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Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1916, Page 6

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To the Editor. '_, Sir,—ln your issue of September 4, " jDr. Kelly has another long letter in ([which he engages very energetically in 'floating the air." He says, "Mr. Taylor bitterly because Irishmen Were allowed to resent their wrongs." >S. never complained about any such •thing, "very bitterly," or otherwise. JThen he tells us that "he marvels at any craftiness." Why should I marvel *'lat a thing that was patent? "By saying jthere is nothing to blame in England's 1 he approves of murder and Mape." But I never said that there is t nothing to blame in England's conduct; ftftheTefore'his deduction, that I approve "jof murder and rape is a scandalous 'piece of impudence. "I did not," Dr. {Kelly] says, "quote Englishmen as I might have done to prove that the slaughter of women and children was f' >art of the avowed policy of the Eng,Uh in Ireland." I make bold to say Ijthat Dr. Kelly cannot prove that part of the avowed policy of England in Ireland was "the slaughter of women and Xo government in England ■lever laid that down as "part of their Let us be clear in this, that !no man or woman ever lived for any. •length of time, in this world and never Vlid .wrong. No nation ever existed, or ■i 'exists now, that has not been guilty V cf a lot of wrong doing, of short comings, of blunderings as well as of wilful mis-deeds. But when all this is admitted «nd agreed to, England still stands as the first and best, as well as the greatest of nations. With regard to the Popes of Rome authorising the invasion of Ireland, I said Henry the First, when it should hove been Henry the Second. IWith that correction my statement stands good. Adrian IV. first gave the sanction. "In the year 1175, Henry, in the hope that it might have some effect in subduing this • rebellious temper (of ■the Irish), produced for the first time | the bull which he had procured from ,IPope Adrian twenty-four years before, along with a brief, confirming it, which he had received in the interval from 'Alexander III." See The Historian's History of the World, vol. XXI., page 376. Then again, in the above volume of same work at page 383, it says, "The iEnglish Government complained of their ;V )(tho nation's) conduct to the 'Papal Court, and John XXII. commissioned the Archbishop of Dublin and Cashel to admonish those who fomented the rebellion, and to ex-communieato all who persisted in their disobendionce." The scurrilous reference by Dr. Kelly to Mr. Michael J. F. McCarthy, is due to the fact that he, like Mr. Quin, of Hawera, daTes to think for himself. Mr. McCarthy is an Irish Catholic, a lawyer, and *n able and impartial writer. He is the author of several works on Ireland, and one of these is called "Priests and People -■■' in Ireland." This is why Dr. Kelly eiegantly ranks him among what he calls the "nightmen." Every reader cf the Daily Xews who has not read this book should procure a copy (costs Is Cd through any bookseller), and just End .out for him or herself whether it is McCarthy or Kelly that is the true "nightman." Mr. McCarthy can let the light in, whereas Dr. Kelly merely sprays his readers wit'.i vituperation.—l am, etc., J. 0. TAYLOR, Waiongona, September 4, 1016. ■/ £This ■ correspondence is closed.—Ed.]