WEST RIDING ELECTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 90, 29 November 1911, Page 2

WEST RIDING ELECTIONS.

(To tho Editor “Stratford Post.”) Sir, —In reply to Mr Marchant’s letter I have little more to add to what 1 have already written, except to say that in all deference to him and that little story, I intend to take a straight course in furtherance of that impassable connecting link between the West and North Hidings. What may happen afterwards, should this bo the last act of the drama, is another question altogether. It seems that Mr Merchant is like tho proverbial scold. He cannot see any good because his vision is unfortuately jaundiced with evil. To paraphrase Hen Johnson I would say: Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame—a fallible human soul. Criticism is so easy a task that anyone, no matter how .unskilled, can do it without effort, The man in the gutter can criticise the saint; but that does not lift him an inch out of the gutter; When Thales, away back in the classic times, was asked what was tho most difficult, he replied: “To know oneself” ; bub when he was asked what was most easy he answered: “To advise another.”—l am, etc., J. SMITH. Stratford, November 27.