GERMANY AND AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9284, 11 February 1889, Page 3

GERMANY AND AMERICA.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Although there is danger of your patience becoming exhausted in regard to our miniature " Americo-German" war, yet as Mr. Fricke has very generously refrained from using the hackneyed expression "you're another," I must trespass on it once more to the extent of calling your attention to the fact that you inadvertently omitted a few words in my letter of the (sth, which omission changes the sense of one sentence, and leaves me under suspicion of having " called names." which Ido not think a graceful habit. As it stands, it appears as though I suggested that Mr. Fricke contribute his person td swell Prince Bismarck's supply of '• chicken food whereas I suggested that he help guard it from the " corroded" talons of the American eagle. I would also like to state for the benefit of those who do not know it (and Mr. F. seems to be one of them, he displaying an equally deplorable ignorance of the condition of American society and politics) that the " revolver and bowie knife'' have long since crossed the Mississippi River, and seldom survive the conversion of a Territory into a State. It is wonderful that because people sometimes read of a Texas cowboy, of Mexican descent, or an ex-Australian bushranger on the slopes of the Rockies," having "got the drop" on an acquaintance, thereby converting him to his own way of thinking, a citizen of law-abiding and peace-loving New England, whose geographical distance from such scenes would, in Europe, mean several changes of race, language, complexion, and habits, can " talk big" with the same impunity and security from danger as though he always walked about accompanied by a 10-gun battery and a cemetery.—i am, &c., John H. Potter, Barquentine William Phillips.