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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16925, 10 August 1918, Page 9

3 (Published by Arrangement.) 3 I J THE PROTESTANT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION. THE WAR AGAINST WOMEN 8 ° A DEAD NUN*; LIME PITS, ETa f e " EQUAL RIGHTS." e 0 OPEN" LETTER No. in. ■ To the REV. HOWARD ELLIOTT, 'fiTR GRAND ORANGE LODGE, and tho POLITICAL ASSOCIATION, which officially owes its origin, finance, and policy to the GRAND ORANGE 1 LODGE,a r Rov. Sir. Sirs,- During the present v great J rug);! i'. rival political parties in - allied countries have called a truce and v patriotically UNITED to WIN THE WAR. The Grand Orange Lodge and its Political Association are. on the contrary, carrying on the Lodge's customary campaign 3 of aggravated HATRED. STRIFE, AND _ DISSENSION ii! the worst crisis of tho ' war. In tl.is evil and unpatriotic work that Irish Secret Smir-tv depends in part upon ORGANISED DEFAMATION' by [ means of bogus or misunderstood "cation law," bog U :i "Papist oaths" of a bloodthirsty and murderous kind, etc. Rut now, as ever, the CHIEF DEPENDANCE , °f that underground organisation is a WAR AGAINST WOMEN t -DEAD WOMEN, UNNAMED LIVING WOMEN, RUT WAV'S WOMEN. 3 WOMEN, WOMEN. And the defamation j became all the bolder and more reckless, } because the NATURAL PROTECTORS of our slandered womanhood were largely 3 AWAY ._ AT the war of men AGAINST .MEN, lighting and dying. " FACTS." | It was part of this odious WAP. OF MEN AGAINST WOMEN that tho OFFICIALLY CONCOCTED LETTERS, • alleging unchastity, massacre of innocents, burials in lime pits, etc., should be de- ' scribed as " FACTS," whioh thev wera 3 ready to PROVE "IF THE OCCASION : ARISES." Wo wera, furthermore to.d that we had our remedy in the. COURTS OF LAW. We showed the Irish Secr.-t Society and its Political Association how they could quite easily enable their allegations to be TESTED IN A COURT OF LAW. We " called" their BOLD BLUFF by CHALLENGING them to produce their alleged " FACTS" IN OPEN COURT —with an inducement of ELEVEN HUNDRED POUNDS for THE RED CROSS, it they established their "FACTS." But they BOLDLY RAN AWAY, ' and thereby admitted themselves to bo > DEFAMERS OF GOOD WOMEN. Inci- < dentally, they LOST £2300, cumulatively, to tho RED CROSS FUNDS. And . among all those VALIANT ANTI- ' | WOMAN WARRIORS, THERE IS NOT ' ONE WITH A SUFFICIENT SENSE 1 OF MANHOOD AND OF HONOUR TO • WITHDRAW EVEN THE HEARTI LESS, CONCOCTED ALLEGATIONS i MADE OFFICIALLY BY" THEM i AGAINST A SAINTLY DEAD GIRL, ' AND TO LET HER UNSPOTTED REi | MAINS REST PEACEABLY IN IHE • j GRAVE. - " EQUAL RIGHTS." | In all the Empire's vast extent, there l is probably no other society capable of | standing before the public ana boldly I declaring that this campaign of bate and j ftrife and LOATHSOME DEFAMATION I OF WOMEN has for it 3 real object the ' promotion of " EQUAL RIGHTS," tho » 1 abolition of " PRIVILEGE." and the im- ,: provenient of THE MORAL WELL- . j BEING" of the public. You were J PUBLICLY CHALLENGED to make I good this grotesque FAIRY TALE. But ' I once again you ; BOLDLY RAN AWAY I I and forfeited FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS .! TO THE RED CROSS FUNDS. Your , Irish Secret Society DARED NOT FACE ITS HISTORY 1 1 as told in its rules, in Government Blue \i Books, in the works of mainly Protestant ' I historians, etc. Explain, if you can :— ; l 1. (a) How are " EQUAL RIGHTS " ! promoted by an Irish Secret Society established and sworn to maintain its own 'i party ASCENDANCY, and to exclude all '' others from Parliament, - tho judicial '• Bench, the public service, and officerships in the army end navy? (b) Howaro EQUAL RIGHTS promoted by that part of the ritual of" the Orange degree which directs the new " brother " as to how he must vote? (c) How aro " EQUAL RIGHTS" promoted by tho huge quasi-monopolv of place and pay in ■Ireland, and especially in the Orange regions of Ulster? The figures are here. BROKEN ALLEGIANCE. 2. How are "EQUAL RIGHTS" pre. moted by an Irish Secret Society winch, BY THE EXPRESS TERMS 'OF ITS OATH, so long RELEASED, ALL ITS MEMBERS FROM ALLEGIANCE TO THE KING THE MOMENT HE CEASED TO "MAINTAIN" THE ORANGE-TORY ASCENDANCY? 3. Was it to maintain " EQUAL RIGHTS " that this Irish Secret Society vehemently— too often under arms | and with (he threat of armed rebellion— opposed the extension of popular liberties, such as those mentioned in my last Open | Letter? And are the hideous sweating i conditions of Belfast another sign of the Orange Society's devotion to " EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL "? " SOME JUSTICE." 4. Was it because of tho Orange Society's devotion to "EQUAL RIGHTS" 'hat the King and Parliament, in 1855, had to RID THE CIVIL SERVICE, THE j MAGISTRACY, AND THE POLICE of I all members of that Secret Society? And was it for the same cause that even I DUBLIN CASTLE had to take similar I action, then and at a much later period, |in regard to THE POLICE AND JUSTICES OF THE PEACE? 5. Was it, to promote " EQUAL RIGHTS " that — immediately after Catholic Emancipation and Parliamentary Reform—the Orange Lodges armed and drilled and got ready some THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN, AND CORRUPTED THE FIDELITY OF FORTY-TWO REGIMENTS OF THE ARMY? And was it unpatriotic opposition to " EUI'AL RIGHTS '' that forced I the British Crown and Parliament to SUPPRESS THE ORANGE LODGES AS A "BANEFUL AND UNCHRISTIAN" ORGANISATION AND AN URGENT MENACE TO THE EMPIRE, and to apnea! to ALL "LOYAL SUBJECTS to ud in the work of suppression? It is high time that the Governments of the Overseas Dominions should INVESTIGATE the SECRET PURPOSES, AND THE SOURCES OF ORGANISATION AND OF FINDS, of these organised campaigns of HATE AND DISCORD AND oTRIFE that are being carried out bv this "BANEFUL AND UNCHRISTIAN'' organisation in the CRISIS OF THE WAR. In the AT SOX and other cases, know what UNITED STATES COURTS said in regard to a similar movement there. And it is, furthermore, high time that investigation should be made of the activities of this " baneful and unchristian" secret society in tho Public Service of this Dominion. Other phases of this Irish Secret Society's odious and unmanly WAR AGAINST WOMEN and of its' OTHER METHODS, PAST AND PRESENT, will bo dealt with by way of CHALLENGE, or in such other way as occasion may hereafter seem to demand. JOHN BRENNAN, • Chaplain N.Z. Expeditionary Forces, .strator St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland. i \