MR. P.J. O'REGAN'S ATTACKS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 66, 18 March 1924, Page 8

MR. P.J. O'REGAN'S ATTACKS

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —In your issue of -the 15th instant there appeared a letter from .Mr. 13.I 3. J. O'Regan headed "Mr.' Ramsay Mac Donald." What a pity it is that your correspondent cannot write about anyone who vft'ers from him without sneering. His attitude is generally that of VI am Sir Oracle," and we have got qujte used to it. AVhen he refers to the whole people during the war as being more or less insane simply because the vast majority did not agree with the views of I Mr. Ramsay MacDoimld ■ (which views, of course, are ilr. O'Regan's) he is simply insulting. Why, even a number of Mr. Mac Donald's colleagues in the Labour Party did not agree with the pacifism then expressed by him. It is l.iioiisense to say Mr. Mnc'fionald.' was persecuted just because electors chose to 1 vote for someone else: as they did not ■ consider his then policy a safe one for the Kmpire which Germany was attacking. I notice that Mr. o'Regan uses i Horatio 'Bottornley's name as if to susrjgest that such a character is the Imperialist type. Such a suggestion would be j clearly contemptible. There are many i Imperialists whose characters are as much beyond reproach .is that of Mr. O'Regan's, and the Fad that he differs . i from them in opinion does not alter the truth of this statement. The dogmatism of assuming thVil everybody who j'differs from yourself is bad is an exhibi- • tion of inordinate conceit that people with discretion try to avoid, As a paei- . fist .Mr. O'Regan is curiously addicted to . the habit of stirring up war. — I am. etc., ■I JUNIUy. i 18th March..