INDECENT LITERATURE.
Mr Wilhide, who was fined and costs under the Indecent Publications Act, for issuing a pamphlet of warning concerning the evils of a vicious life, unable to pay the fine, he has been sent to prison for one month. So a man, whose personal character ihigh, whose life is devoted to uplift ing the fallen, and who (in the wordof the Magistrate who sentenced him) acted only from the highest motives, is sent to herd with criminals. Deputations have waited upon the Minister for Justice to urge him to pardon, or if not, to mitigate the sentence, but after consideration and consultation with the Magistrate, the Minister has declined to interfere. Napier l nion sent a strong protest against the sentence, and this was submitted to the Minister. It is certainly strange that when much literature in the form of coarse jests, pictures of scantily clothed figures is about our city, books of decidedly immoral tendency sold even in trains, the one man whose intention was good should be sent to gaol as a criminal. We would like very much to know why the police selected this man and left so many others untouched.
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White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 236, 18 February 1915, Page 7
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196INDECENT LITERATURE. White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 236, 18 February 1915, Page 7
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