Then, while the audience were still puzzling what the last words meant,
he suddenly indulged in one of those abrupt transitions for which he
was famous, and burst out:
"Down with foreigners! We Catholics know what foreigners are, how they
work for evil in places high and low. One cannot take up a daily paper
without seeing some exposure of their many-sided viciousness. They
contaminate the land with their godless depravity. Nobody can count on
immunity. The highest officials in the land, the very Ministers of the
Crown, are subjected to their vile disguised attempts at bribery and
corruption, no humble peasant girl, no child, is safe from the
befoulment of their filthy minds. We know them--our police records, the
archives of our Courts of Justice, testify to their demoralizing
agency. A pest, a contagion! Who can tell what proposals were made in
this particular case--what degrading proposals, backed by the insidious
offer of foreign gold? A weak character might have succumbed. But the
victim was made of different stuff.
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