WHAT OTHER FOLK SAY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 36, Issue 9503, 22 December 1905, Page 4

WHAT OTHER FOLK SAY.

■ ■ ■ xo THE EDITOE Sib, —While glancing over the columns, of your issue of Friday, last I noticed a letter under the heading "What Other Folks are Saying." The correspondehtis evidently of a humourous turn of mind, and but for one saying in his letter to which exception might be taken his ci-ude observations would have passed unheeded, or might have been accepted in the spirit in which I doubt not they were intended.

But the aspirant in the field of humour, if he wishes his humour to be appreciated," must exercise due caution that he does not overstep the bounds of prudence.and;miss.the. object aimed at. I think that your correspondent overshoots the mark in his effort to wax- -hurnourous when he says that " The Catholics voted solid for Macpherson and whisky." There seems to be a deep-rooted idea existent in the minds of a great many people who, they cannot see eye to eye with our Catholic friends, believe them to be incapable of taking an intelligent and broad - minded view of matters political, and blame them 1 for supporting enbloc any candidate for political honors who is fortunate enough to win their favour; To such people T would say : • Disabuse your minds of all such erroneousi .and mistaken ideas, and allow to the Catholics the sameliberty of conscience that yon would arrogate to yourselves,, and test assured "that equaldiscriinidatidn,intelligehceandindependence of action is exercised when casting their votes, as that of any other member of society. lam certain that the voting at the recent electibri here was not*as unanimous in any particular direction as some would insinuate.; Further, the Catholics are a temperate people, and I conscientiously believe them to be as desirous as others of assisting in promoting the cause of temperance in a peaceful and persuar *}Y e w . a y. whichhiight yet prove more effectual than the coercive measures adoptedand expounded" by of the' rabid Prohibition type. I trust your correspondent will recognise that no matter " what 'other folk are, saying," the result of an election depends entirely; on the'feeling of the'pebple as a whole.-—T am, '&c,'" ' ''

Cosmopolitan.