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Show THE CITIZEN With it vanishes the hope of influencing Republicans to vote the Democratic ticket. In consequence, The Progressive Magazine and is admitted error has its (Chicago) openly now supporting Hoover. The political sky is clearing as interest in the campaign awakens. It augurs well for an election r' free from prejudice. , RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE. FOLLOWING the receipt of many protests from the United States, as the result of the Chicago Daily Tribune reprinting articles published by the Unita Cattolica at Rome, boosting Gov. Smith, the Unita Cattolica has announced that it will not mention the subject again. The Chicago Daily Tribune reprinted five articles, more or less on the same subject, which began on June 13th and ran until July 13th, when, as above stated, it was announced, in view of the protests received, the Unita Cattolica, would cease to say more on the subject. One article was headed Hoover or Smith. Two days later another article appeared entitled The Future Host of the White House. This article stated among other things: Owing to the interdependence of nations and continents, we cannot disinterest ourselves from this fact because North America, more and more mixes m European life and because the Democratic candidate will probably be a Catholic, Alfred Smith. Again on July 7th, a further article appeared on the front page signed B. Galetto and headed: The United States and Europe. The Florence paper printed the third article pointing out that the presidential decision this year is likely to make a decisive turn in the political history of the United States: There was a reaction against Wilsons and his Pacific Utopias could no longer mask and protect the enormous accumulation of wealth torn away from the battlefields of Europe and sometimes economic factors are revenge for the violation of moral laws. But the gold accumulated in American safes has become unproductive and industrial production has stagnated and perished on the docks for lack of buyers. The same article stated that efforts are being made in the United States to give spiritual life and higher tone: Thus, a progressive tendency toward Catholic thought and Catholic Churches has been established. That phenomenon is the logical expression of the possibility for the first time in the history of the United States of a Catholic candidature for the presidency. We cannot investigate the entire nature of the Catholicism of Alfred Smith, as this would require a perfect knowledge of the facts and local conditions to be able to give an exact opinion on some of his statements. But as his Catholic candidature is strongly opposed by Masonry and the Ku Klux Klan criminals, it is evident that Smith represents a morally and just current. We are rather far from hoping for victory of a Catholic candidate. Perhaps because conditions in the United States are not yet ripe and because against a Catholic candidature will move all the hidden and open forces of the Old Puritan Anglo-Saxo- n tradition, which, so far, has directed the ship of state, and which sees in the Smith attack a threat forever against its supremacy. However, the triumph of the American Catholics is in the logic of events and will be a reality tomorrow. It is a question of time. At any rate, the admirable fight has a very high significance because it is the American Catholics fight for integral conquest of citizenship in their country. Much has been said about religious tolerance. The Catholics are accusing the Protestants of rank intolerance. Yet, so long as Catholic papers, both foreign and domestic, say so much about the subject and also say so much against the op Euro-peanis- . po-litica- m, lly 5 ponent of Governor Smith, how do they expect the Protestants to show religious tolerance? It is evident that the Caholic Church expects everyone of its members to vote for Governor Smith, though many of them have been Republicans all their lives, simply because he is a Catholic. Is this religious tolerance? Absolutely no. It is religious domination. It is very doubtful if there would have been nearly so much pressure brought to bear against Governor Smith because of his religious views if the Catholics themselves had not had so much to say. Surely there is no necessity for running down either candidate. Both Herbert Hoover and Governor Smith are splendid American gentlemen with fine records behind them. It should be a matter of party politics and not religious tolerance or religious triumph- - The Catholics should change their tactics if they expect the Protestants to show them tolerance. This is not a religious fight but a political one and the Catholics themselves are largely to blame for the religious point being raised. WHAT WILL HE DO? Many people are asking this question about President Coolidge what will he do when he leaves the White House ? No one need be concerned in the least degree about the President. His services will be in great demand and he will be one person in the country who will not have to show any credentials as to his character nor capacity for work. As Bob Washburn says One who has never lost either rubber in the mind as President, with 250,000,000 eyes fastened