Mr Bowden's Letter.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8074, 26 August 1905, Page 5

Mr Bowden's Letter.

.(To the Editor), Sir,—ln reply to Mr Bowden's letter, permit me to. say that the important question ia not whether the statements ill my letter are polite but rather are they true. In discussing a great public question no one has a right to suppress facts out of politeness. What would we say of a lawyer who suppressed important- facts in his client's case in order to be polite to his opponent's lawyer? That the strongest opposition to Bible lessons in schools comes' from opponents of the Christian religion on the one hand and from Eoman Catholics on the other, is an unfortunate fact, but why "~i3^ should I be accused of lack of politeness in stating it? It is unfortunate that Eoman Catholics should be..allies of agnostics in this fight, but it is as well that non-Bomanist Christians should see how matters stand and act accordingly. As to my plainness of speech, I prefer to call a spade a spade rather than to speak of it as an oblong instrument of manual husbandry.—l am, etc., Isaac Jolly. [This correspondence is closed.^ M.E.SJ ,