Catholic Influence and the Panama Canal
"The American Citizen" of November 2 declares that the first man Mr. Roosevelt saw after his operation was the Roman Catholic priest, Father Vattman; that on Friday, October 25, altho other visitors were denied him, three prominent Roman Catholics, Robert Collier, Peter Dunn, and Mark Sullivan, were admitted. Of course it has been known for a long time that one of Mr. Roosevelt's special friends is Father Curran, of Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. The American Citizen declares that eighty per cent of the Catholic vote went for Mr. Taft. Even a paper that is demanding more and more battle-ships thinks that it is an incongruous thing that the first ship to pass through the Panama Canal is to be a man-of-war, that the canal itself ought to stand for commerce instead of for destruction. But everything is turned to war these days.