MR T. E. TAYLOR.

Evening Star, Issue 14038, 20 April 1909, Page 6

MR T. E. TAYLOR.

TO THE EDITOR. Six.—You and your contemporaries, without one atom of proof, indirectly blame Mr Taylor for the conduct of some hoodlums who insulted the Flag by jumping on it and tearing it to pieces. 1 happen to have known Mr Taylor for years, and I can say that there is more bona fide loyalty in Mr Taylor’s little finger than in some politicians’ whole bodies. Borne of the leading politicians in England and Australia, and Mr Massey and others in the Dominion, have said exactly what Mr Taylor has said—viz., that it was an unconstitutional thing to pledge this country to two to four millions of money without asking the consent of either people or Parliament. But as Mr Taylor has been the stern opponent, both in and out of session, of jingoism, as dangerous to true patriotism, and a man who has the moral courage to denounce the ravages of the liquor trusts, flour trusts, and meat trusts, etc., vicious attacks arc made on him. Had Sir J. G. Ward been half as anxious to conserve the interests of the people and crush combines, instead of Germany, the people would have been better off.—l am, «tc., Radical. April 20.