AUSTRALIA NOT DISLOYAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9092, 19 May 1908, Page 5

AUSTRALIA NOT DISLOYAL.

CHARGES REFUTED BY CARDINAL MORAN. Received' May 18, 9.18 a.m. SYDNEY, May 18. Speaking at the Hibernian Society breakfast, Cardinal Moran said that twenty-three year ago he ventured the opinion that none hut a fool could be disloyal in Australia. He was conscious at the present time that the statement held gco;1 to-d>iy. 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 the most perfect freedom citizens could aspire to. There were some people in Homo countries, continued His Eminence, who cr.ukl not realise or understand what Australian interests meant. His idea was that Canada and Australia were the wings of the Empire. When soaring into the highest flights the strength. of the eagle was in its Wings. If they desired that the eagle of the Empire would soar aloft they must■'. strengthen the wings; if the wings were clipped the fell to the ground. If they were true to the Empire they would do their utmost tc develop the resources of Australia, and make the wings of Canada and Australia as perfect as they could be made. If Australia were dissociated from the Emj ire to-morrow we should be having, said the speaker, perhaps not a friendly visit from the American fleet, but one from some which would Bpread ruin and desolation through the land. Concluding, the Cardinal said that he was sure every Hibernian present would, with the other loyal citizens, do all they could to strengthen the position of Australia.