CANADA’S AFFLICTIONS.

New Zealand Tablet, 23 September 1920, Page 17

CANADA’S AFFLICTIONS.

Bishop Fallon, of London, Ontario, recently declared that Canadians to-day have the spectacle of divorce courts being given to Ontario without the people having asked for it, and of divorce courts being inflicted on Prince Edward Island against the, expressed protests of the people of that province. “For 12 years this province has been subjected to an orgy of moral uplift,” the Bishop declared. “The Dominion Alliance, the Methodist Alliance, the Anti-Cigar-ette League, the Anti-Betting League, the Banish-the-Bar League, and Women’s Christian Association have striven for salvation by statute, to legislate us into holiness. It has been their work through the legislature, or through those who control the legislature, to make us holy at all costs if it takes a new statute to do it. “Now, so far as I am aware, no one ever went to hell through smoking a cigarette. I must confess that when I was a boy I went to the race track and saw a race, and I found it interesting. They banished the bar and 1 am glad of it. But during recent months an attempt has been made to open wide the door to easy divorce. 'Yet this evil, ten*. thousand times worse than anything battered and hammered by the uplifters for the last . I . years > * s allowed to go unchallenged; this most inlions of all evils, that strikes at the root and foundation of the nation, the morality of the home, threatens, and there is no squeak out of them. What is the taking of’ a drink, the smoking of a cigarette, or attending a horse race^ to the breaking up of a Christian home? i • “The uplifters are horrified if a man takes another drink, but they re satisfied if he takes another wife. I would rather have a thousand drunkards, than one divorced man. .... “Where are the uplifters? Whore are the Dominion Alliance, the Referendum Committee, the Women’s Christian Association, the Ministerial Alliance? They will tell you that you will go to hell if you buy a newspaper on .Sunday but you may have Mrs. X. on Monday, and a different Mrs. X. on Thursday. ■./. r "Sr -n hey la -!? cl !t a cam P ai S n against divorce wo Catholics will go with them to a man, but till they do, laugh at them and what they teach.”