LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 255, 16 July 1918, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

' THE R.C. ffIURCHAND LABOUR Sir,—Your correspondent 'A P.P A., Member" asks whether Archbishop. U-bliea included New Zealand in hie. statement. should say certainly not. l'he Archbishop could not have ken referring lo on* beloved King and country, for he knows that—with the excep- ■ tion of the South of Ireland, where, men are shot from behind hedges and. the populace is incited to lawlessness by those who ought to know better—Great Britain- leads the world in moral, social, and. industrial reform. >No, Sh,,'"toleration" is ono of the characteristics of the Romish Church, and the Archbishop, lie doubt, had in his mind the Germaiu (8.C.) Centre Party, which dominate?. Germany's politics, or, maybe, Austria,, a paragon of piety, who is doing her bit to "reform" the world. Or was it South America? Here "profiteering, hypocrisy, and dishonesty dominate the Governments and rulers." Bolivia, for instance, wherei it is unsafe for a. woman to go out in. the daytimo without an escort; wherei probably less than 10 per cent, of the populace are ablo to read and write; where the maimed, ihe halt,' and tha blind lie . about tho streets with the stumps of limbs exposed for the edification of passers-by, also tho etcps of tho cathedrals are lined with beggars; wlievo the Constitution prohibits the erection . of any other than Bomaa Catholics places of worship; where the sale , ot\ Bibles is also prohibited, and Christian: ministers are'assaulted in the street* and the assailants go ■unpunished. Hera poverty, dirt, crime, and immorality abound, labour conditions are α-homin* able, the people working seyo:i days a, week for a mere pittance, with scarcely ever a holiday. Here is a sphere of usefulness for any man of the same relisi•ws uersuasions who has an honest desire to uplift his fellows, and has lived under the benign influence of Bnti6U rUle - laffi,^_GUIDOJAWKES,