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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 5th, 1928.

NO CUT IN INCOME

IS PERSECUTION EVER RIGHT?

THE BIG STICK " "DORA" AND TORQUEMADA.

"We thould, in my opinion, have bola justified in hanging the organisers of the General Strike for high treason; but that is not percution. It is merely an desertion of the principle that the citizens of a State must not try to destroy it by organised espiracy"

[BY THE VERY Bev W. R. INGE, D.D., DEA OF ST. PAUL'S.]

TAX.

MR. CHURCHILL ON HIS BUDGET "BOAT RACE.”

BURDEN OF" RATES.

RELIEF NEEDED, BUT NOT EÑOUGH MONEY.

He explained that he has not the money, and that if he had he would. prefer to devote it to relieving the burden of the local rates of pro- ducers in town and country.

Mr. Churchill, the Chancellor of Let us first sum up the arguments religion, a criminal organisation of the Exchequer, made it clear in a in favour of persecution Crom the worst type. No sensible speech at Birmingham on February well, says Fraude, was convinced wishes to abolish the criminal law,3rd that there will be no reduction that Catholicism was morally Fanatics who justify murder, whe-of the lacome tax in his forthcom poisonous; therefore he did not the the victims are kings, Jauding Budget. tolerate Catholicism. The Catholics lords, or heretics, must be punish- wore even more wrongly convinceded, not for their opinions, but for that Protestantism was morally the actions in which they are ac poisonous; they tortured and complices. We should, in my burnt Protestants. One party or opinion, have breo justified in the other was no doubt mistaken; hanging the organisers of the but granting their convictions, were General Strike for high treason; they not right to persecute! If a but that is not persecution. It is revelation is divine, the rejection | merely an assertion of the princi- of it is diabolical, and to stamp out ple that the citizens of a State must diabof'ım is a duty. We can ren- not try to destroy it by organised der tuberculous milk innocuous by conspiracy. boiling it; similarly, the bacillus of beresy may be eradicated by roast ing the enrrier-enses

Ca. Principle,

centuries

"The Chancellor hinted at a reduc tion of expenditure, and said that there can be no general election.

until 1929.

Leading passages in his speech were these:—

I see that some people are be ginning to talk about a reduction of sixpence in the income tax in

the near future.

If I had the money it is not to the reduction of the standard rate of the income tax that. I should in the first instance apply it..

Burden Of Ratas, "

Without wishing to lower your The statement that persecution is

spirits, I think I may go so far as often successful needs more con- to say that those who nurse these sideration. It is not likely that hopes are of a very sanguine tem Spain would have accepted Protes-perament, and I will go further and say, that they must be people The only reason why we do not tantism in any case. The suppres who take much more pleasure in persecute now is because we do not sion of all free intellectual activity building castles ca the air than in believe beavily. We think there had the most disastrous effects on adding up figures in a ledger.. may be something to say on the the civilisation of that country, other side. Where we are thorough condemning it to

of ly convinced, we still persecute, humiliating weakness and retro- We have made up our minds that (gression, from which it is only now In France homicide is wrong; therefore we beginning to recover, › hang the Indian Thugs, who are the growth of Protestantism was conscientiously convinced that it is checked by barishing some of the "a religious daty. We have made most virile elements in the popula

But the fruits of victory up our minds that certain, kids tion. of immorality are disgusting and were reaped not by Catholicism, unnatural; therefore we send offen- but by free thought, which cut it. dons to prison and run them self adrift from every form of socially, though its some Eastern Christianity. So strong has been countries the ministers of this par- the revolt that the Vatican seems ticular via are temple-servants to have almost given up France as We punish the vendors of obscene lost, and in the Tast fifteen years literature, avowedly on Cromwell's has been putting all its money on ground that it is "morally Germany. The revelations of this poisonous." And we punish agita- pro-German policy during and since tors who advocate assassination, the war should be studied in Dr.still levied on principles dating

95 though several medieval "casuists, Longford's article in the current Hike Maradius of Padna, defended number of the Nineteenth Cen tyrannicide

tury." He has proved his case up to the hilt

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All these things we do even in quiet times. But when the country

The Fatal Objection..

"I said at Homiton in July and in Scotland in September that the local rates were a harassing burden on productive industry and agri culture. They penalise invidiously who has to use extensive premises the producer in town or country or bulky tools to carry on his busi- ness. They fall most heavily on the basic industries which employ the largest number of workmen, and they fall with aggravating effect on struggling business whose the plant, already rated to the full, is running perhaps at only half of a quarter capacity,

I pointed out that whereas our system of national taxation was re- vised and relined every year by Parliament, the local rates were

from the sixteenth century. I said then, as I say now, that I was act in a position at the moment to make any positive proposal, and that nothing that I said must be taken as a pledge or a promise. But I asked that public attention should, like the attention of the

is in danger, we begin to persecute In Boheroja, where persecution Government, be increasingly direct

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I will go so far as to say that the standard of John Huss than the certainly not at the present time. patriot Mazaryk no sooner raised if I had the money, which I have. people flocked to enroll themselves an advance in this direction would under it. The martyr who was round off with singular complete- burnt five hundred yes ago lightness the financial policy of the pre- ed a candle in Bohemia which no

sent Parliament... persecution could put out.'

quemada, bat gas is tarred with the same brush During the war we were not allowed to dissuade men from enlisting, or to put the enemy's case-and they had a case, though a weak one. "Conchies

General Election. wepo imprisoned, knocked about.

