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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5553, 17 June 1889, Page 2

Do unto othors Bβ you would bo done by, is not a law unto the Salvationists. These religionists aro under tho impression that they have a prescriptive right to disturb tho pence and comfort of iho wholo town, and they do not hesitate to do so. Night after night they will plant thomnolvos at a street corner and howl aloud thoir praisns to tlioir own solf-rightoousnoss, oblivious of ovnrything but of their own vain glory. They will block a thoroughfare, thoy will interfere with traffic by using torchon, flags, and a band of noiso, and, in fact, undor tho name of the liborty of tho subject they subject everybody's liborty to their own pleasure and vanity. On tho other hand, if they aro interfered with thoy fly for protection to tho law, and thoy very properly obtain it. But what is sauoo for tho itooho should bo huuoo for the gandor, and it is undoriiablo that when tho Salvationists offend tho law thoy tako overy means to show how little thoy regard it. They will go to prison rather than pay a iino, and thoy parmlo their punishment ac though it added lo their chances of Heaven, In this mattor-of-liiot ago, it Rooms ridiculous that, wo should have these religionists parading in our midnt, but they aro kept alivo by goodly pooplu'rt monoy because in the largo couUoh thoy have turned many from tno ovil of lliofr ways. But tho good that they havo dorm ■%-as accomplished by visiting such parts of tho cities in which Iho winked —that in to say, those best known to tho policu—• most do congregate, and not in making (humselves a nuisanoo in tho principal ami most respectable quarters of tho towns.