POLITICAL AND ANNIVERSARY.

Inangahua Times, Issue 7, 21 October 1878, Page 2

POLITICAL AND ANNIVERSARY.

(Prom the Saturday Englishmen have littlo c^^^^^Kn*, • In; peoplo of ol^^^^^^^^Br too clingim; which cotsed to hiv^^^^^^^V-chicvou-t moaning. Thcit^^^^^Kw subjects in Canada hive just^^^^^B' a similar, but far moro unreas^^^^H . amplo of devotion. The taki^^^H<'< Bastille marked nn epoch in hi-<^^^^Bt tho inc'dent.) in Irish initials t-^^^^^B of whioh it ploaso-t tbo Orangr^^^^V to keep nlivo haye long ceased^^.^^V? mooning. Tho poriod with whicli tl^pre associated is on., which Englishmen ought never to recall without slmmc. Tho Irish Protestnuts of two centarics back made tho preservation of their own liberties an occasion und protest, for the destruction of the libeittos of their n Iversarioa. Their dcliverunco from the tyranny of James 11. was the signal for tho im posit ion of a far worso tyranny on Irish Catholic*. It is intelligible, perhaps. Unit tho Orange anniversaries should bu kopt ulivo in the country whore thoy had their birth. For moro than a century it was only by ro* calling the evils they had oscapea thnt even Orangemen oould justify to thoir own oonscicacos Llio thoy were in*

Him* ; md v h n Otis piti* d pnsse I away, the satisfac ion of instil: in x the eiH franchi.sod Uith dies >vis the on* eons dition left to an Irish IVotestunt of tho oil school. But wh,m theso same nnnivi., - sarios aro transported to Cuni^'a, whero they have no winning nn 1 no associations, wo can only won ler nt tho extr.v*. din <\y A vitality of religious hatreds. IV u» C.inn.linX * Orangonien would no doubt like to subject the Uonnn Catholic* .if Canada t.> n welLd. vised ays en of pe.i-il liwi, an I if tbey hud tho .strength to accomplish tlieic objoct they would at least hnvo thit titlo to respect which accompanies tin. ability to do mischief. Hut when tbey can only proclaim that they would like to per* fccute, without succeeding in persecuting, they would bo simply ridiculous if it tvero noc that tbey still retain tho pow*r of provoking n publio dislnrlmne.'. They havo this rauc'i of Miperiority over Banyan's superanu ito i gi mt*, thit lb 7 can go into tho streets and can only ho g..e out of thorn by thd employment ot police nn I s >l.lior-\ Tho pretext for theso politic il procession is usm Iv »'**fc tho ltom.n Catholics h-ivo 'n > a proee*. si.i:i oa ;h* I- 'in o» Corpus Chri-ii, oraro gotii^ t.o have one 011 the Feast of thj As-, sumption. A* the latter days full on th.i loth August, and the former .nine tim>» in June, ie i*» particularly convenient tint tbe greatest of Oiaogo eoiiiinom*init : o is should como on tho 12 h of .Jul}. Orangemen aro ii-uillv pinned to e»lt themselves O'UHeiviiiv.M ; bur, in this cuso they frt'l into evieily llieMiijiToiifiM sion as that of which the E'vnc'i Kidied* aro guilty when ihry I'l-lod religious pro * o?ssions. A |w'iii*»| nnniv **i*<-»ry is either ono wliicli tho entire nation ca 1 join in keoping, or it i*» • n 1 tho cocbra« tion of whicli is us inituing to one party ns it i*i cons. 'in; to nn >thrr. In England, nnnivt , r-M' , ie -i of l ! iis I itu*r ciais nro no longer v il.it. I. NA o.ie. ear.M any longer (0 nIU :t his soul on iho .Idili of J-i'tUary. or ti rej i.*o on th • '20: ho.' May, The 5 h 01 _N »/emW is «;ill in ■omo sense n i.opu'nr festival, but thi lingering ro jard for it is c.iiilino i to b >7*< nn.l lon's, mt* \ eon.-.-roi.i-; t'» -».• thu Indoes not t rouble itself. Tin- 0 se is difi'*r. enfc when political n*i;iive a ies retain thoir power of atirring uo .yd passion*. As was said when sneaking of icliuious processions in E.'uoee, an utton.it to keep tbo 311) <>f uignst in m m ry of tho miss'ioro ot the lingo m 9 ou->ht uu*< doubiedly to ho foroidtt.'il notes-* it .: >ut . b» s*ifely Icl't t 1 tlu? sa*Mhn*v opeeatiou o«' i public contempt. Th • sun,' iii**isu,*» should l*e up lied to Cnu-ili un'ii th» KiWn-Hi Caih-di.'s hecmn wise eimiih \>t kno *r' tint tbo reason xxliy l)rang,»m*'ii love io organist. p.*oo*ssi,)iis is thai tin Isw han deprived thorn of nny mo.\» efloctiv« machinery of nuuoy-i'ico.