The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-02-07

Der that America may be the more easily
made Catholic. The Romanists are or
ganiEing against this bill in all parts
Of the country, and are flooding con.
grsss with letters and telegrams OF pro-
test against the. passage Of this bill.
Shah we do less In support Of the bill
than the enemy Is doing in opposition
70 iti
When the immigration bill was up be.
fore the house in 1918 q number Of tele-
grams were read from the hierarchy, all
couehed in very similar language, Of
which the following are typical:
FunaRln.
Archblshop's Houss, 81 Louis No. Jan. IS 1919.
oOngresman l. G. Dyer, washinEtoh, D. g.
NJ dear Congressman ~ am quite opposed %
ne mitssey tesi. The rial ts., Tor The igs
alsn .asd S,.s, siDorr,,V ,ssR so,p, VII"
tslUsdl JSgs ,. 9tssS0s.
.sSScSS.T'''i'nal Record Jan a. 1919 page
oardinaIs Residence. tos North Charles st..
Baltimore, Nd, Nay 8. 1919.
NJ dear Mr.. Rosenaus 81 am not IN favor Of
any educational test a, ,PPhed TO immigrants.
Archbishop Of Baltimore.
Hon. Joseph 7. o'COnnen. Washington, D. Q. .
Nv dear Congruu.inan O'COnncll II am not
IN fsvOr Of an educational test a. applied TO
tsiSnsdD JOm ol,IslroH. @. s. G.
President EOtrs Dame.
When the immigration bill was up In
the senate, April Is, 1912, Senator
O'GormAn, the X. q. mouthpiece in the
United states Senate, said that he was
"Opposed to an educational test as ap-
Piled 10 immigrants and, like all the
kierarchy's letters and kilograms, that
there ought TO be q character test, TO
which Senator John Sharp Williams Of
Mississippi said Congressional Record,
April rs, 1877; "The senator from
New York % Germany says there ought
10 be "A qualification Of character but
not one OF intelligence. Oh, would TO
God there was some way whereby quail
hcation Of character could be defined and
established But how in the name Of
common sense could anybody write into
. statute 4 qualification of eharaeterf"
whereupon Senator "Gumshoe Bill"
Stone, of Missouri, said; "This bill
writes IL in.p
To which Senator Williams replied:
"This bill does not, because II cannot;
but this bill does assume, everything else
being equal, that a mans capacity for
good is increased by information and
knowledge, out of which may grow wis
dom, and that capacity for evil is not
lessened by ignorance You can approx
mate a Qualification Of character, but
you cannot reach Il" (The whole point
being that the illiteracy test would shut
out Ignorant, servile r. C.'s, whom the
hierarchy want brought in to increase
the number of Roman Catholics here, and
further because a great many Of the
South Europeans return TO their native
} lands with a handful Of savings, a great
part Of which gets into the church eof-
fers there. OF course, the ignorant, IL
Iterates are much easier controlled and
held in servitude to the church,
Then Senator Stone of Missouri arose
and said: 81 have the honor Of know
ing Bishop Rhode of Chicago, the only
Polish Catholic American bishop in this
country. Sometime ago had the pleas
ure Of a conference with him Ito line
up the Poles politically. He discussed
the bill we are considering with me when
i saw him. He was more familiar with
II than / was. He said he had seen the
original, and was thoroughly familiar
with its terms / told him that 1 did
not believe any American congress would
ever consent to il; nor did not believe
that any president would ever consent TO
it," etc, etc. And then Stone pro-
eeeded to call everyone in favor Of it
ga. P. A. 8" and other similar names.
His speech was not printed in the Con
oreSsioAdl Record until May IL, 1912,
when it appeared toned dovn.
When Taft was in Chicago on March
10, 1919, he also saw the Rt. Rev. Polish
Catholic Bishop Rhode, and according to
letter signed by Rev. Father A. Syski,
head Of St. Michael 3 church at Haver-
bin, Mass. and published in the Hayer-
hill Gazette on June 20, 1912, promised
the Rt. Rev. Bishop that he would veto
the immigration bill. This letter says
that: ''when in Chicago, President Taft
personally told Rt. Rev. Paul p. Rhode,
the Polish American bishop, that he
would never sign the bill"
Stone saw the bishop for the demo-
Gratis, Taft saw him for the republicans.
When Wilson was there in April he was
introduced TO the bishop, but we haven Z
heard that he promised anything, but his
action on the bill win show.
Be for the immigration bill because