ASHBURTON REPUTATION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5896, 23 February 1903, Page 2

ASHBURTON REPUTATION.

TO THE EDITOR. | Sic, —I suppose it is "pure cussedness" which continually tempta newspaper editors to misrepresent lecturers and others engaged m "No-license" work. .1 use the mild word —" misrepresent " — though a j stronger expression might be more approt priate. The paragraph culled from the Melbourne ff Age," appearing m your issue of [ Friday last, ma| 01? ri^ay not have been j fiction, but, m any case, the story was told m a style appreciative'£o those who have the sense of humor. But what a pity, Sir, that you should spoil the fun by introducing it with the venom which invariably accompanies your references to the selfdenying and earnest men and women engaged iii the active work of temperance reform. Possibly you forget that, m the attempt to give pain and anrpyanco to the landers of the movement, you are wounding hundreds of your readers wfi.o form the rank and file of the No-licenao army, Comparisons have been made between Clnfcha 1 without license, and Ashburton with license, but with this exception, will you be good enough to substantiate your statement, when you ask your readers to " remember v/hat a, terrible character certain prohibition lecturers gav.b Ashbar£pn when addressing outside audjences." 'Who' were the lecturers? Which were the audiences? An early reply will be looked for with curosity. —I am, etc., GItENADIBR. : Ashburton, 21st Feb, 1903, «