The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1895, Page 13

- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1895 FATHER YORKE REPLIES TO DR W, W, CASE, The Cathelics’ Champion Re- views the Contro- Versy. HIS DEFENSE OF SPAIN, Its Triumphs tin the Arts of Civ- ilization Graphically Told. LINCOLN AKD TRE CATHOLI(CS. John Wesley aud the British Flag. | Spirited Answer to G. A. Hubbell. _ Tl_le Rev. Peter C. Yorke subixitsthe fol- lowing letter in answer to the late com- munications of the Rev. W. W. C and G. A. Hubbell: cember U/—DEAR SiE: Once rd to support the on last Sunda’ , 1895. 0 the Editor-of the ( Dr. Case ations h he he Cethiolic Chureh. - He writes many s shout his own sunny disposition and ¢ manifold ‘in er. I do not i are. subjects which interest your uno doubt another Mark appy under the most de- , and 1 acknowledge >d that stage of holy contemy e 0 e info s jungle of dealing now ‘with spe- cific proofs. The it siaine said nothing about and I eannot im- is mother-in- . The fact s just as irrelevan L Case’s 1 weighs several tons. gn to the controver aside_once and straight at the point took to prove. ion which has brought out these nple one. Last Sunddy Dr. Case under the aispices of the Political Romanism.” pted to prove that the urch is a political its object 1 and religious freedom. gnment was a rope of thre tions; (b) statement To the bold asse iy rested = 1 s )r. Case’s r is worth tention. quot otoriously host were said 10 be i 1ave n hing to do v I our enemies owing as fac e d Government d to walk and kneel in ncessious unaer penaity > of the nations, tyranny of. the ; they have been hop Hughes was to destroy the : inated by posed the re- against the Governfent of George I11. IL ALLEGED QUOTATIONS. of our own termed quota- Roman Catholic authorities. hurch a fo hepherd of he quoted ok i hat t Review for rds which deny York Tablet he quoted the persecution of Prot- e quoted words which dominat um of o the answer & CONCERNING FACT No. 1. e authority offered by Dr. Case for fact was what he termed “missionary 1 impugned nis authority by r <IONRTY Teports” of his About this gentleman th d it that he was p e, ged to obey the reports. Ting to the *m 1. H. Neison. is- rsecuted he sume 1 was not state led- for blackguardly behevior in the pu sireets and for blackguardly writing in 1S papers. 2 g To this Dr. Case makes answer this morning: Iy critic has not proven that his slanderous es against Rev. J. W. Nelson have & intilla of truth in them, end he never can e rove it > The burden of proof liés upon me. When I ms positive assertion and. Dr. Case denies it 1am i to produce my suthor: My chirge includes three points: (@) J. H. Nelson was not persecuted for conscience sake. (b) J. E. Nelson misbehaved on the public streets. (¢} J. H. Neison wrote blackguardly articles in hiis paper. Here are my proofs. (a) There is no ution for conscience cake in Brazil. Religious liberty is granted by the laws of that country both for private belief and public worship, for the sale of Protestant Ribles, books and. tracts, and even for the pub- lishing of & Methodist newspaper. A call on the Brazilion Consul will verify this statemient. The following quotation from ‘Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil” etc., by Mr. Daniel. P. Kidder, agent of the Methodist Episcopal Missionary ety in 1845 (vol. 1, page 147), may be satisfactory to Dr. Case. He sa: “The Brazilians, on their political nthrallment, adopted a' liberal and toler- anteonstitution, Although it made the Ro- man Catholic_apostolic religicn that of ihe Etate, yet it allowed all other forms of religion o be hela and practiced. save in buildings “hav 17 ihe exterior form of a tempie.’ It aiso 1 Citholic country onm whege there prevails a greater degree of toler- ation or a greater liberality of feeling toward Frotestants.” (5) Justus H. Nelson, then, could not have ‘been persecuted for conscience sake, as such persecution is against the law, was aga.nst the Jaw in.1845 and was more specifically forbid- ‘den sipce the revolution. What, then, brought him into trouble? Here is the fact. Justus H, Nelson.went out_into the public streets on * the oceasivn f a religious procession. He was 1iot compeiled to attend this procession, end if he wished to look at it he shouid hiave behaved asagentleman. This be did not do and some of the bystanders knocked his hat off. This fact I give on the authority of Justus H. Nelson nimself. Will Dr. Case deny it? {c) Enraged by the outrage offered his feel- * ings and his hat, the Rev. J. H. Nelson retired 6415 ranctum and proceeded to denounce and ridgicale the religion of the peorple as “super- :* gtitious mummeries” and “idolatry of tue “: Virgln” lle also arraigned the Bishops and as impostors and as protectors of open The Brazilian priests did not propose to y stand thatkind of thing, so the Rev. J. . son was arrested for aefamation and disturb- ance of the peace and was seiitenced to a few % vee impAisomment tn t. Joseph’s Jail, give on the authority of the Does the Rev. se facts 1 New York Christian Advocate. W. W. Case deny them? 9. Afier impugning his authority I dealt with his main statement: “In Spain naval officerd snd Government employes are com- pelled to walk and kneel in religions preces- sions under penalty of eight y’nn in a convict rison.” pln answer { stated that unless as a police escort naval officers are not compelled to at- eight - i the church and | - | gs fie is of common semse he would not have tend processions. 1 published a letter from Mr. Alvarez, edicor of the 8panish paper, den ing Dr. Case’s assertion most emphatical AsDr. Case made the positive assertion the onus probandi lay upon him. He refuses to accept it. He ignores his first assertion end wriggleson to new ground this morning in bis second proposition: “He has nmot proven that religious liberty in Spain makes it com- fortable for Protestant teachers there.” Now, Mr. Editor, 1 do not think I am com- pelled to follow Rev. W. W. Case as he dodges from navai officers to teachers and from pro- cessions to preachers. However, I do not wish to give him the slightest chance to get off. He is cornered, and wriggle how be may he shall not escape. 5 Let me first quote from A. T. Wallis, an American_and a Protestant. In his ‘‘Spain— H Institutions, Politics and Public Men,” hed in Boston by Ticknor, Reed & Fields, , on pages 288 to 290 I find the following: A stranger might pass a year in any part of Spaln that I have visited without hearing a single inquiry as to his religious opinions or being troubled by one impertinent intcrference with the entire freedom of his religious action. If a man assist at any re igious service or ceremonial, he is juired to rake no more than that respectfal and rous part which good breeding, of itself, would t 1o every gentlemsn. Whether he will o not is a matter entirely within his dis cretion. No one wili notice. his absence—certainly 10 oue will remind him of it. Now aod then he may meet a clergyman upon the street with the viaticum,and Le will be ex- pectel to kneel,or at all evenis uncover, as it If his piety or his convictions forbid Lim s, he can get himself into a doorway or & by-sireet, where he will find some very good Cath- olics doitig the seme thing, on account of their kuees, which he i3 dotug for is consclence. If this r but it is to be Loped that in suca case he ay notning about toieraiion. 