THE TABLET
A W eek ly N ew sp a p er R ev iew .
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DUM VOBIS G R A TÜ LAM Ü R , ANIM OS ET IAM ADD IM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS C CN ST AN T E R M ANEATIS.
F ro m the B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e s s P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 18 7 c ,
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C hronicle of th e W e e k :
Imperial Parliament : Mr. Asquith and the Navy— The Government’s Application to Germany — The Lords and the Territorials— Lord Esher and Recruiting—The Lords and a Religious Census— Waste of Child Life— The Government and the Prison System — Mr. Lloyd George at the Mansion House— The Welsh Church Commission and a Religious Census— Women and the Wesleyans—A Great Railway Strike— The Kirkdale Division o f Liverpool . . 117 T opics of th e D a y :
The Wesleyans and the Royal
Declaration .. . . . . 121 Gagging the Catechist . . . . 122
CONT
T opics (Continued) :
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The Passing of the Comet . . 123 The Branch Theory . . . . 1 2 4 N o t e s ......................................... . . 126 R eview s :
The Higher Criticism of Isaiah 126 Psychology of Politics and
H i s t o r y ........................ . . 127 Impressions of South America . . 127 Modernism in Fiction . . . . 128 The “ Purgatorio” in English . . 128 Treasures of Darkness and Songs o f Ascent . . . . . . . . 128 The Life o f Marie Amélie . . 128 The Dominican Spirit .. . . 129 Freda......................... . . . . 129 Literary Notes . . . . . . 129
Ï N T S .
The Catholic Congress . . . . 130 St. Clare of Assisi . . . . . . 1 3 1 The Ethics of Intolerance . . . . 131 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . . . 133 News from Ireland.. . . .. 134 L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :
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The Crusade o f Rescue . . . . 134 Anglican Orders . . . . . . 135 Sunday Masses in London . . 135 The Knights of the Holy
Sepulchre . . . . . . . . 135 A Northern Nigeria Mission . . 135 Dialects . . . . .. . . 136 The Bell during Mass .. .. 136 M id d l e s b r o u g h Guardians and
Catholic Children . . . . . . 136
Juvenile Labour Bureaux . . . . 136 E t Cetera . . . . . . 137 The Royal Declaration ... . . 138 N ew s from th e D ioceses :
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Westminster.. ............................142 Southwark . . . . . . . . 144 S ocial an d P ol it ic a l . . . . 147
SU PPLEM EN T . Educational Notes . . . . . . 149 Catholics and the West Riding
County Council . . . . 150 Doings of Local Authorities . . 152 Catholic Action . . . . . . 153 Our Colleges and Schools . . . . 153 Bible Reading in American Schools 154 Educational Questions in Parliament 155 Cricket.. ....................................... 155
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NOTANDA.
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The Wesleyans and the Royal Declaration. A resolution that was defeated. Why the formula suggested by the Select Committee in 1901 was unacceptable then and is unacceptable now. Can a man be in communion with a Church of which he is not a member ? (p. 121).
The passing of the Comet. Father Cortie, S.J., tells of a tail that was fifty million miles long. What the Comet’s head was composed of— a comforting theory (p. 123).
The date of the next Consistory. Why it has been so long delayed. Delicate questions with Austria and Portugal. Our correspondent makes an interesting forecast (p. 133).
The latest device of the French Anticlerical for stifling Catholic teaching— gagging the Catechist (p. 122).
How Father Leteux conducted the case for the Catholic miners of the Moorthorpe district (p. 150).
How the scarlatina has upset many arrangements at Stonyhurst (p. 154).
The Board of Education drops the provision for the training of teachers in giving religious instruction (p. 150).
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
MR. ASQUITH AND
THE NAVY. ; M R. D ILLON ’S intervention in the discussion of the naval ship-building vote in
Committee of Supply evoked a notable pronouncement from the Prime Minister. Dissatisfied with the enormous increase of ¿£5,000,000 in the naval estimates, Mr. Dillon proposed a reduction of ¿£2,000,000. Experts differed. On the one hand were 245 flag officers behind the Estimates; on the other was Lord Roberts, declaring them insufficient for safety without a great Army. He then referred to the German ship-building programme, and the exaggerations of which it had been made the subject in the matter of Dreadnoughts. We had been guilty of insolence towards Germany. This brought Mr. Asquith to his feet with an immediate reply. After defending the Government against panic-stricken extravagance, he went on to declare that our increased Estimates were in no way directed against Germany, with whom our relations were of the best. She had her own purposes to follow and her own interests to safeguard, and was therefore justified in the adoption of a ship-building programme which she thought necessary for those purposes and interests. Against this he set our own position as follows : “ We are responsible for looking after not an increasing and newly-developed Empire, but for the defence and security of an Empire which already exists, and we should be false to the trust which the nation and the Empire have reposed in this House and the Government unless we maintained an ample margin of security which is the only insurance that a nation such as ours possesses— an insular country of forty millions, dependent on foreign supplies of food and raw materials, responsible for the protection and defence of Dependencies and Dominions in every quarter of the globe. We must maintain an ample margin of security against all probable and even possible contingencies. . . . What we have to do— call the country X., or any veiled or figurative name you like— if we are to discharge our trust is to look at the shipbuilding programmes of the world and take into account all possible risks, and you must never sacrifice the margin of safety by which alone the security of our trade and Empire can be maintained.” Mr. Asquith next repeated the reasons
