THE "HERALD" AND MR. AITKEN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17544, 10 April 1919, Page 4

THE "HERALD" AND MR. AITKEN.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —The letter over my name which appears in the "Herald" this evening. is no more than the preamble of the letter I sellt in. I did not keep ji <Jopy, but I shall endeavoitr to give, «ib far as I <?an recollect, the substance of the part of the letter which : your evening eoi)tempornry has excised. 1 took charge of the Boys' School, I saidj. on the 25th April, 1892. and the lads" •who formed the school in those days had just as good a show for the good fortunes of after-life as any. But T can recall; one here and another, there who went down under the seductions of the traffic in liquor; and the same can be said of every generation of boys who have occupied the benches since. Arid " I know that if the cursed thing is not wiped out on Thursday, a proportion of my bright boys will be drunkards, and some of my sweet girls will become — (hideous fate!) —drunkards' wives. T have never been given to ■what uiny he cnl'cd "strong language," but there are two things that at this time of day I i'eel quite justified Jin damning, and these are the unspeakable Hun and the unspeakable traffic in soul, and-brxly-destroying boozo.—l ani. etc.", J. AITKEN. 9/4/19.*