The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-10-13
DECLARES CROOKED ILLINOIS
LEGISLATORS ARE TRAITORS
TO COUNTRY.
LAUDS THE CATHOLICS
For Their Excellent Missionary Work
Was Guest of Archbishop
SPaldi1g at Peoria,
Last Evening".

IEOlld, III, oct- L. leoosSfe-S
came from st. Louis into Illinois to-
day and denounced the corruption Of
legislators and commended the work
when the Catholic church is doing.
He was the guest OF the Knights OF
Columbus, to whom he made speech
at dinner tonight.
In brief speech to crowd at the
railroad station at Springfield Roose-
welt made what was construed as a
reference TO the allegations of cor
ruption in the Illinois legislature.
Hardly had he begun when man in
the crowd called out: Give 1t to
the Jack potters, Colonel and Roose-
welt took it up.
Good, my friend, Glad to hear you
say that" ne said. No man who is
worth his salt will have anything to
do with any one of the creatures
tainted in that scandal The most inn
portant duty before US as a.people Is
to drive from public life the corrup-
zionist, bribe taker, and bribe giver
the men whom you speak of as Jack
potters' are traitors to the American
people, traitors OF the basest kind,
and 1t is infamous in anyone to con-
done their iniquity or to support
them and stand behind them, direct
ly or indirectly. The presence In pub
lie life of such men is shame and
scandal and | do not care whether
they belong to my party or to scne
other party. I hold it my bounden
duty to he equally hostile to them in
either event"
When the colonel arrived he went
to the Country Club for luncheon, and
then visited Archbishop Spalding A
public reception followed, After he
had suent an hour in shaking hands,
the crowd was larger than when he
began and the club house doors were
closed He made little speech from
the steps to .pacfy those who could
not get inside,
At a dinner tonight Bourke Cock
ran of New York, and DR.. X. Emmett
Kane, of St. Louis, made speeches
before Roosevelt delivered his adj
dress. Gov. Deneen, who left Roose-
velt's train in the afternoon to adj
dress the Tazwell county fair, arrived
in time for the dinner
In his address the colonel said IN
substance: Last winter | visitei
various Catholic missions in Africa
and just about Christmas | was at
Bishop Hanlon's on the shores of the
great Victoria Nyanza Lake. There
met one of our fellow Americans,
Mother Mary Paul, at the head of the
religious sisters Of the establish
ment.
Now, the mission to which Mother
Paul belongs is doing a really strik-
ing and admirable work, and prom.
ised her | would publicly tell about
this before some Catholic body. and
ask that the Catholics of the United
States take an active interest in this
Catholic mission in mid-Africa where
he good work is being done by an
American nun
uganda is one of the places where
the missionary effort has been signal
ly exploited, and | hope charitable
Catholics in the United States will
gladden. the heart of Mother Paul by
backing in substantial fashion the
missionary work to which she has
given her life.
There is no other country in the
world where there is such religious
liberation, such kindly good will
among good people of different re-
/. Rgious creeds. No other country
where the Catholic and protestant
get on as well as here, and judging
him not as to how he worships his
creator, but on his conduct toward
his fellow men, on his own worth as
man. We must never permit any
thing to make us deviate from this
standpoint.
Perhaps can give you my theory
in short form by telling you of a cor
respondence once had. A protestant
clergyman wrote me to protest about
my receiving Cztdinal Rampollo al
the White House. wrote back say
ing had received the cardinal just
as had received the German Luther.
ans and Welsh Methodists and would
hold myself a poor representative OF
the people of the United tSates If
failed to treat with good will and
friendliness all good men, no matter
of what religious faith they might be.
added that ! believed the country
would last a long time, and there
would be many presidents and some
OF these would be Catholics and some