Wanted, an 'Organiser.'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 14 May 1903, Page 18

Wanted, an ' Organiser.'

When Alice cried because of the sheer loneliness of Look-ing-glass Land, the Queen wrung her own hands in despair. ' Oh, don't go on like that ! ' she cried. ' Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come to-day. Consider what o'clock it is Consider anything, only don't cry ! ' The Fraternity of the Saffron Sash are very busy just now patching their grief with proverbs and ' considerations ' They have lost their prop, their staff, their chief organiser— the poor, hapless Margaret L. Shepherd. Her campaign of ' organising work ' on behalf of the lodges was to have opened in New South Wales during the present month. It has now to be abandoned, greatly to tho regret of the brethren. , But they need not despair. Ihere are, pe.nhaps, in his Majesty's prisons in these countries a few non-Catholic criminals of as deep a dye as the unhappy adventuress who, we hope, repented in time and went to the Better Land. They— or some of them— would, no doubt, when released, bo willing to turn a dishonest penny by ' exposing Rome ' at so much per ' expose.' And it seems undemocratic, unpatriotic, and unfair to import Eaiglish and American criminals to do this work, while there are, among our prison population and ' soiled doves ' of the goal-bird order, importers sufficiently versatile and foul-mouthed to pose as ' ex-nuns '- for a share in the profits at ' front seats one shilling back seats sixpence.'