CARDINAL LOGUE AND THE STANDARD OF EMPIRE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 408, 9 July 1908, Page 2

CARDINAL LOGUE AND THE STANDARD OF EMPIRE.

Rkfkrring to Sir Joseph Ward’s reply to Cardinal Rogue, the editor comments in the first issue of the new Standard of the Empiie:— “As was to be confidently expected, New Zealand and lasia generally have unanimously and indignantly repudiated the extraordinary statement made by Cardinal Rogue that the great selfgoverning colonies are in open rebellion against the British Crown. Cardinal Moran, replying for Australian Catholics, has declared that none but fools are disloyal ; and Sir Joseph Ward points as evidence of the attachment of all classes in New Zealand to the ideals of Empire to the spontaneous loyalty shown by them in the Boer War. Mr Deakin has also pointed out that the colonies enjoy the amplest powers of selfgovernment within the Empire, and that autonomy and freedom are much more likely to bind the Empire together than to divide it. Cardinal Rogue is apparently quite unable to perceive what British Imperialism means ; his mind works in a somewhat similar way to that ot Judge Rongley, of Nova Scotia, who said the o ber day that the Dominion of C uada would not always he contc to remain a colony. He apper to imagine that England desires o hold her colonies in a kind of political subjection and commercial dependency ; to refuse, as it were, to let them grow up, and take a place equal with the parent in the management of the family affairs. Nothing is farther from the truth, and, fortunately, none knew that better than the general public of Greater Britain. Their range of vision is generally wider than that of people at home. Broadly speaking, and in spite of such exception as Cardinal Rogue and Judge Rongley, they see more clearly. They can perceive better than we islanders the power and the influence that the future holds for the British race if its elements stand shoulder to shoulder, subordinating local interests and parochial ambitions to the higher claims of the common weal of a worldwide Empire.’’