WHY SO MUCH ANGER?

Evening Star, Issue 12763, 16 March 1906, Page 6

WHY SO MUCH ANGER?

. TO 188 EDITOR. Sir,—l very sincerely trust your readers will forgive Mr A- S. Adams few his letter m your ieroe of yesterday. It was ths thoughtless production of an angry .man. Defeated, he resorts to the subterfuge; olthe fury—and by ite exhibition proves his weakness. His statements, inferences, and "lock are void of truth, but you have so gently chastised him that ! am bold to believe he w9i bea “gsod boy” for some time hereafter. The proposal of the; Moderate party bo characterises as “immoral.” Brave man* He did not discover, the immorality until he was defeated; but he took part- m tho Conference, and, a priori, was therefore himself “immoral”! For my pat, I should refuse to discuss an ' 1 immoral scheme ” with anv man, or body of men, but Mr A. S. Adains did, and thus, to use the venerable language of the law, “he became art .and part.” He is as bad as the other fellow. I do not like monopolies, but Mr A. S; Adams is the biggest monopolist I know. He claims to possess the entire virtue' of , Dunedin, so far as temperance zeal is concerned. I shall not dispute the point, for the reason that I could never convince him that the mayor and four councillors, whom the public returned, have got any. Dunedin must be in a bad way when it refuses to listen to Mr Ai-.S. Adams! Moriey, in his ‘Life of Gladstone’ tells a story which mightily amused that great statesman:—A Yankee, who had read Shakespeare for the Sret time, showed hia appreciation in such words ns these: “Well, I guess the man who wrote that book was a clever fellow. I don’t suppose there are more than a dozen men in Boston who could write that book.” Probably not. There is one man in Dunedin who could easily write Shakespeare—Mr A. S. Adams. If you ask for proof, read last night’s letter. But I apologise. There is another gentleman of equal ability and Hteray accomplishments who could perform the same feat. I mean my friendi, Mr Bernard Nichoiis.—l am, etc.. Wm. Thomson. March 16. 1