THE P.P.A.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 239, 3 July 1919, Page 6

THE P.P.A.

Sir,—ln common with others I fear the Protestant Political Association is committing a 6erious blunder in allowing the Rev. Howard Elliott to give utterance to remarks which arc calculated to defeat the aims of the association, his last diatribe, reported in your Tuesday's issue, being a case in point. The reverend gentlemen, who, I fear, cllows his personal opinions too much freedom, is quoted, inter alia, to have said "that tho interests uf the people and the country were forgotten, and that politicians cared only for tho interests of' their parties." ... "He scoffed at (ho Government for resorting to such an expedient as the curtailment of railway services." . . . "Sir James Allen and" Mr. Mac Donald had gone down on their 'marrow-bones' to the miners." . . . "He believed that m New Zealand ton years ago there were ten per cent, of Catholics in the Civil Service. Now, he belioved, the number was nearer forty per cent." _ Such utterances are unjustifiable and incorrect; and the reverend gentleman in future 'should be more careful when addressing meetings even when only nttended by a mere handful of people—l iim. etc., A PROTESTANT.