BISHOP GRIMES AND THE BOYCOTT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16564, 30 May 1914, Page 2

BISHOP GRIMES AND THE BOYCOTT.

' fO THB EDITOR. Sir,—Rev J. J- North is a little foggy in his ideas and a little mixed in his mode of nicknaming the Catholic Federation as Captain Boycott. On revision Mr North, I presume, would view the bookseller for the purpose of his argument, as Captain Boycott. But here again he would be mistaken in his analogy. '.;■'■, The Catholic Federation does not seek to make booksellers—however hostile tc Catholic truth and life by .their co-' operation—the helpless victims of social and commercial ostracism. Still, according to its "constitution and rules, tho Federation stands for the suppression of indecent, objectionable and antiChristian literature, pictures, films, theatricals and advertisements." Surely our friend Mr North will allow self-dofenco is lawful, and, if so, does he consider it unreasonable that a Catholio organisation should frankly advise a flagrantly-offending bookseller that Catholics will decline to patronise such an offender if he persists in liis anti-Christian co-operation ?—I am etc., SCUAB. May 29. *