THE 'NEW ZEALAND TABLET.'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 69, 22 August 1874, Page 8

THE 'NEW ZEALAND TABLET.'

THE CATHOLIC ORGAN AN ACCOMPLISHED FACT. The Catholic body in this Colony may well feel proud to learn that the Tablet is, in proportion to the capital invested in it, the best paying paper in New Zealand. Forty per cent, is on extraordinary dividend, and may well tempt those who have a few spare pounds by them to invest in it. The real secret of this unprecedented success is of course good management. But there must be other cmsee, not ao apparent. The support you ha'e received from the advertising public is honorable to their liberality, many of the advertisers in the Tablet being of course non-Chtholic. The presumption therefore is, that the manner and spirit of the Tablet do not give offence to the religious feelings of any, however warmly it may advocate legitimate Catholic interests. If you carry on war, it is a defensive war you are engaged in. Self interest must, of course, be one of the inducements which lead advertisers into the columns of the Tablet, and it augurs well for the Catholic community in your city and province to see that the commercial public and others deem it conducive to their interest to use the Tablet as an advertising medium so largely. We may be well assured you will do nothing to forfeit the good will aod respect of the Protestant portion of the community, which you obviously enjoy to so great an extent already. Indeed, when you have the approval of your own Bishop, nnd the publicly expressed encouragement of His Holiness Pope Pius IX., and therefore the. blessing of God in your work, your unusual success ought not to be a matter of surprise to any one. However men may dissent from our views on religious and political questions, many of our most conscientious and inveterate opponents — I will not say enemies — must feel some degree of anxiety and curiosity to know what course we are pursuing, and therefore wish to see the Tablet. They know that when Protestants are much divided among themselves on public questions, then the " Catholic vote " may often decide to which of the contending parties victory shall belong. Mr Barton lately bore reluctant testimony to this fact wken he bitterly complained that it was not Mr Wales, but Dr. Moran who had beaten him at the poll. If the Catholio vote be •worth courting, so I presume are the good graces of the Catholic organ, the Tablet, worth having. It can rarely happen that Catholics have any entirely separate interests. Their interests are generally identical with those of certain other large sections of the Protestant public. Witness the education question. It is not Catholics alone who object to the present unjust and godless Government system of education— Anglicacs and others are equally averse to it with us, though they may, for peculiar reasons, not openly express themselves so decidedly against it as we do. The Tablet is now aa accomplished fact, and a great fact, too. Go on and prosper.

A SOTSOSIBEB.