PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 171, 9 April 1918, Page 8

PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

■ c PROTEST AGAINST LITERATURE BEING HELD UP. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wanganui, April 8. The following resolution was passed unanimously by the 'Wanganui Executive oMhe Pro.iestnnt Political Association, and copies were ordered to be forwarded to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Customs, and the Press: — "That this meeting of the executive of tho Wangariui Political Association views with alarm the decisions of the Minister of Customs to hold up literature imported by the Protestant Political Association) which iiterature is everywhere else in the British Empire circulated without let or niifttrance, while the 'Tablet' and the 'Green Kay,' containing distinctly disloyal and anti-conscription matter, and matter flagrantly insulting to Protestantsj is in no way interfered with. The excuse offered by the Minister of Customs, as stated in the Press, is absurd in the extreme. The country having been' under conscription for many months, no action of the Protestant Political Association can prejudice recruiting. Moreover, this association has solidly supported the war aims of the National Government and the Empire, and the Government is as well awaro of this as it is that Romanism has not. We, therefo're, call upon the Government to avoid the' results of extending preferential treatment to a small minority by holding the ucnles evenly, thus securing equal rights for all and special privileges to none."