ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 1 November 1917, Page 13

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

-"■"rCr r,9 s \ l 3i -- ? I 3;^ v | -?i || yt;;,„., .. v Wi.F.H. Thanks for story will publish when possible. F.R.—ldeas good but versification poor. - Nemo. The voting on the Amendment' 1 winch secures • the Brothers ■ was 1 certainly • ; indicative' ; that *it • was largely a party question. '3 - Even if the parties were a v nit - intermingled there ! was one distinction obvious: the brains— Ward, Carroll; Findlay,' etc.-, ■'voted for it ; the bigots— Jimmy, Nos worthy, etc. / —against■ it; ; - : v * ’ • 5 , ■,uihu^^i Reader. Don t worry about the" Otago 1 Daily Times. Have you been reading it so long without : apprais- ! ing the value of its opinions on anything under the sun? “Givis” is a living proof of its unfairness and crass ignorance. Reading any. editorial in' the Times will convince you that, notwithstanding its antiquity, it has hardly come to the use of reason yet. Fvery time it ’ touches on Irish affairs f it strenuously maintains the very principles of Utilitarianism, for which it condemns Germany. It probably pays to insult Irishmen and Catholics. Perhaps it is old age; but that is a charitable view. Anyhow it is good on pigs. u, If; “Givis” confined himself to them exclusively there might be a future ■’• before him. .■ • i, v .v, ■{. ’,.*v Celt. We have seen George Russell’s pen-name spelled in- two ways. We used to spell it “A.E.” until it was pointed out to us that we were wrong, and we saw it spelled “HU.” Later, however, in one of his own books, published by Maunsell, we find our first impression was correct. Rome and the War. —No Catholic society ever had an oath to “burn, destroy, arid murder all heretics U P to ray knees in blood,” etc., etc., and no Catholic could take such an oath 1 without being held guilty of grave sin. It is lamentable that after all Luther’s glorious work for ’ enlightenment arid progress, so many believe such’ lies. ‘ That men do devote their lives to blackening the Catholic Church by ’ the manufacture ‘of their libels l is a proof of her divinity, when you consider that these men are usually of the same blackguardly type as Howard Elliott, the calumniator of the dead. ; Did’ it ever strike you that no religious body of bigots ever meets without denouncing Rome and its ways, while the Catholics go on their way, minding theft own business, and trying to promote the . love j of God and man in the world? “B|y their fruits” ; on the one hand the promotion of hatred and strife on the other charity. There will always be people • who would commit murder for a living ; there will , also be a lower class who will live by spreading just ’ such lies as the one you : refer to. *>•! . .;; h.sk.-l-hut 11. Cassidy. —The poem,“Dark Donegal,” was received from Mr. James Coneglin, Pihama, Taranaki. , i-n.r Query. A certain fat old German woman begged her 1 . British Ministers to let the Kaiser have Heligoland and there were tears in her eyes when she prayed * that Germany might not be molested when seizing l on Schleswig-Holstein. ’ Chickens do come home -to roost. War was declared on the twenty-fourth anniversary of the cession of Heligoland. ' ’ ; ; 1