SOCIALISM AND DOUGLASISM
to rm canon Sir, —1 had no intention of disparaging your correspondent. Mr E. W. Flint, and couched my letter in terms used by himself against Socialists, but he does not like this and calls it “ mudslinging.” I had a fair idea of the reply I would receive. The purpose of my letter was to show Mr Flint that such letters as his only cause friction among the progressive forces of the community where no friction should exist, An exchange of opinion in debate is all to the good but it must be made in good spirit, such as is not present when one tells an opponent who has given years of earnest study to the subject, that he is fostering some gigantic evil, or implies that he is an ignoramus.
To cause friction among those who are agreed on the matter of essential principle is nothing short of lunacy, and will get us nowhere. There is room for difference of opinion as to the method of procedure towards the goal of economic freedom for all. Writing in all seriousness.—l am, etc., . W. H.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23206, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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