SCURRILOUS LETTERS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 277, 25 November 1919, Page 6

SCURRILOUS LETTERS

[to the editor.]

Sir, —Please grant me a little space in your columns to voice a sentiment which, I fully believe, both you and all your readers will heartily endorse, p.nd' that is, my utter contempt, and I feel sure the" utter contempt of all right-thinking men and women, for the writers of anonymous letters. During the last few weeks several of my friends have been the recipients of vile insinuating; letters, letters filled with thoughts and suppositions winch could only spring from a mind tainted with -the disease of social loathsome ness. Wei;e my friends to stop in the street to speak to a friend or have a few Visitors* at thair home, they are immedisvtely presented with a billet-doux, which one can only call the filthy conception of a brain diseased. I believe that the flogging of the convict days is again freely used as a deterrent to those who transgress the law; therefore I would suggest to the writers of these filthy epistles that when they deliberately set out to create strife in happy, peaceable homes, and let loose the domon of jealousy and suspicion between friends in the tniest sense of the word, to remember that the knotted lash may one day sear their be dies, even as they sear the souls of their innocent victims, who from a worthy pride and self-respect can only suffer in silence.—l am, etc., W. G.