OFFENSIVE LITERATURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1919, Page V

OFFENSIVE LITERATURE.

3> the Editor. Sir,—l was handed in New Plymouth on Saturday a type-written letter to read by an Eltham man. Ho savs it % as . 1 I ,oSted to h ™, and that hundreds ot the same effusion have been circu„j, l was astounded, Sir, to read its contents. Briefly touched, the creed propaganda referred to therein is symbolic of fanaticism. The people of the present generation will only pity the would be sower of such narrow-minded trash. The black pamphlet was born m the same street in Auckland as its Elliott relation. They are both out of most „ the libel on the Catholic soldiers who returned from the war, and the slander on the Catholic soldier lads who gave their lives for their couc*- * pire and people, irrespective of the creed element, lam not going to have ?>° ldi £ brot " era traded tLh Iho <f m -" . M y brother who reuraed, although incapacitated, can deend h,m S elf and his actions against each human vernun b ut the dead°ones can not They enlisted in the early stages of the war, and, like many others tive of difference of denominational am, etc., ( B j HUGHES. [Mr. Astbury has announced that he* n'c ! ith the circukr at his meet >ng at Eltham to-night.—Ed.]