CARDINAL LOGUE'S STATEMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2193, 18 May 1908, Page 3

CARDINAL LOGUE'S STATEMENT.

REFERRED TO BY MR. DEAKIN. DENIAL TO BE CABLED'TO LONDON. ■ United Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE, May 16. In the House, Mr Dealdn, referring to Cardinal Logne’s statement, said the assertion that Australia was practically independent- was only true so far as they enjoyed the amplest powers of self-government, which had drawn the Mother Country and the Commonwealth together, instead of thrusting them asunder. He undertook to see that a denial of Cardinal Logue’s statement was cabled to nondon.

“A GROSS IMPUTATION.” “AUSTRALIAN DISLOYALTY SUICIDAL.” (Received May 17, 5.9 p.m.) MELBOURNE, May 17.' Dean Phelan, addressing tho Catholic Young Men’s Society, said that the cable message regarding Cardinal Loguc was a gross imputation against a prince of the church and a prominent- 'lrishman. Taking the character of Cardinal Logue and the character of the American press, the people would be slow to believe what they road. The loyalty of Australia to the Motherland was beyond enjoying such a measure as home rule. If Australians were not loyal to the Empire it would be suicidal to the race. [According to a recent cable message, Cardinal Logue, interviewed in New York, said that lie saw signs of separation from tile colonies, which, wore becoming restive. Australia today was pnicitcally independent, and the trend every moment was more and more in the direction of absolute rebellion. New Zealand was indifferent, but Canada was legislating ; n a manner showing her desire to eonduet her business in her own way. The'.fires of rebellion were already lighted in India, and men ami women were hanged for daring to advocate the doctrine of a never-dying freedom. When England sits aione. as the result of misgovernmeiit, it

will be a day of reckoning for tli children of Ireland.]