SEDITION?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1738, 19 July 1917, Page 3

SEDITION?

AN ARTICLE JN THE TABLET. Wellington, July 18. .Mr Nos worthy (Ashburton) has given notice to ask the Prime Minister whether his attention lias been drawn to certain words used in an article published in the New Zealand Tablet (the official organ of the Roman Catholic Church) on Thursday, July 51 h, 1917, under the signature of “Edward Thomas, Bishop of Limerick”; and whether the Government will take steps to prosecute the above-named journal for sedition, the .or’ being as follows: “The evil work id' statesmen and newspaner writers has produced n coarse, black, brutal hatred of Germany and Germans that makes the war more like the deadly struggle of v ibi i < a: 1 - Mian ;> eoiid at uim ng.-d: men. That temper is now the great obstacle to peace. In (lie present frame of mind of ilie English people, and, .1 ;:m sorry to say, of many Irish, no abuse, no insult, no falsehood, is considered 100 gross to burl at the German. We bear no admission (hat (here Is anything to be said for (hem —(ha) they are of the same nature as ourselves; Iha I in their immense industries and growing commerce they have given pledges to the peace of the world; that possibly there may be some (mill in their claim that they are lighting a war of .self-defence; that for forlyfour years, from 1870-191-1, (hey had never doin' any aid of aggression against any country, a claim which neither England, nor France, nor Russia can claim for itself?” .Mr Nosworlhy adds: The lime has arrived when the Protest ants of the Dominion demand of (lie Government that they lake steps to deal drastically with (his sort of literature without furl her delav.