The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-16
Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH F. DoNNELLY

an increasingly open war on demo- cracy" and declared that they stand revealed as "destroyers and wreck CTS of the fundamentals of demo- cracy for which today men are giv- ing up their lives"
 What fundamental of democracy they destroy when they vote as their minds and their consciences dictate 1 is not stated. Certainly, however, 1t is none other than the foundation of this new notion of democracy of the latest crop of liberals who will fight for your liberty to vote as long as your vote agrees with theirs.
 THE WEAK ARGUMENT
 The article charges that some half million men and women "were led to change their votes if not their minds" by political interference by the heads of the Church"
 The Church in Massachusetts con- demned the proposal of the refer endum as immoral. The Church in- weighed against the proposal with every legitimate means at her dis posal. The Church knowing it 0 duty to the members of the Church pointed out to them the immortality of the proposal, something that most of them had learned in their youth.
 Then the Catholics of Massachu- sets voted according to their con- sciences. The vote was a secret ball. lot and the absurd charge of The Nation article is that in the privacy of the voting booth and alone with their consciences, half million people voted against their convic- tionS.
 MORALITY, NOT POLITICS
 On an issue of morals the Church points the way for her members, and the decision on that morality will be in no degree influenced by a magazine article. However, in Massachusetts or in any other cor- ner of this broad land no one can show that the Church has ever lift ed a finger to elect any candidate either Catholic or non Catholic to public office. Politics is not the business of the Church. Morality is. THE COLOR LINE
 On Easter Sunday in 1889 the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion refused to permit Marian An derson, one of the sweetest singers in the world, to sing in Constitution Hall in Washington and the sole reason offered in explanation was that God had given Miss Anderson a dark skin. However, as we know, the recital was held. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and at the feet of the Great Emancipator the colored singer thrilled Q tremendous crowd and shamed those who had sought to humiliate her.
 Three years later the Daughters have confessed their sin and have invited Miss Anderson to sing ir their Constitution Hall. Perhaps 1t took a war to teach this species of Americans the significance of an Americans Constitutional liberties. The hall held but fraction of the real Americans who wished to at- tend.
 MIKE THE COMMUNIST
 The following bears on the same question. It is taken from splen- did little periodical entitled Grown Heights Comment which is publish ed by the Grown Heights School of Catholic Workmen in Brooklyn.
 "A New York City labor leader, with an Irish name, a Communist card in his pocket and @ brogue on his tongue that is as thick as tooth- paste was invited to address group of working men who were in the process of forming a union.
 After listening to the lit of the Gaelic linguist for an hour one of the audience who hailed from sum- ny Italy said In disgust: What for do they send these foreigners to talk-he no speaka the English"
 "Only tho Indians aye the natives. but We all think our own racial group are the only true Americans. It is time we sent those Indians back where they came from"