upon him, some quite uncharitable, has shown some capacity for keeping out of trouble. There have been times when some have said rather unkind things about President Coolidge but they have learned, as time went on, that they were wrong in their opinions and have grown to not only respect but love him. Throughout his administration he has demonstrated that everything he did was done be cause he earnestly believed it was the best thing to do for the country and the people as a whole. Some of his actions are not yet fully understood and appreciated by many, but they will be later on, and the name of Calvin Coolidge will go down in history not only as that of one of the greatest presidents America has ever had, but as one of the really great men of all time. A CHINESE' VIEWPOINT. LEN SHOW GOW of Seattle gives his view on the offer of a new treaty to his country as follows: only as smart politics. No counin the world attempts to keep the Chinese in We take try it an inferior position as much as the United States, with the possible exception of Australia. A united China, when the wounds of the present civil war are healed, will insist on reciprocal treatment. We will make it as hard for the American, Australian, and Canadian to get to China as for our people to come here. Great Britain is more respected in China, outside the Red element, than any American. Japan is more refepected. We Chinese know that the present gesture of America to China is a cheap effort to fool China at the expense of other nations. So long as your Asiatic exclusion laws are in force there can be no love in China for the United States. All Americas efforts to build trade at the expense of other nations will amount to nothing. In your estimation we are an inferior people. The people of China resent it, and will continue to resent it. 400,-000,0- 00 ITS GOTTEN so that if a murderer doesnt plead insanity, his lawyer ought to have a head examination. CORPORATION RETRENCHING. SUN-MAI- D Recently the raisin association of California decided to pick only half of this years crop in order to stabilize the market. The supply was far greater than the demand and has been for sometime. Now word comes that the Sunland Sales Corporation of Fresno are retrenching consolidating departments eliminating departments and dismissing a great many of their expensive help as well as reducing the size of their offices. What does all this mean? We hear so much about more wine being made than ever before but this situation hardly bears this out, especially in view of the fact that the people of the United States, and we might include the Continent as well, have been educaed to the use of raisins in cookery to a degree where they consume for this purpose ten times the amount that thy did before the war. OUR TREATMENT OF THE INDIANS. TILL THE WHITE MEN came, land titles were, unknown to the North American Indians. In the valleys, on the plains, land was too plentiful to develop any notion of commercial value. Let a tract be cultivated, and, with ho one to want it other than the occupant, of what use was ownership? Gradually, we forced the red men into barren areas, where the soil, yielded scantily, if at all. We gave them title to their acres. Minerals, oil and timber have made some of them valuable. More than ninety million dollars in cash and securities, the property of the Indians, are in the control of the Indian Bureau at Washington, and one billion six hundred million dollars in land and personal property. two hundred and twenty-fivThe Indians thousand of them the wards of the government, and their property is being managed by the Bureau, supposedly in their behalf. Complaints of mismanagement are frequent. Personally, too, they are subjugated. Separation of parents and children is common. Starvation and disease have crept in upon them. Congress has endowed the Indians with citizenship, but still they remain branded as incompetents. We assume no such attitude toward the Filipinos, Hawaiians, Porto Ricans, nor Virgin Islanders. When we emancipated the Negro, we did not deem it necessary to keep him under su. . e pervision. Much is said of Spains treatment of the Indians in Latin American countries. Our treatment of the Indians in the United States has been even worse. We have looked upon them simply as savages, making little effort to understand them. Our ignorance of their finer qualities is deplorable. Ruthlessly, wantonly, we slaughtered the buffalo, though the Indians took care to kill no more than they needed for meat. About all we tfave left them is the privilege of climbing the mountains and reading their doom in the set- ting sun. Our treatment of the red man is a thing of which posterity may well be ashamed. The least we can do is to end this disgraceful tutelage now, adopting sane measures for its speedy consummation. TOUGH ON DAN CUPID. THE STATE of Washington has passed a new vehicle law to the effect that It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle upon the highways of this State when such person has in his or her embrace another person which prevents the free and unhampered operation of the car. Parking, however, is still permissible, if you dont leave your car on the paved, improved or main traveled portion of the public highway. . |