FEDERAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1482, 16 June 1905, Page 2

FEDERAL POLITICS.

UiVRDINAL MORAN DECLARES FOR DEMOCRACY,

By; Electric Telegraph—Per Press 1 Association-Copyright. ‘ SYDNEY, Juno 15.Cardinal Moran has declared on) the subject of Socialism that Mr Reid . anjd his colleagues were" assailing a class which meant communism and anarchy,; It seemed to him a campaign. quite out of placo in Australia, where democracy had no such aim. They were engaged in, a lion Q.uixoio campaign! against an enemy that was non-existent. Democracy was not an enemy. It was social development on constitutional lines, the object being to' promote P.ros;peir!i''ty. It made for peace artcli ■ilclily From his heart he wished : it averyj sjujcces's ia attaining. this object,: MR REID REPLIES TO THE CARDINAL. 8y Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrigh Deceived 1 a.m., June 16. Sydney. June 15. Mr Reid, replying to Cardinal Moran, said.that Mr Watson wanted to efface him politically. Now Cardinal Moran came to Mr Watson’s side and waDted him to emigrate to Europe,where he would find class socialism worthy of his eloquence. If our democracy had no aims

4UHUUUI ju uui. —: leading to communism and anarchy was he wrong in making the assurance doubly sure ? Was the Cardinal alone ignorant of the objective of the Labor Leagues’ strongest body in Australia ? The leagues’ efforts were expressly concentrated on Australia, wherein there would be no private enterprise, no right to possess private property, no right to work according to liberty of choice. As a counterblast Jo Cardinal Moran he quoted from the encyclical of Pope Leo the thirteenth pasJages condemnatory} of the socialistic hovement.