REPLY TO DR. WATTERS, S.M.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 16, 12 August 1887, Page 11

REPLY TO DR. WATTERS, S.M.

TO THE EDITOB N.Z. TABLET. Sib, — I am obliged to you for your foot-note to Dr. Watters' letter in your last issue ; it is as you tell him. Whilst on this matter I crave space for a few remarks. I hold that professors who arc not Bound on Irish National aff airs, should not have the care of boys whose parents are Irish Catholics, at the Wellington College. As a parent, I desire to obtain from Dr. Redwood, who wrote co nicely regarding the patriotism of the professors, a public assurance that the boys entrusted to Mb cars at the College will be taught the trae story of Ireland's wrongs both past and present, not cursorily, but in a well and faithfully grounded manner, so that when their time comes to be the leaders of the people they may be able to give a proper account of our cause. I wished to obtain the assurance through your valuable columns on the ground that it is openly stated that the said professors of the Marist Order have a desire to eradicate any Irish national tendencies that may show themselves in the boys. I have just seen a leading article in th« Bruce Herald of the 26th July, which goes far to confirm this statement. Ido not intend to send my boys to such an institution, you may rest assured, until Dr. Redwood speaks out plainly and sets at rest the doubts very many Irish Catholic parents have regarding this, to them, very important matter, and who were arranging to send then boys to the College under his care. This is a very serious difficulty. The remarks of Dr. Watters, S.M., about my flippancy I let pass for what they are worth.— l am, etc., Cabhel.