THE SINS OF THE WICKED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 288, 3 December 1907, Page 4

THE SINS OF THE WICKED.

WELLINGTON CITIZENS DEFENDED.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON,, Monday.

The scathing remarks which fell from Judge Cooper on Saturday about the terrible state of immorality in Wellington, have been condemned in many quarters as a gross libel on the fair name of her citizens. "The Post," which has not allowed his Honor's remarks to pass unchallenged, says: "This alarming outburst is scarcely waranted by the facts The sins of the few wicked are made to counterbalance the virtues of the many good. After the Judge had listened to the sordid details of a particular case, it was natural enough for him to be worked up into a mood for the utterance of a general sweeping statement, not fair to Wellington or New Zealand. Until the millennium arrives, there will always be breakers of society's laws; the trouble is that men in the pulpit, or on the bench, or even on tile cart-tail, or the soapbox at the corner, have a tendency to make the part greater than the whole. We are convinced that the community is not in such terrible plight as one Judge has alleged."