ROBBING THE PEOPLE

Hokitika Guardian, 21 February 1920, Page 1

ROBBING THE PEOPLE

THE TEN COMMANDANTS

“The strong are using their opportunity to exploit the weak. They are using their power—worldly wealth to exploit the masses, and they, hold not the people, but governments, in their hand. The few rich are robbing the people.’ This assertion was made by Archbishop O’Shea, of Wellington, at the opening of St Bede’s College, Papa-i nui, Christchurch. Tliierb were two ways to remedy this state of affairs, said'His Grace. One was by a Red revolution—in which some of the guilty and many of the innocent would lose their lives—the other was by bi inging the Ten Commandments into the lives of the .people. Christion principles no longer had any practical effect upon the oligarchies which ruled us to-da} • Fqi ail sane people and all who loved justice there was only ono "’ay to mend matters and that was to brine back Christianity into the world. We must not do evil that good might come of it—the end did not justify the means. A Chinese correspondent of an American journal had summed up our ieligion when he said that as a nation "e did not practise it. Would it not be better for us to found our peace on the Ten Commandments than upon the Fourteen Points?