IMMORAL LITERATURE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1874, 7 October 1913, Page 5

IMMORAL LITERATURE.

. "FOUR OR FIVE TONS ANNUALLY" The Rev. Dr. Haydcn (vice-president of St. Patrick's College, Manly), speaking at the Catholic Federation meeting at Manly on a recent Sunday, made some vigorous comments on the wholesale introduction of immoral literature into tho State of New South Wales. Dr. Haydeu was advocating the claims of Roman Catholics in_ Now South Wales for State aid to their schools and charitable institutions. There was, ho said, a very undesirable class of literature in the country, and strong efforts would have to be made to purify tho conditions of affairs. He had learned on good authority that there was annually imported into New South Wales four or five tons of immoral literature from England and the Continent. Such a state of affairs should not be tolerated. They should educate public opinion until the fact waa brought home to everybody that the real remedy to tho evil of reading impure and immoral literature lay in giving children a sound religious education. Tho Catholic .Federation was formed to encourage tho Catholic laity to bond together and fight for justico. Just as the Australian Fleet was formed for the protection and upholding of Australian rights, so, metaphorically speaking, there was a navy needed by .the Catholics to purify the people's literature, educate public opinion, and secure for themselves the respect, freedom, and justice that was theirs by right, and for which they would continue to strive until success was obtained.