262 ANDREW J. SHIPMAN MEMORIAL 



grow and expand and so impress itself upon our fellow-citi- 

 zens that no question which concerns the citizen of to-day 

 or of to-morrow, or which concerns the policy, acts and needs 

 of our common country at any time, shall be considered, acted 

 upon or decided without Catholic representatives in every walk 

 in life to take counsel with their fellow-citizens. If the great 

 needs of life and civic conduct are to be met, we should stand 

 as a necessary and important part among those who are to 

 meet them. In this way may our country best count upon 

 our service, for we shall be 



"Those that by their deeds will make it known 



Whose dignity they do sustain; 



And life, state, glory, all they gain, 

 Count the republic's, not their own." 