1 am sorry it, but my observation of Protestant iy, in Catkolic countries, has been of them claimn the privilege of n all occasions (heir contempt for the reli those about them. I heve seen it atiempted and, rried-out, over and over again by per- 20 had every obligation 1o know better in hedrals ana during the most solemn ic myself, acts of o I Tciaim 1o ~uy this without prejudice. In Spain The people in the servi agd the t those who desire to witness their ce 1d at least abstain from the manifestation of ir During v truey e t very long, iti ¢ me some op! ber to bave b ought (0 have any sincere but rational s to Spain- enough to g st suggestion of Ly Lvery one seemed willing 1o (axe Lis own cha: and o ailow me the s i By some th certainly d to take ic Some of the b i ives wouid somet 3 cling of the nation bad dimin mness haa 0f iate grows gen- to think quite wi.l- w th which their devo- 1 at any temperature they preferred. As to the position of the Protestant preach- | ers or teachers in Spain let me call ou Edward E. Hale. In “sSeven Spanish Cities” (Boston. Koberts Brothers, 1883; this distinguished au- thor gives & description of a tour through the i which he made in that year. In e attended & Protestant chrirch, and itl: the priest after he had t He told me that on himself 0 enter into thac he reserved all & or all justification o ices on week days. 1d & larger assembly Alas! | knew omy 100 well chauces are that more men wiil come to a will meet to pray. But, all the sume, I | ad 10 have jouied with his colony of rshipers than I should bave r bis best kuock-down coufuia s sutellites, priest-ridden Spain the Protestant e full liberty to piich into the their hear and the people hem. sether this liberty forwable for Protesiant teachersor y. lsuspect that pitching into nfortable a proceeding | i *viiie 8s 11 is In San Francisco, and Dr. | Case protests that he is s merry as a grig. Mr. Edilor, ere my snswers 10 Dr. ts ubout religious liberty me again remind hun that he can hoie peninsula through for an ex- ts.de by side with t which mewmbers of his oy 1 utilctéd ou the Advent- ists in Maryland, in ‘iennessee, in Outario. Why does not Dr. Case reier to these things? Why does he 40t DIOtest agains: the contempti- ble proceedings indulged i by Methodist ehure ceacons and elders ‘were con- stituted & commiitee of espial 10 irap the Ad- ventists at their work on Suidaysand then put i Clear your ow! rts, Dr. Case. your own hands 1o the light, 0 that ple may see on them the dirt you wouid fling a1 us. Do 1ot go to Spain for examples of intolerance. You wili find cases enougl, and ases, 100, BMOLE YOUr own peopie and s iand. CONCERNING FACT NoO. 2, The secona taci produced by Dr. Case was, «“spain 18 sull low in the scale of the natio i1 on account of the tyranny of the Rom- ystem.” Tuls,"as you see, Mr. Eaitwr, is lirmative proposition and the duty of it ues ou Dr. Case. What iS asserted Without reason may be denied without reason. Houwever, in my auswer I showed irum histor- fcsl facts that when Spain was most Cathoiic Sue was mos. poweriul. She discovered Amer- ica, she colonized it, she beld the supremacy of nasiy Eufope in arms, in literature, in art, when was most devoted 10 the Romish m, ds erted, in all thearts of civilization, in ic and in private moraiity, she is tne peer of any nation under heaven. To all of Dr. Case replies this morning, “He has t proven thai bpuin is not low in the scele of | | DALOLS NOT can he ever prove it.” 1submit again, Mr. Editor, that the obliga- n of proviug it does not’ jie ou me. Dr. ase hus made an asseriion. I nave chal- lenged 1t. if he were not as destitute o1 logie attempted to Hoat his fulsehood u secorid time. Logic communds bim 10 subsiastiate his as- sertions or to withuraw them. His abnormal fatnity drives him to launen his unseaworthy bottoins in & new gale o1 wind However, even inough I might stand on my rients, 8110 content mysei with mere denials, having pinned Dr. Case in a corver, I wisk 10 {1ie him down for good. Ido not Know what | be means by, “low in the scale of the nations,” but I will quote for you frow Protestant writers some appreciations uf the Spanish people. 1. I suppose tnat one of tne first coarpeter- istics which lifts up a people in the scule of nations is & love for liberty. Let me quote from Wallis, p. 383: The sense of personal inaependence is as high and scrupuious |inSpainj as it can be anywhere, e, fing OUr OWN COUN:rs. And ihere s a element, 100, n ihe character and man- he spaniards, which 1 believe exists no- where else at ihe degree in which they possess it. Your American ciiizen will concede t6 yo , it you as. him (0 d0 80, that Other people are as good as he. Butthis 18 noi the principle which he sets chiefly foruh In hislife aud conversauion. It is the reverse of the medal—it is th conviction, the praciical demonstration, that he is as good s other people. He will not deny—he dares not deny— the equality of others with himself; but he goes RoOUL always asserilng his equasiity With others. The =pahiard, on che contrary, has a sense of equality which blesses him who gives as weil as him who taxes. 1f he requires tue conces- sion irom ohers, he demauds 1L, chiefly and em- phaticaliy, through the concessions which he makes (0 (hem. There was much seif-respect in- volveu in his Tespect 1O others, and in his mani- festation Of it that reciprocity is unavoidable. o, this, and this mainly, is attributable the high, cour- teous bearing whicii ls conspicuous in ail the peo- pie, and which renders the persoual intercourse of the respective classes and conditions less marked by stroug and invidious disiinctious than it any nat.on With whose manners and customs I aw familiar Edward Everett Hale, speaking of Aragon, says, page 206: It was a sei of thoroughly independent people and . he local independence still subsisis’ When a king visus them they make a pointof showing somehow that they do not forget their old privi: Jeve. It is hiére that belongs the famous old formula of corvhation, so often cited, “We, every one of whom is 88 g00d as you, and who all together are much better than you, Swear Lo ODEY you as our king as long &8 you respect our rights and privi- leges. 1f not, no.” As a matter of fact, no country in the world is less susceptible to absolutism in govern- ment than Spain. It was never s® governed and never could be. 2, Popular happiness is another test which datermines a_ nation’s place in the scale of na- tions. Itis & remarkable fact that there are less suicides in Spain than in any other coun- try in the world. N. L. Thieblin was sent to Spain in 1873 as correspondent of the New York Herald. In his book, “Spain and the Speniards,’” he says about the Spanish people, pages 377, 3782 The_English are proud of the amount of work they sire capabie of performing, but the Spaniards are of the opinion that the English cannot help working; for if they did not, they would ail have to hang (hemselves, so dull 18 this country; while Spain, everybody knows, is Paradise, and man has noueed towork in Paradise. No, the people are not in an +awful state.” The national existence is proceeding in its usual course: e has something to eat, a house, & more or less some Wife, a 1ot of children, and would not chan, existence for & much more cos e one in the best-regulated_country in the world, ¢ * % All over the country both poor and rich walk quietly about, enjoying life. *# ¢ * The thorough ab- sence of any chauce of making money in the | school ‘system _of this countr | with ‘murdering & man fity years ago, and | English or American fashion makes everybody in- different and quiet, and the natural fertility of the s0il and the Spanish climae do the rest. When we consider the destitution and the sorrow and the sin which have marked for their own the peoples of nations whom Dr. Case would account high in the scale, we can appreciate the value of Mr. Thieblin’s testi- mony. (8.) Morality is still another testimony to & nation’s edvancement. Speaking of Spanish women Mr. Thieblin says: When you come to know these women you will not ouly sdmire them, but you will actually ex- perieuce the contagion of iheir viriue. At all @vents 1 must contess that in no country in Europe —and I bave seen them all—have I found such pure enjoyment in intercourse with ladies as in Spain. ¢°¢ ¥ Such a thing a3 & voung irl marrying for money, or for any social considera- ton, 1s almost_unknown in Spain, % ¥ ¥ Married, ste is, I believe, as a rule, the most trathful'and loving woman on earth, and should her life prove an unhappy one, no one will ever know it, for she will never carry her complaints either tO a divorce court ot o the apartments of & paramour. Concerniug & point on which Dr. Case has been expressing himself very lately, especially when he declared that hell was only a few inches beneath the sidewalksof San Francisco, Mr. Thieblin remarks: » So you mean to say that there is neither immo- rality nor aduitery in Spain? the reader may ask. No, that is not what I mean to say; but what I do mean to say is, that the comparative percentage 0t professional vice and of general looseness of morals is much jower in Spawn_than in any other country in liurope. The best proof of this is, that ihe so- called demi-monde, or the kept women, are un- known, evenin Madrid itself. There are fallen womer in the capital of Kpain, and in a couple of the large Lowns 0f the peniusuia: but the total of | proatitutes thronghout the couniry is, I believe, much under the number we can daily meet in one leasing street of Parls, London or Berlin. * # = Conjugal nntaithfulness preserves s.ili, among the Moro-1berian race, the characier of & Very rarc and exceptional occurrence (ibid., p. 388). (4.) The conditicn of whatare calied the lower clusses 15 & good gauge of the advancement of & netion. Contrast what Mr. Thieblin says bere | with what we know oi the manners and mor- als of our American peasantry: In the lowest (asses you sse almost the same merits as you meel With in the highest circies The wife of @ peasantis jusias loving Lo her hus- bend, just as carerul about her children, and just as kind \o everybody surrounding her es the wife ofa grandee. Sie is even, perhaps, more 8o. Whetber ¥ou knock av the Q00T 0f an ihn, or of an isomted furm. sll the women of the bouse come 10 ieceive is pot & thing that will be refused o yon. you fall ill. whether it be at a hotel. a lodzing house or the residence of a friend, you may be pertect v Sure of having such kindness and ai- tention puid to you as you could scarcely find in your own home (ibid., page 391). As to truthiulness Edward Everett Hele says, p.178: Literally every told me that the 8 1 foreigner whom I talked with aniards are ali lfars; but of this tely pothing, I found a very jpecting and thoughtful i noi seeking the usual European pence or sh’ ; seem L0 me & good deal .ike our simple ock Islunders, or un- sophisticated people of the best type in New Eng- land. These, Mr. Edifor, are a few testimonies irom Americaus and Protetants concerning Spain. Lwish 1 cloee this part with & quotation fror & Catholic writer which nails Dr. Caze’s spuri- ous coin 10 the counter for ever snd ay The literature of Spain excels that of every Protestant country in aepth, in moral riches, in watheic splendors its p s and archicects | figure in the firsc 1ank in the Paniheon of ariists: | and it possesses & body of clergy whose bishops asiounded the sssembled Fathers of ihs Vatiean | Council in 1870 by iheir prodigious knowledse of | science and theology. It possesses monuments | which are like poems in stone; it hus held the | commerce of the whole world in power: it has | spread humanity throughout tne world, and | Las alone founded more co.onies than all other ba | tions put together. | CONCERNING FACT NO. 3. Dr. Case producea®nis third fact in the fol- | lowing words: ““The priests are in politics; | they have been In our politics for many years Now, Mr. Editor, this is a charge which, ~ if true, be ~ sub- | stantiated by names, dates and places. I asked Dr. Case for these particulars. What | wes his answer? Let me copy it. It is the seventeenth of the wonderful propositions | h which he favored us “Lastly and most important of all, he has not proven that the priests, as Romanists, are out | of polities, and he can never prove it.” Allow me once to deny most emphatically that the Cathollc priests are engaged in poli- tics. 1f Dr. Case has any proof of his charges a<a man he should produce them. Let him dare say of me or any other Catholic priest hat we are in politics. Let him dare give time, place and circumstances—then we W answer him. But cowsrd that he is, he skulks behind generalities, and, masked in accusations, he would with safety p pockets. friendly, sel pecple, reeay o ohlige, | CONCERNING FACT No. 4. “Fifty years ago, Heghes ‘was head and ears in answer to this esfumny 1 quoted Arcabishop | Hugnes' challenge to the cases of the parties, | calling on them to prove their charge. What reply did Dr, Case make to the Archbishop’s uHignnnl denial? Not a word. CONCERNING FACT NO. 5. Dr. Case declered of the same prelate, “He | J @id all in his power to dest y the public | 1showed in rebuftal that Dr. Case weg an ignoramus who | knew nothing about the hisiory of the public | school system. I showed that John Hughes | was instrumental in having the non-sectarian | system_extended to New York. I republished | his card in which he delared that he would satisied with any system which would not vio- late the religious convictions of any clas. | Aud what does Dr. Case answer ? Listen, O gods and little fishes! *‘He has not pruven that Archbishop hughes was friendly to our | common-school system, nor car he ever fur- nish proof'of it.”” He might as well taun:%m when [ bad proved that the man was not then | born hang me for not proviug that I was his bosom friend. CONCERNING FACT NO. 6, Dr. Case made the statement that “Abraham Lincoln was murdered by Roman Catholics.” I'showed thatno: & single Catholic was con- cerned in the assassination. 1 showed that the records of the trial contained no hint of such a | charge. 1gave the testimony of Lincoln’s biog- | Tapher that the cherge was absurd. And what answer does 1 se make? Nota word. If, Mr. £ litor, 1. Case had in him the - stinets of « zentleran he would either have | admitzed thet this cruel accusation was un- founded or he woiid have tried to substantiate it. b heis he does neither. In-| f truth or of honor, he | tlence. Sheme on you, ips of scorpions cannot Slanderc Dr. whom w NG FACT No. 7. Dr. Case declared that the Jesunits would w. gpposed ihe American Revolution. I st one of the strongest supporters of as the Jesuit Joim Carroll ce secured the neutrality of | and the alliance of France. I showed, ‘hat the leading spirit sgainst the was the founder of Dr. Case's own cluoh, John Wesley. 