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We Are Constantly in Receipt of Important Letters Which Are Too Long for Our Limited Space. Brevity is Absolutely Essential to Publication Taft a Trimmer Eprror or Live: I would like to ask Mr. W. J. MeCaf- ferty, of California, through Lire, if “he belongs to a religion which teaches re- spect for all duly constituted authority, and there are no more loyal citizens in the United States than Catholics,” how is it that 75 per cent. of the criminals in the United States are members or were born in that faith? If they are such loyal citizens as their religion teaches them, why are they driven out of other countries? Why is it that En: land won't tolerate them? Why are they driven out of Spain, Portugal and France? Taft is a trimmer of the cheap- est Sort. Any one in office who tries to catch a vote of any special sect or creed ceases to be a man and becomes a poli- tician of the cheapest sort. Taft joined the Masonic fraternity in 1908, after he was nominated, although he had de- clined many years before that to be- come a Mason. So I say again he is a trimmer. Respectfully yours, L. M. Haxpy. Tarrax, N.Y. June 10, 1912. Foreign or Domestic ? Dear Lire: A frequent reader of your paper, I notice in your issue of July 11th a letter by W. J. McCafferty, of San Francisco. He says, “The writer calls the (Roman) Catholic a forcign religion. Why is it forcign any more than any other? Were Luther, Calvin and Henry VIII. Ameri- cans? They were not when I learned history.” Of course, no one who has ever learned history to any extent be- lieves the silly slander that Henry VIII. founded the Anglican Church, but, ad- mitting that Luther and Calvin, who really did start new systems, were for- cigners, I should like to remind Mr. Me- Cafferty that when I learned history I found that they had been a long time dead. Their systems seem to have be- come more or less indigenous here. But Pius X. is not dead. Quite late- ly he conferred some red headgear on three American citizens, and it is claimed that this has given them the standing of temporal princes. Princes of what power? Native or foreign? _For- cign, of course, since we confer no titles of nobility. The Church of Rome claims the right through the Pope to absolve citizens and subjects from their oaths of allegiance. He claims for himself and for his agents the honors due to a temporal sovercign ond his representatives. The American executive who caters to such an organization is catering to a foreign denomination, and he may be called a trimmer with perfect justice. Joc. M. Lyxponvittr, Vr., July 10, 1912. Encouraging Words Epttor oF Lire: Dear Sir: Live, with its wonted idea of humor, celebrated the Fourth of July by trying to set off some small fire- works, regarding an editorial (Review of Rev May, 1912), relating to the ad- vantage of having a doctor attached to the staff of the daily newspaper. Lire suggests that there might be possessed a reporter. Inasmuch as the work of hospitals is serious, and for the public welfare, honest inquiries are wel- comed. Sincere criticisms are received with pleasure by those vitally interested in life. There is no doubt that if Lir possessed an intelligent and honest re- porter, free from editorial reins, he ht be of some service in securing the un-blue-penciled publication of the hospital news in Lire itself. When the truths regarding vaccina tion, experimental medicine, serum treat- ment and similar facts are assimilated by Lire so that its columns will cease to delude and stultify its readers it might then, with value to itself, take up the form of propaganda it suggests. Ira S. Wire, Editor Medical Review of Reviews. New Yorx, July 16, 1912. Some of the Reasons Epitor or Lire: As Mr. Henry C. Read has asked in your issue of June 13 for the opinion of your non-Roman Catholic readers, I may perhaps be permitted briefly to mention some of the reasons why the Roman Church is regarded with distrust by the great majority of American citizens First, because the authorities of that communion vigorously oppose the Ameri- can public-school system, and endeavor to destroy or weaken that “ bulwark of our liberties” by demanding a division of part of the public tax for the support of their own sectarian schools. Sec- ondly, because they are notedly hostile to (Continued on page 1369) MAMMA BULLION, HAVING LOST ONE DAUGHTER AND A CHAUFFEUR THIS SUMMER, DETERMINES TO TAKE NO MORE CHANCES comicbookeoe