ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, 2 October 1919, Page 17

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

W.F.M.—Your letter contains nothing beyond what wo have already said on the subject. To denounce the "Huns" is patriotic and virtuous, even when the denunciation implies calumnies; to protest against the Brithuns is an offence to those good judges and sound Catholics known as seonini. Waterford Man.—We certainly could have inserted a paragraph or two or even three ■ about Lord Charles Beresford, and it was not for want of stories about him that we did not do so. We know several better than yours, but we are not going to tell them. Wo also are aware that the Beresfords were, as you say, a bad lot. The story of the widow's curse and the fact that many of them died violent deaths are well known. Our readers like something fresher than — mutton birds. Reader.—Ask the next Catholic schoolboy you meet to answer the question or, better still, invest in a penny

catechism. If a lot .-..'of our friends knew more about the catechism there would; be an epidemic" of silence among the dear seonini of New Zealand. The man of: one book is a fearful person, but the man of no.book , at all is a holy terror. Of course, we ought not to be oblivious of the fact that 90 per cent, of the population here are heaven-born geniuses who can speak with " authority on all things—moro especially on the things they know - least about. You will have read in the Day Lies that the Pope has his eye on Ireland. Don't worry. There arc friends of ours in Rome who have their eye on the English gang there. . It was not always thus. Democrat.—Wo will go into the question of State Control in a future issue. The Labor Party is not anti-Chris-tian. Many of its leaders and much of its literftturo are decidedly offensive to Christians. Agitators who spread among the people the forgeries of Haeckel and who set themselves in judgment above such men as Newton, Pasteur, Windle, and Wallace do incredible harm among the ignorant. The dishonest practice of representing theories as facts, borrowed from the R.P.A. publications and from similar sources, is no credit to Labor, which would bo well advised to dissociate itself from its worst enemies. A man who recognises God as his Lord and Master and who tries to keep His commandments, might bo unselfish enough for a. Socialist State; but platitudes about justice and honesty will never make an ideal State of people who are told that they, owe nothing to Cod and that their great-great-grandfather was an orang-outang. I