ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 11 September 1919, Page 17

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

J.H.—Too late now to go back to it. H.H. —Thanks for cutting (Cutten’s). Will write soon. E.M. .(Shannon). —Thanks for cutting. We will , find room for it. -i - -M ■ W.McC.— for. letter. Linehan, Little Collins v Street, Melbourne, has the book as well as we remember. • „' J. McK.-The article in the Mercantile Gazette is certainly a fair specimen of the ignorance of . Irish history required of New Zealand editors. E.L.—We were present ourselves when M. Andre, who attended General Pan, told of Foch’s visits to the Blessed Sacrament. Presbyterians are not kept down because of their Catholic spirit. Foch was. Take 1000 to 1 every time. P.K. (Oamaru) wants to know the right length to cut , a terrier’s tail. The reply is conditional. If he is seriously looking for information, let him take an axe, a block, blindfold himself*, and hit the animal where he can. If he is trying to pull our leg we suggest that he measure once and a-half times the length of a puppy’s snout and take it as a standard. G.R.R. Please don’t worry about * the Nosworthy man’s appointment. Wasn’t it a right and proper punishment for all his Orange antics and his asininities We would draw the line at making the Kaiser himself a member of the Hon. Mr. Massey’s Cabinet. The punishment of Sir Joseph Ward for the past couple of years (while he was trainbearer to William) was surely expiation full and flowing over for all his sins against the people during this war which Mr. Hughes described as a war for economic domination. We are a great people, and no mistake! Critic. -We are not the only people who have a contempt for the sort of patriots that professed love for England with their lips and then proceeded to rob her with all their power during the war. Don’t make any mistake about it. The day of reckoning for the seanini will come. It only wants a right public spirit to make them hide themselves for life. The number of people in this country who are ready to toady to despicable placemen and profiteers is appalling. The Labor Party will take a hand in altering that. ' Expediency is not the honest man’s guide of life although it is the guide of many people here. Not what people will say, but what is right and true and just ought to be the first and last thought of every man. With reference to the occasion you mention it is our opinion that the gentleman’s departure ought to have been accelerated by some Irishman’s boot.