A FAULT TO FIND.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1074, 13 March 1911, Page 4

A FAULT TO FIND.

BRITAIN AND THE WORD "HOME," "I have ono fault to find with .you colonials in New Zealand and Australia, or rather with you who are sous of English and Irish colonists," said tho Right Rev. Monsignor Fowler, of Sioux City (United Slates), at tho Sacred Heart Church, Hill Street, last night. He went on to, say that ho had heard the word '.'homo" so 'much since he had been in. the country in its relation to tho Motherland. Ho would not have them disloyal, and not lovo England and Ireland, but if they.wcro born New Zealanders. they should be New Zealanders; or if they were born Australians, they should be Australians. That camo first, England'was not their homo; Ireland was not their home. Their home was where they wero born, and whero they lived and intended to live. "Build up a nationality of your own," he said, "and be New Zealanders to the very fibre of your heart; not that vou should bo ono whit less a truo and loyal subject. Hut this is your home." In America, the Monsignor proceeded, they had bocomo a great nationality because they had said they were Americana from the first. They wero of American birth, and therefore wero Americans; and they stood up for the Stars and Stripea first, and then, aud then only, for tho country from which they came. He ad- v mitted tho difference in America and tho colonics in the relationship with the Old Country; but still he had found the samo spirit ill Canada as in the United States. "Wo the Mother Country if you would; but bo colonials and New Zealanders first; don't bo tacked on to anyone, and then you will become a great pooplo liko tho United States."