"SHAKING OFF BRITISH RULE."

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1916, Page 5

"SHAKING OFF BRITISH RULE."

To the Editor. j •Sir, Lest it might appear that till views of Dean 'Power are shared in general by members of that faith which < lie appears to have temporarily abandoned, I beg to protest most strongly against his statement that "'poverty will 1 disappear from Ireland only when she ■ lias succeeded, .like New ,'Zealamdi in shaking off British rule." The inference ' tlmt we have shaken off the rule of'the Imperial Government because wo are al. ' lowed to be "Daughter in our mother's house, but mistress of our own," is, of course, an impulsive inaccuracy bora of the incurable Anglophobia by which the Dean is obsessed, and which is go pain* ■ fully detrimental in local eyes to the , prestige of Catholicity. This colony is H indissolubly bound to the British Em- * pire by bonds of sympathy, interest, honor. and self-preservation, and no suggestion of irreconeilables can influence that lasting compact. Tl\e Dean's countrymen have (since Ea9ter time)] "something to wipe off tho slate" through the dishonor brought upon them' toy tile irresponsible Dublin mob, who, with pockets filled »ith German gold and stomachs filled with stout, have played such havoc in their fair city. I am. glad to express the view that many of them are endeavoring to obliterate that stain by sending their beet and bravest to the front.' In conclusion, may I recommend the Dean to read again those solemn words from the Catechism: 'Let every soul be subject to the higher power; ho that resistcth that power resistcth the ordinance of (Jod, and lie that rcsistetli purchase thj to himself—Damnation!"—l am, etc., W. A, .QUINN x Haiwera, August 22. 'J