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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1896. H, W, BOWNIAN TG FATHER YORKE. The A. P. A. Editor Says Rome Is the Enemy of Progress. HE DRAWS COMPARISONS Father Yorke Replies to Rev. C. | W. Wendte on Civil Government. | THE CATHOLIC CONTENTION. | Dr. Wendte Again Writes on the Foundation of the Christian Church. | There is & somictent reason for this. What1s it 15 the question one of race? I8 itone of laws? Be. fore all, it is a question of relizion. The proof is that of the -ame raee, having the same laws, the Catholic portion fs alwaysinferior to the Frotestant poriion, Proceeding then to demonstrate this general Proposition by an induttivn from well-known instances he next inquires: -And what £xplanation can be given of this phe- homenan? 1f Protesiantism has the same funda- mental doctrines as Catkolicism it has a totally differeat disciptine’and the difference In the resuli. Ihe Catholic discipline tends to antomatics Prot tantism to autonimie. 'The first mukes machines; the secoud men. 'Tht olie makes $laves| the ochet citizens. Catholitism says 10 the child, “Believe!” Protestantist says (0 him, “Think!” The fact that this is & Romish testimony makes it doubly conclusive, It is the judge who ealls us hereties that pronounces in ‘favor of our heresy. Hence the question which determines national iriumphs end displays realms of boundless prosperity is no longer & question of soil or climate, of race or laws. ““Before all 1t 18 & question of religion.” In 1860, ten years hefore the Franco-Prussian War, M. Edmund About had a fenilieton in the Opinion Nationale devoted to the Protestants of Alsace. Demonatrating the vast superiority of the Protestants in every point of social mo- rality he says (inter ulia A Catholic Superintendent of Woods and Forests clared to me that in a canton, of which three- ths of the inhubitants are Protestants, 93 per of the offenses agalnst the forest laws are committed by Catholics. 1 could not believe my ears. ¥ # ¥ They civilly answered me that T was In error. That the heretic youth of this dis trict was better educated than ‘our own, and for this reason, that the Protestant ministers were able and zealous men, who threw their whole souis into their work, while, on the her hand, the good Catholic priests of Alsace knew nothing more than how to say mass and curse _Protestants. They further told me that the Protestants were the best farmers; that their dwellings are the neatest and clean o that they are the best men of business and make fortunes more frequently than Catholics. They showed me the Protestant villages in a state of the highest prosperity, lands yvielding rich bar. vests and flourishing manufaciures—such, for ex- ample, as thos - of M. ( nd M. Schaten- hey show ed me C mlets, and even ns, in which idleness, drunk: nness and misery enjoyed a fraternal reign, notwithstandinz that The following communication from H. W. Bowman, editor of the American Pa- | triot, is the latest contribution to the great controversy : E tor of San Francisco Call—DEAR Kome blocked the wheels of The dagger of superstition was Iren of the brain. Every t with Herodian crueity. chained to tradition and reason the cells of ignorance. She stran- | ¢ &t its birth and cursed all who r themselves. Rome has been e of human progress. She has i the man of vrains and_impris- oned 1 tific discoverer. The civilization of to-day has been fought step by step by Romish intolerance and bigotry. Free educa- tion for rll means liberation irom the despotic voke of the priesthood, Hence the priesis op- To the St ence was pose public ed because it educates the | masses. . | While c ization is swiftly advancing with and improven d, moored to ion by the chains of ignorance. olds an inferior station. Papal can subjugation and ur eivilization. Itmeans the tel- anners streaming on the high 1t the pagacy alone remains the rotten wharf of super- A Roman- v escoping of the tenth century into the mine- teenth. Rome wraps herself in the mantle of the past and calls upon the nations to halt as they st o'er the rond of civiliza hing mar ledge, mora countries that ¢ yoke of Romanism. juatorial Ame ss of Uruguay a modern civilization, m the despot infiuence, a specic ntto bring about the de I'he same incu centuries, has at rn tural rch has lost i own downial ng 1o enforce upoa the people of the nine- have been expelled and losed. Free schools now becoming broad- 0 10 all Popish idote for bigotry, fon of the Roman 100ls wherever that t eral Know edge npiy menns di tin the machine. He becomes g in the wheel of Papal power. the corporate character of Romanism he priests transact all the business of selva- The individual has no say. The julg- sreme. Just as & man cars to be carried to 1 the man has 10 do is to to_the priest, and his sal assured. The result is the loss of ind and a cringing, servile subjection toa, despot The result, individually, s su commits him his destin it strous to m It does away with ponsibility; it dulls the edge of &Cis A5 & narcotic upon the mind; tof the e develop mental fac- progress; it prevents sy of Romanism is to make s socisl cripples. They are as de- t upon the priest s the cripple upon n born he sprinkles them, rms them, a little later mar- dying enoints, and when of purgatory—if he is s for them, drinks for hem from the cradle to dead prays ¢ forit. In the a He can only use his senses as the directs; for when the priest tells him t bread is'flesh and wine is blood, he must of damnaton. When the mind, it isutterly 1o be iree. The spirit 1 can never be exercised iest is put in the place of God, and thought necessary io salvation. hting effects in every een of life. It has Jocked the d n and placed | he keys in the handsof the priests. It has = brake on the wheels of progress. When 1 are left free 1o P i life’'s prob- 0 golve its mysteries, to search out it to feel their personal res) is a mighty incentive ne to do his utfost. nd ng of Ch bili aced before The conscious- al respousibility is the main- ian endeavor and of moral ac- Gevelops faculties. Respon- Opportunity makes ment. Exercise is the law of Use strengthens the faculties disease weekens them. Romanism, in ving man of his personal Tesponsibili nifests capacity Toom for impr development wh £t0ps the MOWr Power of humen progress. independence is gone and slavish makes him the tool of the priest. his mind is emervated, his spirit hed and his conscience darkened. While circumstances may modify the result in | £ome cases yet this is the inevitable tendency. | Tne history of Europe for twelve centuries tes- | tified to its baneful influence. It chained hu. ‘ manity to the post of ignorance. It unhitched the horses of progressirom the chariot of civ- ilization and quenched the dires of freedom. 