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8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1%, 1896. H, W, BOWNAN T0 ATHER YORKE, The A. P. A. Editor Writes of the Condition of Ireland. A COMPARISON DRAWN Father Yorke Accuses Dr. Wendte of Making False Quotations. HIS POSITION IS DEFINED. Dr. Discusses the Catholic Wendte Again Restrictions of the Chancellor. The follo to Tre Ca runication addressed | uted to the great | Bowman, editor of AMERICA 819 Mark ration of the verty, Protestantism While a scene of wretch- r, in the north, | Though warmed prospered bound en on ne side toa » north industries rs. All ith, which u_reach region of rs, Tuined ou’ enter a the inquiry sperous tha 1 beggars? ¥ discover i been the land where been the imate inbabitants, the erous | re is a | The ¢ One great < o de; that it is deeply e country and w t everywhere nd has lost nearly ten years' time—from sed’ 2.500,000. I auperized part. Th has diminished it of Ireland is still deq, | bAin. pain- | to Amer but the pover le soil and bad climate? is not due to the soil. ted for its natural be Voiumes have been | y end resources, It is oy Ewaen iy it could ources of ed by t n the w Providence has lup the bounties of being u garden of pl land’s po ntable. oors and r in the race, for the north and the south e that. And again, the black-eyed Celt ame common parent; and | that flowed from the original | been shared alike by ail its | When Saxon England was &hroudea | ance, Celtic Ireland was the seat of | nz for Europe. Tl since Popery was in 8 cause | a without and not from within. To | race for the ignorance and | and thus making it a ct of character is to ignore funda- it is a notorious fact thau the al Celts as found in the Highlands of tiand and the mountains of Wales are alto- | t. Who ever hears of their hills | n the blood of murder, and of | has been | sassins me on the rugged plot and hatch schemes of treason? &nd are the most orderly | Britain, The Irish were | once a nobie race—but how debased! Wrecked by Popery—ruined by Rome. Romanists ciaim ihat it is the political rule of England that is the cause of ail her woes, but one fact alone disproves that. Protestant Ulster in the | north, under the same political regime, has grown rich and prosperous, while the southern Topish portion has degenerated into hopeless pauperism. Despite all the evils of landlord. ism there is a decper and more potent evil that is her religion. The incubusof Rome is upon her, crusning out the very life of the peo- pie. The following article 1 clipped from & Belfast daily while over there in the summer ot '94. It will explain the folly of looking to | ;]mlmcal measures as & remedy for Ireland’s l1s ENGLISHMAN'S TMPRESSIONS OF TRELAND. The case of Ireland, In relation to home rule, is ably stated by the special commissionor of the Birmingham Gazette. After personal observation and impartial inquiry the writer is in a_position to pronounce an opinion, and he has done so without fear, showIng the vast difference that exists in_the conditions prevailing in Ulster and in the other vinces. The former is distinguished by love of | ring industry and palpable rial progress; while elsewhere agitation kee) ninds of the' people excited, industry is e id the result is the decay of town aud Take an example of the special com- | missioner’s feeling. He had reached Newry, which has been called the frontier town of the theast corner, and we can form, from his words, some idea of the relinf he experienced: “This is blessed change from dirt and poverty 10 tidi ness and comfort. After the west of Ireland north looks like another world. After the bare-headed, bare-legged and bare-footed women and children of Mayo and Galway the smartly dressed people of Newry come as a surprise. Yon can hardly realize that they belong 10 the same v. 'There are no mud cabins here, no pig lie bed, no cows tethered in the living. To0m, 1o hens Toosting on the fumily bedstead. The contrast is both realand impressive, testi ing to the superiority of the imperial province, and sccounting for 'the determination of the st Mr. Gladstone’s base attempt u out of the em; nstead of the mud cabins and domestic pigs and cows and hen and children, the peopl industrial est from which c Moreover, the circies including and men and women of Newry bave various hlishments affording employment, miort and prosperity are derived. is not limited to the town. 1In'the rurai districts the tokens of industry are visible. “The nills are cultivated to the top- most peak, or planted with trees where tillage isimpossible. The people scem to have made U most of eversthing. They are digging, hammer- . excavating, building, mining, and raily husiling around.” Yet the Newry folk enjoy no special ceographical advantages. On the contrary, they have had to combat many disad- vantages, and they combated them successfully. Their energy is identified in the ship canal, which invoived a large expenditure of money, enabling them to compete with more favored commercial centers, and in_many other great public works, 1esting the commendable enterprise of (he popula. tion. The cause of the diference between north and south is easily expluined. *“The Newry folk belong to Ulster, where, as a whole, the heople can take care of themselves.” Th the siluct of self-re nd, a8 the sp commis. sioner _observes, from whining and cadg- ing. ~The Wesiport people hiave endless quarris of hard blue marble, which they are 100 Iazy or too ignorant, or both, to cut. The Ulster breed wonld | have quarried, polished, exported a mountain or two long since.” 