An Apt Description

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 08, 8 October 1908, Page 9

An Apt Description

' Statistical delirium tremens ' is the apt description given by the Melbourne Tribune to a series of preposterously absurd figures which assert that 95 per cent, of American criminals profess the Catholic religion, and that from 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 persons have ' defected ' from 'the ' Romish ' Church in the United States. ' Statistical delirium tremens *!s a much neater fit for such ludicrous assertions than the term 'fabrication,' for 1 fabrication ' does not necessarily connote irrationality. It is, perhaps, sufficient to say that these droll ' statistics ' are the latest of tho long series of very pretty mare's nests discovered by the Grand Master of the Victorian brethren of the Saffron Sash— Mr. Snowball, and that he is the same Mr. Snowball who, some years ago, declared in a letter to the Rev. H. BrideBarber published in the Riponshire Advocate (Beaufort, Victoria) that there is no need whatever to substantiate by proof statements reflecting or the ' Romish ' Church, when such statements are made on so important an occasion as the Twelfth of July !