New Britain herald., 1915-10-22

of the heart and good will? Such men will cause havoc to our country. Bishop Geer of New York is the au- | thority for this statement"
 Father Fitzgerald spoke of the re- cent mission at St. Marys church and of the many confessions heard by the Jesuits while conducting the mission. He implored the people to carry out the teachings that the fathers had given them during the two weeks of their stay here, and also heed the 1, warnings against intemperance. In a recent talk with Governor Hol- comb. Father Fitzgerald said the state executive said he admired the Catholic church for the great work it was doing among it's young people. and by it he judged it as a great church. It is not, however, along one line that this work is being done, for it is inspiring to hear congregations as they sing Holy God We Praise Thy Name" The value of the soul is more precious to men than all the wealth of d John D. Rockefeller or J. Pierpont Morgan and all the precious minerals of the earth, the world or the moon doesn't compare with it. the speaker said.
 Next to the soul comes the work of temperance Father Fitzgerald continued Many American people do not enjoy liberty, and if you wish to find out why, just climb four or five flights of stairs in some places and see the poor wife lying cuddled in d corner of poorly furnished fiat. while the drunken husband is away on a debauch.
 Ut has been the custom from time to time to perpetuate the memories of great men with monuments of stone, but why not erect a monument in every city to the cause of temper ance? Or take a monument and place on top of it a poor woman with sunken cheeks. garbed in poverty, with six children hanging from her sides with outstretched hands crying for food? On the outside place the butcher baker and candlestick maker with bills in their hands demanding payment, and on her back place a drunken husband, and instead of Kip ling's The White Mans Burden? have engraved on it's front, The White Womans Burden
 "At the last session of the legisla- ture I and others interested in the work of temperance, appeared before the excise committee and advocated the closing of saloons on Good Friday and the reduction of saloons in each city to one to every 1000 population. Imagine our astonishment a few days later when two of the noted labor leaders in the state appeared before the committee and opposed the pas sage of the bills on ground that it would be injurious to the working man. They exhibited a number Of petitions purporting to have been signed by workingmen. Labor unions in this state and country should be careful in their selection of men to represent them at the capitol. John Mitchell, who is without a doubt one of the best informed labor men in the country, branded the statements that the revenue received from liquor in tcrests was needful to the country's interests as false. He has said how ever, that the sale of liquor has brought much misery into the homes of laboring men.
 we hear from time to time of the union of capitalists against labor. The clergy stands for men receiving pay for their hire, but are against it when it means that it is to be spent for increasing the use of intoxicating liquors"
 In closing the speaker said. "GO along as you have under the direction of your beloved pastor, whose merits I hear in all parts of the state He is indeed doing a wonderful work, and if you do the Lily White Dove of Happiness will hover over your homes"
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 Father Fitzgerald then called James J. Martin, Edward J. Sheehey of Bristol, William Began and Peter Fitzpatrick of Brooklyn, N. Y, mem bers of the society for twenty-five vearS ana thav toolx their places in