New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-11-18

senate and an American Of whose life
all good Americans are proud, then
it would be equally proper to support
or oppose man because of his views
on justification by faith, or the meth
cd of administering the sacrament, or
the gospel Of salvation by works.
If you once enter on such career
there is absolutely no limit at which
you can legitimately stop.
$50 much for your objections to
Mr.. Taft because he is a Unitarian.
Now, for your objections to him be-
cause you think his wife and brother
to be Roman Catholics. AS it hap
pens, they are not, but if they were, orif
he were Roman Catholic himself, it
ought not to affect in the slightest degree
any mans supporting him for the po-
sltlon OF president. You say that the
mass ofthe voters that are not Catholics
will not support man for any Office,
especially for president of the United
States, who is Roman Catholic
l believe that when you say this you
foully SANDER your fellow country
men. [ do not for one moment be-
lieve that the mass of our fellow citi-
zens, or that any considerable number
Of our fellow citizens, can be infiu-
enced by such narrow bigotry as to
refuse to vote for any thoroughly up
right and fit man because he happens
to have a particular religious creed.
Such a consideration should never be
treated as reason for either support
ing or opposing candidate for a
political Office. Are you aware that
there are several states in this union
where the majority of the people are
now Catholics? [ should reprobate
in the severest terms the Catholics
who in those states Tor in any other
state) refused to vote for the most
fit man because he happened to be a
Protestant, and my condemnation
would be exactly as severe for Protes-
tants who: under reversed circum-
stances, refused to vote for Catholic.
In public life I am happy to say that
[ have known many men who were
elected and constantly reelected to
Office in districts where the great ma
jority of their constituents were Of a
different religious belief. [ know
Catholics who have for many years
represented constituencies mainly
Protestant, and Professionals who have
for many years represented constitu-
encies mainly Catholic, and among
the congressman whom [ know par
ticularly we'll was one man of Jewish
faith who represented a district in
which there were hardly any Jews at
all. All of these men by their very
existence in political life refute the
SANDER you have uttered against
your fellow Americans.
II believe that this republic will
endure for many centuries. If SO
there will doubtless be among its
presidents Protestants and Catholics,
and very probably at some time Jews.
[ have consistently tried, while presi-
dent, to act in relation to my fellow
Americans of Catholic faith as I hope
that any future president who hap.
pens to be Catholic will act towards
his fellow Americans Of Protestant
faith. Had I followed any other course
I should have felt that I was unfit tt
represent the American people.
''In my cabinet at the present mo-
ment there sit side by side Catholic
and Protestant, Christian and Jew
each man chosen because, in my be
lief, he is particularly fit to excercis,
on behalf of all our people the duties
of the Office to which [ have appoint
ed him. In no case does the man.