1p answer Dr. Case | cume. this morningz Wit {he most ludicrous of all his indierous propositions, *He hus not proven the' John W was disloyal to’the flag of his country, the British fug, nor can he ever prove it.” I o't to prove it. John Wesley was loya. British Jag when that fing stood for intoicrance az home #nd (yranny abroad. Ie vas wo loval 1o Creat states- i rer patriot than Wes- ley, was zot afraid to advocate the rights of America anc the crure of frecdom, Wesley was teut to wallow at the feet of that crowned imiecile, George 111, and beg for power to raise » regiment and lead it against ihe men woo, Wi°h he W8SA Young parson, gave him hospitality in this land. Says Lecky of Dr.Case’s patron saint: *“Wesley took an ;glve though a very anfortunate part in ny of the politieal questions of the day. He wrote against the concession of relief to Catho- lics and against the right of Wilkes to sit for Middlesex in 1768; and during the American stiuggic e threw into & more popular form the chief arguments in Dr. Johnson’s pamphlet against the Americaus, and had probably a considerable influence in forming the public opinion hostile to all concession.” Verily, Dr. Cuse, Wesley was loyal to the English flag and it ill becomes you, & follower of A man who did all in his power to crush this infant Nation lo* Pose now s its protector, that it has come to manhood. It was of Jon and such as you that the Master said of old: “Woe unto you cribes and Pharisees, hypocrites that buiid ikic sepul- chers of the prophets and adorn the monu- ments of the just. Ye are the sonsof them that killed the prophets.” CONCERNING QUOTATION NO 1. From Dr. McGlynn W. W. Case quoted words which make the church afoe to education. As he gave neither chapter or verse for his quota- tion I was within my rights 1n declaring it apocryphal, In answer he merely repeats his assertion. Dr. Case, in guestions of fact your word has been proven of no value. Produce, if yo\:d can, the authority for Dr. McGlynn’s words. CONCERNING QUOTATION NO. 2. From the Shepherd of the Valley he quoted words which make Catholics declare that their design is to destroy religious liberty. In an- swer I produced the testimony of the editor of the Bhepherd of the Vailey denying as strongly as men could deny Dr. Case’s charge, and what answer do I receive? “He has not furnished creditable testimony to dl.rfirnve my quotation from the Snepherd of the Valley, nor can he ever bring such testimony.” 1 am compeiled to ask, Mr. Editor, am I dealing with a lunatic or & blubbering idiot? I brought the highest, the most authentic testimony I could possibly fiu—me testimony of the editor of the paper. Now I do not in- tend to stand on any more ceremony with Dr. Casé® 1 hereby brand him and his quotation as false and malicious. He is & forger, and what is worse, he knows it. If he wishes to cleance himsell of this accusation in the sight of the public of this State there is only one this_morning. | ¢ ays Dr. Case, “Archbishop | lities?! In | | | forgeries he fois | City i way to do it and that is by of the Shepherd of the Vall _ CONCERNING QUOTATION No. 3. 3 From Brownson’s Quarterly Review -for Oe- tober, 1852, he quoted words which deny tol- erance to the sects. In answer 1 demanded that he produce his authorities. “False in one, false in all”” renders his words suspect. The reply I received “He has brought no evi- dence to disprove my quotation from Brown- sen’s Quarterly Review for October, 1852, nor can he ever bring such evidence.” No, Mr. Editor, 1 have brought no evidence, for I know of no charge. When Dr. Case produces Brown- son’s Review then I will deal with the quota- tion. 1am not compelled by any rules of con- troversy to accept the word of e man who bas been proven untruthiul. Produce your book, Dr. Case. < CONCERNING QUOTATION NO. 4. From the New York Tablet he quoted words which justiiy the persecution of Protestant missionaries. To this I replied, “I believe our ‘_?uomlion a forgery. Produce the New ork Tablet.” His ausweris: “He hasbronght no evidenee to disprove my guotation from the Fmdnc(ng the files ey. ‘New York Tablet, nor can he ever produce creditable testimony against it.” Of course I bave brought no evidence against what Ido not believe exists. If I shonld say the “‘East- ern Screecher” says that “Dr. Case was run out of Ohio,” and if Dr.Case demanded the pro- duction of the Screzcher I might triumphantly retort, ““Dr. Cuse has oicught no evidence to prove that he was never run out of Olio, nor can he ever prove it.” (CONCERN! NG QUOTATION No. 5. From Father Hecier he guoted words which depiore the sorry condition of the church, and ascribe the cause to priestly domination. In answer, i chatged that Dr. Case had (a) suppressed senteuces, (b) omitred paragraphs, {¢) put in:0 he mouth cf Father Hecker senti- ments he abhorred. Dr, Case replied by print- ing the whole extract, showing that (a) he hed omitted sentences, (bl](h-! he bad suppre:.sed paragraphs, and then he blames the distortion of meaning upon the paragrapher. Dr. Case attempts to make capital out of an oint. I stated that the extract was taken from the preiace, Techuicaliy, I was wroug. The exiract is taken from the opening words of the book und is headed, “The auestion stated.” I sentthe book, maried, to TiE CaLL office, and my mistake had 1o bear- ing whatsoever on the trath of my eharges that Dr. Case had vamped the quotation. CONCERNING QUOTATION 8. From Gury’s “Compeudium of Theology” Dr. Case tfm:cd a guestion, “Are ecclesiastics obliged to obey the I Taw?” and he gquoted the answer as *‘50.” iu angwer, Mr. Editor, I sent to your office *Gury’s Compendium” and poinied cut tne page the question ccurred aud showed answer was unessentinl a testinony thai t was designed ior Dr. Case to produce any edition of it contained the question ‘‘Are ties bound to obey the civil laws?” aud snswers it with “No.” DLr. Case replies that fis ¢ totaiion is correet and that he can- not he exyeeted 1o pack down his library to THE CALL * ffiec N M. Ldiior, there is no need of Mr. icvn his tons of literatnre to re you have enough of 1 for the ashman without adding Dr. All that is necessary is to pro- Let the pubiic see, Dr. 1ot coasciously dishonest. which puts that question co produce it. Remem- at siake, Before the rubbi Cnse's | Al C 1f you have & G and answers it w ber your charac people cf ih's Git rge you with one of the gravest crimci will which one mencan charge another In & controversy with a certain church o have noisoned the welis. You are on trial, not beiore Catholics, but before Protesta cially before the Meiho- dist comm 'mi'y, which bes to bear the shame of having produced such & man as you. 1f you | have no regard for your own character have regard at least for the character of your de- no tion. No wore disgraceful accusation could be made pst & man tuen that which here and T i make agaiust you. You hsve taken a 10lic book and you have substitnred a *no’’ ves,” and you have come be fore the pub- an given your forgery currer genuine You can only clear yourself by produ- cing the book. Again I cali upon you to pro- duce it or forever siand before tne people of this City with & braud more shameful than tihat of Cain upon your brow. Yours truly, P.C. YORKE. POSTSCRIPTUM. G. A. Hubbell hzs, Mr. Editor, justified my description of him. e is among men what the poleeat 1s among