MESSRS. DISRAELI AND GLADSTONE. THE CATHOLIC VOTE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 50, 11 April 1874, Page 9

MESSRS. DISRAELI AND GLADSTONE. THE CATHOLIC VOTE.

Tub recent change of tho ministry at home cannot fail to be ultimately for the benefit of tho Catholic party, not that Mr Disraeli, however, is ereat er frien'l of Catholics than Mr Gladstone. Both thee« men, l : ko other Protestant statesmen in England, are mere men of expedients They have no prominent principles. They are like a cork on the water, and float any way as the wind and tide drive them -very much in that respect like the Protestant Press. If Catholics be necessary to sustain them in power, they will favor Catholics, not otherwise. Mr Disraeli may feel the want of Catholic support m the hour of his extremity, and he will secure it if Jm prudently can by coaoeding something to the Catholics, if not all they want. It will be

the same thing in New Zealand, so Catholics here had better look after themselves and manage *' the Catholic vote " well. On certain occasions, and these the most critical, our vote tells when given in a block, however few we be compared with Protestants. Divide the Catholic vote and we become the victims of our enemies at all times.