The Heview of Reviews. 



July, 1912. 



svive not the higher law 

 of love. And the Arch- 

 bishop might, with 

 every kind of gain to 

 himself, have passed 

 the attack on himself 

 hy Norton by seeing 

 that his defence would 

 involve most seriously 

 and cruelly a brother 

 minister. One is thank- 

 ful that God is the final 

 Judge of men's actions, 

 and not ecclesiastics. 

 And when any Church- 

 man, whoever he may 

 be, starts out on a 

 defence in law against 

 an attack in\ iiis character bv the vicious, he puts a 

 lag .strain on the faith of the outside man in tin- 

 reality and potency of Christian ethics. 



Photo.] IT. U II III phnii A Co. 



SIR ROBEUT BAiiKN-PdVUCLl., 



Who is visitiny Australia. 



IncoDsistency. 



Again, Archbishop Clarke might 

 well have ignored Norton's attack 

 simply because it was Norton who 

 i made it. No per.son with any re- 



spect for tlie cleanness of his mind reads the offen- 

 si\|e literature put forth by Norton, and no oiie witli 

 any perception of what is right believes anything ne 

 writes. Any man, no matter who he may be, is 

 s.i.llv ]Mit to it when he sets out to defend himself 

 against Norton A very sad a-nd glaring instance 

 ot ijournalistic hypocrisy came out over the case. 

 A large and influential newspaper published an 

 arlicle congratulating Archbishop Clarke in tri- 

 umphing over Norton, on the ground that Norton's 

 jouiinal flourished upon att.^cks on men's characters, 

 and that it was a class of litrrature that ought to be 

 suppressed and refused notice by decent folk. And 

 \< t the same jjaper had iiublished an extract from 

 Nnifion's paper containing the libel, the kind of 

 lilir^^ure the journal referred to objected to. It 

 real It doe.s' not matter whether a ]3aper be headed 

 '■ '! ' ith " or anything else. The matter is the 

 . and it is surely as morally reprehensible to 

 I. I>ni,it a vicious thing as to originate it. More- 

 oxfi, Ithe journal publishe^d verbatim reports of the 

 statfnjents made bv coun.sel and Archbishop Clarke, 

 statcinents which reflected most vilely upon another 

 man. Bv all means, let us have protests against 

 unrli-irable things, but for Heaven's sake let us be 

 consistent. 



If one may express any wish in the 



Our matter, it is that Archdeacon Na.sh 



Hopes. g^gj Qj.| ^^.j^[^ j^jg gQpj work. If he 



were "indiscreet" in his young 

 da\s, he has atoned for it by hard and conscientious 

 work, and has undoubtedly experienced that forgive- 

 ness which removes our transgressions "-as far as the 

 east is from the we.st." That consciousness will help 

 to lift him up and to go on his way regardless of what 

 has happefied. It is cheering to know that his con- 

 gregation at Sale expressed sympathy with him on 

 the Sunday following the Clarke-Norton trial, and 

 that the clergy of his diocese are preparing to show 

 their sympathy with him in a practical way. He 

 may go on feeling that public feeling generally, 

 and more especially, perhaps, that of the folk out- 

 side the churches, is with him. 



One of the most despicable things 



A Crazed that anv Government could have 



Action. fjoj^g i-iag jjgg,j (jQ,ie by the Federal 



Government under the Immigration 

 Restriction legislation of the Commonwealth. That 

 legislation is designed to preserve racial purity, and 

 it wa.s_ never intended that it should be used in such 

 a sillv, pettifogging way as to become the instru- 

 ment of inane persecution. But that is what it has 

 been made to become during the month. A Mr. 

 Dowell, a bank manager in New Zealand, is on his 

 wav to the East with his wife for a pleasure trip. 

 Mrs. Dowell is the daughter of a British father 

 and a Samoan mother. When they arrived at Sydney 

 Mrs. Dow-ell was not allowed to land. After a lot 

 of trouble she was graciously granted permission to 

 stej) on shore, pro\ided she ga\-e a guarantee that 

 she would not stay longer than a month. Could 

 human ingenuity devise a sillier thing? The Mitiis- 

 ter in charge should ha\e remo\'ed e\ery restriction 

 as soon as he heard of what had been done. Here 

 is an educat/^d lady, half British, wedded to a 

 worthy Britisher, -whom the Minister hedges _ round 

 with restrictions because half of her make-up is non- 

 British. She is placed practically in the same posi- 

 tion as an ignorant alien. If the Liberal Party 

 returns to jiower it ought to amend the Act relat- 

 ing to immigration, so that it shall fullil only the 

 purpo.ses it was created for, and do away with it.s 

 drag net possibilities. .\s it is at present, it may, 

 in the hands of narrow-minded administrators, be a 

 means of insult and silly persecution. 



The attention of our readers is specially directed to page 473 of this issue. 



Next month the Rev. Henry Worral! will contribute an interestinj; and timely article on some of 



the problems of the South Seas. We have often directed attention to their significance. Mr. 



Worrall will state the case from a new point of view, and show its menace. 



