ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 17 July 1919, Page 21

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

E.J.B. Thanks fox' cutting. We have dropped the ghoul. “W.” (Wjndhanx).—We have the balance sheet and we can read. There is some amusing writing off in it. We have also evidence of the soldiers— Protestant .. and Catholic. W. M. H. Doctors differ on the question of “Twilight Sleep.’ There are dangers, but many medical men hold that they may be obviated by skill and care, and that there are good results to make up for the risks. As to Christian Science, it is a different - thing altogether. It is based on a system which denies a personal God, the Divinity of Christ and the Trinity. Reader. ’ The final schism between Greece and Rome took place in the eleventh century. The orthodox Greeks deny the primacy and infallibility of the Pope, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son, and the Immaculate Conception. In 'matters of discipline the chief differences are that the Greeks use leavened bread for the Holy Sacrifice and do not insist on clerical celibacy. Of course they have valid Orders and Sacraments. “Eitiine.”— Yes indeed ! Snobs and other weak-minded persons think it is respectable to wonder why those Irish should ask John Bull to keep his word. For out-and-out Jingoes this would be logical. They put the Empire first and frankly admit that evervthing is justified that helps ’to build up “our power." But when people who have the Catholic faith, and know that they owe it to Ireland, ah' similar views we can only say that either their faith is very weak or else their mind is not robust enough to qualify them to go about unattended. Snobs, God help us, yes! and some of them are not only respectable but (in their own estimation) religious. If you cannot laugh at them, as we judge from the tone of your letter, try praying fox them. What they want most is conversion to ( Catholicism for they hare lost Catholic principles. Democrat. Saying that a thing is so does not affect facts, and the facts that are in possession are supported hy common sense. In the old Roman Law, which is the basis of all that is sound in modern law, Occupation, Accretion, Delivery, and Specification were sound titles to property. Thus, although in the natural state all belonged to all in the abstract, the fix's! comer acquired a right to land which he took up or occupied, and justice forbade another disturb him. The Marxian theory of value will not stand examination. It is contrary to common sense. If the people—as the peopleacquired a right of occupation the land was theirs. Put a common waiting to be occupied was not the people’s until they actually occupied it R. OTI.—No, there was never anything like it anywhere. No pagan country, no barbarians, no Huns ever got together such a gang as the men who rule Ireland. Take a few of them Mr. George publicly notorious as a pledge-breaker, as a traitor to his friends, as a clever jobber who will give billets -to men who trade with British enemies ,in wartime, for—of course—reasons best known to himself: Carson on whose head is the blood-guilt of 1916, who trafficked with the Kaiser, who was instrumental in bringing on the war, who was made a British (not a Hunnish, mind you Cabinet. Minister ; .MacPherson who made those beastly remarks about sexual problems and who lies' like a lord in the House of Commons; French who failed at his own job and , whose name was mentioned not too favorably in that Mrs. Cornwallis- West business ; Maxwell .the fool-general who murdered 7 ; Connolly and many others and who, added new lustre to the Empire’s annals by leading .45,000 men. Lp victory, over 1700 men, women, and boys"'' Colthuxst, the lunatic, who might -be 'described as ■ an official Jack-the-Ripper, etc,, etc" ' " ",