Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
REED ASSAILS INTOLERANCE
IN SPIRITED SENATE SPEECH
Missouri Senator Says There VIII Be Nc
War With Mexico, Unless u. S.
Rights Are Violated.

! Catholic sister alike ministered to the
diving and cared for the wounded
! Bending above the bodies of soldiers
whose souls were departing was the
Catholic priest with his cross ant
f, likewise the Protestant minister with
! his Bible.
Then came the last great war. We
| saw the soldiers as they were called
from the farm and factory, from office
and university, from cabin and from
! palace. They did not come, sir, as
| Catholics or Protestants. as Jews OF
gentiles. they came as American
citizens.
They marched away with the same
manly stride, with the same CLEAN OF
courage in their eyes, the same hot
flame of patriotism burning in their
hearts-Jew and gentle, Catholic and
Protestant. On the CORY plains of
France they fought and died together
jew and gentle, Catholic and
Protestant. Amidst the storm of shot
and shell, through fogs of deadly
gases, Catholic boys bore from the
field the torn bodies of Protestant
comrades, and Protestant boys with
equal fortitude gathered the helpless
bodies OF Catholic boys in their arms
ana carried them to safety.
DedtH rs NOn-Sectar1an.
In camp and field, in trench and
| hospital, the Young Mems Christian
Association, the Salvation Army. the
knights of Columbus and the Jewish
| societies labored in cooperation tC
amehorate suffering, to assuage pain
catholic priests and Catholic nuns
Jewish rabbis and Jewish nurses
Protestant clergymen and Protestant
nurses, together with physicians OF
all religions and of no religion, with
equal tenderness and heroism allie
waited the hardships of the field and
the agonies of the hospital.
There came the day of peace. The
brown columns began the return
| march. The gold star mothers gath
cred to gaze at the gaps once filled
by their gallant dead. So they stood
Jewish mothers and gentle mothers
Catholic mothers and Protestant moth
ers-the same pain in their heart
the same tear in their eye. The gal
liant survivors heard the silvery music
of welcoming bands; the cheers OF
mighty multitudes that rose and broke
like the waves of a vast ocean-cheers
for the soldiers of liberty. In that mo
ment the returning heroes found some
compensation for their sacrifices
Their bosoms thrilled with pride that
they had helped to save and sanctify
our flag, every star of which proclaims
liberty for ALL equality for ALL justice
for all, the right to worship God ac
cording to the dictates of conscience.
Constitution Shields All.
They were mustered out. Yet they
had scarce turned their faces toward
their homes until the Catholic soldier
heard the serpent hiss of prescription
and saw men massing who proposed
to prescribe and prosecute him be
cause he Worshiped God according to
the tenets of his church.
If my country means anything to
me, sir, it means that it's Constitution
is broad enough to protect every man
in the right to his faith every man
in the right to his opinion, every man
in his liberty of speech, in his right of
peaceable aSsemblage and in his priv
ilege to print his honest thoughts.
If this country is to live, then these
fountain springs bearing the pure
waters of liberty must not be polluted
with the poison of hate, covered with
the slime of prescription or polluted
by the spirit of intolerance. Intoler-
ance, sir, is the child Of ignorance,
Give me the radius of any mans intel
ligence, and / will describe the cir.
conference of his tolerance.