IS JUSTICE DEAD?

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 7

IS JUSTICE DEAD?

: Sir,—ln the midst of. the whirlpool of business of every kind,'including the Dreadnought gift,- Defence,' Conference, 'compulsory military training, and the boast about n'o injustice under tho Union Jack, etc.,' ctc., I wish to know if tho loss of a man's home— 'land, stock, and implements—through falso imprisonment twenty-ono years ago, whose family has been scattered and pointed at with the finger of -scorn, and he is yet unredressed so far as money is concerned, is not .'a'gi-avo'injustice. I refer to"Mr.' "J, J. Meikle,. otherwise known as the-New. Zealand Dreyfus. Why, if Sir Joseph was, as sincere last session as he said he was, did he not make tho Moikle' voto a" Government measuro,. and have it settled? Why has ha not' now proved his sincerity in making this iniquitous, prolonged injustice, one of the first mattors of importance . this session. What has becomo of tho Meikle Committee which has done so much in the past? I, with ;many throughout this Dominion and outside of it, cannot rest •until'justice is dono, and the stain removed- from this fair land. Tho granting of the Acquittal Bill strengthens jus claim for 'some reasonable compensation. No person, with a ,spark of true .manhood, or womanhood,;knowing if'tho facts of this case, can remain at 'ease until redress is given, for tho simple reason that the same thing may bo the lot of anyone else placed as tnis unfortunate man .was. It is humilint* 'ing-to', read somo' things printed about this man s, suffering, and injustice,'in : the Min« I trust to the dignity of c«r new Parliament, to see. this matter satisfactorily settled at onco,—-I am, etc, - * l!l iftnn ' DEMOCRAT. ; June 14, 1909. r ... , A large number of letters crowded out of this issue will appear on .Monday