Mr Ramsay and His Marionettes. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 50

Mr Ramsay and His Marionettes. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — I quite expected a reply from Mr Ramsay, and I do not mind much what a man writes over his own name where one has an opportunity of reply. Sometimes one's signature is the best reply; sometimes one's style. "When I glanced through Mr Ramsay's letter I could see that so far as his attack on myself is concerned, the fact that such a production emanated from a J.P. ad chairman of an Education Board presumed to be in his senses would do harm only to himself. Hence, although I usually lead the attacks of all and sundry, this one has received hardly a read and no further attention. Regaiding my own letter I stated my belief that the anonymous attacks on me emanated from Mr Ramsay's marionettes, just as I affirmed my belief that while Mr MacGregor, who is a candidate, stands out of range, Mr Ramsay, who is not a candidate, " fires Mr MacGregor's balls.'' The whole thing is worthy of our friends the enemy who shoot their foes under cover of the white flag, I now state I have abundant reason to question the bona fides of these base, cowardly, anonymous attacks that follow always in the wake of this gentleman's controversies. A man who will attack his colleagxies by getting other men to insert his attacks anonymously need not wonder if every such anonymous production is deemed to emanate from a common source, and is treated accordingly. I have been forced to bring Mr Ramsay to book over this matter by his persistent and constant attacks on other men's honour, and I have the positive proof of his own writing that he has been guilty of this conduct. Regarding your correspondent " Pax," who to all appearance, is one of these cowardly marionettes, and who, in view of the new opinions of Mr MacGregor and Mr Ramsay, is anxious to reopen the Waiareka case, I refer him, if he wants new evidence about it, to Mr John MacGregor, and if that gentleman gives him the contents of letter dated June 2, 1897, "Pax" will know more about Waiareka than ever he bargained for.— l am, etc., P. B. FRASER. ' February 19.

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