PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 208, 31 August 1918, Page 6

PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.

(Puhlisl)cd by Arrangnmcnt.)

THE WAR AGAINST WOMF/N". IV. I-VRTHER I'HASKS: OKANUE '• SE TEMERKS." OPEN LKTTER No. li. To the REV. HOWARD ELLIOTT, the (iRANT) ORAN'OE LOIK3B, and tlic DOMINION KXKCUTIVB OF THE POLITICAL ASSOCIATION, which derives its ORICIN, FWANCE, AIMS. AND POLICY FROM TUB GHAND ORANGE LODGE.

■REV. SIX., SIRS,—Tn your statements about the "NX TKMERK' , decree on Catholic and Catholic "mixed" marriages, you have displayed your usual lamentable DISREGARD of' TRTTH. You have, till September ">. an inducement of .C.->OO for the KF.D CROSS if you prove in OPKN COURT, against Rishop (leary, your LEOALIjY ABSURD dcelaration that the -NX TEMERK" Decree of IOOS is A ItRKACII (W -'THE LAW OF TUB LAND." An additional

III'NDRKO TOVN'DS (also contributed by frk-nds) will be paid to the RKD CROSS KINDS.-as a fine or penalty, if you PKOVE what you arc CIiALLKXfiBD to prove hercuuder, in regard to what may be called ORANGE -NX TEMBRES" tts being created, or executed, or favoured by your Irish secret society or its political allies.

1. Turn to the terrible record of organised ONSLAUKHTS upon the SANCTITY AND THE ItOND OK ( HItISTIAN MAHRIACE perpetrated by the ORANGE LODGES during the second of the several ORANGE REIGNS OK TKRROR in Ireland. The lurid facts are here, as told l>y contemporary PROTESTANT STATESMEN nnd " othere, and by PROTESTANT HISTORIANS. PROVE that, in the la<t 120 years of Western European history, there hoe ever been so ruthless and criminal a WAR AIJ.MNST WOMEN. (".Moral well-being!" " Equal rights for all!")

-'. Till IH.lli an English law rendered ALL .MARRIAC.ES UK CATHOLIC COI'PLKS AMONi: THEMSELVES, AND OK MMKKOCS PROTESTANT COUPLES AMONi; TIIKMSELVES, N'LLL AM) VOID, and their issue leirallv illefritimate. if SUCH MARRIAGES WERE CELEBR.ATKn BY THEIR OWN CLERtJY. I'olitieians of every Protectant creed voted for the repeal of that law. (a) PROVE that ANY Urand Orange Lodpe ever OBJECTED to that law; and |b) PROVE that the ORA.VOK XIKMBKRS OF I'ARLIAMKNT VOTED KOI! ITS RKPKAL. ("Equal rights for all!" -Moral wellbeing!")

FELONY. 3. Till ISTO an Irish Mate law rendered the MARRIAGES OK NUMBERS OK CATHOLIC (0i1 , 1.K.S NCI.I, AND VOID (and their issue legally illegitimate). MERELY IiKCAISK." THESE MARRIAGES WERE CELEBRATED BY A CATHOLIC PRIEST. The same law (till repealed in 1870) .MADE THE CELEBRATING I'RIKST A KLLON and liable to TWO YEARS" IMPRISONMENT OK A KINK OK C.-.im. Politicians of every creed voted for the repeal of thrtt law. I'rove than ANY tirand Orange Lodge ever OH.IKITKD to that law; and (b) prove that the ORANGE members of Parliament voted for its repeal. ('Moral .well-being. , " ''Equal righte for all:")

ROYAL MARRIAGES. 4. The ROYAL MARRIAGE A(T OK 1 ~~- is in force to this hour. With some exceptions, it RKNDKRS NCLL AND VOID all marriages in the Royul Family contraetcl without the Sovereign's consent. This legislation forced Prince (ieorov of Wales very reluctantly to (AST ASIDE his relijfiouelv WKUDKU WIFE i Mrs. Kitzberbert. a (atholici, after nine years of happy marriage. and LEGALLY we,| another." And it declared D'K.ste ILLEGITIMATE and IN(AI'AIILK OK INHKRITIN't; the Sussex Dukedom and estates, although his TWO PROTESTANT PARENTS luiff bee,, MAKRJKD BY THEIR OWN CLERGYMAN. Prove that ANY (irnnd Orange lodac ever OIUK.CTK.D to that lefriehltion. or manifested sympathy with the DISCARDED WIKK or the BEGGARED HEIRS mentioned nhnve.. '.Moral wellbeinj;!" " Equal riirht.s for nil!")

COXSISTKNC , ! ? I 3. In inn, the Protestant Diacstab- j lished Church of Ireland ACAIN conscientiously DKCI.INKI), in Synod, to! CONFORM ITS CIU'RCH |..\\v w j tM . "the law of the land" illlOTl legalising i marriage with a 1)K( KASKI) \VIFK."N SISTEII. lal I'rove that ANY (irand Orange Lodge PROTKNTKI) against that refusal. (hi I'rove that ANY (irand Orange Lodge PROTESTKD against the same CONSCIENTIOUS RKKI'NAI, on the part of the -lews, and lc| against the same devoted people's ages—old Churcli legislation against the religious validity of any " miNeil " marriage by one of their faith. I forbear' reference t" American State laws rendering invalid (he marriages of whites with persons of Negro or Indian blood. I "Moral wellbeing!" '• Kuual rights for all!") A LODCiE "NX TEMERE. , ' R. Here are two Orange '"Ne Temere " rubw. which I have taken direct from an official copy of Orange " Laws and Constitutions," which are open to inspec"Anv member guilty of AN' 'AfX!KA VA T XI) <) VV KN ( k A(J AIN ST jRELIOfON OR MORALITY. OR OF HABITUAL URUXKKNNKSS. shall be LIA.KLK to expulsion." ■' Any member MAHRYINt! A ROMAN CATHOLIC SHALL BK EXPELLED." NOTK WKLL: The HABITUAL IDRLXKAKD and the "AU(TRAVATEI) " |tvpc of IMMORAL MAN may. under this "moral well-being" rule. REMAIN INiBKFIXrTKLY A MEMBER OF TIIK il-ODUK; hut the most HONOURABLE AND CLEAX-LIVTXO MAN who falls in love with a "Papist" and MARRIES her. MUST he expelled. PROVK that; THE MERE FACT of marriajie of a Catholic with a person of a different faith is thus penalised in the Catholic " Ne Temere" decree. 'Moral well-being!" " Equal rights for nil!" 7. Everyone acquainted with the history of Ireland since the rise of Orange- ! ism i> aware of the various direct and I indirect ways in which homes and I wedded Christian unions were broken up lon a vast scale, la) Prove that anr .Grand Orange Ixidse ever PROTESTED against those conditionß; and (b.) show I any period or occasion on which any Orand Lodge failed or refused io give these conditions its full support. This CHALLENGE is open till 10 a.m. on September SI, 191 R. JOHN BRF.NNAN, jLate Chaplain N.Z. Expeditionary ■ l'orves, Administrator St. Patrick's Cathedral. Auckland.