To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Datty News."
Sir,—It is almost always the case when money is wanted from the Portuguese Community, for any patriotic reason, those that don't contribute a cent, watch for the earliest opportunity to demand an account, and whose notion of duty and patriotism appears to be that they should vex, tantalize, and heckle "The Committee" at every point. And they will unhesitatingly endeavour to impress upon your readers that the chosen committee is the type of the unwelcome. Yet, the names of the persons demanding the accounts are carefully hidden.
This dangerous practice of allowing those human flies to go about pestering, nipping, and buzzing, is to my mind very unsatisfactory. Y do not wish to seem unkind to them, humanity will not let me poison them, and there is a law against shooting them, but it does seem necessary to have a. place where they could be gently but efficaciously swathed. A Whenever we have a conference, a national meeting or a national gathering to discuss or promote an affair, there they buzz, tickle, and blatter. They suggest, amend, and raise objections. They never do anything; it is their business to annoy people who do things. "No doubt, the accounts must be published to the satisfaction of "Ramy," otherwise, his persecution will be all the more unbearable because it is the unconscious expression of his fly nature, and blame him for it.
I am, etc., Bruso Him Orr.
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