1t not only blocked the wheels of human prog- Tess, but sought 1o completely destroy their tive power. A torpid mind to truth is blind. spirit of individual responsibility is the tprinciple of liberty. No man will wear & despotic yoke who is conscious of his own rights and the dignity of human nature, Such love justice and mdvocate the rights of all. Equal Tights Jor all is their battle cry. when you give the mind a chanc will advance. Men will manifest their ability as thev ieel thewr responsibility. Thus a high type o civilization results from the conscious realization of individual rights and duti That popery hes been & bar to human progress the testimony of the f prove. Lord Maceulay To stunt the srowth of the human mind hasbeen hier chief object. ‘Throughout Coristendom what ever advance has been made in knowledge, in treedom, in wealth and in the aris of life has been made in spite of her. and Las everywhere baen in inverse ‘proporiion 1o power. The loveliest and most fercile provinces of urope have, un ber rule. been sunk in poveriy,in political servi tude and in iniellectual torpor, while Protestant countries, ouce proverbial for sterility and barbar- ism. have been tarned by skill and industry inte s, and can boast of & long list of heroes and statesmen. philosophers and poets. Whoever, knowing whai Jtaly and Scotlaud nacurally are, and what, 400 vears %20, they actuaily were, Hence, | humanity shall pow compare the couniry round Reme with the country round Edinbursh, will be able 10 form Some jndgment s to the tendency of Papal domination. The descent of Spain, once the first amoug menarchies, 1o the lowest depth of degradation; the elevation of Hol- 1and, in spite of many naiural disadvantages, to & position which no commonwealth so small has ever reached. teach the same lesson. \Whoever in Germany. from & Reman Cathotic (o a ’rotestant priscipalf in Switzerland from a ko- man Catholic to a Proestant canton, in Ireland srom a Roman Catholic to a Protestant county, finds thet he has passed from alower t0a higher grade of civilization. On the other side of the At- lantic the same law prevai's. The Protestants of the Unpited Siates bave lefl far Leaind them the Roman Catholics of Mexico, Yeru and Brazil. The Roman Cutholics of Lower Canada remain inert; while the whele continent round them is in a fer- | ment with Protestant activity and eoterprise. 1f it be objected that this is Protestant testi- mony we will give the verdict of a Romanist. A patriotic French politician, writing about the loss of Alsace and the conquest of his idol- ized Paris by “herteic” Germany, speaks thu: The Englishman, the Russlanand the Prassian, the jthree great peopies of Kurope, who have ob- tuined the mastery over the rest, are all hereti The Englishmun governs the Frenchman at Jersey, the “paniards at Gibraltar and the Ltalian at Malta, all Catholics; and the Russian governs the Poie and ail the' Siavonian nations. The Frussian the Women attended mass every day and 1hat ¢ men kept more than a hundred saints’ days ina vear. “You se tic to me, “that the influence of R off. It may be com- pared to the sirocco, which blows across the de erts of Africa and throws US upon Our backs. av Strasburg. it is a happy thing for us that we have found & shelter against the blast from Rome. And remember this, that if your kings of the six teenth century had allowed France to become alto-/ gether Protestant it would at this day be_infinitely more rich and more moral than it is.” This hypothesis so_shocked my Catholic pride that I exclaimed to the Protestant: *-ir, what you have just said appears to me & monument of hypocrisy and an iznobie tissue of contradiction . this way Ishut him up. kor, between ourselves, bis ATEUMENtS Were DOL easy fo refute and when you @o ot feel yourself able to answera man the short est way out of the dificulty is (0 insult him. In a remarkable book entitled *England, Ire- land, America,” written by Mr. Richard Cob den, & keen obServer of men and nations, he says: - There exists a canse—and we believe a primary one kngland and Scotland, in which we find Ireland at the present day, in the circumstance of the Roman Catbolic belng the faith of its people. Let us not Dbe misanderstood : our business does not lie in pole- mics; and far be it from us to decide which mode of worship may be the most acceptable to the great Author of our being. We wish only to speak of the tendency which. judging from facts that are before us, this church has to retard the secuiar prosperity of zations. Proceeding then to adduce the ‘facts,” which not only warrant but necessitate this ~judgment,” he shows that in Sw and “probably there is no countr effects of the Catholic and_reformed rel upon the temporal career of communi be maore fairly tested Those cantons in which the Cathol prevails are wholly pastoral in thel SeSSIE NO COmmErce Or MAnUTAC beyond the rude products of domestic labor. Of the mixed cantons three are engaged in the manu- facture of cotton, and It is & remarkable feature in the industry of these—the Catholic portion of the popuiation is wholly addicted to agricultural and the Protestant seci All the eight Prote engaced n to comme nt cantons ar cial pursuits. more or less, t0 add, what evers zerland will have seen, that in the education of the people, the cleanliness of the towns, the commodionsness 0f the s and the g of the v traveler in roads. the Protestant cautons possess eat su- periority over their Cath hors, while such m d that an es- ibourg. & Cathofic canton. possessing oil than that of Benee. from which it is divided by a rivulet, is worth one-third less ame extent of property in the laiter district. a Protesta Aiter referring to France he adds: us - additional facts in, Saxony and the Protestant,” “comprise nearls ring and commercial int “Germany same purport.’” States, “chiel the manufact gives to the all ests of the country’’; while those which are “princip: Catholic” are “aimos: wholly addicted- to culture. Education likewise. jollows the sam here as in Switzerland: for while the Catholics ount to sbout 20,000.000 versities the Protestants sup population of 14,000.000. 17 we turn to Cacholic Italy, where there 1 ar nd possess but five ort thirteen, with on very little manufacturing of any kind. we find_that the commerce of the country is principslly in the hands of foreigners. > = The trade of the Itallan States is, in acted by Protesta =5 x arcely add to these statements the fact whicn all are ncquainted with, that in lreland the staple manufacture most wholly confined to the Protestant prov- inces. It we refer to France, we shall find that a Jurge depot of manufacturing indusiry has bren formed on the extreme inland frontier of her terri- tory ou the Rhine, where her bes: cottons are fab- ricated and printed, and conveved to the metrop- olis (about 300 miles o) for sale. Alsace, the Protestant district we allude to, con- tains no iocal advantages, no iron or coal; it is up ward 0f 400 mites distant from the port through which the raw materials of its manufactures are obtalned snd whence they are coaveyed tirely by land, pussing through Paris, to which eity the £oods are destined to be again returned. Thus are these commodities transported overiand more than 700 miles for no other assignable reason ex cept that th cted to the labor of Protestant hands. In future articles we will show that anf} is not a proper teacher of youth as her teachings have failed to civilize the nation: H. W. Bowyax. Postscriptum No. 1.