A FAULT TO FIND.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 64, 16 March 1911, Page 6

A FAULT TO FIND.

BRITAIN ANT) THE WORD

"HOME."

"I have one fault to find with you colonials in Now Zealand and Australia, or rather with you who are sons of English and Irish colonists." said the Right Rev. Monsignor Fowler, of Sioux City (United States), at the Sacred Heart Church. Hill Street, on Sunday night (reports The He went on to say that ha had heard the word "home" so much, since he had been in the country in its relation to the Motherland. He would not have them disloyal, and not love England and Ireland; but if they were born New Zealanders they should bo New Zealanders; or if they were born Australians, they should be Australians. That came first, England was not their home; Ireland was not their home. Their home was where they were born, and where 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 you should be one whit less a true and loyal subject. But this is your home." In America, the Monsignor proceeded, they had become a great nationality because they had said they were Americans from the first. They were of American birth, and therefore were Americans; and they stood up for the Stars and Stripes first, and then, and then only, for the country from which they came. He admitted1 the difference in America and the colonies in the relationship with the Old Country : but still he had found the same spirit in Canada as in the United States. "Love the Mother Country if you would; but be colonials and New Zealanders first; don't be tacked on to anyone, and then you will become * ? reat people like the United States.