THE GOLDEN RULE

New Zealand Tablet, 12 June 1919, Page 18

THE GOLDEN RULE

Most Rev. Dr. Moeller, Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., speaking in that city recently, said; In the reconstruction of the Old World now being effected at Paris, Ireland’s rights must be vindicated, if the Peace Conference is not to be the veriest kind of a farce, a delusion and a snare. The “self-deter-mination of peoples’ - ’ is a happy phrase. It epitomises for nations the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.’,’ It is eloquent in diction, and pregnant with meaning. It is music in the ears of everyone who loves his neighbor as himself. Its notes were born in the travail of the world. The fingers of suffering had pressed upon the keys of humanity, and the chord of brotherhood responded to the touch. “One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.” And our illustrious President, God bless him ! heard the music, and wrote for it the immortal words, “the self-determination of peoples, small as well as largo, is our aim in this war.” Let us hope that the principle of this proposition will be put into beneficent practice in the case of Ireland.