A Warning Lesson

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 40, Issue 40, 1 October 1903, Page 18

A Warning Lesson

They are wise men who learn lessons of prudence irom the follies and blunders of their neighbors. « One thorn of experience,' says Lowell, 'is worth a whole wilderness of warning.' And there is in the dire experience of the persecuted Catholics of France one lesson which their co-religionists out on the rim of the world in New Zealand may well take to heart. It is a nonCatholic French journalist who points the moral and adorns the tale. < Had you been subscribers to the Catholic press,' says he, ' had you put some of your money, say half a million of francs (£20,000) into it, you would not now be the victims of spoliation and injustice, for your^ organs would have been disseminated through town and Village, and would have brought the justice of your cause under the eyes of millions of voters who are now poisoned against you and become the tools of your oppressors.'