THE ETHICS OF BAZAARS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 61, 26 October 1911, Page 7

THE ETHICS OF BAZAARS.

During the course of his remarks when opening the bazaar in aid of the Kurd Kurri Roman Catholic presbytery building fumjl; 'stptes the Sydney “Morning Herald,” Dr. Dwyer, Bishop of Maitland, said some people considered bazaars should not be promoted by those who had charge of the public morality, because they created a tendency to gambling,' and so forth. Ho did not put himself forth as being any better than he ought to be, but he would consider he had done very wrong if he encouraged any vice either on the part of the Catholic community or of others. People did not go to bazaars to make money; they went to them to spend it. And as for gambling, he would not say that it was a vice straight out. He would say nothing to a man who put a pound on a horse in a race, always providing that the money was his own and that he could afford to spend it in that way. Everyone admitted that when the spirit of gambling got hold of a young man it often led him very far from the right path, but that was no reason why the whole system should be condemned. They might as well refuse one man a glass of wine that would probably do him good because another man had the I habit of taking too much; or it might be said that a man should not shave himself'because some had cut their throats with razors. The Government of the country made laws, and the Roman Catholic community obeyed the laws most respectfully, and they would not encourage anything they considered wrong.