The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-02-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
A VICIOUS STAB AT TIL E
HEART OF AMERICAN
LIBERTY.
Washington, D. c., Feb. s, 1915

Washington, D. c., Feb. s, 1915
Several Bills have been intro
duced in Congress by Roman
Catholic congressman, authorlz
ing the Postmaster General to ex
ciude from the mails, any paper
which he deems improper to circu
late. Last week d hearing was
b eld On one of these Bills, intro
duced by Fitzgerald of B o)klyn
aud the House Committee room
was crowded. The Roman Cath
olics have been movisg Heaven
and Earth to have the "Menace'
Of Aurora, Mo-, and other anti
catholic papers denied the use of
the mails, and they have made
the life of the Postmaster General
a burden with their protests and
petitions. He has told them that
he has no power to exclude any
paper from the mails. 80 now
they want to pass a bill through
Congress to give him that power,
and the abuse and viIiiicatioD they
will heap upon him, if he Is given
that power, and fails to exclude
the Menace from the Mails, Will
be enough to drive him Crazy.
The "MeDace" and other anti
catholic papers are not attacking
the Catholic Religion but 1t is
attacking the "Catholic Political
Party, and any party is going to
be attacked when it becomes active
IN politics, and when it moves and
works in 'secrecy" as the Catho-
lie Party Of this county does, and
it deserves to be attacked. Tue
American people would be a pusi
luminous lot of molycodles, if
they denied themselves the right
to attack any political party sim
ply because that party called it
self ''religiOus body". If the
Catholic organization or Church
will stop trying to control Ameri-
can politics, no paper in this
country will ever attack it. Last
Fall the Catholic organization sue
ceeded in nominating the Demo-
cratic candidate for the United
States Senate In several states
Damely: Hogan in Ohio, Roger
Sullivan in Illinois, Connolly in
Iowa, and Neeley in Kansas. ln
each OF these the Protestant Dem
,crats divided their votes between
several candidates while the solid
Catholic votes was cast as they
swere told to vote" and thus fore
ID Catholic nominations on the
Democratic party in tue primaries
II each of these states. Each of
,hese men were defeated at the
election, because hundreds of
thousands of Llberty-loviDg Demo
,rats preferred to vote for re-
publican United States Senator
ather than a Democratic Catho
ic, who takes orders from a for
ign pOtentate. 10 1913 Charley
the Tammany boss, kick
ID William Sulzer out of the Gov
Of New York in order
hat Glynn, the romanist lieuten-
mt Governor might become Gov
rnor, and appoint Catholics to
he fat jobs. Oh, no the Catholic
jhurch is not in politics!
HE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE
The trainers of the Constitu.
ion, knowing how liberty had
'een destroyed in Europe by the
of News papers wise.
= inserted in the Constitution the
'rovision that, "Congress shall
ASS no law abridging the liberty
f the press." So If Fitzgerald
nd others should succeed in get
ing this bill through Congress, it
7Ould be unconstitutional. But
here are two Catholics on the Su
RENE Court of the United States
'hief Justice White of Louisiana
ppointed- Justice by Cleveland,
nd promoted by Taft to wiH the
soman Catholic support (Which
9 got, and lost all the other vot-
rs) and Judge McKenna of Cali.
ornia appointed by Mckinley.
{ five of the nine judges of the
upreme court were Catholics,
he Constitutional G Guarantee would
OF be worth a "scrap of paper.
t any paper publishes libel
gaiDst any one, the courts are
pen for redress, which is ample
rejection for the innocent, but
hen a political corruptionist is
xposed in a fearless paper, a
,urt of Justice is the last place [
Q wants to go. {
-ILsON VOTES THE IMMIGRATION
BILL
President Wilson shocked the !
ltire country when he vetoed the
IMMIGRATION Bill last week to
lease the catholics. Before the
ar stopped them, the foreigners
ere coming over here at over a
illioD q year, and ninety per
mt are catholics and they are
,edni To aMado America CathO