WAR AND PEACE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11366, 6 September 1897, Page 6

WAR AND PEACE.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —The letter in your issue of this day, signed W. Sherriff-Bain,. under the above heading, is such a medley that I should like to make a few comments on it. Now, I was in London during the Jubilee celebrations, and witnessed the procession, and, with all respect to the superior knowledge of W. Sherriff-Bain, I have no hesitation in saying there was' nothing m the procession more “barbaric” than our own New Zealand contingent. According 1 to W; Sherriff-Bain, the .“barbaric pageantry” of the celebration bore , immediate fruit in the belligerent Imperialism of Germany. Perhaps W. Sherriff-Bain . will be good enough to explain the meaning of all this. Certainly there has been no outburst of(lerman Imperialism since the Record Reign celebrations. Again, W. Sheriff - Bain says, “ And it may be presumed” the alliance between France and Russia is duo to the same cause, i.e., the Record Reign celebrations. Here again your correspondent displays an absolute' ignorance of facts - . This Pranco-Russian Alliance, has, as you, Mr Editor, pointed out the other day, been on the tapis ever since the cession of Alsace and Lorraine. I need not follow W. SherriffBain’s rambling rigmarole respecting Armenian sufferings.Russianintrigue and Turkish misrule. Your correspondent has evidently no knowledge of the subject. What the question of bimetallism has to do with the heading of the letter I am at a loss to understand. The reason the question of raising the value of silver is so prominently before the world just now is owing entirely to the prolific output of that metal in America. Silver, like all, products, "dll have to submit to its market value, and the more prolific the American mines become, the less- value will silver have in the markets of the world. The action of London in refusing to assist in making America’s Silver Kings into Silver Emperors deserves the support of the civilised world. —I am, &c„ JNO. SPEED. '