vermin, I regret that it Las weeu necessary for me to touch him even | with & very long pole. The Interests of the reaith, nowever, demand that be be and dislodged he shall be, even » State is compelled to hold its uni- b slodg nos.. C. A. Hibpell is o believer in the motto that is mightier than the pen, and that zough of mud is thbwn some of o stick. He has, thereiore, flooded columnwith olipptngs from the American ol Imight humbly suggest that he can ' tmpunity help himself to that other specizaen of pornography known as the A. P. A. maguine, now that its patriotic editor isin ail. 1t would be useless and absurd for me to fol- low G. A. Hubbell and cheracterize the new 0 upon the public. Let me simply remind your readers that until he mects the sworn statements of Father Prender- gast, Father Imoda and Father Wyman, no man can trust him. Theso priests have de- be | ¢:ared on oath that two documents produced Ly ilubbell are forgeries. Hubbell has not dared to meet the accusation. Do believes that his documents are genu- ine he must believe that these three priests huve perjured themselves. Have you the cour- age of your convictions George Andrew Hub- bell? Will you dare say that these onths were sworn iaisely? Ghoul thet you are yon violate the graves of the dead. The priest you namo (ais 1oriing is before his God, else your scul would not have sinndered him by endo. Face the living, and, moral lepet, not among the tombs. Here are threo » whose words have seared your flesh &s \ha branding iron sears the flésh of the guile- slave. They are, the three of them, in i:is known to its inhabitants. Will you dara dispnte their afidavits? This is ihe tes George Andrew Hubbell, which no dec:nt nia would fear to face; bat which you shrink fron as the vicious cur shrinks from his ma whip, aud the convict from the triangle £ the lash. POl Ys e RELIGION IN SCHOOLS. | Harola W. Fairbanks Speaks for an Absolute Standard of Morality. The following comn:unication to Tne CaLr, suggested by the present contro- versy, will be read with interest: To the Editor of the San Francisco C: Several utterances recently made in the y of THE CALL, have tmpressed me deeply wiil the conviction that the qu:stionsof religi 1 and morality 8s applied to tac public schools | are treated from a superficial and entir wrong point of view. Refcrevess stantly being made to the god’ senos: State schools, to the lack of r.ore! trair the dire consequences whiclk must result the banishing of the Bible rom (he schools. Does the question resoive itself inio this, es o the Dr. Bovard has stated, either the resicraiion of | the Bible or- the standard of the. (sth Church, or that of natural p would answer in part yes to the last of 2 ?ltefllldvel, the reasuns for which are es tui ows The religlous convictions of le are dee) seated and very slow 1o Changer Aslonk a8 the Catholic church as such shall exist it would seem that unfon with Protestants some common ground is impossible. Religious quarrels are most bitter and demoralizing, and | as bigotry shall exist in nl& branch of | 80 lani the church of Christ mutual forbearance, charity and brotherly kindness, which form the real basis of the religion of the New Testa- ment, are_more or less obscured ia the quar- | rels over dogmas. The result is that neither branch of the church is willing that the here- sies of the other shall be taught its children, while those persons Who, perhaps without reason also, believe that all religion isa hum- byg, want the whole idee banished. 3 ere Las been to my mind no period of the world in which thess questions can be exam- ined with such rationality and broadminded- ness as to-dna. The light of reason can no lanier be subdued by decrees. The scientific method of study appiled to man in all his re- lations to animate 2nd inanimate nature is causing such an awakening among men of the whole _ecivilized world thet superstition is doomed. Education, a knowledge of the world, of ltl}moplu, f its religions, has the sure ef- fect of so broadening the mind that bigotry and- dogmatism- in every department must perish. The thirst for krowledge, for the reason of things, cannot be quenched; evolution is in the &ir; the centuries of stagnation are past and we are in the midst of an awakening of thought, of which condition & large number of S e arefu observation of ph y the careful observation of phenome: generalization and deducmu:} !hego is nu&" a mass of positive knowledge, the effect o’ which for gond upon the coming generations it 18 beyond our power to estimate. In the light of the present, whet have we to fear from ec- clesiastical domination of uny kind? Religion ‘will not pass away, but it will be purified; those dogmas which cannot_stand the searche light of inteiligence will be dropped. while the fundamentals will remain end assume & more nobie aspect, more worthy of the acceptance of reasoning beings. It is impossible for the thinkin man to do aught than deplore acrimonious lous con- troversy; itcan do no good, it will make no converfs. It seems to me thatin the latter rt of the nineteenth century and in the nited States the man who tries to arouse reli- are con- | ceptions? I s sure | our | by “natazel | pealing | ing clse will—give us true teachers in the pub 1 | wi'h the knowledge of the principles of evolus | pregnant of the most far-reaching resuls. As pit, as veell as some remarks in a late number | e : & | naturs! growth, that it has become 1a0re and 13 ous hatreds is not the man to follow. What ntellizent man can have any jear of the domination of the Catholic or of eny other church? The Catholic as well as the Protestant churches must undergo change; they are un- dergoing it. The standards of the former church are not what they were 100 years ago, nor in America what they are in some portions of Europe to-day. Let education continue to be the watchword and nothing is to be feared. All aid to the spread of knowledge by all fair means, but the stirring up of animosities and hatreds shoyld not be the task of intelligent men of this age. The day of taking statements on authority is passing away. The implicit blind obedience will disappear and men will be religious, wili be moral, because those things appesal to & high and noble sentiment within, aud not because they are afraid of punishment if they do wrong. _ The development of the theory of evolution has reached such a nufie that it claims the assent of nearly all thinking men. For the first time in the world’s history man has dis- covered his true relation to tne universe; that the laws of nléure govern him as well—iis highest produet—as the lowest. and most in- significant, Man is not devold of a moral nature, as some would have us believe. It existed in germ in his brute encestors, and through the formation of family and tribal ties he learned to curb his natural selfish pro- Penunes in response to the needs of the prim- tive society, until altruism, the spontaneous exhibition of unselfish kindness, has come to govern the conduct of many of the race. In this process rellgli'ons ideals have played an important part. Through the ages of gradual | development, when yet the idea of lJaw nad not arisen and pature was conceived of asruled by capridious powers, religion furn: rules_of conduct, uot appeeling to man’s reason, for ! that was not awake, but rather to the emotions | and feelings. ‘It is becoming more apparent every day that the time