SHALL, I SIGN MY NAME.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 672, 3 October 1876, Page 3

SHALL, I SIGN MY NAME.

flm,"— Krtr since newspaper! w«re flr established, and correspondence columns jaftf apart tor the expression of public ■opinion, it has been a desputed point whether Senate honour and manlinesa de» ■landed that the name of the writer, should be attached to the letter and pubInhed. It ha* been argued by many that the lyatenbf anonjmout signatures per* mit covert attack* of &U kinds to be made and bj individuals whe would not dare tq Appear epenly, this ii true to a oertain «xtent, but the present system haa m%aj ' advantafM that more than counterbalance the erila, ninety per cent of the Uttera ■writtea are with the object of drawing •tlentien to acme particular public matter, which doea net require ua to know the writer* name, or hia affiura. In manj «••«« a faH rignature to a letter ia a drawback, it detracts our attention from the Aubjact matter in it, we speculate who the writer can be, or if we know him, we are orercooM with hia avdacitj in making hia opimions public, and thus letting Limaalf up M a mentor. How few would <«r«r writ* to a nawapaper if there names had to be pubhahed ? There are onlj two claeaea that would erer do it— thoie who are in high positions, and whose name lends weight to their letters, and tho*«who having no pisttion at all, ar« •equally independent, and h,re a pleasure in def jing the wjrld generally. Anonymous signatures are suitable for public writing, except in the case of penonal s fclacka, and to the credit of the newa, paper world, such letters are •eldom in. ewted.— l am, 40, AvAhomtkuVl V^B'. Tin. Se ( t 28th 1876, . Sffew Advertistments.