In uie conr.ii' ot an interview with iin Otago Daily Tillies reporter. Dr. Rutherford Wailiiell hail many interssting remarks to make on the subject of the American press. ''l was struck," lie said, "with the amount of space that the press gives to the religious and moral side of issues in American politics. To one coming from a country like New Zealand, where the press—if 1 may venture to say it—is ultra-secular, the practice and custom of the American press is very remarkable. Every Monday (he newspapers give from three columns to a page, and sometimes two pages, to reports of the Sunday services of the day before. In the Chicago Inlerocean, for instance, there were every Monday about eight columns of reports of the pulpits of the day before." The samewas true of other leading papers. Down in Houston he read leading articles on the missionary ipiestion that were practically pulpit in their utterances. Although the methods of the American press did not appeal to him, he was undoubtedly struck by the high tone of their leading articles and the broad yet intense ethical outlook that pervaded all that lie saw of their leaden.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 204, 26 February 1914, Page 5
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195Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 204, 26 February 1914, Page 5
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