THE ORANGEMEN AGAIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 309, 21 March 1879, Page 17

THE ORANGEMEN AGAIN.

The Orangemen have come to the front in Manitoba. They have insulted a Catholic priest, broke into his house, and conducted themselves m general in such a manner as to bring upon them the censure • ?l wel^meaning citizens. It appears that there was an election in the Prairie Province. There were, as we learn, three candidates, and before the election the nomination of two of them was declared to be informal. The election day came, and the third candidate was declared elected because he alone had conformed to the law. The two candidates who were ruled out were Protestants, and the gentleman who was elected without opposition was a Catholic. The Orangemen declared that tha election was a fraud ; they broke into the Pllfcsts house, where the successful gentleman was stopping, attacked the priest, broke the furniture, and, in general, behaved as madmen. What men mean by conduct such as this it is not easy to determine, and what the English press of Canada means by keeping silence on this outrage is more strange still. We have purposely kept quiet in order to see if there was one English-speaking paper in the country fair enough to condemn the conduct of the Orangemen. But if we waited for ever it appears that not one of our contemporaries would speak out. Now, suppose a Protestant clergymen was outraged thus, would the press have been silent 1 We have no desire to add to the bitter feeling which already exists, but the poor policy of silence is not the way to remedy a wrong. If a Protestant clergymen had been outraged, we would have had our say in denouncing the rowdies : and if the English speaking press of Canada desire the peace they profess so much, then it is time they gave us proof of it.— True Witness.