THE DUKE OF NORFOLK'S ADVICE TO CATHOLIC ELECTORS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2207, 31 August 1886, Page 3

THE DUKE OF NORFOLK'S ADVICE TO CATHOLIC ELECTORS.

The Duke of Norfolk wrote a letter to Mr Curson, who was contesting Southport, South-West Division of Lancashire, in the Conservative interest, in which he said cr-' ' ; >''.'/* * . ? I hope that you and nlf who hold your principles will be supported by many Irish Catholics. I know, however, how strong are the inducements held out to them to take a different course. But the very fact that Irish Catholics are at this moment beset by temptations which blind and betray them ought to make their English brethren all the more eager to defend, for the future of the Irish jieople, the-cau^e of law, of order, and of Veligitin.' AreSve hot bound to this both as Catholics and as Englishmen ? We earnestly wish, and I am certain we mean to do our best to insure, thnt the Irish shall now enjoy to the full the advantage of belonging to the British Empire. If they will not accept that great position for the future, but will insist on living on the cruel memories of a bjttfcr past, we cannot wound the Empire to show our sympathy with a determination we condemn and deplore. If British statesmen choose to put the skimp of success on the career of outnige which has tortured Ireland through recont year», I do not see how Catholics can have a hand in such a complete nurrender of pnnciplo to the weak striving after fancied expediency. If, as I most fully believe, English Catholics are convinced that law and order, justice and honesty lire the best guards of the. religion and of the happiness of the Irish people, you may trust to their standing by you in the battle which is at hand.