MR. BRADLAUGH.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Would you mind saying wherein I have ever given cause for the feeling of " a very sincere disgust and dread" to which you refer in your current issue? If it is only meant as abuse, I do not care ; but if it be a real expression of an intelligent man's feeling, I am curious to know how I have deserved it.—I am, (Mr. Bradlaugh can scarcely complain that disgust is felt for him when he admits into his paper such a "fable" as the National Reformer admitted in 1867:—" There is a great, big monkey sitting upstairs in the clouds, and he has his all-seeing eye upon you; and oh, brethren, mind the whisk of his long tail ! An old monkey of our tribe saw it once ; it had three ends and only one top, and the stump was like three, and the ends were one. And the almighty monkey who made everything out of nothing before there was anything, had a whelp or cub," Sze. We say, without any reference whatever to Mr. Bradlaugh's creed or no-creed, that a man who admits that sort of insult to all his fellow-men's faith into his paper deserves the strongest sentiment of disgust.— ED. Spectator.]
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