MR STANFORD REPLIES.

Evening Star, Issue 3728, 3 February 1875, Page 3

MR STANFORD REPLIES.

To Ihe J'ddov. Sir, —T hasten to satisfy tlio impatient Mr “ Uosevver ” by assuring him ’.hat the quotations o' authorities as against Mr Fox were taken verbatim el litaalim from Mr Ward’.-! book, “The Fallacieu of Teototahs-n.” Fid he thinic 1 had invented them ? i; he prepared lo question their authenticity V The reports of select committees in Massachusetts not being accessible in Dunedin, it did nob require the penetration of an “ Observer ” to (ind that I must have quoted them second-hand from someone—Mr Ward was the man.

Shortly after Mr Fox lectured in Daned’n, T. was much, amused at being rep atedly naked by my Good Templar friends where in the world I had got the overwhelming list of authorities quoted, by me. It seems that Mr Ward's book, though, it has been exposed for sale in the book shop:-; of Dunedin for the last two years, is almost unread by those who suppose themselves posted up in the literature of “abstinence.” I was quite unprepared for the shameful ignorance of a common place Land-booa. like Mr Ward’s which was exhibited by some of tiro champions of the Bocal Templars. Ko doubt the hab't of reading only one side of a question conduces to simplicity of thought: it is not generally considered a wholesome way of arriving at reasonable convictions. I am sorry 1 cannot congratulate Mr “ Observer” upon the rapidity of his discovery ; five weeks was a long time to take in Hading out whose work I had quoted bom. If on a future occasion he is puzzled, [shall be only too glad to give him every information in my power. —1 am, &c,, R. L. .Stan vonn, Dunedin, February 3,