28 FEBRUARY 1914, Page 17

CICERO AND THE DEPORTATIONS.

[TO ram Ramos or srecuror.-1

Snt,—Have any of your readers remarked the appropriate- ness of the subjoined quotation from Cicero (Cat. III. 15) in connexion with the recent deportations from South Africa? At any rate the Labour Party may find it instructive:— " Ea lenitate Senates est uses ut, ex tents conjurations tantaque hue multitudine domesticornm bostium novem hominum perditissimornm peens repnblica conservator, reliquortun mentes sanari posse arbitraretur."—I am, Sin.