A Harsh Sentence
SIR,—Janus is to be congratulated on taking up the case of the harsh sentence passed on a Hull fisherman for voting twice in the last election ; an offence which seems to have been committed thoughtlessly rather ).han maliciously. I understand that the folk of his own town are signing
petition.
Janus suggests it is a case for the intervention of the Home Secretary. The party to which the Home Secretary belongs is one which claims to help the class of the community to which the fisherman belongs. Our Home Secretary is justly noted for a humane breadth of outlook. Here Is an excellent opportunity for both him and the party to which he belongs to put into practice those very principles which so many of their fellow-countrymen have shown by their recent votes they believe
them to hold.—Yours, &c., ARTHUR B. MORLEY. 288 High Street, Sheerness, Kent.
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