'Lhielr_granite quarries are of Ligh repate, such gs the Rostrevor green grenite, and they are worked energetically. the products forming a valuabie addition o the exports and are much songht aftér athome. instesa of pestering the Viceroy and the Government with petitions 1o mote piblic works to_em ploy them, the Newry nd the Ulsier people generally, manage ngs for themselves, depending on theirown | resources. From the frontier town the special commissioner pasted to the capital of Ulster: and here he saw enough Lo convince him that seli-re- Jiance 15 all that is required in Ireland to make & sniall town big, and & poor community wealthy. “While the prople of Cork are begzing the Viceroy 10 please to do something for their port, to please 10 be 50 kind as to ask Mr. Bull to favor the city with bis patronage, the Belfast peopie, with 8 far { Italy | | tween Protestant Ausiralia and koman Cathollc | | | 15 2 at the bottom of Ireland’s misery, and | Te: | interior harbor, an fnferior climate, an_incompar- ably inferlor position, surronuded by far worse land, are knocking out the Clyde for shlrhu(kflng and ranning the Continent very close in linen. Belfast is mctually the third in order of the customs ports in the United Kingdom. The Beifust people flour- without home rule, and, what is more, they ¥ their meighbors. They've reckoned thes: try up.” Still more, they flonrish notwith- standing difficulties created by British legislation. Itissaid that linen has made the north, which is oniy true to a certuin extent. The north made the linen, and In turn toe linen proved very useful vorth. We cannot forget that when the in- dustry was ailowed to perish in other parts of Ire land it flourished in Belfast and thronghout Ulster. And to-day Belfast Is the capital of Linendom. The industry laid the foundation of the progress of the city, attracting a large poputation and making way for the introduction 6f other means of employ- ing the people. No doubt much praise is due to the early employers and merchants and workers; but, perhaps, more is due to their Protestantism, which secared peaceful habits and obedience to the law. These are important factors in producing & Prosperons communizy. As the special commis- sioner remarks, “Wherever you go you will find Protestants coming to the top.” Cork is referred to s xu example, and it is ot the only ove in [reland. The “heretics” flourish where the “saithful’’ starve. and if the population of Cork were transferred to Belfast and that of Belfast to Cork, Belfast would at once begin to decay, while Cork would at once begin 1o flourish. The reasons are obvious. The Homan Catholics will not do anything exce-t in the modes adopted by their grandfathers. Half thelr time s wasted in holidays, and the holidays are wasted in what is worse than idleness. ~They won't be of attention. Why, if they grew flax they'd have to work almost every day! And nobudy who ws Irishmen: Ceitle Irishmen—ever e: m to that, or anvthing like do v demoralized by selfish agitators, they d do anything but work, work, and the results are see nificence of their city and the su Belfastme; in the maz cess of their ex rises. Does any one imagine that shrewd ness men, like those ~who made and tain_a greai city, would turn tneir backs 1o home rule it they ‘did no- know that it would be disastrous to ine interests of Ireland? Bel- fastmen 100 years ugo, after defending the country irom foreign invasion, asserted the commercial Ircland, and thenceforward trade in- nd wealth was acquired. Home Rule is ing the House of Commons. brin 2 Into contempt, investing turbulenc and the establishment of an Irish Pa; ld be the sig r civil war. Tt is o consider rambie. n his own condemnation, whom he is serving laugh at his sim. ing that A great nation has discredited ned himself and his policy of disin- and tegration. Henc: i beggarize. Popery begets beggary wherever it goes. Put Romanists into a land of wealth, with no industrial heretics to disturb them, aud they would never rise in the seele of civil- ization o as to be a great wealth-producing, prosperous community. It requires the spur of heretical pro to make them engage in rsuits. The fact that all Roman- :d countries have the largest percentage of illiterates proves her a foe of civilization. it The following statistics reveal Rome’s atti- | tude on mentsl cultivation. e a friend of ignorance. dementalize: They show her to To Romanize is to Countries. Q. Miles. [ Venezuela...