ANOTHER SIDE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17093, 27 August 1917, Page 7

ANOTHER SIDE.

Sie,—H[ think many of the even-minded, discerning in Dunedin must have

smiled cynically at the commotion which has been raised over the Ebzery case by the " unco guid," both znalo and female. ■ The poor man evidently had no friends, and the magistrate, polio©, and the Justice Department were riot spared either. The rumours end exaggerations talked in the streets were false, absurd, and cruel, and the lying inventions made against somo of our respectable citizens would have been amusing if they had not been so malicious. The bombast that was talked at both the men's meeting and the women's meeting was ■ marked by unconscious humour ana inconsistency. One lady, was full of flippant severity. She complained because the offender was a naturalised Austrian and could not be interned ,and he should get a longer sentence. But the climax was reached when she wound up by stating that the solution of the position was that houses of ill-fame should be registered and there should be supervision of the women of the unfortunate class by both medical men and the police. I do not say. that she is wrong, but is she not very inconsistent? Now I know the offender weD, and his wife and family. Hie wif keeps an excellent board-:ng-house and manages it well, and is greatly respected by her customers. • He is not a naturalised Austrian, but a British subject Ho was born in New S6uth Wales, and hved a respectable life there. I think it shows a poor spirit to go on kicking a man wnen he is down. Charity is scareo amonsr tho unco guid." "Oh, wad some power tne gittie gio us To see oorsels as ithers see '""j i i w ? d irc ! m many a blunder free us, and foolish notion." So said Robert Burns and he was a gifted man.—l am, eta Dunedin, August 24. Watcheb.