AN OPEN LETTER TO MR PIRANI

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 70, 16 December 1919, Page 11

AN OPEN LETTER TO MR PIRANI

(Published by Arrangement.) All liail! Pirani! 1 remember you years ago as a dauntless fighter who was ultimately overcome, and, I thought, finally overcome, by the gas wave of poisonou.s commercialism that swept ovor the politics of Now Zealand. When you again unsheathed your sword, and boldly flung yourself into the hottest electorate in New Zealand, you soon let us seo wihafi j'ou wcro at. Only a miracle could win you tho scat—you did. not expect that miracle. Vou wero out to show the people of New Zealand fihat tho danger of anarchy was really nnd truly with us, that the astonishing calm of our social life was only the deceptive calm on tho edge of the whirlpool that ia wrecking Europe to-day. So you went right into the cage, and you stirred up the Bolshovists until all New Zealand has heard their awful roar, aud every soberminded elector—and, thank God, the bulk of tho electors nie sober-minded—has sworn a silent oath that the cage-door must and shall be kept shut, that the terrible, beast shall not escape, as , its father has escaped in Russia—to plunder, to burn, to slay, and to ravish. So thai, even if the miracle does not happen, you have sarved your country well, Pirani. But. to-day, it looks na if, after nil, tho miracle may happen. If every mother of a daughter child in Wellington Central will but kneel to-nig'iit over that ohild us it lies asleep, and Miink for its future, she will go out to-morrow—iiikl in bhe months to come her husband will bless her for doing it—and vole Pirani. —I am, etc., H. C. ROBINSON. Masterton, December 1-t.