Everybody, again, remembers that Mr. Be Valera, while preaching rank
sedition in Ireland, declared that one of his objects was the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope. Is It seriously the esire of the British Government to bring a representative of the Vatican and the leaders of sedition in Ireland into a close geographical relationship ? The Govern- ment, as we know, are much given to letting a proposal be dis- cussed in order to test the nature and intensity of popular feeling. Perhaps a kith is being flown now. The public will see to it that this kith is hauled down if they feel about it as strongly as we do. We repeat that for the advancement of the Pope's spiritual influence as such we could have nothing but goodwill. But we have nothing but opposition to offer to an attempt to confuse the spiritual and temporal issues, and representation in London would make that confusion inevitable and dangerous.
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