AIR RAMSAY DEFENDED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13894, 4 May 1907, Page 141

AIR RAMSAY DEFENDED.

Sir.,—Your readers would feel highly amused to read the etter of "Weary Leaseholder" in your issue of the 25th lilt., in which a personal and underhand attack is made on -Mr ,1. J. Ramsay, and then peruse the able and telling letter of Mr llamsay. which appeared almost side by side. Would not Weary Leaseholder" give something to be able to present a case in the clear, forcible, pithy manner in which Mr Ramsay has set out" the case of Mr Meade?

Probably you have no contributor whose letters are road with more interest than are these which appear over the signature "J. .1. Ramsay." Il is perfectly true that lie hits harj, but eo far as I have seen ho hits fairly, and lie would bg .15 incapable of adopting against an opponent such a tone as that of " Weary Leaseholder" as he would be of attacking under the shelter of * Ti« m ,u plume. It- is because Mr

Ramsay, rightly or wrongly, tries 'to wt out facts, and knows hoi- to put his matter.in clear-cnt, readable form, that ilis lßtters are widely read, and the secret of his growing popularity is the fact that "he never turn's his back oil friend or foe." I recollect reading that description of him many years ago in a speech given hy a colleague on tho Education Board. I did not know him well then, but clofcr acquaintance and a hotter knowledge of his character have shown mo that he deserved the oulogium. I do not wisn to "lav on the butter," but if men like " Weary Leaseholder" think they can attack Mr Ramsay with impunity," this is to warn them that he has (.cores of friends ready to take up the cudgels, and I am one of them.—l am, etc.. Double-furrow.