"PROTESTANT LITERATURE"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 188, 29 April 1918, Page 4

"PROTESTANT LITERATURE"

REFERENCE BY ARCHBISHOP O'SHEA. ' In tho coin-so of an address at St. Joseph's Church yesterday, His Grace Archbishop O'Shea, said: ,"Our friends the Orangemen have been making a great noise hero lately. And in Anzac week, too. While Catholics were praying in every church in the city for God's protection on our soldiers, no matter what their creed might be, and for tiho safety of our country, and were trying to live at peace with all men, , so-called Christians wore cursing and reviling their fellows.. Their vapourings may not deserve the notice of respectable people, but one statement, on Recount of the publicity given to it by the Press, should not be allowed to pass without comment. They stated that the Government has refused to admit 'Protectant literature' into the country. This la simply false. You surely do not call slanderous publications Trotostant literature.' Ajid this i sthe only kind of literature that the. Government haa prohibited. Would these people ask for tho admission into the country of publica-" tlqns that made vile charges and insinuI ations ngainst the chastity, say, of Presbyterian clergymen and their wives, and that covered with abuse the honoured heads of that church? So bad is bouio of this literature, that according to their own statement it is only for private circulation. They dare not circulate it publicly and freely because then the public would know what to think of it. It is tho same with tho New Zealand organ of these lodges, which , is continually assailing in a most bitter manner beliefs that aro sacred -not only to Catholics, but to many other Christians ns well. This, flko, is only for private circulation. And" yet they have tljo audacity to call such literature 'Protestant.' It is a wonder to me that no Protestant has so far protested publicly , against 6uch a misuse of terms. It is also a wonder to Catholics, and a cans© of not a little sadness, flint no editor or public man in this city has so far entered a word of protest against last week's campaign of vilification of a large body of respectable citizens or against the repeated attempts of an underground fraternity to sow dissension at a most critical time in our history." :