Letter to the Editors from the October 1909 issue of the Socialist Standard
To the Editor.
Returning from my holidays a few days since, my attention was drawn to a letter which appeared in the Socialist Standard of July over my signature (there being only one Jno. Rhind of Old Trafford). Now I wish to entirely repudiate it and to state that this is the first communication you have ever received from me or by my authority.
To my mind it is a very mean trick, and unworthy of any man, more especially if he professes to be a Socialist.
I may further state that I consider life too short to waste my time over such side-tracking questions as who pays the rates.
Trusting you will give this repudiation the same publicity as you gave the letter referred to,
Jno. Rhind
Reply:
[We regret, of course, that Mr. Rhind should have been—as it appears—”tricked” ; but from information to hand we gather that he has not been misrepresented. The “side-tracking” is all with the Tories, Liberals, Labourites and pseudo-Socialists of no matter what stripe, who seek to interest and keep busy the workers with the amount of the rates rather than with Socialism.—Ed. “S.S.”]
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