FOUL SEDUCER.

NZ Truth, Issue 78, 15 December 1906, Page 4

FOUL SEDUCER.

THE CHURCH A CLOAK FOR WRONG-DOING. Heartless Skunk Who Can't Marry the Girl Because He's a Protestant. Nobody ever has much, time for the nan who seduces some poor weak female and when she is m trouble leaves her mi n the lurch and so far. forgets his manhood as to besmirch the poor girl's character so as to practically brand her as an abandoned creature of the town. Wellington possesses numerous soulless skunks of that description and the pity of it all is. that there is no Law to reach them, though if they got theiir deserts they would be reached with a length of salted cow-hide, well laid across their } naked buttocks. j Such a skunk, a packer by profession, employed m a well-known Wellington firm, is at present loose m this city. and, judging from -the tale tcld of his cowardly treatment of a poor giri who succumbed to his foul embraces lie ought to be wiped off the face of Uii'J earth.

It is a simple tale and the old one. By promises of marriage and other fairy, tales the dirty dog bested th 3 girl, who shortly afterwards found herself m a sad predicament. Appeals to the pig packer to make her an honest woman were made m vain. He repudiated all responsibility, thus branding his victim as a common woman, which she was nob. However, the despicable man made a wretched liar of himself b} r magnanimously givin <r the girl £3 towards defraying the cost of an operation to be performed uncn her. That, however, is only a side issue. When he was asked to marry the girl, who is a Protestant, he held Up his hands m holy horror and pious grief, and declared .that as lie was a Roman Catholic, the dictates of his Church forbade him to take urito wife one of a different religion to himself. Whether . the Roman Catholic Chairch forbids such marriage or not is out of the question (and, as a matter of Tact, the R.C. Church does not), ths kind of individual Ihat would take advantage of such an edict to the ruin of a trusting girl is a disgrace to any church, Catholic or Protestant, and to seduce a girl by the promise of marriage and then plead "religion" as a bar to marriage is to wrbve himself a disPS&.P& and reneso.de to any Christian faith. As a Catholic this scoundrelly, seducer ousht to be excommunicated. Having ruined one girl, this packer, a tin-not Don Juan m his way, is bestowinn: attentions on. i bther 'pit Js a nd doubtless if the lecherous Lothario succeeds m his intentions the Holy Roman Catholic faith will again be drafeced m the -mire and used, as religion often is, to ac,t as a cloak to heartless wrongdoing.