Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-31
HOT SHOT FOR REV. nR. BROOKS.
Father Crowley Gives Him Trimming for His Last
 Sunday Evening Sermon

In a very un American address the l Rev F. l. 9wiS Brooks made some pret- ! ty bald statements that he might at
 least have backed up with proofs con-
 cerning as they did the honor and rati ictism of large portion of his fel- 1 low citizens. He seems to have a
 malignant spite against the foreigner. l Will MT Brooks kindly inform the publi how many generations back 1t | was since his ancestors were foreign ers2 If he will have nothing but gen
 uine Americans let him dig up Gnd l verify the bodies of that innumerable 1 legion of red men who fell victims to the greed of narrow minded, bigoted l foreigners who came here ostensibly 1 to found an asy lum ot liberty and who 1 from the beginning showed how much
 or how little, rather they thought that | the northern part of America should ! be reIigiously free Mir Brooks, I take l it, is Baptist minister. A little ac- quaintance with the history of his own sect would teach him that they too fell l by the prosecuting hand. Most of us see the foreigner in every day life as does MT Brooks. We don't see so I much of the clinehed fist among for eigners, certainly not any more than the native-born, among whom I num-
 Der myself and take pride in the fact that was born under the stars
 and stripes.
 Mir Brooks says that unless immi-
 grafton is banished from this country
 I would not give a snap for the coun- try. They speak but poorly for the American republic. When the fore fathers laid the foundations with the aid, by the way of foreigners, without whom one of MT Brooks's kings would hnever have been banished. they pre-
 sumed that foreigners would settle
 here and thought the constitution
 broad enough and solid enough to withstand any shock from that source.
 And they thought rightly Foreigners
 have been docking here ever since and
 the country has taken them in hand
 and many of it's best citizens and the
 staunchest defenders have been those
 same foreigners who on every
 battlefield stood ready to sacrifice their
 lives for the land of their adoption.
 No, MT Brooks, the danger to this
 country is not so much from the for
 eigner as from the native-born. Re
 call the public scandal in postoffice af-
 fairs and state senators for the last year or two and how many foreigners were there among the number. The
 names of the vast majority are racy of
 American birth and American ances- try. Select the corrupt politicians, and while there may be some foreign CTS amongst them the names of most of the upper-ten will breathe American birth and American ancestry. While I respect the old adage, "de morturf nil mise bonum." I must explain in all heartfelt sincerity, "Thank God, death has at last claimed one of the most corrupt"
 But MT Brooks would not give a snap for the country if foreign immi
 grafton Is not banished. Let me re- mind MT Brooks that if 1t was not for foreign immigration dncluding perhaps his own ancestors, for I presume he was an Indian) the country would not be worth a snap. It was foreigners who built the railroads, who delved down into it's bowels and brought forth their treasures. He did not supply the funds. but he did the labor and in more than one case was cheat ed out of his just earnings by the shrewd New England Tank, whom, no doubt. MT Brooks considers the em- bodiment of all that is good and up- right and holy and patriotic. Will MT Brooks kindly inform us where would we to-day find the native-born to do the work that the foreigner is doing? Would he find them among the lack adaisical young men whose great am- bition is to be society light, or the president of some rich corporation, or to make his way into politics in order l that he may obtain his share of l ''graft?' And the ''graft'' scandals, 1 by the way, are for the most part the i work of the natfve-born American.
 sIn Europe America is looked upon | as the cesspool of the world" The | writer has travelled a considerable DOT ton of Europe and no such epithet as | would smack of the noisome odor of | the cesspool has he ever heard applied to America. On the contrary, 1t is | looked upon with respect. as the great est nation under the sun, which, MT Brooks, it never would be if your lit tie pfcayune ideas had been followed out fifty or seventy-five years ago. Foreign ideas may be overshadowing American ideas, but to most of us the American idea Is still robust and don't seem to shrink a great deal from a foreign nebulosity. The constitution Of the United States is still doing busi- ness at the old stand and, differently from MT Brooks, we have been con- graduating ourselves that we have made the American idea very lumin- ous to the foreigner, that all circum- stances considered, we were molding him and assimilating him at a very rapid rate.
 'In America to-day there are more Irish than in Ireland.1 An, there's -