Hostile Critics

NZ Truth, Issue 1152, 29 December 1927, Page 1

Hostile Critics

if not his spiritual advisers open to a charge q£ ''hedgirigr." •-,!;' - .•* . ;If he lias rfeipeived' a ni&ridate.ifrpm^ people he should do all possible to convince.

Treating them lightly arid casually, and then telling people that the spirits have withheld permission in the. meantime, is the worst possible advertisement for the Blue Room Party and the cause they represent. .

Hard-headed business men cannot be fobbed on! with excuses of that kind, and such explanations only serve to leave the whole show open to the most hostile and doubting criticism which in the circumstances is fully justified. ' Chapman is working his way north with his party, and "Truth's" advice to him is that he gets down to tin tacks and prevails upon the spirits in their own interests to stage a demonstration in the home of any sceptic who asks for one.

If he declines to do this then the whole show will deserve to stand condemned as a piece of nonsense that is a sheer waste of busy people's time to investigate.