—There are a fow things Priest Yorke leit undene in his article upon Spanish civilization_in the New World, as con- trasted with that of England. [ e did not cile the horrid tales of cruelty practiced upon_the Aztecs of Mexico und the Incas of Peru. Nothing in Protestani annels can equal them. For proof the reader can consult Prescott’s admirable works npon the subject. second—He did not state that the schools founded by the Jesuits to_engraft superstition upon the people were not for the masses, but for a special ¢ Third—He did not inform his readers of the fact that all the advance made in public edu- cation had been opposed by the intolerant big- otry of the Romish priesthood. Neither did he enlighten them in regard to the fact that the | incrersed civilization of Mexico was due 10 its acceptance of Protestant_principles of govern- ment, and its rejection of papal tenets. While the incubus of Rome rested upon it, it made no advance. Fourth—He was too discreet to intimate that persecution for opinion's sake was a funda- mental principle of Romanism, and that all Protestants who persecuted others for their re- ligious belief were practicing some oi Rome's old trieks. Fifth—When he wrote the following state- ment, did he expect it to pass muster at the bar of history? "He said: We find the most cotd-blooded and savage war- fare ever waged by oue Creed against another was instigaied by Bingham and his fellow-American preachers in these islands of the Pacific. If Yorke tells the truth the untold millions ut to death by Rome do not equal the num- | er slaughtered at Hawaii. St. Bartholemew’s massacre passes into insignificance, the Spanish Inquisition was only & trivial affair, and the martyred Albigenses and Waldenses are mot worthy of comparison in_contrast with the awiul scenes of Talk no more about the fires of Smithfield and the great Irish massacre! cut no figure alongside of the awful horrors of the Protestant Inquisition at Hawaii, Picture in your mind the secret dungeons, the rack, the thumbscrew, the iron boots, the molten lead poured down the throat, the mid- night massacres, soaking the streets of cities in blood, and the lurid flames of the mertyr's funeral pyre, all superintended by a Protesiant preacher, and let a tear of pity roll down your check out of sympathy for persecuted Roman- ists. The citizens of San Francisco ought to take up a collection o buy Priest Yorie a golden belt universe. The laurels of George Washington have been transterred to Peter C. Yorke. peared in Sunday’s issue of your paper there were two mistakes. The second paragraph should read: *That the Papacy in the Umted Stetes has acted upon these principles is an in- controvertible fact.” In the postscriptum where it reads, “His denial do not aites’; it should be “does not alter.” In Tuesday's issue ““prige” should heve been ‘‘pugs,” and “‘practice feel asieep” ought to be “and purity fecl nsieep.”” There isa portion of the articie missing that relates (o the criminality of South Americe. The statistics immediately following relate to Europe. H. W. BOWMAN. e e DR. WENDTE ON FAITH. The Unitarian Minister Sends An- other Letter to Father Yorke on the Church's Foundation. Following is a synopsis of Dr. Wendte's reply to Father Yorke as published in the Examiner: governs Germavy and holas rrance. Such are the facis wiihout exaggerauon. Now for the cause. I now address myself briefly to one or two points raised by my oppouent, waere it syould of the retrograde position, as compared with | carnage in the Pacific isles. | Such small affairs | as the champion truth-teller of the | Postscriptum No, 2.—In my article which ap- | | seem that my meating might be made clearer or be fortified with new proof: For instance, he abjects very strongly to my saying that the passage in which Christ calls Peter a rock and says he will build his ciurch fipon it, is a *‘mysterions” one. Nothing can be plainer than ihis, says Father Yorke. Strange, then, if it were not more or lexs am- biguous, that good men and learned have dif- fered mbout it so widely for many centuries, and that Father Yorke himself should wade through so many sentences to show how per- fectly simple it is. For myself, the oftener I read it (Matt. xvi: 18) the more | am persuaded that it was not Peter’s unstable personality on which Jesus intended to build hischurch; but upon that living faith in him as the Christ, the enointed messenger of God, the Messiah of humanity to which the ardent Peter, always the quickest to perceive and speak of the twelve, had justgiven utterance. An endur- ing institution, & true church, is not built upon a man. Itis built upon ideas and ideals, sentiments and hopes, on trust in that which, though unseen, is eternal. Any church whic | is built on the tradition of a man must sooner or later fall. We do not build on Christ, even. | We build on the truth, virtue and faith which { Christ taught and was, That is why the Roman | Catholic chareh, after centuries of gradual decline, is now so rapidly crumbling to piece: Notin the United States, perhaps, where ci cumstances give it & temporary renewal, but in Europe, the sent of its birth and former greatness Father Yorke naturally denies this, To him it is built upon a rock. But there seems little of stability or permanence in its present vici situdes and decays. All of which reminds me of alittle story with which I will enliven the | discussion. Father Finnegen wes a worthy priest and an cloquent preacher, though now and then his Hibernian blood betrayed itself in a racy brogue and a mixed metaphor, as it does, by the way, in the case of Father Yorke, when he says in this very communication that “Peter was the rock becanse he spread the gospel.” One day, then, Father Finnegan delivered a powerful sermon to his flock on this very text, and descanted lond and long on the glory and permanence of a church so founded. Whxing warm, he cried: “The Catholic church, my beloved friends, 1s like a noble ship, gallantly seiling over the ocean. Her hold is full- freighted with the souls of ber faithful chil- dren. St. Peter is the captain, whose hand is on her tiller. Her prow is pointed toward the Dlissful shores of puradise. Her sails are swelled with the breath of heaven. On her fiying pennantis the emblem of the cross. The storms of hate and malice will beat wildly down upon her; tne rains will descend and the floods threalen to engulf her. But she will | not sink, my beloved friends; she will never sink. And why, my beloved? Because, as our text so beautifully assures us, she is founded | upon & rock ! | “Good Father Finnegan spoke wiser than he | | knew. The Catholic church is indecd founded