DIRTY METHODS.

Grey River Argus, 20 July 1922, Page 3

DIRTY METHODS.

ELECTION AFTERMATH. PAMPHLET IN DUNEDIN NORTH. WELLINGTON, July 17. ‘*l want to call your attention to a pamphlet used during the late by-elec-tion in Dunedin North,” said Mr E. J. Howard (Christchurch South) in th« House. “It was issued in tho same way as that dirty pamphlet—the Black pamphlet attacking Sir Joseph Ward —was issued, and it was sent, I understand, to all of the electors of Dunedin North. I want to show the country what dirty methods are employed when politics are entered. The pamphlet is entitled ‘ Warring against Christianity: The Menace of the Socialist Sunday School.’ It was published in Balance street. O Shades of Ballance!” Such a publication was a disgrace to politics. There were three Socialist Sunday Schools in New Zealand —one in Christchurch, one in Palmerston North, and one, he thought in Auckland. He estimated the three schools at not much over 500 or 600. The pamphlet slated that these little children were taught to sing-— Onward, Christian soldiers, duty’s call is plain, Slay your Christian brothers, or yourselves be slain. Pulpiteers are spouting effervescent swill, In the name of Christ they call you to rob, and rape and kill ••Training Little Traitors” was another heading, said the hon. member for Christchurch South, but he did not wish to read any more of the unless members wished to hear it. “The people who issued it,” he remarked, “should be ashamed of them selves. It is not true, and to publish a lie is the lowest thing. Last Sunda v I made it my business to take the children’s little ritual at a Socialist Sunday School although I am not a teacher. When such statements are put forward in print as the ones referred to it is up to every honest man to deny them. Some of the golden sayings of the ritual include such ex pression bs ‘Love the true, the beau tiful, the good,’ i Reverence Justice. “To the good I would be good and to the not-good I would also be good i order to make them good.’ ” Mr Howard concluded by inviting the Prime Minister next time he wa> in Christchurch to call and sec fcr h self how the Sunday schools were co: ducted.