PROHIBITION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1079, 7 December 1911, Page 3

PROHIBITION.

ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD AND MR HAMMOND.

W Eddington, November 6

Iu reference to the telegram sent to Archbishop Redwood by the Rev. R. B, S. Hammond concerning his Grace’s circular counselling Roman Catholics to vote against national prohibition, the Archbishop made the following statement: “Mr Hammond’s telegram to me is in direct contradiction to the account of the interview which he had with the editor of the “ Tablet,” which account the said editor declares to he scrupulously accurate. And further, I say that Catholics have a natural aud divine right to the unfettered possession aud of the necessary matter of the great Catholic Eucharistic Sacrifice. Therefore, it would be an insult to their reason and their faith to accept it ou the precarious tenure of pie-crust political promises, or by a clause in au Act of Parliament which might be, and certainly would be, repealed if prohibition came to prevail iu the Dominion.” Dunedin, December 5.

The following telegram was despatched from Dunedin this morning to Archbishop Redwood, at Wellington;—“We must respectfully reiterate that iu the interview accorded the editor ot the Tablet we made it emphatically clear that uotbing had been said or intended to warrant even the faintest suspicion that we, who were responsible ffir the exemption clause as regards sacramental wine, ever purposed or would consent to annul it.—R.B.S. Hammoud, G. B. Nicholls.”