or, still better, foundered on arock. That roc! is’ the unwarranted, indefensible claim of Peter's primacy. The Roman Papacy is the ock on which the Catholic church will yet split in two. Never was there & more unscriptural, unhis- | torical, unreasonabie and unchristian dogma! | s'the great Catholic_church historian, | 1. von Dozliinger, the most learned scholar and chief arnament of that church, whose freedom | of thought and speech at length carried him | | out of that communion: Of all the fathers who interpret these passages in the gospels (Matthew xvi:18, John Xx1:17), not a single ove applies them to the Roman Bishops as | Peter’s successors. HOw many fathers have busied themselves with these texts, yet not one of | them whose commentarics we possess—Origen, | Chrysostom. Hilary, Augusiine, Cyril, Theodoret | d those whose interpretations are collected in | | catenas—hos dropped the faintest hint that primacy of Rome isthe consequence of the com. mission and promise to Peter! Not one of them has explained the Tock or foundatiou on which | Christ would build his church of the office given 10 Peter to be (ransmitted 10 his successors, unders:ood by it elther Christ himsel: ter's conession of faith in Christ: often boih ther. Or clse they thought Peter was the the | | toundation equaliy with all the other apostles, | the twelve being tozether the foundation-stones of the ch (Revelation xxi:14). The Fathers s recoznize in the power of the ke and the power of binding and loosing, any special prerogative or lordship of the Rom:n’ Bishop, in- 1 as—what is obvious to any one av first | did not regard a nower first given to : terward conterred in precisely the words on all the aposties. as anything p ar to him, or hereditary in the line of Roman Rishops, and they held the symbol of the keys as | meaning jusi tlie same us the figurative expres- | of binding and loosing. And again Doellinger says: Evers one knows the one classical passage of Scriptare o - which the ediice of Papal Infallbii- | ity has been reared: I have vrayed for thee, that thy faith fail nd when thou urt converted confirm thy br: tly refer only ¢ i But these words mani- persoual v, to his deni: told that h whose failure of faith would be only of short dura- ton, i3 engthen the other apostles, whose | falth would likewise waver. It s directiy against | the sense of the passage, which speaks simply of faith, first wavering, and _then te be coafirmed in | the Mes : dignity ot Christ, to find in it a | promise of future infallibility 10 & suceession of | Popes because they hold the office Peter first | heid in the Roman church. No single writer to the | a of the terpretatio! eighteen | Chr and iose Lis (@anus p. T seventh century dreant of such an in- : all without exception—and there are them—explain it simply as a prayer of bis apostle might not wholly succumn b entirely in his approuching trial 75.) In the opinion ot most scholars of the modern eritical school this whole passage | (john xxi:16) is palpably ungenume. The | fourth gospel ends neturally with the last | verse of chapter The last_chapter is ey dently an appendix later added to the fourth gospel in order to counteract its glorification of the beloved discipleand to make Peter ap- pear as the chief apostle. Finally, Father Y orke would have us believe | that all this stupendous claim for the primo- geniture of the Bishops of Rome is to be besed | on such shadowy proofs as these. Think how | much, if the Papal theory be true, is involved in the acceptance of the primacy of St. Peter atRome. It would mean the spiritual peace and salvation of millions of people who now deny it. And all these tremendous conse- quences to the human race are made to depend on the correctness of one way of interpreting a single text in one of the gospels, or at most two i« ! Ttisas’ absurd to sup- il men were to undertake to build by inverting it and elevating it £pex. ¥ good Father Yorke! Let the Catholic church appeal to the imagination, the affec- tions, the spiritual needs of men; 1ét her point { them 1o the works of mercy and charity in { which she abourds. But let her cereiully ! avoid all intellectual conflict, and especially all appeals to Scripture, Listory or the reason oi man. For here the inexorable logic of truth is against her, and she has nothing to gain | and everything to lose. Forall your learning | and clogence, your courage and zeal, the issne remains. Rome or reason! the muthority of uncertified tradition and the assured disci sures of the individual intelligence and co: science of man fortified by the facts of science, the testimonies of history and the inward dis: closures of God. “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.”” As for me and my house I will serve freedom and truth and God. | CHARLES W. WENDTE, | Minister First Unitarian Church in Oakland, SR s FATHER YORKE SPEAKS. | The Chancellor Writes of Civil Gov- ernment and the Catholic Church. Rev. Father Yorke submits the follow- | ing in answer to a recent communication of Dr. Wendte: 8AN FrANCISCO, Jan. 15, 1896. To the Editor of The Call—DEAR SIR: Until to-day T have not -hed an opportunity to give to Dr. Wendte's letter on civil government and Catholicism that study which it deserves. The | delay lias been unavoidable. In the first place | T have been compelled to attend to other | points of the controversy, and in the second place I have found it necessary to verify the quotations which Dr. Wendte scattered so pro- | fuselv over his letter. Dr. Wenate’s contention is that according to Catholic doctrine the State is subordinate to | the church and that Catholics can be patriots only by being ignorant or illogical. Thay we are both ignorant and illogical Dr. Wendte be- lieves.and therefore he reaches the comforting conclusion that American institutions are in no danger from our disloyalty This appreciation of our position is certainly | not flattering. 1 do not regret, however, that it has been made public. Catholics may now see the necessity of some such discussion as the present when a master in Israel can assoil us of treason omty by tainting us with heresy. If the minister of a cultured congregation un- der the very shadow of our university knows so little about us and our teaching, what shall we expect from the illiterate orators who infest Metropolitan Temple? If such things be done in the green wood, what shall be done in the ary? s In the very peginning of this letter I wish | to say that Dr. Wendte knows absolutely noth- ing of the Catholic teaching: concerning the relations of the civil government and the church. This may seem a very harsh and a Very sweeping assertion, but Iput it forwara with a thorough realization of whet the words mean. I impute no blame to Dr. Wendte for not knowing the teaching of Catholicism on this point. 1 ouly blame him for writing on a subject of which he is ignorant. CONTROVERSIAL METHODS. Your readers may remark, Mr. Editor, that the men who undertake to prove that Catho- lics hold the ile!