ON THE COMING MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
| Archbishop's House, {Montreul, 21st January, 1910.
Dearly Beloved Brethren.
In à few days vou shall be called vu to discharge one of the most important of Your civic duties, the election of the Administrators of the City's affairs. The Purport of this letter is to rge upon You the necessity of doing your duty & Conscience an: honor dictate.
lhe sccurrences of the past few months prompt Us to give special directions as to how you should act under the CrCungtances.
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International Eucharistic Congress about whieh I have
often spoken to vou of lute will be held here next Septem-
er The enthusiasm it has aroused on all sides is inost con- Su indeed. From x national and a religious point of view
the derionstrations Mill be an inealculab'a boon. In Faith and
Charity should we alt be united. It is not for Us to interfere
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in the choice of candidates As the Eucharistic Congress, however, is apparently one of the planks of the coming elections. — Non-Catholies themselves have proved that such is the case by an act which does them honor -— We declure that it would grieve Us very much were the Mayoralty to
be contested on racial or national grounds. We trust that
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Candidates and Electors alike shall view the matter from a
loftier standpoint.
The members of the Board ot Control and of the Municipal
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Council should be upright Citizens, gentlemen whose honesty
and moral lives are above suspicion, We want disinterested
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men, proof against all corrupt practices, men of courage who will see that the laws of publie morality are enforced.
It is useless to deny the fact that there are amongst us
followers of sects condemned by the Church. If they do not come out boldly and assert their principles they are far from being idle. Their writings and speeches as well as their tacties are on indication of their spirit and aims.
Their ambition is to transplant over here, amidst our Uod-
