Governor Smith's reply entitled "Catholic and patriot" published in the Atlantic monthly, May 1927 and reprinted in "Progressive democracy: speeches and state papers of Alfred E. Smith" under the heading "Religious liberties" is not reprinted here, owing to restrictions of the copyright law. The document in the latter publication is given the status of a state paper and it is in recognition of that status that it is considered in the following pages. cf. Pref.