&remu‘ of t;;e church over the stete never T to Catholic works dealin; with the subject. We have thousands tni or three aubious texts pose this as |a pyran | distinguisted critie | sulted. | Jogically inconsistent. thousands of hooks written by Catholics on civil sud ehurch governments, on_the nature of law, on the duties of the subject, yet we never find one of these books quoted by our adversaries, & Dr. Wendte has never looked into_ the folios of Susrez, or Lugo, or Muriana, or Bellarmine. ile has never burned the midnight oil over subtle distinetions of Aquinas or Peter Lom- bard. He has not even skimmed the modern handbooks of Cavagnis, or Lapparelli, or save, or lcard, and yet hLe dis courses on the doctrines of the Catholic church. He might have written and written learnedly on the Ponzes! of Japan and the Grand Lama of Thibet, and po one woild have criticized him; but ‘what in the name of Somman Sanes Sempied Mzt pupen do paper an the doctrines of the church of Rome? Dr. Wendte's letter is a fair sample of the controversial methods of our opponents. The proof of his assertion is formed by a crowd of quotations levied from everywhere and no- where. Like Falstaff's ragged regiment they march down the column. The van isled by the code of Gratian to give legal solemnity to the occasion. In the procession Pope and Cardinal jostle -awith preacher and infidel. The ghost of Janus marches cheek by jowl with ~Judge Maguire, Bellarmine straggles along arm in arm with Boniface VIII, Doel- linger and Manning haye forgotten their dii- ferences in their zeai to hurry forward and the rear is brought up by the two distinguished theologians, Dr. Wendte's cook and John S. Hittell. When I saw this array of distinguished per- sonages I must admit that my heart failed me. I have been tramed in a school whose first motto nnd whose last was “Verify your refer- ences.” In matters of quotation it has been drummed into me “Never take anything on faith.” “Accordingly I was sad at heart when I saw this clond of witnesses hovering over my head. Each had to be identified and examined and identification and examinalion are no easy task. I rejoiced, however, when I read that “‘the doeuments may be found in full in Mayor Sutro’s splendid library.” But my joy was of short duration. I found itas hard 10 get into Mavor Sutro’s library as into the kingdom of heaven. Lifeis too short to spend it in unraveling red tape and dodging strings. The papers sey that the Mayor be- liwes that clergymen nre confirmed book- thieves. Isuppose he thought it would not be safe to let one loose among the books unless under the eagle and expert eves of Mr. George T. Gaden and Mr. J. Taylor Kodgers. Anvhow. &t the only time I could spare I was informed that I could not be admitted without seeing Mr. Sutro, <0 I turned my sorrowful steps to- ward more hospitable if l¢ss learned doors. THE VALUE OF CERTAIN SCHOLARS. T was especially anxious to_prove the refer- ences when I saw that Mr. Wendte’s chief re- liance was Mr. John S. Hittell. 1 have had some experience with this gentleman’s third- hand information, and when I found the doc- tor calling him a ‘learned scholar” my sus- picions were aroused. The fact of the matier is that of all the pretenders to scholarship— and their name is legion—Mr. John H. Hittell's claims rest on the slenderest foundation. Of him the Boston Herald wrote “The author has been grossly misled in re- gard to Catholic doctrine; his knowledge of casuistry is not even rudimentary, and in rare cases, when his accounts of isolated events are | correct, he falsifies them by taking no account of the spirit of the time.” The Critic of last September thus appreciates him: “We are at-once confronted by the abundant internal evidence that the author understands 10 one of the ancient langnages and that his knowledge of the modern languages is de- fective. Withon yself on a level with these Tmight remark that aiter a careful examination of bis book Iwrote in the Monitor as follows: “At the end of the book Mr. John & Hittell publishes & list of the works which he ias con- The list shows his utter unacquaint- ance with the Catholic side of the question which he discusses. A school history of the church, a controversial pamphlet and & few miscellaneous essays are the sole witnesses which he aliows to testity in behalf of that in- stitution which has made it_possible that Mr. J. 8. Hittell can speak at all. 1f he had in- cinded a standard English dictlonary among his references he might have written less but learned more. The ignorance of & man who can define ‘the ordinary’ as ‘a deputy of the Bishop' is phenomensl, even in an anti- Catholic pamphleteer. " Hence when I saw Dr. Wendte leaning o the “learned schalar,” Mr. John . Hittell, bethought me of @ broken reed. Without going into that detailed examination to which T shall submit the guotations in snother com- munication I would give & few instances of Mr. Hittell's scholars Thue Dr. Wendte writes: “Thomas Aquinas, the greatest among the doctors of the church, teaches that ‘the power of temporal princes derives its strenztn und effieacy solely from the spiritual pover of the popes.”” Sosays the Catholic church hi torian, Docllinger,” in his ‘Fables,’ p. 153. Here the reader « ould naturally imagine that he has before him the words of 2 Catiolic doc- tor, vonched for by & Catholic historian. Asa matter of fact the reference is & fraud. Doel- linger does not refer to Thomas Aquinas at all, and he makes no quotation whatsoeve: Immediately afterward Dr.Wendte writes: - Bellarmine, another eminent Papal authority declares that the Roman Pontiff has supreme power to aispase in the temporal affairs of ail Christians.”” Now Dr. Wendte never saw Bellar- mine, neither has he seen Ranke, from whom the garbled quotation has been taken. At jeast I hope he has not, for Ranke states un- equivoeally: “Bellarmine does not go so far as to ateribe to the Pope as of divine right a di- rect secular power.’” A LITERARY CRIME. It would be useless just now to continue these demonstretions of bad faith. The matter will come up in future letters and to better advantage. Indeed, I would conclude this introductory letier with these damaging dis- closures were it not that I find Dr. Wendte erecting a lofty caffolding of argument on what I cannot but designate a literary crime. Istate in the bezinning of my letter that Dr. Wendte knew nothing about the Catholie teaching concerning the relations of church and state. He takes the stand that Catholics Delieve tnat the state is subordinate to the church. However, he isa man of observation and of wide experience, therefore he cannot 1ail to recognize the fact that in performing the dutles of citizenship Catholics are not be: putting m &l 0 | hind any class if the community. In order to explain this discrepaney between the imputed theory and actual practice he has had recourse to ihe supposition that we are © back up this sup- position he speaks of what he calls “‘Catholic accommodations.”” He belicyes thut the church “modifies her demends.” She waits until she has the power, and then—lo! the thumbserews and the rack! To show that this is the mina of the Pope he guotes Leo XIIT and his encyclical of June 20, 1888 “Although in the extraordinarycondition of these times the church usually acquiesces in certain modern liberties, not because she pre- fers whem in themselves, but becanse she judges it expedient to permit them, in better times she would use her own liberty.” This has an ominous sound. It does not re- duire a very vivid fancy 10 conjure up the measures the Pope would adept “in better times.” Men whose youth has been fed on “Fox's Book of Mertyrs” and on lurid de- scriptions of “Autos de Fe” know well what the implied threat signifies. So Dr. Wendte ontinues: ““We can readily imagine what this means— that if the Catholic hierarchy ever obtained control of our national life they would, in accordance with their well known and freely expressed principles, put an end to free speech, a free press, free schools, and a free govern: ment, Are we not warranted in believing his?" Now let fne state that this quotation is per- fectly correct—as far as it goes. Leo XIIL is speaking about the license which obtains in uropean countries under which books are printed, pictures exposed, lewdnesses prac- ticed, which would not for five minutes be tolerated in San Francisco. He says what Dr. Wendte quotes, but he says more. I will put the quotation 'and the original in paraile columas for the edification of your readers: DR. WENDTE. TEO XIT. Alihough in the extra- ordinary condition of these times the church usually acquiesces in cer- tain modern lfberties—. not because she prefers them in themselves, but because she judges 1t ex- edient to permit them— n better times she would ‘use her own Liberty. Aud although in the extraordinary condition of these times the charch usnally acquiesces in cer- tain modern liberties— not becavse she prefers them in themselves, but because she judges It ex- pedient to permit them— she wonld in happier tinies exercise her own |liborty, and by persua- |sion,-exhortation and en- treaty would endeavor, |as shie is bound to fulfill the duty assigned to her by God of providing for the eternal salvation of |mankind. This means that the church which is now muzzled in certain countries would use the liberty which every street ranter in the United States possesses. There 38 no hintofany means being used but moral means—the same meaus which Dr. Wendte would employ in such a juncture. Why, then, did hestop in the middle Of & sentence? Why did he leave to the imagi- nation what the Pope expressly stated? Is this afair and manly wey to deal With an op| nent? IsDr. Wendte reduced to the necessity of mutilating papal encyclicals to make n point against the leone? Surely truth does not need such help nor such defenders. A, P. A. DISHONESTY. Tam not surprised to find such tectics em- ployed by men of the inteliectual caliber of Bowman, but I am surprised to find them em- ployed by Dr. Wendte. Here, however, I owe &0 8pology to the doctor for introducing his name into this letter. Bowman is such an in- exhanstible cesspool that decent men prefer 1o hold their noses as they pass him by. As a warning to Dr. Wendte, however, that he is liable to be confounded with this unclean cate- g7y Lvould refer to_the similar tactics of H. - Bowman. In the fruit of his scissors, dated January 10, I find that to prove the supremacy | of the Pope in civil affairs he quotes F. X. Schope. I will put the originl and the quo- tation in parallel columss WHAT BOWMAN SAYS. | WHAT SCHOUPE SAYS. Houman laws are suc- Human laws are sus- ceptible of dispensation. ceptible of dispensation. The power to dispense The power of dispensing belongs to the sovereign belongs to the sovereizn Pontifl. | Pontift for all eccelsiasii- |cal laws, vows, oaths land obstacles to mar- |riage. This dishonesty we would expect from Bow- man, but not from Dr. Wendte. It shows, however, that men who would make an attack on Catholicism are reduced to forgery aud misrepresentation for their weapons. The iact of the matter is that there is nothing in the Catholic teaching concerning church and state which conflicts with American ideas. We have no need of secrificing our logic to preserve our petriotism. From start to finish, Cathelic the- ology and Catholic philosophy are consistent. We have nothing to hide, nothing to explain away. Our feet are set upon the rock of truth, and though our enemies rage and devise vain things we shall not be moved. This letter is merely introductory. 1 have written it to show the tactics of our adversaries and the unworthiness of the weapons on which they reply. Iintend during the next few days to Xplain as clearly as I can the true Catholic teaching on church and state. I intend to take up Dr. Wendte's charges one by one and see how they will bear the light of truth. When I have finished this examination it will be found that sll the quotations whieh have been biought against us will have ranged themselves on our side. This task cannot be finished in one day or in a single letter. but 1 hope that the importance of this subject will excuse the demands on your space. In his letter of this morning Dr. Wendte states that [ have been educated into believing in the Pope. Imust confess that this is the fact. A wide course of reading hes not shaken my belief, but confirmed it. Indeed, if there were anything which would knit papistry into my bones it is the methods used by those who assail us. truth. They clothe themselves in the rags and tatters of the middle ages and cry out. This is the .armor wherein we trust. They dare not let their congregation see the church as she is —the King's daughter without spot or blemish. Like Cinderella, they hurry her into the kitchen and make her sit among the ashes and defile her face with grime, but all in vain. Her beauty cannot be hid. Maltreat her how they wiil, the true heart discerns her comeli ness. Sick and tired of systems and theori and hal truths and equivoeations, the souls of the people look toward the mountain whenee their help is 1o come. Let them once see the church in her] reality, no power on esith cen keep them from joining themselves unto her. The only hopeé of Prowstuntism is to blind the eves and to close the ears and to harden the hearts of the people, lest they should see with their eyes and heat with their ears and understand with their hearts, and should be converted and saved. P. C. YORKE. SEEING COLLECTOR LEES More Caution Will Bs Observed in Granting Free Licenses. MERCHANTS ARE COMPLAINING. Mr. Lees Leaves the License Committee in an Angry Mood—He Gains His Point. In the midst of the meeting of the License and Order Committee of the Board of Suvpervisors yesterday License Collector Fred Lees got up from his seat with a face pale with anger, and nodding to his deputies, who with himself were supposed to be assisting the committee to