THE PREMIER AND HIS CRITICS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 639, 16 October 1909, Page 5

THE PREMIER AND HIS CRITICS.

iTo ma EditoiO Sir,—Bj your report of the Premier's speech of lost night, ho appears' to ofTcr no juttification tor the language, in which he has long indulged mor criticisms. Charges of falso representations, of stabbing in'.the back, and like melodramatic rant, are suroly much out of place, and. calculated, when used by a Premier, to crcato a suspicion that thero is something wrong, froin : which ho desires that attention should bo diverted. My shnro m causing him this alarm, or loss of temper, appears to bo that in 1908 1 stated that tho Government was bonowing JM.000.000 a' Joar.' If 1 said bo, •well, they borrowed a larger amount last yoar. Bjt more probably ho refers to a fact which I think' I mentioned in your columns: that with short debt debentures falling duo overy year (tho amount of which has to be reborrowed) this, with tho new debt, ncccnilaled tho Government borrowing at an annual avcrago rato of over -C4,000,00l). This is also true, and every elector should know; it. Is tho position really such that to mention such matters of vital public interest is now a public injuryf Yet in oftect this is what tho Premier contends.—l em, etc., n ,, ~ JNO. DUTHIE. October 15.