Passive Resistance
A meeting held recently in Dunedin passed resolutions eommefnding the passive resistance of English Nonconformists to the payment of taxes under the" new Education Act. The arguments used throughout would furnish a complete justification to New Zealand Catholics for refusing to pay for the support of a godless system of public instruction which they abhor. Catholics in this country have proved the sincerity of their conscientious convictions in this matter by erecting, equipping, and maintaining their own schools — an idea which does not seem to have yet struck our Nonconformist brethren in England. Yet we are convinced that if New Zealand Catholics adopted the policy of passive resistance to the tax-collector, they would be ordered by the non-Catholic pulpit and platform to step off the earth and take up permanent quarters in a more distressful clime.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 20 August 1903, Page 1
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138Passive Resistance New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 20 August 1903, Page 1
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