A REJOINDER.
10 THE EDITOB. Sic, — My rejolrder will be brief. "Magnum Bon am" has not proved his case. He started this correspondence with the assertion that because Me Purnell had spoken against Home rule, he ma»t be an enemy of the Catholic Church. His quotations we take for what they are worth, but admitting them to be tru?, they prove nothing, except that Mr Purnell was opposed to Mr Gladstone's Flome Rule Bcbeme. ''Magnum Booum" might just as logic Jly maintain that [ because Mr Purnell was opposed to f archer taxation, he is an enemy of the working man ; the one inference is quite as logical as the other: both ara abauid "Magrutn BonumV logic is aa poor as his wit. He gave us a side splitting j >ke m his ficat letter which no one else oouli nee ; I notice , h<j ia strangely serious io hia last. He | describes my last letter is " a tissue of | reckless statements," but he carefully refrains from queetioninar any of Hum t They are true. " Magna est veritas et ! prevaltbit " t I am, etc., Pkesbytjbrian,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1667, 20 September 1887, Page 2
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183A REJOINDER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1667, 20 September 1887, Page 2
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