SPECIOUS HTYPOCRITES.

NZ Truth, Issue 106, 29 June 1907, Page 6

SPECIOUS HTYPOCRITES.

|||||||j^|£BsfJiatt> and their Methods. 'ia good nuontier.' of speci]les m Ohristchutrch, but Vy isn't generally known ."■?. who are unfortunately, , Vake tbem at'Hieir own ; :-\tcl that valitation is ■'■;•■ - ', l.igh— sky higlit, m. fact. b thing" and practice \ug> complacency. AH ' \r course. There is one . „:.■ .*n«ss theax, and who : -Amber of ysars> who ,' ; He is supposed to i 15^ : or pmyf esses to T - ;' 1 often does a hit of . ;';n he isn'H; selling ' ."-■.'■■it's hip. gazrae'. He . , .. 'using the Loard m ■ ■■ ■ ■..•■'.? I -

spectators to -Eurn to ifch> rigM. flatti,; arid escape .the .wraith to coxae. He is a anan with a good delivery,; as ibhas medicine coot, and attracts a good crowd when he gets on :tbe job. Well,, he employs canvassers to travel the : city and country .with his multifarious wares, and these include, women's • preventives and OTHER FORBIDDEN" 'ARTICLES,if you please .; and lie is reputed to ; do a good trade m them, too;, 'but; 1 the men .he employs to do this dis- i gracefully dirty work sometimes all i m. As a matter of course .they 'have I to Jbe .very circumspect ; every. .sworn- 1 an can't be canvassed m the same ; way.; and, sometimes a wrathful mat- j ron her righteous indigna-! tion at being asked if she will invest ; m such a -thing.; .Various medical com/forts and trash are naturally, offered ; first ;, the .man has to feel his ground ; ; •hut some ;of -the females who i UnoWr -the preaching bamdicootV ; not .unnaturally express unbounded'! surprise at the fellow's colossal i cheek, and the rotten inconsistency of; his actipnsv .This pill and plaster' saint is Ja'Bother of the Wesleyan wow-sers-that figure 'so often m these! columns— persons who,- talcing them | by and 'large— arc howling, rantim>g ! hypocrite's, who can't be trusted to do j the right thing at any time. This ! ; smiling- sooner — 'for lie always deco- ■ rates his chiv with a smile-rbaWls ; out ito women an public to lead v . moral 'life.,, and mi private lie seeks to : line -his pockets with gold ;■ for both , married ami single women patronise i his /wares, and YOUNG- GIRLS €-0 TO HELL' through ,thft exfetenae <of fchese damned. | ;g-oods. Most chemists keep i them,,- and kindred igoads, we . know ; i they are very easily obtainable. But so far as W3 *know th-sy don't. preach I a-gainst immorality and then help to i stop the increase of population, and ! :seek ito run tilt against God's ordrm ■ .ance, "Increase and multiply." A ■ bright josser this bloke is. but what, can you sxp.eot from a wowser of Ms, awful stamp £ Much has been written , against these 'deleterious checks to ibhe increase of the-- species, .and t-he '■ only visible remedy is for the Govern•ment ffco introduce a measure -barring their amp'ortation to -the colony altogether, -and providing severe penalties <m conviction. They mi'gfo-t still be. imported all the same, but they^ wouldn't -be so easily procurable as they are now, and respectable • ohemisfts would not takethei risk of selling to strangers and being prosecuted at Court,,; with all the attendant publicity. There is a great demand for these articles, worse luck ; they arc--on sale from one end of the colony to the other* and the only way to stop their sale, is for $h<e/: Government to : act in' the'direefcion, we have inddcai> ■ed- It isn't pleasant to dwell on tte fact that men and women are-engag-ed dn. selling them m the city and subsurhs/ and aren't making any -bones about it either.- There-is a law dealing with, ithis species 'Of peddling,- biit as ;few, people care : to open their mouth . ■■ ON SUCH DELICATE SUB'JJBCT: proceeaiflgSraUCourt.on charges of indecency are -'Tare,- for the offering ofsuehi a ' thing for sale constitutes an indecent act* MeaniwMle, let .ithat rorty, religdbus ranter, who is thesubject of this brief article,- 'have a care. Tie ; man ,who mixes - immorality, withl professed piety; falls^in*sooner £OErlatei\;