SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4330, 30 January 1893, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1893.

Being the extended title of the WAiRiKm Daily, with which it is IDENTICAL

We have received a long and abusive letter from Mr W. Alesmider, who desires to lay down the lilies on which the Waiharapa Daily Tijieb should be conducted with regard to the temperance question. We Lave a great respect for Mr Aloxander, aa on old mibacribor to thiß, journal and as an occasional contributor to its columns, but we will not allow him or anyone else to diotate to us how our paper should be conducted, Mr Alexander has decided views of his own with which we do not quarrel, but when ho attempts to forao them down our throat ho makes a mistake. The intemperance of tempHranoe reformers has always bpen one of the greatest hindrances to the progress of the movement. Mr Alexander fails to realize that in writing to a public journal somd display of courtesy and some consideration for other people's opinions iB necessary. A short time ago we published a letter from him which, aocording to journalistic etiquette, should have gone' into our waste' papor basket. We cannot continue to waive points of this kind in his favour.

One of Mr Alexander's grievances against us is: that we did not giro more prominence to the Tennyson Smitb mission. We have heard this objeotion from other quarters, and perhaps it may be worth while to say why we wero not more impressed by thedistingaiehedleoturer who recently visited ns. We have seen and heard the first Gough, and were certainly very much impressed by him, He was an exceedingly able, straightforward, earnest nan I The second Qough, as he calls himself, the Tennyson Qough, the long-haired, kid-gloved, smart platform actor is no more like the first Gough than chalk resembles cheese. Anyone who has seen and heard the first Gough cannot very well gaze on Gough No 2 without it smile. What business has he to call himself the secondGough, whyßhould he wear" the Giant's robe ?" Why docs he not make a name for himself as Mr E. T. Smith, of Birmingham, instead of imitating and mimicking great and true men like Alfred Tennyson and Jobu Gough. We do not object to Mr Alexander and others being impressed by Mr E, Tennyson Smith or taking tinkling brass to be all the same as sounding gold, but when they complain that'we don'tfall down and worship their idol they forco us to explain that we cannot honestly do so. If Mr S. T, Booth comes this way we fancy we shpll like him and give more space to bis mission. Hois, we believe, an original, not a copy, anil we have heard true men speak well of him, | Probably Mr E. Tennyson Smith is a very nicp man in a quiet way, bt|t be certainly failed io impress ys and we are not going bf controlled even by old subscribers like Mr W, Alexander into expressing

M sdmiration of & very clever man who is as unlike. John Gough or Alfred Tennyson as it is possible for a man to be,

Another thing our Temperance friends have been telling us for more than a year is that if we don't publish all they wish us to print they will run a temperance paper of their own, Perhaps, the sooner they do this the better I We have some sympathy with the temperance cause and we shall never hesitate to express it as far Ss it goeß, even if a dozen temperance papers were published in this district, but the Wairarapa Dailv Times has never been under the oontrol of any society or individual. It will not admire Mr E, Tennyson Smith and it will not accept guidance from Mr. W. Alexander, unless the latter reciprocates by taking from us a few lessons in oarpentering.