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Show SUCH AMERICANS! I An organization of persons known as I the "New England Society, in New I , I York," had their annual dinner the other day at the Waldorf-Astoria. It j was almost exclusively a British per- ! ; formance from beginning to end. There t 1 were British Hags and speeches against 1 . the Boers and toasts and songt in honor f of "our gracious queen," that is, Queen : Victoria of England. These men, then, are not Americans, but Englishmen, since they declare that f the queen of England is their queen. If i she is their queen, they are her eub- , 1 1 jeets, and in professing to be Ameri- i s cans they are hypocrites or liars; X rather, perhaps, as Americans, they j are traitors. One of them, President I . Howland, made a speech, and, "allud- I ing to the early oelonists" in New Eng- land, he said that, "unlike the Boers f in the Transvaal, they had given later j comers a chance." Very true, but what !. j. I sort of a chance? A chance to clear f out if they, the "later comers," did not . agree with the "early colonists" as to the place to go on Sunday. If the "later I i comer" were a Quaker, he had to skip I mighty quick. If the "later con.tr" were ' a Catholic Priest, he was tarred and " feathered. If the "later comer" were a "witch," she was burned at the stake. The hideous bigotry and intolerance of "New England" toward "later comers" j continued down to our own times, and I are still active among persons of the Rowland "New England Society" stamp. It is not very lon since a Catholic would have no more chance of petting any public office in Boston even on the police force than an In- dian or a Chinaman. Such was the sort of "chance" the "eariy colonists" in New England gave "inter comers." There is not in the world's hVtory a parailal for the bigotry end intolerance of those same New England "early colonists." In the. list of persons at the dinner of those traitor? trait-or? and bijrots we find the name of Judae- Morgan J. O'Brien. He was in the wrong place for a man of his nationality. na-tionality. True, he "remained seated" during the song and toast in honor of the "gracious queen." In this disgraceful disgrace-ful performance, at least, he took no part. That was good, but it would have been better if he Bad not been there at all. A man of Irish blood ought not to fit down and dine under British flags and in the company of bigots and traitors. trait-ors. FATHER LAMBERT. |