A SLOGAN FROM CENTRAL OTAGO.

Evening Star, Issue 15138, 20 March 1913, Page 2

A SLOGAN FROM CENTRAL OTAGO.

TO, THE EDITOR. Sir, —I have followed with great care the campaign of Canon Garland and his league, f have also rend your able and unanswerable leader in Thursday's issue, on which I wish to congratulate you. .After a long examination of the league and its ways I sum them up as follows ; —Bankrupt of argument, arrogant in assertion, regardloss of justice, blind to the lessons of history, wholly unmindful of adherence to fact, unable, unwilling, or afraid to meet and answer the honest opposition of the thinkers of the Dominion. The- league present the sorry spectacle of an organisation ostensibly out as moral regenerators. .and yet with a programme drafted witii a disregard for the ordinary principles of fair play. They would sit on minorities, stock-whip dissident teachers into their enclosure, rule like the autocrat of all the Russias, would stop every dissentient voice, would use the State for their own personal religious aggrandisement, would allow no one else to have a say, and, without going to such extremes, set up in this land the principles that underlaid the bloody religious persecutions that stain the pages of Homeland history. It behoves every patriot to be “up and at 'em." — I am, etc., J. J. Ramsay. Alexandra, March 14. •