Bisbee daily review., 1916-08-23
VOTE |S PLEDGED
 ID PEACE
Roman Catholic Verein Urged
 to Vote for. "High and Holy !! Principles" at the Polls Deny Interest in Mexico.
(By Review Leased Wire.)

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-Catholic voters throughout the United States were urged at a mass meeting of the Roman Catholic Verein here tonight to unite and cast their influences at the polls where it will subserve the high and holy principles for which Catholics stand. James x. Zipf, pres ident of the Gonzaga Un2on of St. Louis. who made the appeal, declared there were at least 3.OOO,OOO Catholic voters in the quite a force' he said, flor the bringing about of proper conditions"
 That" MT. Zipf added, "is almost as many as the Republican party polled at the last general election. That very number places in our hands A power to be used in works of social civic betterment, in works of mercy and of peace. When the Catholic arm is uplifted let it be for construction always, but never for destruction"
 MT. Zipf asserted he was not con tending for a religious party, but Tor an organization of Catholics to bring inro public life a spirit of liberty and toleration, we must be so organized, he said. and under such leadership, that upon occasions we speak for liberty as one man and say that the black hand of religious moderation, hypocrisy and hatred, thou shalt not enter here, so far shalt thou go and no farther
 A resolution demanding that at the end of the world war the Pope be heard in the council of the nations for the securing and cementing of permanent peace" was passed by the American federation of Catholic socie- ties at its convention. It said:
 "As the representative of the Prince of Peace and as the common spiritual father of so many millions among all nations of the earth, he is the logical arbitrator whom warning peoples can turn for disinterested and impartial settlement of all their differences in accordance with the sacred principles of justice and humanity"
 A resolution was adopted, inviting thoughtful attention" to a statement regarding the attitude of American Catholics toward their co-religionists in this country and toward their CO religionists in Mexico. "The state ment embodied in the resolution de clared that at no time since the be ginning of the sad outrages against religion in Mexico" has the Church or any official body or leader affiliated with the Church Tent aid, financial or otherwise" to the stirring up of strife, either here Or elsewhere, against any person or group claiming to be a government or even a faction in Mexico.
 At no time. it was asserted, have the exiled Mexican prelates appealed to their fellow Catholicc in the United states, ito aid in revolutionary move ments or to agitate for bringing about American intervention" The only money raised by Catholics in this country to aid Mexico. it was added, was raised and expended for charit- able purposes"
 What Catholics of the United States ask in connection with Mexico declared the resolution, lis that what ever form of government be establish ed in Mexico with the aid and friend ship of our country, it shall grant and guarantee liberty of conscience and freedom of worship as they exist in our United States and which are de, nied in Mexico by unjust laws"
 A resolution passed by the Catholic Young Mems National Union today called upon members ito act as a unit in taking up preparedness" and urged , them to communicate with representa- tives in Congress "in the effort tc bring about real preparedness"