Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-04

l The opposite policy is in force and as consequence thousands of industries | in all parts of the country are handi-
 capped. MT Smith said that card T was being published with reference to him and he desired to say a word or l two about it. It was handed to, him on 1 the way from Hartford to Waterbury.
 It charged him with being unfriendly to Catholics while secretary of the in- Iterior under MT Cleveland.
 l ",This statement" continued the speaker with a good deal of force III 1 his words, s.is as truthful as anything
 else that emanates from the republican campaign managers. At that time there
 were large number of Indian schools
 under the management of different de-
 nominations, and, Protestant that l
 am, am noble enough to give the Ro-
 man Catholics the credit which belongs l to them. They were more active than l their neighbors, their ministers went 1 out onto the reservations and by con- stant labor succeeded in doing more
 good work among the Indians than all
 the Protestant denominations put to- ] gether. The government made an an 1 nual appropriation to help this work
 aloif:.. hut the third year was in of l flee, congress, a republican congress,
 cut the appropriation for Indian lischools and the bill went through with Ia rider forbidding the expenditure of 1 any public money for schools under
 contract. This act was passed by re l publican congress at the request of an 1 A. F. A. body and no doubt was aimed
 at the Catholic schools. Of course, to ! be fair with you, want to state that as a general rule do not believe that
 public money should go towards the maintenance of any religious body, | but even so. was opposed to cutting l off the Catholic schools, altogether. They had grown up under the govern
 ment and I thought 1t unfair for the
 government to change it's policy tow
 ards them suddenly. thought they
 should be given sufficient time to
 make other provisions to maintain
 themselves, and instead of withdraw
 ing all aid at once as some would have done, a plan was adopted whereby q
 certain percentage was cut off annually and this order of things was in force
 when I retired. The plan was worked
 out in connection with the manage \ ment of the Catholic Indian schools. and I supposed at the time that I was
 helping them instead of fighting them. | The idea of being unfair to fellow man because he is Roman Catholic l shocks my sense of right. Next to my
 own son, the young man in whom am
 most interested is an Irish boy, who
 entered my office some years ago and
 whom have since taken into partner lfship with me and given him an inter- best in my business" (Cheers.) 9at | Returning to the political batt1e MT ! Smith said that it is wonder the re- publicans don't say anything about Mir l Clevelands first term of office. During
 that time he paid a debt of $33O, 100000 and left q surplus fund of over S334,- 100000 ill the treasury Cleveland was
 succeeded by Harrison and when MT 1 Cleveland returned after an absence of | four years he found that all the money
 he left in the treasury was gone and
 $9O, 100000 appropriated in excess of
 the estimated revenues. He also
 showed that bad republican legislation, It not the Wilson bill, which was not \ passed until 'g4, was responsible for l the panic of '93. He referred to, the
 increased cost of running the govern
 ment under Roosevelt compared with what it took during McKinley's ad-
 ministration, showing that Mckinley
 conducted war with bullets and yet 1 spent less money than Roosevelt, who | has a war every day on paper. He I touched upon Roosevelt's tendency towards imperialism and read extracts from his writings showing his sublime
 contempt for right when he comes ill
 contact with a weak nation. What the r speaker wanted was government that bhIldS home in the hearts of it's eiti- i'Zens, where every man is a soldier and where at the first sound of alarm, call every abIe-bodied man to arms Ac-
 cording to President Roosevelt no tr1-
 umph of peace is quite as great as the
 triumph of war, but this appeared l shocking to the speaker, who regretteI l that the president of the United States l should go about the country indoctrin- ating such principles as these into the
 youthful mind.
 ! At this stage of, the proceedings
 somebody ill the audience wanted to know something about the Rough Rid- I CTS, whereupon the speaker exclaimed:
 What! Isn't that rough enough?'' The reply created laugh that lasted l for several minutes and the fellow 1 that put the query never came back.
 MT Smith told how weakness at Co
 lomba and willing at the white house 1 through the acts of the president pre- vented Colombia from suppressing the 1 rebellion in Panama, and said that if England had adopted similar tactics
 in this country during the civil war I the north never would have been able l to put down secession. He thanked
 God that secession did not succeed l He was but years old when the war was over, never knew any flag but
 the stars and stripes and he wanted to
 see it the symbol of freedom wherever 1 it floats.
 l .'They tell us,'' said MT Smith, s.that we must not haul down the flag i'll the Philippines because such thing would be an insult to every American, but we shed lustre on the flag by
 hauling it down in Cuba to make room
 for the birth of new nation. What
 do we want the Philippines for? Their good or our own selfish ends?
 They tell us they want them to share l in our civilization. In Luzon 100000 persons died since we got hold of tie
 Philippines These have received their reward from the government and the rest may expect what is coming to l them any day. If we want to do