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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 33, 17 August 1905, Page 18

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Register ! We strongly urge all Catholics of both sexes who are entitled to vote at the forthcoming Parliamentary elections to have their names entered without delay upon the electoral rolls. This is all the more necessary, in view of the eager' and organised efforts that' are being made to Protestantise the public schools and compel Catholic and other objectors to contribute towards the expenses of the process or go to gaol. Sundry platform and pulpit addresses of various Bible-in-schools advocates, certain avowals made in the course of newspaper controversies, and a recent vehement attack on ' Papists ' and 4 Popery ' in the chief organ of the party in the religions press, ail tend to show that, in New Zealand as in Victoria, many of the- clerics of the sectarianising movement will do what lies, in their power to decide some of tne issues of the next general elections by an appeal to religious prejudice and rancor. We may deal with this evil and significant phase of the Bible-in-schools campaign at a later period, when our columns are less crowded.