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THE ROMAN CATHOLICS DEFENDED.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I take great pleasure in going I to the public reading room and reading I the New Plymouth papers. Lately i i have followed the correspondence on the i Irish question. I, like most other ! Catholics, have always refrained from i rushing into print, treating the whole ! affair with contempt, but owing to the ' amount of twaddle correspondents send ■ to the papers, the time has come when i we ought to say a few words for our- ! selves, lest the ignorant take notice of j the opinions expressed by ignorant i people. In the first place, the In«h 1 question has become purely Irish. They (got Home Rule, and now, if they are i not satisfied, let them fight it out be- | tween themselves. If the people of •New Zealand were to band together i and work for the welfare of the coun- ! try instead of wasting their time I stirring up strife, New Zealand would : not be in the muddle we are in to-day. IWe have enough to do without troub- • ling about Irish affairs. One of your • correspondents says he does not refer ito English Catholics. The very word “Catholic” means “one,” so that when : you hit the Irish Catholic you hit the j 1 0! would like to ask “Returned Soldier” how many Irish mothers would give their right hand to have their sons back in New Zealand, able to sign themselves “Returned Soldier. All i these broken-hearted women have left ( is a little disc, while “Returned Soldier” has the pleasure of coming back I to “God s Own Country” to insult the ■parents of the boys who gave their I lives for their King and England. I The brightest gems of valor in the army’s diadem, ■Are the V.C. and the D. 5.0., M.C., and i D.C.M., ... j But those who live to wear them will ; tell you they are dross . Beside the final honors of a simple j wooden cross. | On nearly every monument erected !to the fallen you will find names of Irish boys. On Anzac Day ther ® be the unveiling of monuments. Mothers and fathers of those boys axe askl ed to attend the unveiling ceremony, j yet every day you read in the papers letters from correspondents insulting the very name of their dead sons. The Irish ''boys were not asked to fight for Ireland. It was England’s war, and it was England they fought fdr. Another of your correspondents asks what King Bishop Liston refers to when he says Catholics are loyal to the King. Does your correspondent think it is the “King of the Solomon Islands” or the “King of Brask?” Another correspondent from Bell Block, a lady ta» .time, who has travelled the world, and signs herself “Late of London” ye gods, what an end. I know there are no promenades, picture halls, etc., at Bell Block, but if the “Lady from London” would devote her time to collecting subscriptions for Chatha Mackenzie’s appeal for the Pearson Institute for blind soldiers and leave her sentiments in London, the majority of the community would be better pleased. If she wants to stir up strife in .'lreland let her go to Ireland, and take the other correspondents of the Dominion with her; Mr. Diggins included. In conclusion, I would like to say we have yet to hear Bishop Listons defence. I can assure your readers the majority of Catholics are loyal to ' both the King and the flag under which they live. I don’t wish the Lady from London" to condemn me on the ground that I am Irish. I might state mv father was born in Glasgow, and my mother was born in Oxfordshire, while I was born at RET »T« BLOCK. ! Marton, April 12.

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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1922, Page 6

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THE ROMAN CATHOLICS DEFENDED. Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1922, Page 6

THE ROMAN CATHOLICS DEFENDED. Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1922, Page 6

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