Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-24

the Boston Pilot in the present cam paign. None are so blind as those who will not see," and as the Ameri- can looks at the incident from a re- publican standpoint, all hope of bring ing it over to our way of thinking is lost. The Democrat must continue to hold it's own views on the question for it has plenty of ammunition to back upits statement that the attitude of the Pilot is disgusting to great many Irishmen and Catholics. Not that we question it's right to change it's politics, but to be continually Haunting in the face of it's readers the many things Roosevelt has done for the Irish and Catholics. The Pilot has standing head on its first page Roosevelt and the Irish" Under this head is print ed everything that the president has done since the early nineties that in any way was favorable to Catholics, and Irishmen, and the Pilot gives this as a reason why its readers should vote for him. And more than this, the Pilot occasionally publishes "note' at the bottom of it's Roosevelt and the Irish' column which shows that it is handing out literature of the same stripe to it's readers. Here it is:
 Note.
 A pamphlet containing all the
 matter in this regular column. and many other things of interest to
 Irish Catholics will be sent by
 The Pilot Publishing Company on
 application to any address in the United States It is entitled "A Pamphlet for Americans of Irish
 Birth and Irish Descent" Presi- dent Roosevelt's address to the
 Diocesan Union of the Holy Name Society of Brooklyn, Bishop McDonnel's dfocesc may also be had on application.
 Our friends of the American say they have always read the Pilot with interest. If so they must have seen the above note as we'll as something l like this, given prominence as one of the presidents recent utterances: '.I'm half Irish myself as we'll as |
 to tell a New England senator, very intimate friend, when he has l reviled me, saying that the Dutch are conquered race, that what he says is perfectly true, but that the other half of me, the Irish, has avenged the Dutch l Here is another paragraph which the Pilot has published several times:
 During his term of office as l assistant secretary of the navy,
 MT Roosevelt issued orders that three torpedo boats, then building, should be named the Barry the l 'O'Brien and the sMcDonough.' One of the Warmest and most dis I interested friends have ever met, had or hope to have in New York politics is by birth an Irishman,
 and is also as genuine and good
 an American citizen as IS to be
 found in the United States" Here is one of the Pilots squibs aimed at it's common enemy, but also l to catch votes for Roosevelt. "After the arrest and conyic-
 ton for high treason 4of the gal l lant colonel in Englanis President l
 fiuence to secure Lynch's release from prison
 Here is one direct from Editor Roche's pointed pen. Rather hard on the American, but everything goes l this time.
 "All the anglo-maniacs, all the
 mugwumps, all the peace-at-any- \ nrsiaa mon all ftn raonIa vybr
 would submit to national degrada-
 tion, rather than defend their
 rights, regard Roosevelt as an 'un- safe man."
 Here Is one where his Irish blood began to boil:
 When some of the previous speakers spoke in such eulogistic
 terms of the Anglo-Saxon race I could not help turning to MT Bourke Cochran and asking him where the Dutch and Irish came. We are not Anglo-Saxons, we are
 Americans"
 l We could fill this page of the Demo crat with ,nauseating clippings similar to the above. But what's the use, the American is "sot'' ill it's convictions already. Before closing perhaps it will not be out of place to suggest to the American to drop the boycott song, both at home and abroad, for no one is trying to boycott the Pilot, and everyone has forgotten the Ameri- can boycott except possibly the circu- lation manager of that paper.
 
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