THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS AND POLITICAL PARTIES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2203, 16 July 1914, Page 7

THE BIBLE IN SCHOOLS AND POLITICAL PARTIES

\, ■ ■- '—-* (To the Editor.), . • Sir,—You know quite well that the Labour conference that mot in Wellington last week, and that passed cortaui resolutions against the unjust proposals of the Bible-in-Schools League, was not a political, but an industrial organisation; it was no' more, if as much, a political body as the Anglican Synod that was sitting at the sam'o ; time. But to (suit your own ends you are prepared to distort the facts in your leading'columns of ; to-day. Everyone knows that Labour organisations have always supported the free, secular, and compulsory'system of education. What they were asked to do further was to affirm the principle that the referendum should not be applied to religious issues. The National Schools Defence. League has no alliance with any political party; it knows no party, politics, but it does know unjust proposals' when it sees them. The Bible-in-Sohools League and The Domlmon, in attempting to gain popular favour for their unjust proposals, are propared—even in religious issues—to phingo on the referendum in which neither of them reallv believes. -I am, etc.,, THOS. A. HUNTER. ■ July 14.. v ; [We cannot do better than refer Professor Hunter to' his newspaper champion, the "Evening ■_ Post." Writing of the "Red Federation" in its,issue of yesterday, it said: •The "Post" has quoted abundant proof from the "Maoriland Work-" or,"'the official organ of the Rod Federation and the.Social Democratic Party, that the difference be-- • tweon tho political ami' industrial Red is tho difference between a red , hat and a red cap mada.to fit the same head. . '. ' Professor Hunter may disagree with this opinion, but we much doubt if lie will be able to persuade the public that his view is the correct one.]