The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-03-04
DENOUNCES
JOHN t. SHEA
FIR. D. ]. 0'SuIliyan Writes Him
Public Letter
SHEA MAKES ANSWER
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Temperance Orator Replies ia 4 No
License Rally Held at Rutland
Saturday Evening
Last.

Rutland. March 1.-THE no.license lee.
ture BY John 4, shea Of Cambridge
Mass, 1t the opera house Saturday night
was interrupted when one al the men
on the stage handed TIE speaker letter
to Mr. Shea from Fr. n ]. 0Sullivan
'of st, Albans. denoncing him ~ q dema-
eoglIc, ard accompanied BIZ tha announce.
psent tbpt fuily s0a sopies ase I'll circii-
sasiop II tbs city. and thousands ii lhr
state.
The letter, rs made public, states that
Ff 0'sqlIivan refused To announce at
tie masses II BIS church Mr.. Shea
np alicausa address. II asserts that the
movement IL carried On almost exclusive
N hy non- Catholics and snti- Catholics
.agho pse men 81 TIE faith, ana use
tAan oaly ID pull Their chestuats out
III Till gre
III ST Adams, il says, priests are
csinpesent 70 look after tEe morals 81
the people and that the license question
issanly q political one ID c0peludess
The antisalooR league. made up Of
extremists and bigots, will furnish sou
with sympathetic audience liut ] Oi.
leet to gauF exploiting year religion and
s.allss canzlcetioa With the Knights p
ssalunihAss Eld other Catholic eietics al
= drawing card. II these people stay
within their own lines, | viii be passive
i they trespass they wiii hear fro.u
me."
The following postscript Is attached
Catholics did not attend this lecture
II was exclusively patronized by Pro
testants. This mar spoke til St. All.
bans more like demagogle tnan TEN.
nersnce leeturer MANY of bis state.
ments are wild and heFetieaiH
Dir shea read extracts from the lette.
replying Ga eaeli point He denounced
tire action of Fir. O'SuIlivau IN making
il pnblie lie WINS cheered repeatedly
w the roo people present. HI stated
that We had received nothing but eoar.
tesy from the priests Of Vermont ex
cepr N 81 Adams. where his Request
that his meetings BE announced from
the pulpit Of the Catholic church was de.
MED and bis statements were 4nisquoted
by thes.raYn press ~ st. AIbans, OF BY
a rum repaFteF
he sad 81 WAS preceded through thi.
state Is an adyance agent for dis
tiIlcFv, whcse eslp1oyey had been arrest
"a and fined for hlaeing foreign labels
on domestic goedS He said he would
apologize to 70 lifting man FOR sighting
the saloons as the rnemiSs of man
chHrch and God
EIr SHEA declared that the Knight
Of Columbus we're arrayed against the
saloon and that In many cities saloon
keepers rouId not be members.
sThe thing that Is hurting the Cath
olic church more than anything else
he said. rs The nm business, and any
Catholic who votes YES next Tuesday
I Is an enemy Of The church" He took
up the Lords prayer sentence BY sen.
tence and declared that the people oi
Rutland shoaia either vote mo OF stop
saying that prayer
III regard Is ri. O'Sallivan's state.
ment that non Cstholics 6esriscd the
men Of his faith and used them only
when they wished 70 pull their chestnut
out Of the FIRE, he stated that he was
Wiling Ia III used by non Catholics OF
anyone eIe when the chestnut was the
drnukasd ara the Gre vas the IRE Of
he'll
he ans&ered efery statement IN the
letter IN a way that brought round al.
ter round III applsuse. Finally Ne pre-,
iicted that Ratland would so no-license
this wear.
T. -. A
city wss on the platform.