PLEA FOR TOLERANCE.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The correspondence columns of the Times give me much pleasure. From the letters I derive profit, and also- some amusement. I recognise < that many of the contributors are of more than average ability, and there can be no doubt as to their earnestness in advocating reforms which many of us feel are considerably overdue. But I would here make a suggestion to at least three of the most ardent advocates of the Douglas panacea, and that is to exercise a little more tolerance towards those who do not see eye to eye with them, but who probably are just as anxious as they themselves are to improve the lot of the masses. Arguments and facts cannot be discounted by merely accusing those who state them of crass ignorance and stupidity. Such a course cuts no ice and is calculated to have a boomerang effect on those who follow it. Wisdom is not a monopoly, and it has yet to be established that all the intelligence of the world is concentrated in two or three obscure Waikato hamlets. —I am, etc., E. D. EWINSSON. Hamilton, August 7, 1934.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19330, 9 August 1934, Page 9
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