segregate the deserving from the unde- serving applicants for free licenses, said: “Come on, boys; there is no use of our wasting any more time here. We might as well get out and dig.” Then he stalked out, followed by his subordinates, leaving the members of the committee 1n 2 state of blank astonish- ment. Mr. Lees’ anger was caused by the man- ner in which free permits to sell goods, wares and merchandise were being granted te men of all ages and conditions as fast as they could be ushered in and tell their | tales of woe. Supervisor King was the chief advocate They cannot meet us with the | (CALLS IT SLOW MURDER, Remarkable Statement of James Willey on the Hirshfelder Treatment. THATV CONSUMPTION LYMPH. Says Most of the Patients Died Under the Injections and All Became Much Worse. James Willey, once a well-known real- estate man in San Francisco and now in | what appear to be the latter stages of con- sumption, has a strange’ story to relate concerning the alleged “wonderful cures” that Dr. Joseph O. Hirshfelder’s lymph has effected at the City and County Hos- pital, |~ Two days ago Mr. Willey came from the | hospital—*‘escaped,” he calls it, and now | he is lying in his bed in a little front room at 22 Minna street, almost t00 weak to sus- tain the effort of a lengthy conversation. “I came away from the hospixa_l to escape the lymph treatment of Dr. Hirsh- | felder,” he said yesterday afternoon. “While I was in the hospital I did not | dare to talk, but now I am under my own | roof and may speak my mind freely. I want to tell the truth about that lymph in- jection treatment of Dr. Hirshfeider. That article in the Examiner the other day tell- ing about the wonderful cures that had | been” made was entirely untrue. Not one patient at the City and County Hospital who took the treatment was benefited by it. On the coiitrary, it hastened the death | of several and made them all much worse. | “The Examiner reperter could have | found tlatout for himself if he had wanted to. I was there when he called and the superintendent brought him tomy bed and said: ‘Here’san Examiner reporter who | wants you to tell him about the lymph | treatment.’ | “Iknew what the superintendent meant | —that I was to speak well of the treat- ment—but it had affected me too badly for | that. T.simply shook my head and had | nothing to say. | “Iwentto the City and County Hospital about the first of last October. I could walk around then and when the weather was good enjoyed {fairly good health, though I was far too weak to be of any use | to myseif in working. About the first of | November Dr. Hirshfelder began his ex periments with the Ilymph 1njections. There were seven of us consumptive pa- | tients 1n J ward. He injected all of as with his stuff in the fleshy parts of the legs and arms, and thereafter our temper- 1 atures must be gauged every hour, day and | night. This fact alone was very trying on | most of the ients, for, of course, we | were not permitted to sleep more than one hour at a time during the entire twenty- four hours. | “When I began to take the treatment I weighed 125 pounds. At the end.of the first eight days’ treatment we were all marched to the scales. [ had fallen down to 113 pounds, and all the others in corre- sponding ratios. During all those eight days we vomited continually, had high pulses, could eat little or nothing, conld keep nothing on our stomachsand were very feverish most of the time. At the end of the second eight days, when we were weighed again, I tipped the scales at 108 pounds. When the doctor came around the next morning I refused to allow him to inject any more of his medicine in me. I told him how badly the stuff was affecting me. It was killing me. Icould see and feel that, and I told the doctor so plainly. So then they took me out of the ward and put me down into !a damp and cold room without a fire, | where I lay and shivered all the time, They did this so that my example would not have a bad effect on the other patients and cause them to refuse the lymph. *Now, it's slow murder; that's all this | tymph injection is. Think of a weak and | sick man zoing sixteen days and nightson | a stretch without two consecutive hours of of the claims of the many applicants, most | gleep all that time, and with & high fever of whom were by able-bodied men fully | and able to earn wages at any work they might | eating enou choose. The Supervisor from the First seemed to Know each man by name and occupation, and indorsed the wonderful tales they told without turning a hair, The other members of the committee protested time after time, but King in- sisted ana his decision prevailed. It was when the fortieth applicant, a husky potato-peddler, had been allowed to go d a nausea that prevented me from ol to keep a bird alive. “I am glng now that I finally got away | fromfthe hospital and from any darger of that lymph treatment. But I was luckier than almost any of the others. I think all of them died. At least, all of them grew a great deal worse under the treatment, ex- hibiting the same symptoms as I did. There was a young man there named Mul- len. He was only 24 years old, and when With his praver granted that the Licenee | 1 came to tbe hospital he was strong Collector gave up the fight and retired. It is an outrage,”” he said after return- ing to his oifice, Suvervisors give to'peddlers every quarter. Not one-guarter of them are deserving, and it is really a detriment that matters are allowed to go on as they do. Every day merchants come to my oflice and complain of peddlers who sell in front of their very doors on free licenses. These merchants pay taxes and licenses and should be pro- tected. *‘I would not object if eripples and those who are totally unable to work were given icenses for their own use, but when I see a man come out of the commiitee-room and give or sell hiz permit to some big | hoodlum who bad not the face to ask it | himself it makes me tired. number of instances where this has oc- curred. “These are the very peddlers who are constantly watched by the police because of the thefts committed by them. pay $1 50 per day for the use of a horse and wagon, and usually 75 cents for an as- sistant, but cannot afford to pay a license that amounts to about 10 cents per day. Last week this committee granted 120 free licenses, and the crowd of applicants grows larger at every meeting. *‘At this rate there will gbe 800 free li- censes granted this year, which means a loss of $8000 to the City, or at least $5000 if the really deserving applicants are weeded out, Itisa Peculiflr state of affairs when 1700 peddlers’ licenses are sold in one year and 800 given away. “‘The proper way would be to send ap- plicants to this office for examination be- fore giving them licenses. My men know about every peddler in San Francisco, and they would soon separate the deserving from the undeserving. At the rate things are going now it will be but a short time before hundreds of small storekeepers who carry the goods