We print in our correspondence columns a letter of prates:,
from Mr. Whitbread, in which, however, he does not give the context of the statement by us of witch he complains, though that context is very material to the argument. In the letter• from him which we published on April 28th he told us that the Govern- ment was formed to get on with the war and not to promote Local Option .as a by-product of State Purchase—showing thereby that he was opposed to stopping tho manufacture and sale of intoxicants. Upon that we asked him whether he and his friends, meaning of course the brewing interest as a whole for which he made him- self spokesman, really thought they were helping to win the war by their resistance to Prohibition. He now tells us that he never insisted on any such proposition, and that we have no right to suggest that such is the case, and he goer., on to ask for an apology.
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