Mar, 18.
We trust that our correspondent "N.Y. Z of uny intention of being when we say. that the greater part of his letter is entirely beside the point. Complaints about the absence of British compositions from Sunday programmes, about the comparatively small return that we get for our outlay on the Band, and the fallacy of supposing that German musicians superior to any others, might equally have been used, have indeed frequently been used, in any of the controversies that have at times arisen over the Band during the last eight years. Again, we entirely sympathize with our correspondent in not wishing to hear German musicians play, especially at the cost of sitting among s largely German audience. But this is no just reason for turning them out neck and crop: they. are the servants of an international community, and if we do not want to take advantage of their services, the only fair remedy is to stop away. If this were a British colony and we were able to intern all German residents alike, it would be a totally different question. But we cannot do this: and in these circumstances, is it just, is it British, and would it not look simply petty and undignified to vent our anger upon a handful of men who happen to be in our power, without regard to whether they have or have not deserved it? This ie the real point of the matter, which we hope that British ratepayers will most carefully consider before they allow the feelings of the moment to tempt them into hasty action, of which in calmer mood they may be aahamed. The saying of Polybius, recalled by another correspondent, is as true to-day as it waa 1800 years ago: Men of sense, when resolved to retaliate upon s personal enemy, think first. not what he deserves, but what is becoming them to do."
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