The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-16
Not a Head Broken
(Catholic Transcript.)

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 The twelfth of July was never counted a day for love feasts, or at least for love feasts wherein Catholics and ProteStants broke bread together Usually the breaking was of quite an- other kind. Since William of Orange made his memorabIe excursion along the Boyne, there has been a fair amount of real excitement on each re- curing twelfth of July. An enemy of the Redeemer could well say on that dread anniversary: See, how these Christians love one another!''
 Even now, as one reads the story of the anti-Home Rule campaign of the Unionists, he can hardly escape the conclusion that Orangemen and Papists have made up their minds never to compose their differences. One of the orators recently declared that if Catholics do not persecute the Protestants when Home Rule shall have been inaugurated they ought to.
 But they ought not, and they will not. Catholics are never justified in becoming bigoted and into1erant. They have the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Others have what they have-some truth not the whole truth. and some error. Con- scious of the weakness of their posi- ton, they are intolerant of contradfc- ton and resolve themselves into spe- cia1 enemies of those who claim a higher title to the revelation of God. Such people, if sincere, have some ex- cuse for their bigotry and intolerance, but Catholics have none.
 It is worth noting, too, that Catho- lies are, as they should be, the first to practice tolerance, even when toler- ance savors of sublime forgiveness and heroic forgetfuln ess. Up in St. Johns, Newfoundland, this year the Orange men made special efforts to commem- crate the twelfth of July. They sue ceeded in mastering what they called "a mammoth parade Five bands dispersed music not usually heard at Rome An Orange convention was opened with great display t"The pro- cession visited the government house. There the Orangemen were welcomed enthusiastically by Catholic gover- nor and by a Catholic mayor.
 In1S eV1denc0 or SOOd Will anCd brotherly love had it's effect. After the procession large number of the leading delegates, including local Grand-Master Squires, Attorney Gen eral Morrison, Mayor Hocken of To- ronto, and all the ladies of the party, attended the Catholic Orphanage pie nic which was proceeding at the tine-''
 We think that the Governor de Newfoundland and the Mayor of St. Johns deserve the admiration and the gratitude of both Papists and Orange men. It it not about time that these ancient, and, in some measure, imag mary grievances be forgotten and the memory of them buried in oblivion? Why should the feuds of two hundred years ago be nourished and renewed by those who hardly know who partic- ipated in the battle of the Boyne or why William and James carried their quarre1s into Ireland. How differ ent would have been the Irish history of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries if William had been welcom- ed as the Governor of Newfoundland and the Mayor of St. Johns welcom- ed those who to-day march under his coIors? A few words of charity and good fellowship are worth thousands of broken heads.