CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4343, 13 February 1893, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[The Editor, Wairaram Daily Times.] Sir,—l have read with a measure of 'diversion,' as Pat would say, your leader of the 80th ult, Not buying sufficient journalistic acumen, I was not aware that it was consistent with a leading articleTo (Reply toa leltor, stated to bo with one exception confidential. I fail to seo wherein my letter was abusive, as I had not tho slightest intontion that it should bo so. Of course being only supposed to be versed in carpentering, I sot that interpretation down to your editorial imagination. With regard to tho letter, which you say 'according to journalistic otiquetto should have gone into our vasto-piper basket,' a very different estimate was oxprossedbyn number of gentlemen whose opinions are of value. With regard to Mr Tennyson Smith, ho is not an idol of mioo, nor did I ask you tooxpress admiration for him, but stated that whilst yon devoted columns to horso-racing/Aus pandering ton demoralising imßk only gave very mcagro space to notices of Tennyson Smith's mission, never recognising that tho mission was held for tho moral and social elevation of tho community. It is refreshing to turn to tho columns of the " Prohibitionist," a paper edited by true men, with moral backbone, not afraid" to call a spado a spado," men of the stuff that those were made of whom it was said" These that have turneJ the world upside down," There I learn that Tennyson Smith's mission was a distinct and crippling blow to the liquor traffic in Masterton, and that jTM signatures to the pledge w<%WafMtd. Of course you can sneer that theso pledjes wero quickly taken and will be quickly broken. I myself took the pledge over -it) years ago, and still it is unbroken, and I am only ono among thousand?, yea, millions, who aro life-long abstainers. I also heard the first Gougb, but have not beard the. second. I wily gunge him by tho practical results of his mission, notwithstanding your depreciating tiiado against him. As you have devoted a leader to my demolition, I think it oniy fair that yon publish my rejoinder. This correspondence will now cea"e, and I will henceforth ho very careful not to run tho risk of over-loaning your wastepaper basket, I am, etc., Wji. ALEXAMtn.