PARSON v. PRESS.

NZ Truth, Issue 103, 8 June 1907, Page 4

PARSON v. PRESS.

J. J. iSorth and t>he ■ rese of th.-j cowardly clerical curs, "who a week or > two .ago asked for the suppression oi 'iTrutli'* by the' .Nsw Zealand Government,; 'have since' jprept back into Hbe^f -betoels, aix^i; are tiying fey conveptijig^eir h dimrcbes iiito circuses tb snare' some of the tidc^x^P^^l#?^^!?Bti'ii?tf ''tteekiwoj*. 'WiuitoWk'M 'courser it is- ah Vs' ui&* enual - baitle, and thas paper f oels extremely grateful to, the clor'cil crowd for . itihe tirade , advei!fciseinen,t piv-eii ,us, and it is no., douat > due to the fact that the loud bray ings of the . clerical asses has brought ib.e public to a proper sense, and the consequence is that "Truth's" : circulatio'/. has increased m a wonderful mrt.sure af late.. ; " Concerning itlisit iH-ta'ttid, . il'l-^ia-tisfibd, a.nd> $iarid-tp-please deputation that, a- few weeks aw ; ■ ''''ibai'led up" two responsible memlvers of. the Giovernmewt, tried to force them to adQP.t Dublin Castle measures m free amd en- | lipjh-teutefd Wellington, the "Hastirigs Bulletin," a paper which m its useful sphere, never minces matters, "bait speaks : boldly amd hits out straight from 'the shoulder, Iras the "■following- "to s&y :— . ■. f ' , ','Some snivelling,) snuffling Holy Wi'lliess an We4la!nig;tiaa,. se&mi-ng-ly wnder the impression that the Police, the Mapjistrattes, aoi'd the Government' are a lot of incompetent old crooks, have been troubling the- Ministerial waters W'fyh a view to having a certain paper suppressed. One parson talked, about euchre m a way which suffftajsted ample knowledge of, the three-card trick. According to; one ape who lives on thrummerg beffe;©di from those who are silly enough to keep him, one' pop v of "Truth" vito.s more prized- &jn,on>a sailors than 70 J tons of 'tihe aW-' ful drivel prpdiuoe'd by sweated labor, and handed out by the snuffling wailers, w^ioh m itself ought to convince the Holy Joes that (on their own evidence) tfaeir literature is anattoama and its name . Mud ! These same people who complain of a Plain statement of every-day doings being • umproper, t think it not indecent to 'bring forth their women m their night-clothes and dip them m cold water as a wind-up to their Sunday ndißht shows, for the, purpose of ra'kdng; m a few shekels for the coming week's larder, and many other shocking and disgraceful exhibitions, the details of which, if published, would disgust the so-call-6d' ungcdly, and cause then to rise m a body, and sttone tlie authors. These Judkinses, male and female, will wallow, without a blusli, m the details of native dances by niggers clad m a few streaks of washing blue and red clay, and 'they will retail at ■ mothers-m eetings details or cases which they want kept out of print, so that they miv have a ir.onopoly thereof. Many of the socalled reliojioais bodies of the present day raise money :u a wa.y that should for ever keep them dumb as to the doings of ot:ier,s of a more worldly turn. JWuhiiia uc-jiis too ridiculous or lmiricous for them to do if there are sheckels hanging to it!. 1 , An old I-'ranch Toveib says : 'To every saint his own candle' The parsons (who are continually crying to vhs Press to get something ' for nothing) should be the last m the world to interfere with any section of the Vvs±\ [or if •it were not for tihe natural lindness of tbe average editor m looking over the foibles .of the averat^ pity . c on, Hie great Mil* ° ! t.nem wo*nfl be buawd out of their jo's 1 . rr he highly respcctal-lc section vt the Press have lately combined .to in'siss on pay.mpnt. lot tk« aomoun«j-

menft of " the parsons' Sunday fireworks shows, which they formerly, got for nothing, until they oame to such announcements as,- 'Is Hell Fire Still Burning ?' 'His Mother Made. Him a Straight Jacket,' 'Wee WMh lie; Winkie,' 'Jane Juggins,' and so on. The farces were drawing so well that the man of ink thought he^ ought to have a cut m. Parsons who wish to suppress, any paper should remember that only a few years ago they would have been stoned to death, or roasted, or otherwise effectually dealt with for holding the opinions they are preaching to-day, and that it is only a free untrammelled Press that guards the ri-.Ejh.ts 'they now exercise. A paper which exposes evils, which the highly respectable (?) monopolistic mon-ev-jc-rab'bdnp; Press winks at for fear of losing the price of a beer is just as necessary as a parson or a policeman. We notice the b'i#-wdgs . of the Gospel-mongering profession found ifc convenient to 1 be" otherwise occupied when the deputation was on, and the .balance crept out from the Ministerial presence . with , their tails letween their legs.. So, mote it be."