straight-froni-the-beer-house politician," I think I may claim the right of expressing my pity for the anonymous villifier who relieves his miserable feelings by assaulting the' personal character of a Colonist that he dare not openly face. If "Queen Street" will throw off his disguise and meet me manfully, instead of shooting like the assassin that he is from behind a hedge, I will undertake to place my origin, education, reputation as a Colonist and general conduct alongside of his, and allow those who know me well and whose opinion I value, the general public, to judge between us. My morals, evidently unlike those of " Queen Street," have never descended so low as to enable me to indulge in the cowardly abuse of even my inferiors. But I presume you know who this " Queen Street" is, and I shall leave it to yoar own conscience to say whether he is not imputing to me a few of his. own pot sins, except that he may differ in being a " Crooked-from-the-beer-house politician" instead of a straight one. I have a character that lam prepared to vindicate, and if " Queen Street" will only reveal himself and shew that he is not as deficient in nearly every human virtue as he is uncharitable and illiterate when he speaks about " flourished voter" and " strident tones," I will forgive him. If he dare not dp tb.at then I can only designate him an envious whining cur, whose ravings must place him beneath the contempt of all honest and' fearless men, and whom : probably from my popition on the i Bench I may yet have to dismiss with i the severe admonition ''Don't do it i again." ' , I am, tfcc, i John Gabdinch.