has. come when religious thought must undefionchlnge, and while still offer ing standards of moral conduct and guiding the individual in his relation to the Infinite, must at the same time recognize that man isa E‘uduct of natare, and that he contains within im germs of morality and natural inclina- tions to unselfishness, which, properly devel- oped and guided, will lead to his eternal well- being. It seems to me that the doctrine of in- nate depravity has been a terrible curse upon the human race, placiug man 1n an entirelr faise light in his relation to the uuiverse and to God. Man hes come up from a brute ances- rough thousends of generations, grad T being modified and having developed witliin him, in correspondence to the laws of nature, the germs of conscience end morality— germs ‘which mone cau deny .are presentin nearly ali the races of mankind, but which under the stimulus of the golden rule, as ex- | pressed jn the New Testament, haye brought | the civilized portion of the race to its present | condition. ; The so-called terrible evil of the world is but & part of the necessary order of things, and man’s evil inclinations but a legacy from the brutes, which becomes evil simply because of men’s added inteiligence, giving bim the power 1o misuse his posidon. In an ever- increasing number are the high ideals of life being applied to the daily actions as the eth- ical, moral and religious emotions gradually goin control over those of the brutes. Looked at from this standpoint, in this day and In the i ening intelligence, the modifica- ions views must take place, and it is only the willfuily blind who cannot see it. What should be our attitude toward the chil- dren and youth of our schools in order to cre- ate in them the highest degree of nobility? The civilization of Goeece is not to be compared in most respects to thatof the nineteenth century. It was une-sided and did not eall for symmetri- cal ireining as we understand it. Men did not renlize iheir relations to the universe nor the laws of nature. Our present coadition has necessarily been approached through these antecedent siages with the slow accumulation of true concep- tions, until now the growth of all the ages is Yeginning to show signs of fruition. There is an absolute standard of orals and religious conduct given in the New Testament which can be used in our £chools in such & way s to offend neither Catholie, Protestant nor atheis and I insist that it is on such fundamental posiidons that we must fall back in order to get the support of all thinking people. 1am satisfied that the earnest, sincere teacher who knowe something of human nature can do more good by gentle, kind ways and by ap- to the anseifish instincts existing in all children, to elevate them to more noble manhood and womanhcod than all appeals to the supernatural, either as threats or com- mands. The law of love will accomplish what noth- lic schools who undersiand the proger objec of moral and religious training—and it cen be carried on in such a manner as not to offend the most rank sectarianism and result in the production of & type of conduct as far ahead of | that produced by fear asthatof the present time is abead of that of the ancients. Of vast more worili the doing of noble actions spon- taneously, from the heart, than that shriveled piety which is assumed through fear of punish- | ment in another world by an avenging God. The scienge of the age is deveroping the idea of an absolute moral standard, ind¢pendent of purely religious teaching, which will appeal more and more to inteiligence a8 time passes, How untrue is the assertion that our schools, and especially the higher State institution are irreidgious. I would like to make the as- | sertion that truth can never beirreligious, | using that word in its broad sense, thatthe | love of truth for its own sake cultivates the | noblest in man. The majority of instructors | in our institutions of learning—I have special reference to the secular schools and colleges— | are men of noble purpose, who are earnestly | secking for the advancementand dissemiua- | tion of truth in the various tields of knowledge, | including the moral and ethical, as well as the | purely technical lines. To make the agsertion | that the teaching and example of such men tends to the suppression of religious ideals is to me the grossest slander, and can come only | from superficial or biased thought. To be sure, the wMeuqu of the horizou which in- | variably comes with investigation, carried on | with impartial purpose, tends toward the bresking down of religious differences, sec- tarian dogmes and the separation of the whead from the chaff, & process which to many minds productive of the direst calamities. 1= stultifying to reason with which we have ed to s.imn the knowledge of our tion to the universe makes us less ap- tive of the infinite which rmust lie be- phevomena. The philosophy of moral 't is bpund 10 undergo a radical change i2 a e tiox: »beolute moral standerd with its broad pies is not beyond the comprehension of the most oidinary mind, while it is an ac- smowledged fact that, the so-called supernat- 1Al A b ppeals with less and less force h inen as time goes on. ¢ment that “natural perceptions as a norals is-dim aid uncertain” does <ol the ancients, but the de- side’ the golden rule, of the » ¢thical sdea that society is & social or- ganism, and that its needsiare to be studied in s manner simiiar to that of other orgauisms, is iwate those conditions which r ~he most heaithful growth of zanism in all its aspects, we can- viicrstand the proper relations ust be maintained between the indi- w¢eivg this organism. r. Bove 4 ikes the statement that “the greatest nainel moralist can show no reason why & lie s not as g the truth if the present purrose i served as well.” This state- went i¢ rather difficult of aralysis, but in my opinion is fur from the truth. There is an ab- so.ute standard for ail time and ghcea, &nd no w ho has reached such a position that he wuderstand what is meant by morals can olate that siaudard witnout dulling s moral susceptitivities. Ii Dr. Bovard means moralist” one who believes that religion, ike all other phenomena, is of mete novie and elevating through the centuries in respouse to man's aeeds, then I say that in th it of the present, a lie, the ueing of | Aecertion when it is the rightof the person | decetved to know the truth, is under nocir- cumsianees allowable, even if it subserves the present needs best, if thereby tlie moral ideas of the mdividual uuinf deception are dulled or socioty injured, In duty to himself and so- ciety t iz his obligation as a_being porsessing gelf-coi scinus reason, for the purpose of fullest growth of himself and scciety, to do nothing which shall hinder the realization of those ideals, the highest which the human mind is capable of understanding. Ipbel(eve that modern phnosofhy will bear me out in these statements. Light has come into the world through the utterances of the great religious teachers of the past, until we bave reached the point that the mind 1s opened so that it can,from reasoned experi- ence, formulate universal truths which at an earlier stage were merely th, gmduct of loity ideals appealing only to man’s feelings, In the light of to-day, notwithstanding the degrading mpertections of society, we can see that progress is being made, that darkness is vanishing, snd that although at times