A VIGOROUS REBUKE.

Grey River Argus, 22 November 1910, Page 8

A VIGOROUS REBUKE.

. In connection with the' Federal»land tax complaint was made by the Rev. J. Anderson, at the Presbyterian As--1 sembly at Melbourne last week, that the Government's^ "bushrangin/g Scheme" had made landed Presbyterian churchmen close up their pockets and they would not now give funds to" assist poor candidates • for the ministry. Professor Rentoul, in takr ing Mr Anderson to. task, said:— "Thank God the time is fast going when .one American can clutch a huge slioeTof the world's wealth, while his fellows find it difficult to get the necessary food to eat. and here in Australia, as in New Zealand," it will soon be no longer possible for a few men :to grasp the people's heritage m land. No longer, I say, should this great Liberal measure, the land tax, be branded by such an' epithet as ."bushranging"— the measure which is for the good of the people and part of the march of freedom. What our Church wants, is the stubble of life to. reply on. We aredependnt on) no rich class,. nor should we be. Woe to it! I am ashamed that politics should :have been obtruded into this assembly. The time has gone by for that sort of thing. I have been forced into this position, and to say what I have said, because of -the entirely unjustifiable statement made."