DISLOYALTY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 7

DISLOYALTY.

A REPUDIATION BY CARDINAL MOBAN., "NO ONE BUT A FOOL." FORCEFUL ADVICE TO SEPARATISTS. ST TKLEGEAPH—tnZSS ASSOCIATION —CDr7BIGHT y i Sydney, May 18. Sp'eaking at the Hibernian Soeicty breakfast, 'Cardinal Moran'said that twenty-three ago hd ventured the opinion that no one but a fool oould bo disloyal In Australia* ■ Hd was fcOnsoious at the present tlmo that the -statement hold gobd to-day. He would • even go ■ further and say that if. we had , soiiie' fools in -Australia, ovkn they in their dreams would - not bo guilty of disloyalty. Tho roason was that'we had the most perfect freedom-citizens could , aspire to. '• There some people in Homo coun.'l tries, ' continued His Emir.once, who : could not realise or understand what Australian - interest's - meant His idea was that Canada and' 1 -Australia :Were the wings of the EmJjirSi"'When soaring into thb highest flights tHb'Strength of the eaglo was' in its wings. . If -thoy desirfd that, the'eiJgle of the-Empire • wbiild soar aloft thoy : must strengthen the wings; if the wings were clipped, the eagle ■ fell to .the ground.. If they were truo to • tho Empire, they Would do their utmost to the fesdiirces of Australia, and make the wings; Canada and Australia, as perfect 6§ they could ha made. . .....

- If■ AtiStraha were, dissociated from the. Eiripife to-morrow we. should bo havmgj Said the Spakef'). perhaps not la friendly, visit . from thoAtnericanfleet, but, one;frdm 60m6 otlier- fleet ; which would spread rum and - desolation - through the land. Concluding, the Cdfdihdl .said that ,he >was sure every Hibernian- present \vould, . with tie other loy&l .citizens, do all they; could to strengthen tlfd. imposition of

CardinalvLogue, according to a; cabled, sumiiidrV;, of ..an American interview,■' said he saw signs of. a dissolution of the Empire, and referred ..to. '.'a: rebellious feeling in Australia, and' itb- New Zealand's indifference; : Dean Phelan,. of Molbourne,. throws doubt on tho •accuracy ( of. the report. .- . - ... >.