"PROFITEERING"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 261, 31 July 1919, Page 6

"PROFITEERING"

Sir-Notwithstanding the Rev. J. G. Chapman's assertion in to-day's issue of your paper that several mistakes had occurred in your report of his address on "profiteering," I wish to state, as one who listened to its delivery, that the report was as nearly accurate as possible—in fact, the impression left on my mind, on rending it, was that Mr. Clapman had himself supplied you with the manuscript from which ,the address was delivered. ' • , The leading impression left on ones mind after listening to the address was that there was an all too obvious straining after effect, and an attempt to introduce sensationalism into the pulpit J thus prostituting it in a way that is diametrically opposed to the teaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for which purpose alone the pulpits of our Christian churches should be used. 'f ho ill-considered and rash statements of Mr. Chapman are illustrated in D. Milligan's letter, also appearing to-day. The least that Mr. Chapman, if he wished (as doubtless he did) to present an unbiased argument, should have done was to inquire into the other side of the matter before quoting Mr. Eeardon's bald statement in the Arbitration Court. Mr. Chapman, admits he has had no business training or experience, but that from communications he had'received, on the abovo topic, he is learning fast; a truly wonderful way to become a competent judge of business matters and methods. Were he out in the world taking part m the business worries and anxieties which confront the average business; man during the week, instead of being, in the happy position of living in a modern house, free of ront, and furnished for him in up-to-date fashion, with a comfortable <alarv to support him, and a motor-car provided for his convenience, lie might bo accepted as a more competent authority on "profiteering, and he would probably be taken, more seriously by those who are _in a position to judge of "profiteering. It might' also be advisable for him to stick to subjects in his pulpit discourses with which ho is more conversa.nt.-l am, PtC " • ANOTHER METHODIST.