SWITZERS.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 362, 5 April 1871, Page 7

SWITZERS.

(Ti«om Our Own Correspondent.) The .people are in arms and ready for the fray that is a mere nominal section who are anxious and desirous to secure for the community a name for, fair, play, honesty and truth. This section,. sixty-four in. number, feel themselves insulted, and are highly indicnant • they froth, rave, and, clamor against the correspondent of a contemporary for making certain- allusions touching a modern divine" This section woul d, if they could, do something terrible ; they form an array of names terrible in themselves,, but fearfully terrible when viewed in consideration with the known 'worthy ' of the leader of this forlorn hope. ' I-pitythe poor fellow who has lvoucrht upon himself the " vartuous indignation of 64 notabilities in the community * T much fear he will never recover his equanimity. The attack was sudden, fierce, and unexpected, so much so that he was Struck with the notion into a fit of convulsions, hysterical fits of laughter. The assiduous application to his jaws of a liniment, pat-nted by Mr Braithwaite with a few drops of consolation administered by your humble servant, taken internally three times m five minutes, alone saved him from a fate fearful to contemplate. 1 have read the frothing virooving of "Ajax," and the scurrilous epistle of "Jnstitia." The production of both writers, shall 1 say writers, m courtesy I will allow the plurality, are proven to the : satisfaction of the'unbiased and truth-loving in the community to be the "vindictive, spasmodic puerile effort of pedantic peda"o<nies, (quoted from Justitia as a specimen). " Justitia " has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. "Ajax" lays uuder the imputation of deliberate falsshood. He made an attempt to stigmatise an honorable if a humble man ;in short, " Ajax sought to reap political capital by an attack upon some of the truth-loving! of the community opposed to the clique of which Ajax, Justitia, (any alias will do) are the recognised whippersin " My experience being limited T cannot say much, but 1 have been informed that morality on diggings is generally at a discount. \ believe such to be facts. I know that the morals of Switzera are very lax, a liberal "lend me," take mo sort of morality. Believe me, sir, what 1 say is truth, hard facts, granite nuts to crack. I could prove my assertions. I shall quote one case . -be lenient and make allowance for defects. L know the magistrate and Warden at Switzers. I have known him for two years or perhaps a little more ; he is a man of portly proportions, a fair specimen of humanity ; but sir, he has ridden the hobby too long ; he makes no allowance for this age of progress, he adheres to a rule which may have been applicable in the e-u-lier stages of the colony, rules which are now absolute but which it is most difli.cult to demonstrate to this local solou. Sir, this B, M. bought at an auction certain property ; said property consisted of a shanty, permit me to remark a licensed shanty, and other material. Said property was bought cheap, very cheap, in consequence of an impression having been circulated amongst the buyers that the R. M. was purchasing for the purpose of placing the bankrupt again m possession, but instead, he, the R.M. puts the bankrup's wife in charge in conjunction with a person named Hector Norman Snnson (the said H. N. Simson having been a laborer in bankrupt's employ prnr to the sale). It is known and well known, that this same Hector Norman Simson was 11 it worth powder and shot to bring down such " quary " as the shanty known as the " Sons of Freedom " Hotel. Then it may be asked where did he gfct it ? • I could answer this too, and the circumstances are well known to every one in this district. With the knowledge of such fact 3as here stare us in the face, I. will ask you sir, if it is not an insult to our_ intelligence when such men as Ajax, Justitia, an'l Co., (the sole existing and representing patron of whom is G— e B-y), backed by a storekeeper and his needy adherents maie endeavors to curtail the freedom of the press by endeavoring to incite popular demonstrations ?