THE WAR, POLITICIANS, AND OTHERS.

New Zealand Tablet, 23 August 1917, Page 18

THE WAR, POLITICIANS, AND OTHERS.

To the Editor. The Tablet has had the temerity to quote a passage from Dr. O’Dwyer Pastoral protesting against the policy of cultivating a blind, unreasoning, and unreasonable hatred of everything German, and insinuating that perhaps the German considered he had right on his side just as we considered we had right on our side. The Tablet should have known that such a quotation would have pained Mr. Nosworthy, M.P., who does not believe in the practice of charity, but whose bosom swells with righteous indignation and hatred of the Germans and everything German. When Mr. Nosworthy has the job in hand might he not also arraign President Wilson, who in his war speech said, “We have no quarrel with the German people, we have no feeling towards them but one of friendship and sympathy. We are glad to fight for the liberation of the German people. Docs not this seem to indicate that President Wilson is using language which is tainted with sedition ! If a Cork jury managed to bring in a verdict of wilful murder against the Kaiser is there not a reasonable hope that Mr. Nosworthy could have President Wilson sent to gaol for sedition ? If President Wilson is fighting for the German people then he is not our ally- If he were an ally he would be preaching hatred of the Germans like Nosworthy, whose patriotism and allied propensities cannot be questioned. Like Mark Twain “I’m perturbed’’ over the international political situation. France is beginning to think that perhaps President Wilson is a Jesuit in disguise. It would be just a Jesuit’s game to fight for (ho Kaiser. lias not the Kaiser the Jesuits under his control: or is he their superior 'general ? Evidently he is not rigidly attached to one religious Order of the Catholic Church, for I see by the papers that just before the war broke out he robed himself in the garb of a Franciscan and consecrated a Catholic church in Palestine! It’s a tough proposition this of locating the Jesuits. We used to think the Kaiser was a Lutheran, but he must be a Jesuit or a Franciscan. A fair amount of evidence could be adduced to show that General Sir William Robertson is a Jesuit in disguise. I have a strong suspicion, too, though I have only circumstantial evidence for my conclusions, that Rev. Howard Elliott is also a Jesuit in disguise. He is starting a campaign of bigotry that must have the effect of knitting more closely together those who are the victims of his attack. He is an organiser of the Orange lodges, but no doubt he is paid by the Jesuits as an organiser as well. His campaign will drive all honest and fair-minded men into sympathy with Catholics, as only a few of Howard Elliott’s audience will be so impressed with bis arguments as to believe that the Pope and not the Kaiser caused the war. Hence I say that Howard Elliott needs watching, for clearly he is an emissary of the Jesuits, and in the secret service of the Vatican, the Pope of course not being particular about his agents so long as they serve his ends.—l am, etc., , James McManus.