and to some the high religious ideals seem to be los- ing ground, such is not the case; they are merely being readjusted to mman's higher mental condition. That most noble and far reaching truth, the doctrine of evolution, {s bound to transiorm the thought of the world aud the sconer we appreciate that fact the better it will be for society, in some portions of which authority &5 such has lost its hold, and men are beginning to ask the reason of thiugs. The teac: ers of the public schools should under- and this, the most important lesson of mod- n science, for it will help in the future in connection with the broad truths of religion in setting up & standard which intelligent men cannot and will not Berkeley, Cal. Civil Service Examinations. There are two ciyil service examinations in prospect. One wilkbe held on January 19 for 2 meat inspector, or a tagger, and.a stock exam- iner, and second wi on.February 8 for postoffice employes—clerks and carriers. LD W. FAIRBANKS. | Patrick FOR THE NEW BAACKINE, Buckleyites ;Nominate the Mem- bers of the New General Committee. TICKETS FOR THE PRIMARY. Contests Appear in Several Districts, but the New Organization Is Weil Shown. The Democrats who will compose the new Buckley, or *‘regular,” general com- mittee after the primary election on Janu- ary 11 were placed in nomination by the clubs in the various districts last night. In districts where there are no contests the nominees of last night will be the members of the new general committee from those districts, In many districts rival factions put up rival nominees t_or some orall the offices, and in these dis- tricts the primary will determine Who shall become part of the new county ma- chine. There was nominated last night in each district five club officers and a can- vassing committee of five. These ten will be members of the new general committee. In addition fifteen delegates to make up the district representation of twenty-five in the general committee were nomineted. A number of weli-known Democrats were started last evening on the way to the new machine, including James G. Ma- guire, John H. Wise, A.T. Spotts, P. F. Dundon, Thomas J. Glynn, Peter F. Dunne, Dr. Stanton, Colonel 9'Byrne and others. Each nominee last night was supposed to put up an assessment of $2 50, and after 9 o’clock there was a procession of district chairmen to 20 Ellis street bearing the tickets which are to be printed by the pri- mary committee and the clinking assess- ments, which James H. O'Brien took charge of. In nearly every district the meetings were very largely attended. The following reports of nominations were received at headquarters last night: Twenty-ninth District—President, Thomas Gibney; vice-president, T. J. Lynch; recording secretary, P. H. Stanley and Wiiliam John- son; corresponding secretary, Maurice -Ker- win and James Maguire; weasurer, Timothy Reagan; canvassing committee—J. Finnerty, Thomas Egan, James Meagher, R. J. 0'Reilly, H. Dougherty, Larry Curlis, James Gibben, Jumes Jones. E Delegetes— Courtney, J. Welch, W. C. Harrington, W. Collins, T. Horan, P. A Dolan, J. Pheian, J. O’Connor, James Ferry, J. Cramer, Thomas Breen, J. D. Tobin, T. Bros: non, H. Stein, Robert Brodie, P. H. Cahill, Johh Hughes, Thomas Dempsey, John Nolan, arnes, H. Lichtenstein, James Fallon. Thirtieth_ District — President, Alex Greg- ains and John P. Gough; vice'president, J. . Sweeney; corresponding secretary, P. J. Corrigan; recording secretarr, J. B. McClos: key; cauvassing committee—E. C. Harrington, J:F Durkin, Joseph Gannon, James Creigtion, Wilifam Tannian. Delegates—John Moroney, W.J.G. Mubl, B. Cornday, William Faney, Albert Meyers, James Eegan, James Stevens, A. Solomon, H. Bailey, E. Cleary, J. Harris, J. Bowen, H. H. Planc, John T.” Doyle, James O’Brien, John Mec- Queeney. ; Thirty-first District—President, J. H. 0’Brien; vice-president, T. L. Clancey and_C. J. Kruger; ! recording secretary, R. L. Barry; correspond- ing secretary, J. F.Gearon and john Dyliyn; treasurer, T. E. Treacy; canvassing commit tee—J. W. Crowe, C. J. Harrigan,T. O'Neill, Thomas O'Donnell, P. J. Hopkins, W.S. Her- bert, J. T. Josephs, W. H. Worth, W. Litzger, J. P. Kuntz. Délegates—C. J. Keating, J. J. Kennedy, Wil- iam Sullivan, D. Buckley, J. i. Holcomb, C.J. Smith, John Eagan, J. D. Sullivan, Peter H. Jones, P. J. Tannien, Cassimer le Claire, Frank Krutischnitt, Thomas Bradshaw, J. W. Mc- | Carthy, P. J. Kelly, Thomes R. Browne, C.J. Whalen, T. J. Nolan, Robert I. Iberg, T. H. Mahan, Robert C. Smith, T.J. Martin, George J. Elisor, D. J. Flinn. 2 Thirty-fourth District—President, Robert Boyd; vice-president, P. F. Ward; recordiug Secretsry, J. L Twohig; corresponding secre- tary, George McGinn; treasurer, T. J. Claney; canvassing committee—J. M. Bul an, J. Flinn, John Kreling, John Rooney, John D: Suliivan. Delegates—T. I Gallagher, M. Ault, F. F. Lowney, W. O'Shaughessy, M. C. Hogen, . Reilly, J. J. Sheehan, J. McMahou, George Yourg, Jobn H. O'Brien, Herman Joost, A. J. Oisen. J. P. O'Sullivan, W. A. Burns, F. Kaabe. Thirty-fifth District—President, L. Dolauj vice-president, John Tumelley; treasurer, P.J. Silk; recording secretary, H. C e} corresponding secretary, W. J. Kennedy; can- ing committee—William Carroll, D. Clark, J. Bell, Wiiliam Couroy, P. J. Carr. Delegates—Eugene H. McCarty, M. Kiernan, D. Kelly, John Dennis, Frank Eagan, P. Riley, P. Johnson, Jokn Winrow, P. Gleason, William Cole, Joseph Elliott; H.' A. Gidlings, John Snarkey, M. Dolan, John Donohoe, J. B. Mar- tinet, Colonel John O’Byrne, John Hunt,N. C. Wineholtz, J. J. McDonsid, J. H. MeDonald, J. J. Gilmour, Charles Peterson, Stephen Burns Jr., George ‘Ruddick, William'Conuolly, James Smith. . Thirty-seventh District—President, F. J. Fal. lon; vice-president, Harry M. Kelly and C. A. Gibson; recording’ secretary, Frank F. Foley; corresponding secretary, William Brennan ahd William Delaney; trcasurer, P. J. Corbett; canvassing committee—John Cosgrove (chair- man), George Lacombe, T. Bernard, H. Mul- creavy, William Hollid: Delegates — Peter Ki Dr. Ragau, J. B. Ivory, C. C. Rivers, William Miller, J. C. Neaion, J. P. O’Shea, William Clack, P. T. Flynn, M. Delaney, M. Mehrin, C.Quigley, J. J. McCarthy, E. B. Young, J. H. Kelly. Thirty-ninth District—President, Samuel Haskins; vice-president, Frank Mallove; re- coraing secretary, J. Manning and D. M. Gav- jgan; corresponding secretar,y R. Thompson and C.J. Comyns; treasurer, john McCarthy; canvassing committee—W. F. Armstrong, D.J. Oliver, Elf Landry, Frank W. Horan, Wallace Fogus, Ed Finigan, Fred Browning, William Carter. Delegates—J. B. Kennedy, James G. Maguire, Ed_Sefberlich, Thomas J. Ford, W.H. Lowe, William J. Carlin, Lee Barnett, J. Baxter, Jemes Murtha, P.McCue, P. M. Clarkson, Ed Healy, P. Callaghan, C. W. Burk, Willlam B, Murphy, Godirey Fisher, J. D. Ennis, John F. Quale, J h Casey, Henry Burmeister. Fortieth District—President, J. B. McIntyre; vice-president, J. H. Witte and Joseph Roths- child; recording secretary, R. C. 0’Counor; corresponding secretary, T. B. McGinnis; treas- urer, Barney Donnelly; canvassing commit- tee—W. H. Wiggins, J. T. Bennett, C. Welden- dorf, James Maloney, M. J. Kelly, Thomas H. Brady, J.hn Kerwin! 