A PROTEST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1033, 24 January 1911, Page 6

A PROTEST.

■ enter ..my" »o'st-''emti.h'atio-'pr:6Us'tVngaiii|t ; -'tlie'.,tri?at| iiie'n't •inyi.-.last ietter'-fias',rece'i.ved:'■■at;ySur'; hands. m'i. yoiir'' columns ; of',..' Saturday.. You have eliminatbd',;at'least "the-ha'lf; of it, whilst:giyingVftill .'currency fo;.aUthat my opponent;has. written.'' •■AhdUiu so doing you. have'..fepfated.etlie;'.'deed",(.l will not in this''cohnbcnon'"s'a3''the''crime). perpetrated at'Bar'cclona.-for the 'part of my letter you'have omitted!is just thatthat contains', my detailed defence of the martyred Ferrer. You have suppressed tho defence—what more unjust act than that can any.'man' be .guilty of? l-;can only suppose; that your sympathies were 'witli-my "opponent, 'and. that you;' found my. presentation of-- Ferrer's defence so very convincing that you did- hot dare insert iti That at Jeast is a fair inference 1 from" your action. .Doubtless, your., note on. the duties of an' editor - appended to "Plimsoll's". letter'in the same issue of your paper Contains the most: admirable sentiments," as adhiirablo.in.fact as those of the moral Pecksniff himself, . but the troublo in both cases is that the action is so widely at- varianoe with the sentiments expressed.:''-: . .. .-■'' .'• •'■-.■'. '.

; I,"regret to write thus, for I should like to respect the press of New,' Zealand' universally. But it now appears plain that'in thei great constitutional struggle before'us in defence of our present system of secular education there is a fraction of .that press we shall'not be'able to "depend upon for fair and free discussion. It is often said tho press of New Zealand; is-not free, and ;I- now -fear it is true in 'some cases.';' ; Finally, ■I. disclaim ■' responsibility for my letter as it now stands' over my name ih'your columns of Saturday—l am,.etc.,' !.••••'■' S'-'. •;■'.:■': 'JOHN 'gaMMELL. ; Seatoun Heights, . . ■ January 23. [We.do not care to enter into discussion' with' "a. correspondent, who. writes in'such. a. tone. . As.for..his.prespQsterous. attack upon The. we'.confident-' ly leave ourselves'to the judgment of the public]