The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-01
LEST WE FORGET.


An esteemed New York correspond
ent sends us the following:
Editor of The Pilot: Will The Pilot
please state its position on the present
Presidential campaign? Is personal
admiration of the Republican candi-
date to be placed above the platform
and the candidate of the reunited
| Democracy?
A Subscriber.
A Subscriber is the only one of
our readers who has asked this ques-
ton. By curious coincidence, he is,
perhaps, the one best qualified. out of
! his personal experience, to answer it
with knowledge! lie is able to recall
an instance in which Mr.. Roosevelt
| direct interposition saved member of
GA Subscribers" family from being
deprived of his livelihood by the pro-
scriptive action of an official who
would have disseminated unjustly
against candidate because he was a
! Catholic. For reasons which he will
understand The Pilot will not go into
further particulars, but its columns
are open to ga Subscriber" for that
purpose, if he cares to furnish names
least, might be excused for exhibiting
personal admiration" of the Repub-
lican candidate. So, with less reason,
may thousands of other Catholic and
Democratic voters.
The Pilot, without the stimulus of
any such favor to refresh its memory,
is nevertheless gratefully mindful uf
what Theodore Roosevelt has done in
the way of justice to our coreligion-
lists throughout his whole career. We
say justice, advisedly, not favor; for
fair play is all that we ask of any man
or party. He has been in the public
service for over twenty years-during
all his manhood's life, in fact-as
State legislator, Owl Service Commits
sioner, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, Commander of the Rough Rid
ers, Governor of New York, Vice
President and President of the United
States and no man can point to sim
gle act of his, public or private. in
fiuenced by prejudice of race or creed
or color, except prejudice in favor of
the poor. the oppressed or the des-
pissed.
The Pilot has no mission to stimu-
late hatreds of any sort; but it does
strenuously advise the cultivation of
good reliable memory in its readers,
to the end that wrongs once inflicted
In some things our people have been
fatuously forgetful. Here in Massa-
chusetts, for instance, when bastard
ly Knownothing Governor insulted
them by driving every Irishman out of
the militia, they ignored the slur,
five years later, by springing to arms
IN defence of the Nation. That was
noble forgetfulness.
But when the same men, or their
kinsmen, dozen years later, permit
ted the Democratic machine in Massa-
chusetts to honor the same Governor,
Gardner, with a prominent place in
its leadership, that was criminal for
getfulness-that was an intimation to
future Kuownothings and A. p. A. g.
| that Massachusetts, Irishmen did not
mind being kicked or used as door
mats by politicians. We do not wish
to see that sort of thing happen again.
We say: Forgive your enemies, but
do not forget them. Pray for them,
but do not vote for them.
We say: Be grateful to your friends,
AND DO NOT FORGET THEM.
That is why people with long men,
cries have a warm place in their
hearts for Theodore Roosevelt-no
fair-weather friend. no favorer of any
class or creed or race, but just man
and safe one to trust, in storm or
calm.
Have we made ourselves clear to
"a Subscriber "?-The Boston Pilot.