MANNERS IN POLITICS.
iTO THE KDITOn OK '"THE I'ISESS." Sir.—With your permission I should like to give an un<|iialiluxl denial to the assertion of your correspondent "1,. Dnimtnontl," 'that that gentleman (Mr D. Lloyd '(Jcorye, tho Chancellor of the Exchequer) is pleading the oaiw of hundreds of thousands of illiterate and carelessly indifferent peonlo w!k*o emancipation is lnum: delayed through their oivn ignorance.' . It would l>o difficult to conceive a grosser or more ludicrous misstattnnent. and "L. Drummond" would fare ill if ho dared to make it before n liody of English working men. I haw !i:ul Komothing like a quarter of a evnt-ury's work among them, and it is foolishly fals*> to epeak of them as beiim illiterate and ignorant. Tho fact is. Sir, Jlr Ceoryo has besmirched English, 1 mi.nht say British politics, in a way that li&.s of moderate Liberals to say nothing of those who are om>osed to him politically. Evidently "L. Drummond" is not one of these, for he appears to rejoico in fho language of a I>ei-son which is often little removed from "knv-<knvn Billingssate." 'O" r leaderette is an effectual reply to his letter. —Yours, etc., „„„„„ A LOVEII OF CLICAN SPEI-CH. Timaru, December 2nd.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13906, 3 December 1910, Page 9
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