THE STRENGTH OF RESTRAINT.

New Zealand Tablet, 17 March 1921, Page 19

THE STRENGTH OF RESTRAINT.

Only when the black cloud of oppression is lifted, and the outside world is allowed to know what has-been happening in Ireland (so different from the pictures of propaganda cables), will it be seen what heroism and restraint have been displayed by the men, women, and children of Ireland. Even the murders of their priests have not goaded them mto madness. This is the kind of wise advice that their leaders have given them, in the words of one of their leaders: "The counsel that we have to give to the people of Ireland, 'in the hour of their bitter and just anger against England's felonious and bloody policy, is the counsel that the late Mayor of Cork gave them in his agony: ' Remember that, the victory is not to those who can inflict most, but to those who can endure most.' It is by calmness and restraint and discipline that- Ireland has baffled those who had conspired to take her life; it is by the maintenance of calmness, restraint, and discipline, that Ireland will in the near future triumph over those who sought to trample her down." The Irish people is endeavoring to hold out, until the moral force of Ireland's friends is able to assert itself fully. We can only say : God bless Ireland and set he? free! Catholic Magazine of South Africa. • , ' ''