The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-16
Fr. Coughlin's Voice
 To Stem Rising Tide
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 mankiads human rights against the enthroned property rights of vested interest. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again"
 "Truth forever on that scaffold,
 wrong forever on that throne,
 Yet that scaffold sways the fu-
 ture, and behind, the dim
 unknown
 Htandeth God within the shadow,
 keeping watch above HIS
 own."
 Just as Moses led his people through the Red Sea, out of bond age, Father Coughlin has lifted us out of intellectual stagnation and led us through the red fog of dis. torted economic life. If history in some future day is to reverently re- cord that Father Coughlin's work ends here, then he will never appear upon the scene of our national life again. But this much is certain, the tremendous impetus given to man. kind by this sublime crusader for the Christian concept of economic liberty will carry on and onward m the hearts and lives of men.
 Neither hierarchy nor demagogue can stop 1t. It is the inevitable!
 For Humanity sweeps onward--
 Where today the martyr
 stands,
 On the morrow crouches Judas
 with the silver in his hands"
 Now why have I written these thoughts to you? Is It to enlighten you upon any particular in tais mat ter? No! You have been far more fortunate than I in acquiring this knowledge. Is 1t by a show Of van ity that wish to parade my thought before you? Decidedly no! I hold sincerity too dear treasure to be cast in the role of the comic opera of burlesqued thought. Or is 1t be- cause I do not properly adjudge my station in life, and perchance am disposed to chaff at the bonds ot authorityp No, 1t Is none Of these. It Is for the following reasons that I address you: First: To attempt to convince you that the people of this nation know why Father Coughlin cancelled his broadcasts. We know the reverend father to be too excel" lent Q priest to seemingly offer af- front to the spoken word of his su. perior. Second: To convince you that the common people Of Amer ica know that Father Coughlin preached no heresy, but that ne walked unfalteringly In the ioot- steps of his Master. He has repro Siuced in his own life and in the lives of others the character ana virtues of his Divine Model. Really, that is the meaning ot the woro Christian. Third: To call to your mind the fact that Father Cough" lin. in the past ten years has done more to blot out religious bigotry m this nation than the whole Catholic hierarchy, not excepting the noble work of such churchmen as Gibbons and Spaulding, has done in Q hun- dred wears. Fourth: To arouse you to contemplate upon the hundreds of thousands of both Catholics and Protestants who at this very mo- ment, from c puzzled mind, are gnuinting their eyes at the Catholic faith. They have apparently seen d confusion in authority. From Christ to His present vicar, the pro- found reckoning of the Church has always been on the side of the url. derprivileged, the poor and expioit- cd. The Catholic Church, rom the hour 1t left the Catacombs, from the very beginning in fact, has been the only power that in times of oppres.. sion has had the courage to stand by human rights. That IS why tne church has been hated so by the .Judases that once wore the cowl and slirplice within her own house. hold, and by those so called Chris- tian rulers, those nominal children of the Church. Fifth: To respect fully submit to you my request that vo,i seek the earliest opportunity to command Father Coughlin, untraSn' meled, to return to the radio where he belongs. The past sanctioned him. The present has need of him and the future can only Do the bet' ter for having had him.
 It is salutory to dwell upon the doctrine of the brotherhood or Christ, upon the doctrine of Thom- as of AcQuin and Leo XIII. and every doctrine of the Church. But wherein lies the real value of any dogma or enactment, either in relig- ion or government? Is it In lengthy praise of It's principles and objec- lives when there is no need to ap-