MR PERRY REJOINS TO M.D. C.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3804, 15 April 1913, Page 6

MR PERRY REJOINS TO M.D. C.

(To tlio Editor.) Sir, —It is presumption on the part of "‘‘Member Drivers’ Union” to presume that I included him in the same category as John Wesley or Martin Luther. If he will peruse my letter again He will observe that I referred to him under an altogether different heading. Men of his class believe themselves all-sufficient and pre-emin-ent. ' I would here point out for the edification of my voluble friends that I am in no way furious with him. Why should I beP When I realise lie is more to be pitied than laughed at furiousness ceases to exist. Such a dignitary of learning as lie pertains to he must know that to “err is human, to forgive Divine” and so after all his endeavors to ridicule the success of the Labor Party candidates (that is avowedly his object) I forgive him. When I use the term “dignitary of learning” J use it advisedly, for as a scholar your correspondent deigns to stand aloft. I offered him a fool's advice, he rejects it. Yet, sir, you know it takes a. wise man to make a fool in tho proper sense of the word. 1 would point out that any person who considers himself above taking advice can only be accepted for his face value and not too much at that. Another misgiving of my friend is about his donkeys. Practice proves to me that some donkeys are worth more dead than alive. Personally lam not going to assess “M.D.U.’s” value at this juncture. . He says: “We are all eyes and ears.” Might I add: “Yet seeth and hearoth not-.” Now, sir, this gentleman in question wants my opinion on the one man twobillet job. He nan. have it, but I am too old a bird to be caught by any of his artful ruses. If lie will deign to raise the curtain obscuring his,identity I mill gladly do so. If lie is, as 1 presume, afraid to do so and is a bona fide member of a union, he will no doubt have an opportunity of putting the question should we have an opportunity of addressing His union- as we have done others. Presuming he is not a unionist lie will nevertheless have an opportunity of meeting me when the Labor three, Messrs Coleman, Anderson and Perry, again publicly enunciate the Party’s policy and platform. The Labor candidates have convictions, have the courage to enunciate them and stand to win or lose by them, and until we again publicly expound them.-—1 am, in the rumpus, JAS. 'PUPPY.