IMMORAL LITERATURE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3461, 13 October 1913, Page 3

IMMORAL LITERATURE

“FOUR OR FIVE TONS ANNUALLY.’ Rev. Dr. Hayden (vice-president of St. Patrick’s College, Manly), speaking at the Catholic Federation on Sunday, made some vigorous comments on the wholesale introduction of immoral literature into the State. Dr. Hayden watfi advocating the claims of Catholics in. New South T\ ales for State aid to their schools and charitable institutions. There was, he said, a very undesirable class, of literature in the country, and strong efforts would have to be made to purify the condition of«nffairs. He had learned on good authority that there was annually imported into this country four or five tons of immoral literature from England and the Continent. Such a state of affairs should not be tolerated. They should educate public opinion until the fact was brought home to everybody that the real remddy to the reading of impure and immoral literature lay in giving children, a sound religious education. The Catholic Federation was formed to encourage the catholic laity to bond together and fight for justice. Just a s the Australian Fleet was formed for the protection and upholding of Australian rights, so, metaphoricallv sneaking, there was a navy needed by the Catholics to purify the people’s literature, educate public opinion, and secure for themselves the respect, freedom, and justice that was their’s by right, and for which they would continue to strive until success was obtained.