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Show I A REMARKABLE STATEMENT. I If Australia Were Governed Like Ire- i Prayers For the Dead. y 1 Writing from Kilkenny a eorrespon- I d-nt says that Cardinal Moran, arch- bishop of Sydney, was accorded a mag- j ' H rj'hVpnt reception on the occasion "of m his visit to that town, and in reply to U addresses from various civic and reli- pious bodies, made the following re- I "In Australia we enjoy the fullest ir frAAdnm that citizens can enjoy. We aif a true republic in the genuine s-nse of the word. We make our own laws, and our citizens legislate for th. jr country and the welfare of our H'izns. Even the very nam which h,s befn given to United Australia , Australian Commonwealth shows I Hiat. in ihe fullest and most vigorous f-'-nne. it is a genuine republic, t ne V'na is olir president, not an elected president but a perpetual president, and his 'representative, the governor 'he commonwealth of Australia, re-Fidp? re-Fidp? in this Australian republic. But make our own laws, and I am sure thre is no one amongst us in the empire em-pire possessing any measure of common com-mon sfnse who will hesitate for a mo-mrnt mo-mrnt to say that our Austrian colonies col-onies justly rank amongst the most loyal and most devoted colonies of the empire of ar.y colonies in the world. oUr people are loyal because they are Jr-e. And precisely it is because they , h r-njov that freedom that they repudi- ate the imperialism that home states-men states-men would seek to fix upon t hem ! Australia to be governed as .Ire land Is , tl.at is according to the whims of w , th statesmen who rule at tmin- j Her- tell you that Australia would :iot be united with the empire for twenty-fu? hours. And this it is. pre-My5 pre-My5 which makes our people truly loyal -because we are free "d uite independent of the whims of states-men states-men who rule for the passing hour. A I 1 stranger coming from a free land to Ireland asks himself how it is, in the dictates of common sense, the same measure of freedom given to the colonies colo-nies is not given to this fair land? There is no citizen of Australia would seek to break the bonds which unite that colony to the home country; no one would like to break up the empire that holds such sway at the present time. 'But we in Australia are con-1 con-1 vinced that the extension of the fullest measure of freedom to Ireland would not only disrupt the empire, but woulri rather cement the various scattered scat-tered parts of the empire and bring forth that loyalty at home, so characteristic charac-teristic of the children of the empire abroad. In Australia we are famed for our determination to uphold the empire with genuine loyalty. But I assert that, in the very same measure, we are determined that, in the fullest measure, Ireland shall be partaker of the same freedom." |