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Show THE CLERGY IN POLITICS. Archlilnhop O'ltrlrn Create. Something of ii HnBtion, Halifax, X. S., Feb. 4. The sensation sensa-tion of the day here is Archbislu p O'Brien's letter in the Herald defending the activity of the catholic clergy in practical politics. It is in reply to criticisms crit-icisms on liishop Cameron's support of Sir John Thompson and the threats of the bishop's political enemies to appeal for protection lo the pope. Archbishop O llrieu strongly defends the right of the clergy to take an active part in politics. He does not propose, he says, that the church the mother of modern civilization and which shaped the legislation of civilized Kurope, shall now stand aside and leave a free hand and a clear held to the. scheming partisans par-tisans to wreck !'or their own seilish ( nds, the noble work which she initiated initiat-ed and over which she has kept a guard for centuries. |