CARDINAL LOGUE’S SPEECH.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9148, 18 May 1908, Page 5

CARDINAL LOGUE’S SPEECH.

AN AMERICAN LIBEL. Press Association —Copyright. Melbourne, May 17. Dean Phelan, addressing the Catholic Young Men’s Society, said the cable message regarding Cardinal Logue was a gross imputation against a prince of the Church and a prominent Irishman. Taking the character of Cardinal Logue and the character of the American press, people would be slow to believe what they had read. The loyalty of Australia to the Motherland was due to her enjoying such a measure of Home Rule. If Australians were not loyal to the Empire it would be suicidal to the race.

FINE SPEECH BY CARDINAL “MORAN.

Received May 18, 9.18 a.m, Sydney, May 18. Speaking at the Hibernian Society’s breakfast, Cardinal Moran said that 23 years ago he ventured the opinion that no one but a fool could be disloyal in Australia. He was conscious at the present time that the statement held good to-day. He even would go further and say that if they had some fools in Australia even they in their dreams would not he guilty of disloyalty. The reason was that they £.iiad the most perfect freedom citizens could aspire to. There were some people in the Horae countries who could not realise or understand what Australian interests meant. His idea was that Canada and Australia were wings of the Empire. When soaring into its highest flights the strength of the eagle was in its wings. If they desired that the eagle of Empire should soar aloft, they must strengthen the wings. If its wings wore clipped the eagle fell to the ground. If they were true to the Empire they must do their utmost to develop the resources of Australia and make the wings of Canada and Australia as perfect as they could be made. If Australia was dissociated from the Empire to-morrow they would be having perhaps not a friendly visit from the American fleet, hut one from some other fleet which would spread ruin and desolation through the laud. He was sure every Hibernian presen t would with other local citizens do all they could to strengthen tfie position of Australia.