PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1918, Page 4

PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.

A WANGANUI RESOLUTION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, Last Night. The following resolution was passed Unanimously by the executive of the Wanganui Protestant Political Association, and copies were ordered to be forwarded to the Premier, the Minister of Customs and the press: "That this meeting of the. executive of the Wanganui Protestant Political Association vi«ws with alarm the decision of the Minister of Customs to hold up literature imported by the Protestant Political Association, which literature is, everywhere else in the British Empire, circulated without let or hindrance, while The Tablet and The Green Bay, containing distinctly disloyal and anti-conscription matter, and matter flagrantly insulting to Protestants, are in no way interfered with. The excuse offered by the Minister of Customs, aa stated in the press, is absurd in the extreme, as the country having been under conscription for many months no action of the Protestant Political Association can prejudice recruiting. Moreover, this association has solidly supported the wat aims of the National Government and tha Empire, and the Government is as well aware of this as it is that Romanism has not. We, therefore, call upon th< Government to avoid the result of extending preferential treatment to a small minority by holding the scales evenly, and thus securing the 'equal fights foi all and special privileges to none.'"