Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-19

Uditor Democrat.--
 .sArchhshop Harty wants Roose-
 velt reelected" so says the cable.
 Well! Well!! Well!!! The next
 thing the cable will tell us is that Plus
 x has summoned his college of cardin-
 his and pronounced adherence to the
 republican party an article of faith,
 and then, ye poor, benighted papist-
 ridden Catholics, vote for Roosevelt or
 be consigned to everlasting misery
 You are not of much importance for
 three years and half, but about six
 months before election you are hale
 fellow well-met. If you happen to be
 of foreign birth you are hoodlums
 most of the time who came here only
 for notoriety and pelf. It is true that
 your bCawn and muscle has tolled Tor
 the welfare of the country, yet you are
 only hoodlums, and Lodge in the sen
 ate and a Dalzell in the house would
 stamp you a criminal. The nOtoriety
 and pelf go mostly to those who profit
 by your labor; the abuse and the con
 tumely are your share. But. now for
 & few weeks you are just the thing the
 doctor ordered and you ought to kneel
 by your bedside and thank God that
 you will soon have the privilege or
 voting for a party that would not give
 you the right to vote if it could keep
 it from you. You have been 1ayed, as
 1t were, with scorpions, but now in
 gratitude kiss the hand that lashed
 you; you have been treated as gutter
 snipes" and as so much human offal,
 but now he thankful that for a few
 weeks you are allowed to live and
 breathe the air of country which an
 Italian, Columbus, discovered and for which a Polish count, Pulaski, ana
 Kosciusko fought. For some time past you have been only blotches on the face of creation, sort of social scum, but now how fair you are and comedy to look upon when your vote is as good as that of the bluer-blooded descend ant of those who came over in the Mayfiower. who were the foreigners of their day, but whose descendants have outlfved the disgrace, Yes. you ignor- ant. iIl1terate, dwelling Catholic foreigners, vote for Roosevelt, so that the ti-Catholic snob Lodge and the vfndictive DalzeIl, who would cut the throats of every one of you if he dared, may have another chance to hold you up to public scorn and ridi- cule, and for what? Because like their own ancestors you came here to Amer lea. but unlike the ancestors of many of these blue-bloods you are earning an honest living whilst they stole their way into wealth.
 If you happen to be a native-horn Catholic, try to forget that your father was born in Ireland or Italy, or Poland or Germany. If he was born in Eng land, it's all right. You have the ear marks of perfection and John Hay will fold you to his bosom. Otherwise A. A fault indeed that your father was of Irish or Italian or Polish birth; 1t was simply your misfortune and the best reparation you can make for the mis- take of your father is to vote for the republican party. It will constantly remind you that your father was a foreigner. You were born here, you were educated here, but your poor, misguided father was foreigner. He livedsan honest life, simple and frugal, while in many cases the fathers Of your slanderers should have died be- hind prison bars; but then, ogTrs ath- CTS came from England 7 'dOnci1erl knows and ''Bah love, doncher knowv' and that makes a lot of differ ence stdoncher know" Your father was merely beggarly Irishman or thick Dutchman or a "Dago'' from Italy and you should not expect too much. Our fathers branded yours as combfna fion of all known social evils and oc- casionally we do the same for you just to show that we have still the spirit of our sires; hut then you are only Cath oiics and your fathers should have known better than to have been born in foreign land. But just drop your ballot for us. It's deucedly beastly thing to have to appeal to you; we would like to tell you to go to Hades, but we can't get along without you, and remember, too, that the cable tells you that Archbishop Harty wants Roosevelt elected. The Philippines are pacifled now and Aglipayism Is dead, and 90 if you can, try to forget that Mir Taft gave it all the encouragement he could, that he patted AgIipay on the back and told him what a great fellow he was; that Senator Lodge blocked the way for an honest investigation of the outrages committed on the friars and the footing of the churches. You ignorant Catholic, you don't know anything. You never reaN the papers or the magazines and you need to be enlightened. Why don't you follow the lead of such men as Jeffrey Roche and learn wisdom from the Boston Pi- lot7 A year ago they were hammer ing away merrily at the administra- ton; they denounced 1t bitterly and so ecathingly that one could almost hear the cabinet groan, but glory halIelu- 1ahl they have seen the error of their ways, and now Roche and Ford and St John Gaffney are real nice fellows, whose enlightened lead you ought to follow since you are so ignorant of current events that you do not know what has been transpiring, or so defi-