THE FLAG OF JUSTICE

New Zealand Tablet, 10 December 1914, Page 51

THE FLAG OF JUSTICE

The editor of the Denver Cat'll olio Register, whose name (O’Ryan) indicates the source to which he traces his life-stream, declared some time ago that while he is not affected with any undying partiality or love for England, still, to give England her due, he is constrained to print a story told by a prominent Erench-Canadian politician ; Two years ago (says M. Lemieux) I was in Rome, at the time of the execution of Ferrer, the Socialist. There was a rising all over Europe. For many days riot ruled in many cities. In Paris, Rome, Madrid, thousands of citizens attacked the Catholic Ambassadors because a Catholic country had executed a Socialist. I went to see a great Canadian in Rome, Abbe Clapin,' of the Seminary of St, Sulpice. I crossed the street, passing through ranks of soldiers and rioters. I asked him: ‘Don’t you fear these attacks against religion ?’ He went out and pointed to the dome and said : ‘ The cross is protected by the flag of England, and no rioter would dare touch the cross while the British flag floats over it.’ It is a flag symbolising tolerance, and power!