That 'Block Vote'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 21, 23 May 1907, Page 9

That ' Block Vote '

The two Queensland Catholic papers were ranged under opposing banners in the State electioneering contests which' were decided at the ballot-boxes on last Saturday. Yet the battered and stuffed old bogey of ' the Catholic block vote ' was trotted out pretty much as usual to scare old women of both sexes in the Northern State. The armored prejudice that in these countries tries hardest to make capital out of the ' block vote ' bogey judges by feeling, not by reason ; it has neither eyes to see nor ears to hear evidence. Its lons, sharp tongue is balanced like the leaf of ' the light, quivering aspen ', and wags with metallic harshness at the faintest -breath of rumor. Your oldfashi'oned, sturdy, mail-clad prejudice is not to -be argued with— it will cling to its darling delusion even ' though one rose from the dead '.