BIBUE-IN-SCHOOLS AND PILATE REFERENDUM.
t Sir,—Messrs. M'Kenzio and Htiiiter aliviqust,? omitted (a com.pajo notes be*foro coiitributitig their respectivo lettojFSi which s.ppe.afcd uncicr tin's heading on the 13th instant. '■ -Pef jiistatico, -tlit* latter leiifnedi'v likens the Bishop's demolition of ■tho PiJite iefcrehcluiii ab* surdity to ths trfeim.pha'ftt oybrthroiv of aw Aunt Sally, ivli.ile.tlie fafftier, *it:li apparent eoiivictlM,, elaiins that the Bishop ■n-ais woti a little ■ diseoncettcA .by ; the subject, Beth cauttet ho right, aud ■ the. c.yixle.nt truth is tliat J)v'. Sprott, , having found his pofcinfeal adversaries , in an indefoirsible position, wry hicitlly. and comoletolv donJOnstrated its wetiknoss. To rtster to his fttiitwlo as disEoncerfced is eittar to display all ignsri«nco .of English, of which (boifowiiifi : smno of Mi , . M'Eeftzfp's choice phrases) "any schoolboy might lift heartily ashamed," or "to indulge in a. statement which is ftrossly nrisleatjini*, if not an unscrupulous misreprescHt-Ettion of tlife atMtttfc"-of tho spfiskcr. ■ Ur. M/Krazio can select eitfcr altonative: t-J.ieWs appears ,to be no ofehw, find ho can derive Mttle coiiifort froaii- his eol* kagwia's letter. Mr. sr.Tv«ii>zio, however, goes o.n to express an opinion that ; tho platferm.aE.the eaun:fcry--at a gen^. «_ral olection is a {iliico where a question, cnii he dealt with *|-soly ftiid WtV. Had Iro d.!>kyc.a. his tetter till to- : <hy he could liJiV.o qji.otal as all oxamiiie the ptatforfn at Sti Peter's room on Friday last Such a fond belief .is fair<J* ly charactej-isHe of a pffl.ctfeal lo.mdcr with -any knowledge of affaif.s: thor&'. are pisbahly .few , ivhe would seriously maintcwi that wtsd'citft ai'id jiißt.fco are UoHsfticuous upon ow tiafitinaJ plaitfOTms ' at election or any oiket time. Tfee. Bibfc-J.fi^Schqols , iacsgiio iivrtv GaniideutIy hope to overijiivlw opppsitiou so . iih capably difceted.—-I am, '^tc. :i?.j. : c. :
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 8
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