INDISCREET PATRIOTISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11871, 24 January 1902, Page 6

INDISCREET PATRIOTISM.

TO THE EDITOR, / v "«ff • Sir,—Referring to the letter of Mv. B.'X. i' ; f§ P. Rimmer in Monday's Herald, Intrust ?| ' " Moreufcio" -will make it plain to the wayfar- >A"'r#| in* man of/the feeblest understanding tint f he didn't advocate any such barbarous method / '?' 1 of promulgating his opinions as damaging 1 ' % the property of his neighbours, either by *V'f| night or day, simply because their conduct -' > or opinions on socio publir question dis- 'i ■ plowed him. i t t * k- * • I : ■ Mr. Rimmer expresses strong sympathy forr: -3 the Liverpool mob who smashed Mr. ' Aked's ffJiff windows, andsays, moreover, } had jhe , been \ there ho would have given a hand ,to duck \ J Mr. Aked in the Mersey for bis "lying and' H murderous pro-Boer speech." As Mr.'Rim- " '3 mor has never read his speech, I cannot see .'1 how he is qualified to comment upon it, ias if wo have only had the few lines in the cable- - f•' 3 gram respecting it. Mr. Rimmer . is, 1 be- :'f lleve, _ engaged .in Suuday-sohool work. ' -'I f|||J St should like to know if he would recommend , J his scholars to adopt this line of argument .1 to those who do not agree .with the in. Also, 1 sometimes ho "mounts the ' pulpit,",-, but J when in it he will have to steer clear of the 'f *-,"S3 Sermon on the Mount,'. and stick J to"theim-';8l3;f , precatory psalms i , j r -A year or two ago Mr. Illromor assumed )ftpj| ■ the role of prophet, and predicted the; hour Sam , and the day when there would be an end of | , § things created. Well, the day and the hour .'-""'J 1 came, but the world is still lasting. Now, ss| supposing the male relatives of some of > the feeble old women who Had boon considerably If soared by his fanatical utterances on this Is topic had laid hands on him arid, submerged ? ;l him iii the waters of tho 7 a i ma a,'l would }} Mr. Rimmer have considered it neighbourly . 3 or Christian treatment? He would t not. | If And thou there is Mr. Hannan, of the City •"% Council. "What shall we say of him, .whose 'i vituperative vocabulary was of so limited a . $ : nature that he could not rise any higher - i ; than to speak of Mr. W. T. Stead as "that f! low, blackguard Stead,: and of Sir H. Camp- $ ball-Dannerman as " a traitor and a coward?'-' ,v Why, only this— he did"not understand, - % '4 "• what *he was talking- about.—l am, etc., . Vi v 1 _ . E. Beltjiocse.- . • # Grey Lynn, January 21, 1902. ' " ;< ' —■—■— : —.—-J :—~ . -- '