Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-01
CLAIMS MEX|CANS
HAVE DIVIDED i. S.
ArChbishopSays Propaganda
Turned Many Against
Official Policies.

Declaring that Mexico has conducted
a shrewd campaign OF bolshevistic
propaganda in the United States which
has resulted I'm a strong public senti
ment against the President and the
Secretary of State in their Mexican
and South American policies, the Most
Rev. Michael ]. Curley. Archbishop of
Baltimore, asserted that Mexico City
newspapers have boosted that Ameri
can citizens were in favor of Gales
while they were opposed to their own
Government.
The archbishop voiced this conten-
ton in a radio broadcast address last
hight on Tolerance" at the annual
banquet given in his honor by the
Washington knights of Columbus at
the New Willard Hotel. Six hundred
members Of the order and their guests
were present, including members Of
Congress: Sir Esme Howard, the
British Ambassador, and visiting
clergymen.
Takes Fling at Bigots.
Much of the religious intolerance
as it regards the Catholic Church to-
dav was attributed by Archbishop
IUTiHN Id lIINlplCh lPOiiNANAe'hif7'
who are ready to appeal to ignorance
and bigotry If they can profit by them.
and to the ignorance Of blind min
listers, whose stock in trade is abuse
of the Catholic Church" The arch
bishop continued:
But there is a species of 1ntol-
evance far more dangerous than that
encouraged by ignorant ministers and
tnprincipled politicians-it is the IN
tolerance that hates all Christianity
and strikes at Catholicism as the only
expression of 1t which it fears. 1t is
the intolerance. of those who have
designs on society as a whole VINO are
intent upon destroying it, on destroy
ing all civil government. all private
nronertv, all human rights as now
recognized. It is the intolerance of
Trotsky and Lenin, the intolerance of
Ohregon and Gales. of the radical
communists of our own country. They
feel that they must first destroy the
tatholic Church before they can pro
coed with their further program of
bolsheVism."
Archbishop Cur1ey then said that the
Mexican bolshevists are good eX-
ample of that plan. lie commenced
that government on it's cleVerness and
said it had spent 100000 in anti
A01HllCdtl anu Ia oPoSsCA1NA
in this country. The agents of Gales,
he said. have succeeded in pulling
the wool over the eyes of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor" and in
gaining the support Of many univer-
sity professors and some "half-baked
minister's
Strong Opposition Aroused.
LAS a result of this patent Mexican
PROPAGANDA" the speaker said, strong
public sentiment has been aroused
against our President and our Secre-
tary of State with regard to their pol
icies toward Mexico and South Amer
lea. Whilst the bolshevist President
of Mexico is intent on confiScating
the property of Americans, he is saga
cious enough to appeal to the bigots
of this Nation, currying favor with
them by his persecution of the
church, in order to silence their pro-
tests against his injustice to Ameri-
can citizens"
Archbishop Curley outlined the early
persecution of Christianity by the
Romans, declaring that Catholicity has
survived and will continue to survive,
saying:
THE church has never bartered
principle. She has never acknowledged
nor will she acknowledge the right
of king, emperor, president, Oh
legislature to trespass unduly on
the domain of conscience, to deprive
men of God-given rights, to subject
God and His church to Caesar. She
has never failed to uphold Caesar, but
she has ever had the courage to tell
Caesar, thus far and no farther 3"
The defiance hurled by Catholics
at it's opponents the speaker char
acterized as defiance Of faith and
not Of hate"
Cites Early Freedom.
Archbishop Curley traced religious
history in America from the founding
of the earliest settlements, declaring
that while Catholics were prosecuted
in New England and Florida, history
shows the liberty the members of that
faith bestowed upon Protestants in
Maryland. But, he declared, I'VE are
not concerned with colonial intoler-
ance," which he said was legalized in
many State constitutions. Today, he
said, religious freedom is guaranteed
by every State constitution and the
Constitution Of the United States. and
of present day intolerance he said:
There Is no truth in the statement
that intolerance is confined to a few
and the ignorant few. 1t is found in