THE REV. MR. ISITT.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8476, 6 May 1893, Page 9

THE REV. MR. ISITT.

TO TUB EDITOR OF TUB PRESS. Sir, —Iα to-day's issue of your paper there appears a. letter signed " Jason," iv which the writer appears to imply that the general body of prouibitionists are inferior, from an educational point of view, tv Mr laitb. Now, this is very unjust to many temperance men, men who were engaged in the cause years before Mr Isitt ca.in« her*, and many of whom, like myself, disapprove of Mr Isitt'a mode of procedure. Having frequently heard Mr Isitfc on the platform and,occasionally iv the pulpit, aud being favoured, grati3, with n regular supply of his literary work in the shape of the Prohibitionist, I have come to the conclusion that the only education Mr Isitt cab boast of is the education which enables v man barely to enter the Wesleyaa Ministry. I may, of course, be mistaken, if so let '•Jaeon* give us, through the medium of the PKSSSthe rev. gentleman's educational record.—Youre, &&, J abez Smith. Addington, April 6th. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sib,—lα to-day' 3 issue of your paper you re-publish a letter from the pen of the Rev. L. M. Isitt, which in my opiuion should never have been published, more especially the latter portion referring to the late Mr Ballauce. " * Mr Isitt lias deemed it lit to level a certain'charge at our late Premier—a charge which, if true, means that Mr Ballance was anything but an independent aud honourable gentleman. I .venture to say that no person who has had the honour to call Mr Ballance their leader—and every true Liberal in the colony does this—will forgive Mr Isitt until he withdraws unconditionally the statement he has made. In other words, the head and front of the rev. gentleman's offending lies nob so much in having knowingly subjected a dying man to hostile criticism as in making a charge that) in the opinion of all unbiassed minds, has no foundation in fact. ' The'whole affair is a fnrther example of the truth of ; the words of the immortal bard— ; > -■ " Eethou chaste ac ice, And pure as snow, Thou ehalfc not escape calumny." —Yours, &c, /■ FrasqiS J. QtfiNK. ; -May 4th, 1893. [ _ ' i