THE IRISH BISHOPS AND IRELAND’S RIGHTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLVI, Issue 18, 1 May 1919, Page 38

THE IRISH BISHOPS AND IRELAND’S RIGHTS.

v-hx-The” members'' of the Irish Hierarchy in their Lenten Pastorals protest forcibly against the misgovern-' ment of which their ; . country is. the ; victim (says the London Catholic Times). ..One after the other they remark on the contrast between the language of British Ministers during the war about small nations and the Government’s , actual policy in Ireland - “We are not ruled,” says Cardinal Logue, ; “by the ordinary law, but are subject to a drastic military code under which actions otherwise harmless or trivial become grave offences and are pitilessly punished.” “Our people.” declares the Most Rev. Dr.... Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, “are now shut out by law from the employment of methods of seeking redress,, regarded as constitutional in the past. It would be unreasonable and indeed impossible to expect that they can long rest content with such a state of things.” A number of the Bishops write with indignation of the calumny and oppression which are Ireland’s reward for the heroic deeds of her sons in the war and express the conviction that there can be no lasting peace unless her rights are granted. The Hierarchy are manifestly at one with the people in supporting the national claim for selfdetermination.