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Show ' CARDINAL MORAN AND SOCIALISM. (Freeman's Journal, Sydney. Australia.) Cardinal Moran has always evinced a deep interest in-terest in the democratic movement in Australia as well as in the affairs of his native land. Hi chief concern, outside of Irish politic-, i to see the masses of his adopted country advance in h;i-piness h;i-piness and prosperity, and he is always found th rowing, row-ing, in the weight of his influential advocacy to any eau-e that will promote the be I; intrrc-ts ot the Australian people, 'more especially the toiling portions por-tions of the communii.v. When the ex-premier. Mr. Reid. raised the bogey of socialism for the piifp-'-i-of avoiding important questions and set tins the people against th Labor party. C.irui::-;1 .iora:i boldly stepped into the breach and -ii. wetl !;o - Mr. Reid was trying n, throw tliist in th" ey- - of Mv electors. Cardinal Moran. in eoimn..o with oilier public men and writer., exposed tit: hoiiowiiess o! Mr. Reid's charge-, and the rcsid; a- thit Mr. Reid foiled mo-i dismally and wa- expclud from the Australian premiership as mn at pfiriiainen: met five weeks ;igo. Suffering inot acutely from, this defeat. Mr. Reid has made "an attack on Cardinal Car-dinal Moran, pointing out tliat his eminence i-at i-at variance with the pope's recent declaration upon socialism. The attack, however, is baseless, m there is no parallel between Mr. Reid's alleged socialism and the socialism that is supported by his holiness, and as strongly approved by Cardinal Moran. Mr. Reid has accused the Labor party of entertaining views similar to those of the Red Republican and Communists of France, and other wild extretni.it y on the continent at the present day. There maybe may-be one or two socialists of this description here and there- in Australia, but there n no such socialism so-cialism or communism in tin country as Mr. Reid has vainly end -'Vored to make out to serve bis own political ends. The pope and Cardinal Moran are equally emphatic against communism, but not against the passing of such legislation as ivill improve the condition of thy industrial chtsse. And this is tho length to which Cardinal Mora)" support of democratic principles extends out here. He has the welfare of all classes at heart, and is imbued with the principles and aspirations of a pure democracy. He has repulsed Mr. Reid' attack" in a way that will prevent its renewal, and at the same time has won ihe admiration and respect ! tho great bulk of-the .Australian public by his fearless fear-less championship of the people's rights. Mr. Reid's attempt to show that Curdinal Moran is at variance vari-ance with the pope on the social and economi'' questions of the day has been completely disproved, and the general result is that Mr. Reid, expelled from office by a sweeping majority of 17 in a T house of 71 members, is the most discredited statesmen states-men in Australia, without hope of ever again becoming be-coming premier of the Australian commonwealth. |