sold by peddlers will be driven out of business. I am not going to any more meetings of that committee, and they can turn out as many free licenses to bummers as they please.” Unknown to Mr. Lees hiz cause was being fought in the committee by Super- visor Benjamin and Secretary Russell, Both expressed the opinion that the grant- ing of free licenses was being conducted too loosely and that each czse shouid be investigated before the coveted permit was granted. Mr. Russell cited the cases of a number of small storekeepers who had coraplained that the increase in the num- ber of street-peddlers threatened to drive tkem out of business. It was finaljy decided that a resolution should be introduced at the next meeting of the board providing that in future all applicants for free licenses must first apply to the License Collector, and that only those who are recommended by him shall ‘be granted free licenses. ————— Although golf has been played for cen- turies it is only within the last few months that a club has been invented made en- tirely of one piece of wood. The result is an approach to perfection. v e The only eclipse visible in North Amer- ica in 189 will occur August 22-23—a par- tial eclipse of the moon. that this City is kept out of the thousands of dollars’ that these | I know of a| They | enough to be on his teet most of the day, run errands and go outside in the sun. | After his first injection of the lymph he | ok to his bed and went raving mad in the high fcvers that he had. One day in | his fever he assaulted the pantryman, who was his best friend, and force had to be used to hold him down. After a while, when he came out of his fever, he apolo- gized to the pantryman and declared he did not know what he had done. His tem- | perature was usunally as high as 105 and 106 | degrees. Muilen grew weaker and weaker | untit he finaily aied. | ““There was another strong young fellow there named Mulcahy. He has a brother in the County Cierk's office—or had until he died. He was at first quite strong, and used to go outsometimes and smoke cigars He failed rapidly under the | lymph injections. His cheeks were sunk- en and he could eat nothing, and his tem- perature went up to 106. “Patrick Harrington was another of the | patients. He was one of the pioneers and a well-known man here in his day. The | Iymph injection affected him so badly that he asked to be allowed to leave the hospi- | tal, but they would not permit him to go | out. Twice he tried to escape, but they caught him and brought him back and | made him take more of the lymph. Finally he succeeded in getting away from the place, and had at least the poor satisfac- | tion of dying outside in peace, and out of the reach of his tormenters. “Imight goon and mention ail the seven patients who took the lymph. Only myself and one or two othersare still alive, and that only because we did not permit them | to_keep up the treatment on us. It'sa | miserable failure. I can say that from per- | soual experience as well as from personal | observation, and I think it is a shame that | any physician should be allowed to experi- ment with human beings to such an ex- tent as that practiced by Dr. Hirshfelder. T have no personal interest in the matter any more, for at last I have escaped all that and can at Jeast die in peace. But I can prove every weord 1 have said, as there were 2lenty of eyewitnesses to it all. PARDINI IN COURT. The First of the Infamous Company From North Beach to Be Regu- larly Tried. Eugene Pardini, one of the infamous company from the North Beach distnict, | Whose crimes were recently the sensation of this City, has led the way to trial in the Superior Court. He was the first to come | up for regular trizl, and his case was calied | before Judge Wallace yesterday. There are two charges of attempted assault against him. here was less trouble in securing a jury than was expected, the only characteristic which seemed to be objected to being a membership in the Civic Federation or | any organization for municipal reform:; | such jurors were not desired by the de- izensg. The following were found to be qualified and accepted: James W. Kerr, Thomas A. McCormick, J. P. Bannan, John H. Munster, Elken Wasserman, E. D. Fell, Thomas Richardson, Philip i | in the sun. Fabian, C. M. Smith, George Leonard, A, Dunbar and Jabez Howes. The principal witness against Pardim, Minnie Eagan, was the first to testify. Before she was quesiioned the jurors wanted the Judge to clear the courtroom and try the case behind closed@ doors, but the statutory right of an accused to have a public trial intervened and the people were allowed to stav. She is only 12 years old, frank and intelligent, and without any embarrassment she sat for three hours answering the questions of the lawyers and the focus of 200 pairs of eves. There were no women in the courtroom. The child’s _story has been told, and her evidence was but a repetition of the testi- mony taken in the Police Oout. L. C. Pistolesi, who represents Pardini, went to most minute and_trivial details in order to “test the credibility of the witness,™ but the child’s story was not broken Following her upon_ the stand came Louise Olliver, the 15-year-old girl who ledi her young companions into the clutches of such men as Pardini, Lane and Ratz. She did not hesitate to tell her story, however, or to incriminate herself, and its effect was to corroborate the evi- dence first given. Her cross-examination will continue to-day. Emma Marchand and Lillie Bredhoff, two of the witnesses against Peter T. Lane, a prominent figure in the North Beach scandals, have been placed in custody, with bonds fixed at $5000 each. The Assistant District Attorney announced to Judge Belcher yesterday that he had heard there was an intention of gerting the girls out of the way of the courts, in order 1o prevent them from testifying, and in_view of that fact he wanted them de- tained. The order wasmade as prayed for. The six little girls for whose guardian- ship the Youth’s Directory petitioned llm\je been placed in the care of that insti- ution, A CLEVER SWINDLER. He Obtained a Month’s Rent by Forging a Receipt. The police are searching for a clever voung swindler who managed to obtain $70 from the housekeeper of Mrs, Chris- man, 315 Mason street, by representing himself as the son of T. P. Riordan, the real estate agent on Market street. About a week ago Mrs. Chrisman went north on a visit, leaving instructions with her housekeeper to pay her month’s rent of $70 when Mr. Riordan called lor it. The day after Mrs. Chrisman’s departure a young man called at the house and pre- sented a bill for the rent. He said he was Mr. Riordan's son, and as the bill was cor- rect the housekeeper paid it and took a receipt. Two days later Mr. Riordan called for the rent, and on being shown the receipt | he prondunced it a forgery and said he had | not authorized his son or any other person to collect the rent. 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