As Loisy eaid when the Church

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Henderson has condemned him, You cannot kill were quite right, of course; but ideas with a big stick." The heard rumeers that there is going after this, can we proclaim that noblest and bravest

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we object to persecution.on prin." beretica" may be destroyed; but and his comment is illuminating ciple? If we cared as much about unexpected results sometimes fol-e says that it would be orthodoxy as we do about our coun- for from these executions, as the the most glaring betrayals ever par try, we should go back to the Jews found when they stoned petrated by any Government. This methods of the seventeenth century, Stephen in the presence of Saul, is the first time I have ever heard if not quits so far as to Bloody who is also called Paul. As for the any leader in an Opposition pro- Mary

Ice heroic, they may be forced to ing the people a chance to express

testing against a Government giv Soviet Tears.

unsay, but not to unsee. A con their options. Mr. Arthur Hon forming, heretic brings no strength to the party which has forced his derson does not merely protest conscience.

against an appeal to the constituen- cies. What he says is Anything. but that? What a tribute to the strength of the Conservative Party POLICE SURGEON'S ALCOHOL and the Government

We are told that persecution is wrong because it always fails. But even John Stuart Mill, who was entirely opposed to it admits that history teemm with instances of successful persecution," ть Sovereigns and the Inquisition

Protestantism stamped out Spain, and prevented its growth in France.

But the fatal objection to per-

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secution seems to be that you can only suppress one kind of error by crushing all intellectual liberty. "When I read this statement J in For effective persecution you re said to myself: Anyhow, we know quire a regular inquisition, which where Uncle Arthur feels the

The question as to when a man can follow up heresy into all its wind. Let us reassure this good is intoxicated may be definitely Another example of successful hiding places, forbidding all specu-man that he is im no immediate cleared up if certain testa devised persecution is the Bolshevist regime lations which have been found in danger of having to face his con in Russia We might have sup practice to lead towards the fortituents. Obviously there can be by Dr. Godfrey Carter, Senior Sur posed that a creed which declares bidden ground. There must be no no general election in 1828. geon to the Sheffield City Police, war against the three strongest freedom, of the Press, no freedom The Franchise, Bill must be are generally adopted. instincts of human nature the of public meeting, no societies even passed into law, and the new voters Dr. Carter's tests are based on family, religion and property with apparently harmless objects; must take their place on the regis could have no chance at all Bat education must be put in fetters, ter. The mere machinery of that the amount of alcohol actually in the Soviet Taars have mastered the and an army of space must watch process carries us on into the spring the blood, and he claims that it is technique of persecution; they have private conversations, acting, when or summer of 1929." completely brokem the spirit of the they please, as provocative agents.

The Budget. people, and opposition has been as Civilisation. OFFEN certainly be

“You will ask me. How is the effectually suppressed as Protestana paralysed by such measures, even tism in Spain. If we had treated for centuries But only

the Budget getting on February and the Communists as they would have external shell of the oppressive March are always a very interest liked to treat us, how many hun- power will look imposing. It willing time for the Chancellor of the dred million pounds would the be honeycombed with discontent Exchequer. Watching the move!

possible to tell exactly how much alcohol a man has taken, whether

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sonous spinion begins as an epidemic. It has its acutely infer tive period when it is really dan At present, there are two com-year of more than £150,000,000. To alcohol content of the blood rose gorous. This is the time to stamp peting types of State in the world. night it is about £65,000,000 rapidly, the masinum being redob it out with all posible, vigour. which for convenience may be call- I am, therefore, bearing uped about, an hour and half after After a few years, or a very leed Democracy and Fascism. The fairly well, but I am certainly not the drink had been consumed. generations, it losses its virulenco latter, whether in Russia, Italy, going to make any predictions as

Why We Lost Ireland. behind There was a deficit on the minutes It was shown that the

and spreads no further. There was Spain, or Turkey, drankly believes to the order in which the rival The decline, however, was very Fa time when, but for vigorous per.. in repression, The former, to boats will pass the line at midnight slow and the blood was not free from alcohol until frons about 12 PRICE: 50 Cts. per bottle.secution, Frange would have gone which we belong, believes in con- on Merch aldt.

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is difficult to my which is worst mutil then Something like this is the case Perhaps the Worst of all is to try believe it will be possible as mum content at the peak rather for percution Most of the ar them both half-heartedly and by time goes on, and year by year, to guments I think, may be answered, turns This is the way in which make economies in the Fighting The was a delayed action in the To begin with, religion, as White we lost Irelands The fact is, we Services. But to cut them down by case of the hard drinker, and some bead says, is not always a good do not know our own minds on forty millions a year in the reck of the alcohol way never absorbed thing-it is often a very bad thing this question "I do not know my less maner proposed (in the new in the blood, while in the ease of And religion, which establishes & own but there are occasions on Liberal proposals) would have no the abstainer or moderate didike

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