LADY HERBERT SPEAKS OUT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 18, 30 January 1891, Page 7

LADY HERBERT SPEAKS OUT.

We ( Weekly Register), have never thought ir necessary or nice to lustily our own journalistic existence by decrying our fellow-Catholic journals. What may be amusing or merely vulgar in the Eatansn-dl Gazette comes near to being disedifying in a paper of which the first ftim inex\st'ng \% to promote chanty, concord, and the sprca \ of CUbolic truth. Not that we are unaware of differences, vivid and vital, between ourselves and contemporan — differences only lees fundamental than those of faith. We refer, of course, to the attitude of the Tablet towards Oatho ie Ireland. Hut we have be"n content to ti ke our own contrary course sTenuou^-ly, without any bandying of personalities, or breaches of the recognised journalistic etiquette among even the Gentiles. A meeting of the Catholic Truth Society seems haidly a suitable occasion for recriminations which even antagonists, io the weekly battle of newspapjr lite, are careful to avoid. Yet we read in a report of the proceedings at ihe halfyearly meeting of the society, that Lady Herbert of Lea proclaimed in her epeich to those assembled that the Tablet is of no use, and that no good thing comes oat of it. One person, at least, we gather had a hearty •' hear, hear," and a laugh of ready approval. Now, the Bishop of Salford, who is the president of the Truth Society, is also the owner of the Tails t . Had he been in London, instead of' in Rome, on Wednesday, sth November, the situation might, one imagines, have been a little strained. There used to be a wild'story that Lady Herbert herself had a sort <f censorship over what appeared in the Tahlet, pepeciaily the theology I Her assault of Wednesday will, at least, dispel a myth which is said to have taken deep root in great cities such as Manchester.