AN ORANGE OPINION OF MR H. MATHEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2221, 2 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ORANGE OPINION OF MR H. MATHEWS.

Thk dissatisfaction excited among a number of Lord Salisbury's followers by the ap pointment of Mr H. Matthew-) to b' 1 Homo Secretary had hitherto been .shown lather in *nllen murmurs thsm open expression. But Air W. Johnston, ALP., of B.illykilbeg, who is generally outspoken, cannot any longer remain silent, on the subject. He lift* up his voico in ton n s of prophetic warning. Ta a letter addies.sed to the Belfast News-Letter he says :—: — " A tatal mistake has been made by Lord Salisbury in the appointment of Mr Henry Afjtthowg as Homo Se.cietary. Unquestionably we have here 1 Jesuit influence developed, as the new Home Secretary is most intimately connected with the aims and aspirations of Cardinal Manning, and the appointment is without question the result of the support given by English Roman Catholics to the Conservative party at the geneial election. It is unpleasant, but it is a duty that I should thus early warn Protestants of the danger ahead. This appointment portends an attempt to deal with the education question in the interest of the Papal Church. The anxiety of English Roman Catholics to prevent Home Rule being granted to Ireland was largely due to a desire to keep their Irish co-religionists in the Impeiial Parliament for ecclesiastical purposes. Ulster Protestants should bb placed on their guard at once, and as I have exceptional means of knowing, I venture to urge on all our friends the duty of actively organizing an opposition to the coming attemut to put the school .system under the withering influence of the Papacy. Cardinal Manning expects in a couple of centuries to have England again entirely under his Church. Lord Salisbury, perhaps unconsciously, in giving the leading office of his Home Government to an Ultramontane Romanist has assisted tho Archbishop to carry out his plans. It is not for this that Piotestants every where strained every nerve to defeat the late Prune Minister, and a united and strenuous effort will be required to avert in the present Parliament an even more disastrous danger."