"Shouting, Yelling, Screaming"

Last week Father Coughlin reached Manhattan in his political barnstorming tour, made a loud speech to a $17,000 audience in Madison Square Garden (see p. 17). Next day a stern voice in Massachusetts rasped: "All those disturbing voices, the shouting, yelling and screaming, are so unbecoming to anyone who occupies the place of a teacher in Christ's Church that even the quality of their voices betrays them. They are hysterical."

Boston's stout-hearted old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, who did not bother to mention Father Coughlin by name, is the radio priest's highest-placed Catholic critic. So the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was well aware what the "dean of the U.S. hierarchy" meant when he addressed their meeting: "There are a million ways in which any citizen of America can voice his views, but it ought to be done with self-respecting honesty and, above all, the proper respect due to superiors. . . . Oftentimes the faith of our good people is tested by those shouters and shriekers who would be much better occupied by bringing peace and concord among the Christian people of the land, and not anarchy and disturbance and discontent."

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