RELIGION AND POLITICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18381, 23 April 1923, Page 5

RELIGION AND POLITICS.

—Your correspondent, "J.M.J.," asks how it is possible for Roman Catholics, comprised as they are of ail classes and vocations, to vote as one? I have always understood the miracle was achieved, much as it is done in the Army by discipline. I agree with that it is against reason, but that does not alter the fact.'" The signature "City West Elector" -to a straightforward, sensible letter on this subject recalls to me a case in point. At the election of 1919 the Roman Catholic vote "was understood to be going to Mr. Entrican. > : But as polling day approached it became evient that Mr. ISntricaai could not ■win. Then a circular went out to Roman Catholic voters telling them to vote - far Mr. Savage, and if they had any doubt about it to ring up the priest. Perhaps Bom* few were as disobedient as the Irish rebels to which "J.M.J." refers, but the block vote remaining was good enough, to make Mr. Savage a winner. The tail of "J.M.J.V letter :is beside the point. Nothing has been said in ">>is correspondence of the P.P.A. as a religious bodv What I have tried to rub in is that it has as much right in politics as the Roman Catholic Church .or any.: Roman ' Catholic organisation. ~ Papa.