Show J I DEMAGOGUE I ANew York telegram says that on 4 Sunday Blaine was waited upon by a j delegation of Catholics who called to extend congratulations upon the manner i tr t man-ner in which inliis New Haven speech j he had referred to Rev Dr Burehards i remarks at the meeting of alleged ministers j min-isters in New York ifetrvfcdk In reply 1 Mr Blame said t Relieibuslibelry is the absoliitelawbf our land Freedom oT Conscience is the I 4 inalienable right 6f every American 1 q citizen native or naturalized Whoever violates that freedom strikes at the I foundation of the republic As a Protestant < 1 Pro-testant I demand for the Catholic precisely i pre-cisely the same liberty of action the I j same respect for conscientious belief I that I claim for myself Perfect religious S i1 relig-ious liberty is the highest attainment i I i our free Constitution and that liberty j i implies mutual tolerance respect for l vp each othcr rights of conscience and a 1 j generouTsspirit of Christian charity IIi I-Ii that speech were not applauded it should have been it should be repeated i zii in every church in the land and echoed from shore to shore of the continent t t But while applauding the sentiment t f wouldnt it bo just as well to ask the i man who expressed it if he sincere f Mr Blaine stands upon a platform that I strikes the blow at the foundation of the I republic which he declares would be I I Lt struck by one who violates the in alienable alien-able right freedom of conscience he is the leader of a party that boasts a mission O to punish freedom of conscience by II WD striking at a religion his party during Iii the whole course of its existence has been trying to strike that blow at the II < 1 J foundation of the nation Blaine I i v has done his share of striking I j I1ni at religious liberty one prominent fi rn paragraph in his letter accepting the 1 j r j3ie nomination was an appeal to the coun I i Ifl try r to ontinu to sttikeat fruedom off of-f L I concicnc l cthnpzign seclie J iae I Id contained many blows at religious I II Uin1 iibcrty I 1 Isnt thiS man the rankest of emoI L Cogues He would preqcji religious j dowt liberty to the Catholics because he f W he1 wantSthCCatJlplicstcr yote forruim bet be-t iici would deny rSigiousaIibftrtj fa the IIi I-Ii 11tH ti J u If Mormons because he wants the endorsement en-dorsement and votes of the Protestant churches that hate the 3lormonli would have religious liberty anc freedom of conscience when they can be made to serve the selfish purposes of James G Blaine he would deny freedom of conscience am religious liberty when by so doing he can help James G Blaine If tlie Mormons Mor-mons controlled the votes that the Catholics have Bl inc would bid > for them by demanding that the Saints be protected in their religion Of all the bad things in politics the demegoguc is the worst |