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New Zealand Tablet, 8 June 1911, Page 1058

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A Comparison A Protestant Bishop (remarks the Sacred Heart lieview) writing of Mexico, says;—‘.Of all the American mining and smelting companies delving after gold and silver in Mexico, not one, so far as I am able to learn, has placed here an institution of any kind -for the intellectual, moral, social, or spiritual betterment of the people. The Spaniards did better than that.’ Mr Asquith and Home Rule As the cables informed us, an Amendment to exclude Home Pule from the operations of the Veto Bill was defeated on Monday, April 24, by 284 to 190 votes. In the course of the debate on this proposal, Mr. Asquith gave perhaps the most explicit statement-of.-his intentions in regard to Home Rule which "he has ever yet made. In announcing that the Veto Bill was a means to an end, and that end Horae Rule for Ireland, the Prime Minister said; —‘I have never concealed from the country, and not only have I never concealed from the country but I have explicitly stated to the country in the clearest possible terms before the election. took place, that if the electors gave us a mandate to pass this Bill we should rise the machinery created by this Bill, and use it in this Parliament, for the purpose of carrying out Home Rule.’ On this Mr. Balfour said that Mr* Asquith ‘has never before approached the nakedness of this avowal.’ False Representation . _ A . Socialist sheet published in Auckland has been printing a series of articles entitled 1 The Catholic Church and Socialism ’; and it has printed them as being ‘By Father Thomas McGrady.’ The plain implication was that the writer was a recognised Catholic priest, in full communion with, and of good standing in, the Catholic Church. The other day, as the outcome of an utterance by the Rev. Dean Hackett, the Socialist paper came forward with a statement of facts regarding McGrady— according to which it is alleged that he was pastor, of tire Catholic Church of St. Anthony’s, in Bellevue, Kentucky ; that he adopted and expounded Socialism as the teaching that ‘ embodied the ethics of Jesus that he was called upon to retract these views; but that, rather than do this, he ‘resigned the charge and left the priesthood and the Church in which he had been reared.’ In other words — accepting the Socialist paper’s statements, in the meantime, as accurate—McGrady, owing to his refusal to give up preaching Socialism as being virtually identical with Christianity, was put out of the Church. Thus, on its own showing, is the Socialist

paper convicted of deliberate dishonesty. It knew the facts; yet it deliberately gave its readers the impression that . the writer of the articles to which we have referred was a Catholic priest, in full communion with the Church; and it would have continued the misrepresentation had not McGrady’s bona fides been called in question. We cannot imagine any intelligent Catholic reading the paper in question; but if it has any Catholic readers we commend to them a couplet contained in its own columns, in the issue for May 26 ; He who deceives you once, Shame on him; He who deceives you twice, Shame on you! .