Politicians and Pioneers
Sir, —I said “.that settlers were driven out by slum conditions, driven off the land by rack renters, evicted by agents of the absentee landlord, etc.” I never used the word “racketeers,” although when, it appeared in newspaper reports I said to my benchmate, “The inevitable result of feeding ‘lmperial sentiment’ on gangster pictures.” I corrected the report iu manypapers, but the subsequent statements of my colleagues rendered this unnecessary everywhere. And I take issue anyhow with the assumption that the inhabitant of a slum tenement is vicious and the occupant of a mansion the last word in virtue. —I am, etc.,
JOHN A. LEE. V ellington, October 28.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 31, 31 October 1932, Page 11
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