ELECTION TACTICS.
SYDNEY PREACHER'S PROTEST
PERSONAL ABUSE DEPLORED.
The difference between mankind and other forms of terrestrial life, said Canon Garnsey, warden of St. Paul's, preaching in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, on September 29, was that a great spiritual force was at work in men and women, lifting their minds and thoughts above matorial things.
"One might suppose, therefore, that a general election could be conducted without all this personal abuse, slander, and suggestions of evil motives made against political opponents," said the preacher. "I think it is fitting that we should protest, from this place, against the tendency of political speakers 'to fight on these lines. Why should our minds, and particularly tho minds of our .children, be poisoned by the sort of mud that is being hurled about in public, all over Australia to-day—this personal abuse of each other by the leaders of the political parties ? "It seems to mo that this sort of thing has never been so bad as it is to-day. It should be possible for men who havo been brought up in the Christian to make their appeals to the wisdom and prudence of the people, rather than descend to this deplorable practice of personal abuse."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 13
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202ELECTION TACTICS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 13
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