A CALL FOR UNITY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 8

A CALL FOR UNITY

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Your correspondent, Mi\ H. Brown, had nothing to say on the subject of a. National Party, so that titles wete fittingly dropped from the heading ovm- his letter. He only replies by indulging in petty personalities and jibes, the-favourite methods of political strife, which would not call for any notice iE they were not possibly misleading to some who cannot grasp essentials. His parrot-like quotations of several of my phrases are freely used as material for his cheap logic, but do not touch the facts so admirably brought out by Mr. H. Atmore, or weaken my plea for a wider platform for one who is on all sides regarded_ as one of the ablest publit speakers in this country. "The true facts," for which your correspondent so simply asks, and then in his own true style so ingenuously supplies, have truly nothing to do with Mr. Atmore's true position of real Independence. Your correspondent, parades his conception of political morality and honesty, and then supplies a glaring example of the opposite in his own insinuations about broken pledges to electors, which have no relation whatever to Mr. Atmore. Mr. H. Atmore may, in the confidence reposed in him by'the electors of Nelson, advocate a National Party, or freely criticise Reform, or condemn revolutionary Socialism, or support whomsoever he thinks worthy. He is sent to Parliament by overwhelming majorities in the Nelson electorate as an Independent, and this talk of broken pledges is quite beside the mark, and an attempt to draw a red herring across •the track.

What your correspondent regards as "established fact that some of the weakest politicians we have had foisted upon us have had remarkable majorities" cannot for one moment be applied to the member for Nelson by any honest person.

I do not, however, wish to question the motives of Mr. H. Brown, - but I will not trespass further upon your valuable space in dealing with his epistle upon the rights of other people or the qualifications of Mr. H. Atmore to address the electors upon subjects of grave national importance?—l am, etc.,

"THINKER,"-