REPLY TO ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1919, Page 4

REPLY TO ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD.

(Published by arrangement.}? By Telegraph. Wellington, Last Night In reply to His Grace, Archbishop Bedwood may I be allowed to point out tint the public statements of Archbishop Ireland and Cardinal Manning, which are printed below, must have been subsequent to the private opinions to which His Grace refers — ARCHBISHOP IRELAND! "The saloon is the deadly enemy of the health) of the home, of the family, of the country, and of God, And America demands, and it will demand in stronger tones yet, that this American saloon shall disappear from the face of our fair land We must . work and bend every effort so that Catholics in political matters will always be arrayed against the liquor interests." CARDINAL MANNING: "I impeach the liquor traffic of hlgli crimes and misdemeanors against the Commonwealth. It is mere mockery to ask us to put down drunkenness by moral and religious means, when the legislature facilitates and multiplies inducements to intemperance on every hand. ' Do you know how you Will help to break up the unholy alliance between the Government and the greatest fraud of the age? Vote against it!", The Archbishop is also probably not aware that, far from Canada being more drunken than.New Zealand, the certified statistics for Canada show that the per capita consumption of liquor in that Dominion IS LESS THAN HALF OF NEW ZEALAND'S, and the arrests for drunkenness CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN HALF. I should like to say further that there is no more fear of difficulty regarding sacramental wine in this country than in Quebec. The Anglican Church, as well as the Roman Catholics, requires fermented wine for and these two bodies form the larger part of the whole population., Bishop Clcary's satisfaction with the proposed provisions for securing an adequate supply should also be oorne in mind. R. &. GRAY.