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horror of being so mean. The nurse herself was Irish and Catholic and a very nice women - a splendid, fine woman. The people who kept servants had Irish servants all right. There was no objection to that. All they objected to was their being there, taking jobs from other people and so on.

The APA must have been the crest of the Ku Klux Klan movement. It was based on the same principles. I've never studied its background. I just know that it was a terrible thing. The Orangemen organized. I saw a parade in the streets of Boston with a little red schoolhouse carried around. At that time the APA was agitating because the poor, struggling, little Catholic parishes with poor people with poor priests working themselves to skin and bones had got together with their parishioners and had built a little red schoolhouse. They had a little parochial school so that their children would be taught according to the Catholic faith and be taught the Catholic religion.

Then came the Orangemen, who were the north of Ireland Irish and Scotch. They were also immigrants, but saw their way to success by joining in with the APA. They made a great fuss about the fact that something was going to happen to the little red schoolhouse because of the fact that the Irish were building little parochial schools for their children to go to.





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