CORRESPONDENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 5 December 1906, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE

A CONTRADICTION. To tho Editor. S/i', —In l'cp.y to M'' Maundsr's letter of the 4th inst., 1 beg iu siate that the Licensing Committee did not "by authority" order me to place a liot'ce in my booth re the supplying of liquor to Maoris, but simply attached as 0110 of the conditions of my license that they were not to be supplied.—l am, etc., E. WHITTLE. SOCIALISM, TO THE EDITOR. Sir, Does your correspondent Cosmopolitan" really imagine that your reader; will take simply 011 his Ipse dixit" tlie extraoulinary statement that "the ilia that afflict modern society are due to tlie principles ot the Reformation" ? Surely he mujt know that trusts, etc., are the natural outcome of modern industrialism and the superceding of hand labor by machinery. Protestant and Catholic alike join in the industrial war, and I have yet to learn tiiat one is more meiciful than the other. Most of U s, too. would be inclined to think that the absence of trust.:, and combines would be somewhat' djeai'ly (purchased by th c pro- - of the Spanish inquisition and St. Bartholomew massacres. Men aie beginning, 'thougn very slowly, to find out that they must work out their own salvation, and to trust les; to worn-out l creeds.—l ani. ctc. 3 CONSTANT READER.

TO THE EDITOR. Si''—Whatever may have been the connection between tre Church and State before the advent of Luther .ft is too late to go back now:. My reference to Luther wa-» made obscuie tmough .the deletion of the first part of the sentence in which the name of Luther occurred. But I would like 'Cosmopo.itan" to understand that it is not my intention to drag into thu correspondence things pertaining to theo ogical polemics, as all sections of the church are represented in tie Socialistic army. His allusion to malignant growths being traced to their proper sources" is rather humorous when we consider the mental servitude of the workers of that age to his Spiritual Master. Those days are gone forever on the Continent, and the attitude of the Rev. Fathers m the House of Lords in England is fast hastening the divorce of Church and State in that country. Xo bo spiritually minded may be life, but to be politically myulcd at the same time and m a greater dogree is damnation of the worst po.sible type 1 am ' etc v 11. A.J.