The Irish standard., 1915-02-06
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f10rpers WeeklyS utteranceS that II
the people know all these things, then
they will know better how to handle
the issues that lie around and about
them. I give no charge against the
Catholic church the Endorsement OF
my faith in it's accuracy. l know that
those who are on the inside of any or.
ganization know vastly better than
those on the outside what its heart
and purposes are. write these things
down as suspicious that were taken
for facts by some people who put them
into public actions and my hope is
that someone within the Catholic
church may rise and show how in
each instance the suspicion was un'
grounded and the action of the radi
Gals based upon an entirely false pre-
sumption.
To begin, then, with a trail that
leads up from the bottom Of the de-
tective force to the Court Of General
Sessions in several cases where an
archistic disturbers were involved.
There was meeting place in a
lower east side street in New York
where certain disturbers of the mental
peace of the community gathered on
occasions to talk over imagined or
real wrongs. And on the occasion OF
which wish to write they went there
to hold a meeting in honor Of one
Massetti, a hero of theirs overseas,
who had done an act of violent protest
against being drafted for war service.
They found the doors of their favorite
hall locked against them, and when
they looked around in their first sur
prise and anger, they caught the eyes
of two detectives upon them.
The detectives they had known for
a year or so, also. They were Irish
men, but this the radicals never took
note of. To them they were just 1.-THE
Catholic bulls" Almost instantly the
radicals, Alexander Berkman at their
head, began to storm, that the "bulls
had terrified the hall owner" and so
had shut them out of a meeting place.
They proceeded down the street to a
corner, where one Valentine Cam
PAMELA tried to vent his overweight
feelings OH an ash barrel. He landed
in a Jail cell.
"The dirty Catholics" was what was
Missed out as the agitators made their
disgruntled way up town.
In a little while Campanella's case
was called in the Essex Market police
court, and thither went his associates
to appear as witnesses. Some got into
the court room. Some were Tanned"
off the block by detectives. Campan-
ella got ten days.
A Catholic Magistrate" was the
chief comment of those who left the
court room. And explain the sentence
to the radicals by any process you
might, it meant only one thing: that
the Constitution was adjourned where
ever it worked in their favor; that the
rights of assemblage disappeared
whenever you got the combination to.
gether of Catholic detective, q Cath
Ollie police captain and Catholic mag.
istrate.
The fact was, however, that what
with the Tammany organization be-
ing largely Irish, and the police force
but innocently enough, were mostly
famously Irish and the magistrates in
the most instances Irish, they also,
Catholics.
Outside of this particular court
room the radicals started home when
there rose the query, where's
Louise?"
Where was Louise indeed! She
was inside the court room-inside q
police cell. A policeman was telling
the magistrate that he had found her
outside the court room and had Or
dered her off the block and she had re-
piled that she had come there to be a
witness in case, and wouldn't leave
the neighborhood, whereupon he had
put her under arrest.
Louise got ten days.
Louise went to Jail silently. l mis-
trust silent people like most folks
mistrust silent dogs. At the Univer-
sity where l attended we once had a
great ruction in the faculty and men
exploded in various ways as befitted
their natures. Some spouted hot
words at points upon the campus and
by and by along came some folks who
thought they had had enough of that.
They picked the spouters up, fore and
aft, and dropped them in a nearby
lake.
AS l grew in acquaintance with the
men who did that l came to know that
even in their sociable hours In their
own rooms they were silent men.
Louise was not only silent but her
brother Carl was silent. They had a
friend named Arthur who in personal
affairs was fairly silent, although he
had tried with difficulty to make a
soap box speech or two.
1T WAS CARL, THE BROTHER
OF LOUISE HANSON, IN WHOSE