Send a Letter Like This to Your Congressmen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 3, 1914

Send a Letter Like This to Your Congressmen

Honorable .........................,

Washington, D. C

Dear Sir:

Having learned that Roman Catholics throughout the country propose to unite in a demand upon Congress for the enactment of a special law excluding anti-Catholic publications from the United States mails, and that they advocate the use of the threat that they “cannot support at the polls an administration which is so remiss in its duty as to allow such filthy sheets to use the money of American citizens to circulate their venomous slanders,” as a citizen of the United States I protest against this un-American movement.

Protestants have not asked for any laws protecting them against the abuse of their religion by Roman Catholics, and there is no sufficient cause for special action by Congress upon this question. Existing laws have been deemed sufficient for protection against libelous or slanderous statements in the public press, and any additional legislation is not only uncalled for, but will work serious injury. The First Amendment to the Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech or of the press,” and I respectfully but earnestly urge that you will not be induced by the clamor or the threats of religious partisans to favor any measure which, either in form or in spirit, would have even the semblance of violating this Constitutional provision.

Yours very truly,

Send a Letter Like This to Your Congressmen

December 8 has been selected by Roman Catholics for “a nation-wide protest by mail” to Congress, calling for legislation that will bar Protestant periodicals from the United States mails. Mail a letter at once to your Congressmen; Postmaster-General, Hon. A. S. Burleson; Secretary of State, Hon. W. J. Bryan; and Hon. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, Washington, D. C. For further particulars, read article “Letters, Laws, and Logic,” pages 498-501 of the November Protestant Magazine.