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GUTTER PRESS TACTICS.

P.P.A. DENOUNCED. RETURNED CHAPLAIN ON RECENT ELECTION METHODS. During the course of Jus Bcrmon at the Cambridge Terraco .Methodist Church, Christchureh, on Sunday night, the Rev. W. B. Scott—a returned chap, lain—made the following statement:— "I want at this stage to utter an emphatic protest against the manner m which sectarianism lias been allowed to obscure issues during the recent political campaign. That any journal above the level of the gutter press should publish such a cartoon as that reproduced under the auspices of the P.P.A. and reproduced in a recent issue of Truth, is beyond my comprehension. What g*od purpose did it serve except to fan the flames of an unreasonable and bitter sectarianism? I give place to no one in my loyalty to the belief in Protestantism, hut I publicly desire* to dissociate myself from such unworthy methods that would by base insinuation and insulting cartoon keep out of public life a man whose experience in finance is so badly needed at such a crisis in the history of our Dominion simply because ho is the member of a certain church. To the obvious reply the answer is: Two wrongs do not make a right. I want to assure the P.P.A. and its organiser that such methods have a boomerang tendency. The returned soldier will not appreciate these methods. He has not so learned Christ. Mr experience on the battlefield—and it is the experience of all soldiers and chaplains—is that denominations count for very little, and that manliness, fair play, and the sporting spirit—i.e., the Golden Rule-count for everything. It mattered not if the padre' were Roman Catholic or Bush Baptist so long as ho did life job and loved the 'digger' as a brother in Christ. More than once I buried Roman Catholic soldiers, and more than once Methodist soldiers were buried by Roman Catholic 'padres.' Roman Catholics and Protestants were brethren in a common danger and hefore a common foe. That is the spirit of Christ and not the bitterness of sectarianism that one found on his return to 'God's Own Country." "Our conditions are different from, and can never be the came as those of Ireland, and we desir'e to have none of that spirit. My experience is that a great many who are so hitter in their antagonism to Romanism have neglected their duty to Protestantism, and because of this neglect are woefully deficient in the ABC of the religion of the Master. To _ make up for their ignorance and their neglect of the means of grace, they are. in season and out of season, fulminating against ohe growth of Romanism which they have indirectly assisted by their careless neglect to train themselves and their children in the wav of the Master. Anti-Romanism, not Christianity, is their religion. That there should lie unity among Protestants one freely admits, but in the leadership and method* of the P.P.A. there is something so,woefully defective that though it is only a young organisation it is already beginning to stink In the nostrils of the people. It is to be hoped for the good name of Protestantism and of the Ohrist'an churches that we shall have no repetition of the gutter press cartoon appearing in a recent issue of the official orjran of the P.P.A."

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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1920, Page 3

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550

GUTTER PRESS TACTICS. Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1920, Page 3

GUTTER PRESS TACTICS. Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1920, Page 3

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