Iowa politics has a moralistic tone, but here, too, there is a balance.

To the Editor: The clucking moralistic tone of "Where There's Smoke, There's a Star" (Sept. 18) is amazing.

In fact, Mrs. Huffington's contempt for Picasso's life suffuses this entire volume, lending it an angry, moralistic tone.

The agricultural education movement in Massachusetts, in reaction to this crisis, had highly moralistic tones.

Although Ms. Cherry's songs carry strong messages, they're not delivered with a moralistic tone.

But some Council members are already sending signals to Mr. Vallone that he adopts a moralistic tone on the debate at his peril.

The Reagan administration's "self-righteous moralistic tone, its reduction of Soviet achievements to crimes by international outlaws from an 'evil empire' - such language stunned and humiliated the Soviet leaders."

As the show developed, the writing took on more of a moralistic tone.

Dr. Austin Flint's textbook commentary on the condition carried a faintly moralistic tone which made him feel no better: "The affection sometimes follows a prolonged debauch.

Other commissioners have set a moralistic tone, Mr. Reppetto said, like Patrick V. Murphy, who took over during the Knapp Commission's investigation into police corruption in 1970.