http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0374039
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contributor: W. E. Peirce
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1918-03-23
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note: *° AT ^ m The Week Published by W. E. Peirce, In the Interest ot Good Government, Temperance, Single Tax and Sane Socialism Vol. XV, No. 39—15th Year I Victoria, B.C., Canada, March 23rd, 1918 5c a copy $2.00 a year The Bishop, "The Week" and the Censor THE WEEK has -no quarrel with the Bishop and it does not want to have any quarrel with the Censor, but it wants fair play and unless it can secure it, it is determined to let the public know the reason why. On march 5th, Malcom. H. Dewar, a Bible Student was convicted before the Police Magistrate of Victoria for that (2) "On the first day of March, 1918, at the City of Victoria, lid unlawfully have in his possession a book or publication containing objectionable matter, to-wit, the book or publication iniitled and known as Studies in the Scriptures, the Finished Mystery, contrary to the statues in such case made and provided." For this he was fined $50 with an alternative of thirty days in gaol. He chose the latter but was subsequently released by someone paying the fine for him. It will be noticed that the offence was "having the book in his possession." This was unlawful, and it was unlawful simply because the Censor said so. The fact that Mr. Dewar used the book only as an assistant in his studies of the scriptures and that he claimed he found them helpful to him in his spiritual life was not allowed to havo any claim whatever in the case. He had the book in his possession, and that, so far as tho administration of the law was concerned, was the Alpha and Omega of the whole business. According to the dnily press, "Instructions have been issued to police departments to forward all seized copies of the Forbidden Mystery to Ottawa. The 900 copies seized or surrendered in Victoria will be forwarded at once. There will, however, not be any slackening of effort to secure any stray copies wliich have hitherto escaped the vigilance of the police." What wo want to know now is what the police are going to do about thc copy …

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