Second Edition. KING'S OATH.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 July 1910, Page 3

Second Edition. KING'S OATH.

AN AUSTRALIAN IXDICTMEXT. [nV ELECTRIC TKLEGUAPM--COPVRIOIIT.] I.PER I'IIKHS ABBOCIATION.J (Received Ttti-is Day, 10.40 a.m.) MBLKOUUNM, This Day. While blessing a new convent, Archbishop Chit took the opportunity of expressing the intonsoT satisfaction of Catholics in the prospects of seeing the. removal from tho British Constitution, of what he described ws the iniquitous tonus of the Royal Declaration. When the oath was 'framed to secure the Protestant succession to tho throne, it faithfully reflected, he said, tho intolerance of the times. But since those days a much wider dominion was governed by the King of England. ' Liberty of conscience was secured for all faiths excepting the Roman Catholic, which is singled out for most opprobious epithets at the most joyous occasion in the life of each Sovereign. Premier Murray said tibe. affirmation, in the Coronation oath was most objectionable, not omly to millions of'Catliolis in the Empire, but to millions of people of other nations who were friendly to Britain, ami to all right thinking Christians. . , Any ordinary citizen i «ilio < nswl such words as were contained in the affirmations would bo given in charge on the ground of endeavouring to provoke a breach of the peace. , Tho King should not bo compelled to set an example for which his loval subjects would Ik> punished for following.