POLITICAL MEETINGS ON SUNDAY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1010, 13 November 1917, Page 6

POLITICAL MEETINGS ON SUNDAY.

TO THE EDITOR. Bir.—Referring to Or. Roife’s advice U, the Council To abolish public speeches on Sundays, I desire to emphatically protest. Wealthy men who employ labour, when feeling slightly indisposed, have the pnyilope, of retiring from their occupations 1,1 definitely; they have opportunities for eon-,,-pjilal converse with their fellow men wL-n "feeling so disposed: they may associate themselves with necessary hram 00,, which is almost as essential as dally bod. f,v retiring to their well-stocked, comloil ..tie libraries, the contradistinction being tho individual dependent upon wages, who must mot. feel indisposed, for such indisposition would confront, him with tno lack of .lie vulgar necessities of life and he. bailiil" waiting at tho door. His mid lectual converse with his follow-men is limited according to lus environment. Not fiaviug servants to wait upon him, Ins time is occupied. Lp at six u.m. chop wood prepare breakfast, start work, finish at live, prepare tea, have a bath. ,utr ‘ lK . (> Ids garden, finish about, eight—hardly time to peruse the headlines ot the pus*, am as for time to rente 10 his bhnny to prove his mind, the absurdity of the idea s appalling. Men congregate 711 ho L a night more, for the purpose of society a d of hearing their own voice as well as nth ors, than for the purpose of drmkmg. I privilege is now homg debarred. ll|{olfe now desires to eliminate their only opportunity of intellectual miproyemem 1 feel sure when Cr. Holf.e reconsider* the nbjrct selfishness of his project he will lx man enough to cancel the Thanking you m anticipation ot publua 110 m—l am, etc., A p AR>LV. I •‘lntellectual improveiueni ' may or may not lie promoted hy the holding ot pohtical meetings on Sundays; we an; meimed ,0 think it i* not. Politicians are iuoiic („ deteriorate, both 111 mind and manners, and the personal element is too ofien obtruded to the exclusion more, worthv objects. The “Standard hdl* and maintains that such meeting* on to Sunday are mmocessary and nndesii abl<, and supports the altitude ol the Borough Council in declining the use of the Mum,4 pal Opera House tor such nice mgs. e „f six o’clock closing next, month, there should he amply oppor.mo ms for holding meetings through the six w * nights, without, ohiruding upon ihe iiy of lie* seventh. Ed. M.L.S.I