THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 126, 19 May 1908, Page 3

THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

OUR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES. CARDINAL MOHAN'S VIEWS. Sydney, May IS. Speaking at the Hibernian Society's breakfast Cardinal Moran said thai -51 years ago he ventured the opinion that no one but a fool could lie disloyal in Australia. He was conscious.ai the present time that the statement lield good to-day. He would even go further and say that if we had some fools in Australia even they, in their dreams, would not be guilty of disloyalty. The reason was that we had most perfect freedom citizens eould aspire to. There were some people in the Home countries who could not realise or understand what Australian interests meant. Ilis idea was that Canada and Australia there wings of the Empire. When soaring in o the highest flights the strength of the eagle was in its wings. If they desircl that the eagle empire should soar aloft they must strengthen its wings. If its wings were clipped the eagle fell to the ground. If they were true to liic Empire they would do tneir utmost to develop the resources of Australia and make the wings of Canada and Australia as perfect as they could be made. If Australia dissociated from

the Empire to-morrow we should be having perhaps not a friendly visit from the American flirt '-nt one from some

ith r fleet, which would spread ruin

and desolation through tlie land. Ik was sure every Hibernian present would, with other local citizens, do all he could to strengthen the position ot Australia.