ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160724, 10 August 1920, Page 5

ARCHBISHOP MANNIX.

BALTIC AEEIYES OFF QUEENSTOWN THE .VESSEL STOPPED. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ■Received—August 10. 9.50 a.m. LONDON, August 9. Whether Archbishop Mannix lauds at Liverpool or not the Irish intend to make a great demonstration. Telegrams from Queenstown state that the Baltic arrived off the port at midnight, and stopped for an hour, while one of the convoying destroyers entered Queenstowu. The purpose is unknown. It is supposed the firemen struck. LANDED AT PENZANCE LONDON, August 9. A destroyer landed Archbishop Maunix at Penzance. STATEMENT BY MB BONAR LAW. Received August 10, 11.20 a.m. LONDON, August 9. . In the House of Commons, replying to Major Bearnes, Mr Bonar Law said the prohibition of Archbishop Mannix from landing in Ireland had been ordered by a. competent military authority there, acting under the Defence of the Realm Act regulations. TO DESTROY EMPIRE DU MANNIX’S OBJECTIVE. PRIME MINISTER'S SCAT IIING DENUNCIATION. WILL SMITE DISLOYALISTS DIP AND THICK. BENDIGO, July 26. ' The Prime Minister made a striking speech in Bendigo I own Hall on Saturday night at u meeting of the local branch of the National federation. He spoke with great vigour, and liorcely denounced the recent utterances of Dr Mannix in America. The British Empire, lie said, was sur-. rounded by enemies. It was being attacked by Bolshevism, Sinn Ecinism, and Germanism. The British .Empire was a League of Nations, bound together by ties of blood and race. If they broke Britain they broke us. “1 care not,” said the Prime Minister, ‘‘what they think of England as England, but I am concerned as to what the effect of that will be to Australia. It means the death of us, and because of that 1 will smite them hip and thigh.” (Loud cheers). As to Dr Mannix, whoever he represented, he did not represent Austraia, and when he said the sentiments he uttered were supported by the bulk of the people, of Australia then he said that which was not time. (Renewed cheers). In the last lew years they haul been under no illusion at all about him, and they knew that he had only one objective, .and that was the destruction of the Empire, or, at any rate, a republic in Ireland. I have always been a Homo Ruler. I am not going to sav Ireland has not had grievances, but 1 am irrevocably opposed to a republic in Ireland. (Loud cheers). I will fight it tooth and nail by every means in ray power, because, I say, that it moans the dismemberment of the Empire, and the dismemberment ■of the Empire means the destruction of Australia. Archbishop Mannix went to America after having figured here very prominently during the election campaign. He said throughout that his tour iya.fi not a political one, that he was going to the Vatican. If the archbishop was gohm to the Vatican what was he doin America ? Was that the nearest way to Italy? “We are not concerned at all with the archbishop as such. Our quarrel with him has not got anything to do with religion. (Cheers). We have, thank God. in our ranks very many loyal Roman Catholics, and wo have lived in peace and harmony, and we always did live in peace and harmony until he came here. His predecessor was a Christian —(Cheers) —■ but tins man, this High Priest oi the Church of the Prince of Peace, goes to America on a ‘non-political’ mission, and lie says that his one hope is that England and America will be enemies, and that Ireland will fight England, and that America will fight England. If that hope is realised we shall see a war the like, of which the world’ has never seen. We shall see the, destruction of the only bulwark of peace that exists for this country. The hope of peace in this "world lies not in the League of Nations, but in that firm alliance, understanding, and co-opcra-Tiou which has existed for over a hundred years between America and Britain and the British Empire. The hope of the world lies in the closer association of the Anglo-Saxon race. (Cheers). That man, therefore, who seeks to make bad blood between the British Empire and America is a criminal. (Loud cheers). “If it is necessary to choose between the Kaiser and him as to whom was the greater criminal, I know whom I should choose. The Kaiser was pushed into this, but he went into it of his own free will. (Cheers). Dr Mannix is your enemy, and shall be your enemy for all time. By these words he stands condemned as \a minister of Christ. (Cheers). He stands condemned as a man who said his mission was not a political one.” Let them show him in those words one thing that savoured of the doctrine of Christ; one thing that any minister dare speak from the pulpit! It seemed to him that there was a man who had gone out under the guise of an archbishop to foment war between England and America. His mission was political in essence. He was there at' the right hand of de Valera, wtio, during' the war, said that Germany was their friend, and that the only hope for Ireland was the German invasion of England. That was the man who in 1917 said:—-“I speak not,.as a priest, but as an honest, loyal citizen,” and that was the man, to?,'"whose machinations broke the Labour Party, that was the man who stood behind, fomented and directed all that cataract of hatred'which was directed against him and all such men as him. The Prime Minister said he wanted to say to the American people that Dr. Mannix was not representative of the people of Australia. Dr. Mannix stood out for what he was. He was a Sinn Feiner, a man who, under the garb of a priest, carried the baton of a political agitator, to debase his high position for a base purpose. The people of Australia looked to America for a continuance of those cordial relations which had always existed between America and Australia. We wanted to do business with America. Wc realised that her destiny and ours coincided in the Pacific, and we wanted her to help us in the Pacific. Continuing, Mr Hughes said that.