SHAREMILKERS—AND “ONLOOKER.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 August 1926, Page 5

SHAREMILKERS—AND “ONLOOKER.”

(To the Editor..) Sir, Your correspondent ‘ ‘ Onlooker, ” in his letter of the 24th inst., writing apropos of the day-old calf controversy, makes this astonishing statement: “The dairy industry has much for which to answer—for lowered morals and’ intelligence and physique in those concerned, particularly the sliaremilkers. ’’ It will certainly be news to many that the morals, physique and the intelligence of sliaremilkers are lower than other peoples’. Many of this province’s leading men started life as sliaremilkers. All credit to them. To make the unqualified statement that tlie morals of sliaremilkers are lower than the morals of others who perhaps do not have to work half as hard for double the remuneration is simply absurd. “Onlooker” suggests that the person who brought forward the davold calf slaughtering -selleme ‘‘should be tied to a van of calves till his very soul revolted at liis handiwork.’’ If “Onlooker” has misgivings as to the physique of sliaremilkers, I humbly suggest that he should be tied in a eowyard full of sliaremilkers, and there propound to them his somewhat novel views. I have no doubt his misgivmgs would be dispelled. My very soul revolts at the prospect. “Onlooker” would probably feel like Mark Twain’s lion in a den of Daniels.—l am. etc., LOOKER-ON. TTawera. August 2G.