ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 13 May 1920, Page 17

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Enquiry. —Have: posted cutting to address you gave us. A.M.O’D.— Only another phase of an old lie. Why worry about it? They are hired to tell lies. It is a common British . trick of journalists to suppress letters that do not suit . them, even when written to refute their lies. ' , ■ . .;- . • J.O. —Don’t worry.- It will arrive at its destination all right. The men who have guaranteed that are capable of seeing it through. I’.J.F. (Hawera). —There is strong evidence that “An Exile from Erin” was written by George Nugent Reynolds'and not by Campbell at all. We will deal with the question later in our “Notes.” Old Mack. — Glad, to hear from you. We don't, wonder that you love Westland. More power to your-elbow. J.M.D. —Was away when your letter came. Rather late now for publication. - . A. Traveller. — No anonymous letters ■ published on controversial subjects. In any cage the subject you touch upon is not within our scope to deal with. • C hull . —Your last letter brought us so much abuse directed at your head that wo ajo terrified to - publish your present communication, particularly as it is all wrong from first to last. If you call at the office at any time you can have the past volumes of the Tablet. We have not time for a search over two years. Black Tie. Our opinion is that neither of them owned the watch. Why worry now? Even if you had Gy suffer during the war you have at present more reason to be proud than most of those around you. O. Henry was a Catholic, but don’t tell that to your wowser friend or he will have him put .on the Index —- by an Order in Council, of course. Home Born. — Your animadversions on Cuchullain are very reasonable, but we have no intention of wasting paper on such a controversy. . Slieve na Mean, Reader, W. J. O’R., etc. See foregoing remark. J.B.C. —We were away when the rumpus you speak of occurred. It will do no. harm. A row is a good thing now and then. It prevents stagnation. But why worry at all ? The true ethical principle, is that there is no just government without the consent of the governed. Therefore it is simply impertinence and ignorance for outsiders to try to impose their views on those whose task it is to choose their government. That is sound Sinn Fein doctrine. It was (at one time) Lloyd George’s war aim too. But ho. was in trouble then. The old story!— When the devil was sick The devil a monk would be; '■ When the devil was well * - ■ The devil a monk he’d be. - E. O’B. —We do not stock Who’s Who. We get our own copy direct from Burns and Oates, Orchard Street, London. . .... Vindex. Thanks for your advice. There is no commodity with which we are better supplied. Ninety-nine per

cent', iof our readers imagine that all ; the others are foolsespecially the editor, manager, and r entire staff of the Tablet, Still, if wo ran the Tablet for one week only on the lines suggested to ns by people like yourself who have a monopoly of the genius and common sense of the Dominion we would surely be made participators of the honor and; dignity of the Massey Cabinet. ,v “ And we prefer *to diei ‘peaceably and decently. , ...... wmm—b—■——a——— mtuam i,