WHAT NEXT?

Evening Star, Issue 11693, 26 September 1902, Page 1

WHAT NEXT?

TO XBE EMTOB. Sir,—As a citizen'of Dunedin I vigorously protest against the action of the City Council in suspending tie running of the cals on Sunday so as to allow the employees to attend the revival meetings at present being held in Dunedin! • The precedent thus established w:II be a highly dangerous one, and every itinerant showman, American or otherwise,' ex-nun, reformed convict, etc. 7 , who_ cares about inflicting his or- her own particular" nostrum upon an innocent and leng-sufferidg public will, in justice, be bet nd‘ to be trotted in the same way. The blatant nonsense which has been daily anti nightly hurled at the people in the Garrison Hall lately is surely quite enough infliction for the reasonable portion of the community to put up with,- biif when our councillors, in a fit of hysteria, interfere -’.with;'the citizeii?’ property and debar them-from using their own conveyances,- thus pandering to the rampant ravings of foreigners, it is time all sensible men objected. In a month’s time all this screeching nonsense which we are now subjected to will be forgotten, except,' perhaps, in the case of the-friends-of a few':-weak-minded men an-l women, who will have to carefully tend and.watch over ; those whose intellects have become unhinged through this religious. “ revival,” andthenthecouncillors wilL regret that they acted on the opportune conduct of the stranger and refused to- in a sunflir manner ,at the request of their own. ministers of; rrfigioh.—r.am,' etc., . - : >■ - : ■ RATIOKAn. September 26.-