The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-16

Ynotely exists? Or IS it n the posi-" tive application of It's force and pow. CT when danger Is close at hand? To my mind if the doctrine of Leo XIII in his Rerum Novaruln had been diligently studied and preached during the twenty-three years pre-. ceding the World War, civilization would never have witnessed that blight on the human race.
 At no time since the Founder of Christianity laid down the doctrine of modification and the Cross has there been a more crying need for defenders of this doctrine to point out the pitfalls that await the hu. man family. Has the time come when the Christian world Is to humbly submit to slavery and be bound for a thousand years, as por- trayed by the prophetic vision of the beloved disciple when he was di- rected by Christ to write the Apo calypso. Oh, you bishops and priests of holy religion, of how much ef- feet will your preachment for re. straint and the love of the good and pure have upon the passions of men when the pinch comes. when the people are ill.clothed, ill-nour. islaed and the traditional fear of the Judgment of God has been rooted out from their hearts? Think you then that in this subtle age when deceit and corruption stalks abroad with its talk for peace and its plans for war, that there is not positive need for some voice to remind men of the rule of one who is stronger than they and who will see that right order prevails, cost what 1t may?
 During the past eleven years Father Coughlin has been preaching principles to the nation. During that time not one person has re- futed his statements. No one has dared to attempt to show that he has taught hereSy. No one has had the courage, to step forward and show that his economic views were 80 per cent wrong. No one has had the senblance of Christian charity to approach him privately or Tn public and point out wherein he is a menace to the peace and tranquil ity of this nation. All with no ex- ception have been content to hurl their shafts of criticism at him from behind tho harricade of sub- terfuge and generalities.
 The people are worthy of knowing the truth. They should be told that the preachments of Ohrist's earthly ministry are to be as vigorously proclaimed today as they were jn the age of the Caesars, that the doc- urine of right order is as sound and applicable to this age and nation as 1t was when uttered by that pro- found Doctor of the middle ages, that the beloved Leo XIII had In mind the United States when he sent out bishops as well as those of the rest of the world his famous encyclical "Reruin Novarum", and that our present suffering Pontitt had in mind North America when he sent forth his announcements condemning the excesses of modern finance, and the concentration of wealth.
 For my part I am content to be- lieve, and know, that In all these precepts, from Christ to St. ThoM- as to Leo XIII to Plus XI, to Coughlin, ! have been benefited. l shall be content to live the remain. der of my days in the pleasing be. lief that can associate my thoughts with the doctrine of such men as these, rather than to associate my- self with the infectious friendship of such men as deny the wisdom of applying such doctrine.
 As I neal the close, I humbly ask that Father Coughlin be put back upon the air where 1t Is evident God intended him to Dc. And in clos. ing use the words that once the great Webster used, more as Q prophecy than a prayer: Grant, Oh God, that when my eyes shall be turned to behole for the last time the sun in the heavens, that l shall not see him shining upon the broken dishonored fragments of a once glo- rious Union. upon States discovered, discordant, belligerent, upon Q land rent with civil strife, or drenched perhaps with fraternal blood"
 appeal in this letter with fervant hope that all righteous minded men and women may cast aside their personal prejudices and anlmosities, that they may the better wear the mantle of charity in their fight for the establishment of justice, piety and peace in the human family.
 Respectfully yours in Christ,
 TERRENCE JAMES o'NEILL.