HOME RULE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13359, 27 December 1906, Page 6

HOME RULE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — In your columns of tha 21st., 1 ste "A Lover of Justice," etc., seeans to doubt my stcitemcnt of having been in Ireland, and requires to know how many /horse soldiprs, foot soldiers, -and police it .took to evict one tenant. It would be, no doubt, news to -him to l^no'w that during my several years' in" Ireland T was in. the ]3th Hussars, ' and, Avas stationed in many places. As ins.tanee, 12 moii'ths in- Ballij.icolli'e 1 , 12 moirlhti in Gop'i and ■rode through Mitchclstown several times en route 'to the 'Curragh 'and th«j North., and wherever T was billettod I was always treated . well by the Irish people, so don't have the idea I atn prejudiced* against tht<oi.». I can safely slay jthat hot anj- of 'iriy • comrades or myself were called to assist in evict ing ,a tenant. In the days of which he speaks people^were eA"it'U\l without a doubt;' 'and " "'Lover' of .'.'us-tlee" woii^d do the'saime if ho own'H a Ijoukci the tenant, of which would not pay the roat. • No doubt "LovW of" Justice" was in Ireland many years ago, and if he took a trjp there now he we '..ld

find things greatly improved. Th« j great fault lies with having so many I agitators who are continually fleecing- the poor classes? of their money, and keep things o n a baianea for means of their own livelihood. Further comments -arc untaccessary. Thanking you for the space I have taken, in you valuable paper, and will now si£n my name and not a norn deplume.— l am, etc., E. V.': SQUIRE.