5 Delegates—Charles H. Rebin, Richard Con- don, Maurice Schmitt, Andrew Gonzales, James Reardon, Joseph F. Farrell, John Heaney, Frank Coftey, Fred Butz, James Fitzgeraid, Ed Kenny, James Harrison, George Harvey,Thomas J. Glynn, J. B. McCanv, J. Brownstone, P. Kenny, J. McKenna, B. Juckman, John Byiue, Forty-first District — President, Peter F. Dunne; vice-president, Frank H. Kilduff; re- cording secretary, W. T. Havely; correspond- ing secretary, D. E. Laskey; treasurer, T. A, McGowan; canvassing committee—R. C. Mat- tingly, P. J. Smith, Stephen Potter. E. J. Maioney, Matt Cannavan. Delegates—N. J. Alien, James Byrnes, Henry Ach, C. Robinson, Peter Mcf{ngh, E. P. Cole, eph A. Kelly, George R. B. Hayes, John A. Carroll, Reel B. Terry, John M. Curtis, John Nolan, Samuel H. Regensburger, E. C. Farasworth, Henry Brown. Forty-second District — President, James O'Connor; vice-president, Johu W. Flynn; re- cording secreiary, E. J. Reynolds; correspond- ing secretary, M. E. Healey; treasurer, Fleet F. Strother; canvassing committee, L. Kelly, J. Dunn, P. L. McCarthy, F. Keuiman and W. L. Humphreys, Delegates—J. H. Wise, Major Rathbone, J. J, Kerrigan, M. Floming, . & Meier, k. 1. Mills, L. Hartnett, . Hink, W. H. Cline, J. Smithson, W. Coalis, J. Catheart, G. Grant and R. Lee. Forty-fift District—President, Joseph _astro: vice-president, S. W. Johnson; recording sec. retary, Fred Cullindan: corresponding secre. tary, F. A. Kelly; treasurer, James I. Stanton; cauvassing commitiee — Maurice Sullivan, George Webb, Matt White, James J. Murphy, W. J. Fitzgerald. Delcgaice Juincs Douglas, James Haunrahan, James J. Phillips, F. Nobbmann, John ¥. Buck- ley, Louis Guzzoii, Patrick Leary, Arthur For- cade, Patrick Kenny, E. J. Jeffries, Willlam Foley, Thomas Murrey Jr., J. D. Whaley, A. T, Spotts, Gregory Casey. Vance Is Not Prosecuted. W. H. Vance, & fine-looking old man who was indicted by the Federal Grand JuryonJanuary 5 for assaulting and wounding one Nathaniel Green on the steamer San Juan, is believed by the United States District Attorney, Heary Foote, to be 100 good a man to prosecute for an offense which was evidently justifiable. ‘Ac- t prosequi’ * yesterday in the Ln{ted States District Court, * * o cordingly Mr. Foote entered a nolie and the’indictmen azainst Vance was “dis- mussed. 3 Ed EeSSa WER iS5y VOYAGERS TO EE CARED FOR.- Proceedings at the Meeting of the Trav- elers’ Protective Association: A special méeting of the California Divi- sion of the Travelers’ Protective Associa< tion of America was held at the Grand Hotel last evening. There was a largé-and . enthusiastic att-ndance, and the following . resolutivns were passed : First—That a subscription listbe circulated * by each member to the various hotels and merchants throughout the City and State for . . their co-operation and assistance in securing the National Convention of the T. P. A: i San Francisco in 1897. Second—Thai the California Division meet semi-annually ior & general soeial reunion and. entertainment. The first meeting will be held at Suci‘a- mento July 4, 1856. A ‘committee of five ‘was nppointeh the purpose. of perfecting necessary ar- rangements. 5 The president and secretary were given * full power to act in the matter of securing suitable quarters for the use of the associa- tion. A spirited address was made by Presi- dent Bachelder, in which he reviewéd the past history of the association on the coast, and appealed to each .member to secure new members and promote the welfare of the organization throughout the Stdte. END OF A BRAVE SOLDIER Captain Whitney, Who Was Drowned in Halfmoon Bay, . Had a History. He Was in San Francisco in 1836, and , Fought in Two Wars—His Mates Are Unknown. The story of the drowning of Captain Whitney and two young men from San Francisco in a small boat near Halfmoon Bay Tuesday last, as published in THE CarL of Friday, has created considerable conjecture along the City front as té who were the captain and his companions. Captain Whitney bad a few friends here, but nobody could be found yesterday who knew the young men, Captain Anderson, who for many years managed the ranches and stables of ‘E. J. Baldwin, wes about to sailin the boat with his friend Whitney, but at the last mo- ment declared it was madness to tempt the winter seas in so frail a craft. His wise resolve saved his life. Captain Whitney was on his way to Santa Barbara, where he had intended engaging in halibut fish- ing with Captain Anderson. They bought the boat in South San Francisco and were to sail sonthward together, but Anderson changed his mind ana went by steamer. The dispatch to Tre Cain from -Half- moon Bay stated that Captain Whitney and his two mates were lost while atternpt- ing to resume their journey from: that place to Santa Barbara. Despite the pro- tests of the wh neighborhood they per- sisted in putting out on Tuesday, and just as they struck the breakers an immense sea broke over them, swamping their bpat and turning it upside down. The captain never appeared above the water. The two younger men rose with the boat ard clung to it desperately for their lives, but the heavy sea washed their boat off in a few minutes and they too disappeared. Neitlier of the bodies 'as been recovered. Captain Whitney was a man with a his- tory. He came from Albany, N. Y., his native place. As early as 1836 he arrived in the harbor of S8an Francisco, on board one of the first American ships that visited California. He used tosay that there were only two adobe houses ther where the City stands to-aay. e sailed away again, and in the coursg ot years touched this port about five times. He was a veteran of the Mexican War and Rebellion. In the latter he belonged to a New York regiment, and was promoted to the rank of captain. He went back East from California several years ago, and re- turned to Santa Barbara last year. While in that city, he determined to engage in fishing, and after talking the matter over with Captain Aanderson, his old-time friend, bought a wlialing-boa* here. * Recently he received a check of $100 as a. pension, and later two checks of $50 and $35 irom the Pension Office. Before the money came to him he was at the Soldiers’ Home, Yountville. The money decided his proposition of becoming a fisherman, so he got the boat and picked up two vouths on the water front to sail with him to Santa Barbara. Being unemployed the {uung men readily accepted his cifer. All that is known of them so far is they were members of the Knights of Pythias. ———— The Pope is very fond of children. A little English boy was recently admitted to an audience with his Holiness. The Papal secretary invited the boy to kiss the Pope’s slippers. “We don’t kiss people’s feet in England,” said the little fellow, “put he’s a nice old gentleman and Ill kiss his band.”” The Pope, who does not speak Enclish, smiled when the remark was wnslned and held out his hand to the - NEW TO-DAY. CLOSING 0UT Auction! , Cloaks, Suits. We have been ipstructed by MRS, JULiA FRATINGER, executrix of the e-tate of A. M. FRATINGER, decea:-ed, to sell at public aue- tion on HORDAY 4¥D TUESDAY, DEC. 50 AXD 31, At 10 o’clock sharp each day, at 105 Kearny Street. THE ENTIRE STOCK OF (L0KS, SUITS, CAPES, FURS, CHILBREN'S CLOAKS, ETC. 2 2., ALSO. Counters, Shelving, Tables, Showcases, Stools, Office Furniture, Wire Forms, Carpets, Backs, Shades, Fireproot Safe, Etoc. \ NoTE—The gittentlon of ladi-s and the public gener lly Is Ailed to tho above sale, as the goods are very fiue and must be sold. EDWARD S, SPEAR & CO., Auctioneers, 81 and 33 Sutterst. a by the president to confer : with the Sacramento post, T. P. A., for -