| 439,120 Spain.... Portugal Belgium Total.....|4,452,275 Average, 8 countries. . Protestant | Area, Countril S Sq. Mix es whic t Protestant countries form two gr an area of over 4,000,000 square. contain sbout 150,000,000 people > Romanists ghow a of 79.78. Each re- nt in_itsown g ses. While th e perc the Roman Cathotic | group the pe the | wver acy in t group is oniy 4. In other word the Roman Catholle group is 14.343 than in the Protestant group. A religious system which turns out, or tojerat s you please, an average of Sixty every hundred inhabitants of the ries it con- | trols, we wish to have no hand or rolce in our put- | lic education. We must Teject any interferonce from stem which pro n the average nearly fifteen times as many lgnorant adults as are found in Protestant countries. This class of facts mests us at every point where we find the Roman Catholic church in control. For examp! The New York Evening Post, taking its fignres an Argentina paper, the Buenos Ayres Stand 1ves the following 'striking comparison be Argentina: he two countries are atike in having about the rea and population, and may be said to siarted upon their cours in modern civiliza- tion at nearly the same time. But in other re- spects there i3 marked dissimilarity. Australia has & public revenue of $146,000.000 agains U00.000 for Argentina, und a forelgn com- ! 000,000 Most striking of all is which relates to educational stati Argentin the comparison ics: Australia. 3,283 282 7,054 15,083 249,700 500 Her attitude toward the public school system of the United States {JYI\\'ES her to be the in- veterate foe of mental liberty and the friend of mental sloth on the part of the masses. Hence to Romanize means—cease to intelicctualize H. W. Bowxa Postseriptum.—Mr. Editor: In a recent com- munication to your paper Priest Yorke re- marks: “Bowman is such an exhaustible cess- pool that decent men prefer to hold their noses as they pass bim by.” In a certain sense this mav be true. For ‘& number of years I have been studying Roman Catholic publications and thus filled my mind with the moral filth of Papal writers.” I admit that it was a dis gusting and nauseating task and only per- formed in the interests of humanity. If the contents of the “‘cesspool” cause ‘“‘decent men to hold their noses,” it only goes to prove that the stench of Rome’s morals and doctrines produces an unpleasani sensation upon the ethical olfactory nerve of decent people. If a student of Romanism thus becomes a cesspool of Roman filth, what must be the condition of the priest who year in and out makes himselt the cesspool of all the filth of his parish? In spite of all the deodorizing effects of holy water they can discounta polecat at forty rods. in his attempt to convict me of dishonest he requotes my quotation from Revy. 4 Suhoup‘pe, and places the whole sentence in a parailelism. Itso happens that in writing 1 only placed quotation marks at the beginning of the sentence to show that all the exact words were not given. The printer supplied these at the close of the quotation, or else it was done by the transcriber. I quoted it to show that they claimed “human laws were susceptible of dispensation.” This I quoted in the exact language of the writer. In the sec- ond place Tshowed that the power of dispens- ing with them belonged to the Pope. I submit to the candid readers of THE CaLL thatIdid not alter the sense of the writer because Idid not give the list of 1aws and oaths from which he could absolve his subjects. That all civil oaths are included in the definition is plain from the context. H. W. Bowmax, DR. WENDTE’S RETORT. The Unitararlan Minister Com- ments on the Position Taken by Father Yorke. Rev. Charles W. Wendte ina communi- cation to the Examiner contributes the following to the controversy: Father Yorke severely arraigns me for not citing Roman Cathollc” authorities, of whom he mentions a number, in_substantiating my statements, My reply is, first, that I did. In my recent articles I quoted from the utterances of eight or more Popes, be- sides church councils, _doctors, prelates, ete. But, objects Father Yorke, vou did not quote them from Cathelic books. Ireply: A #00d seldier does not depend on his enemy for & supply of ammunition, having plenty of his own. - Perhaps Father Yorke may discover that I did consult Roman Catholic works after all. . 1 am not impressed with his own wide read- ing in Roman Catnolic authorities, or the re- sotirces of his library, when he cannot even lay his bands on any of the canonical authorities of his church whom I quoted. Out of the utterances of ten Popes which I cited, he is sble othered with flax, which wants 1o end | illiterates out of | ¢ amounting to $661.000,000 against $171,- | $2.600,000 $11,400.000 | to locate only one—an allocution of the present Pope. Afterhaving in vain sought the infor- mation, he says, from our Jewish fellow- citizen’s library he tells us he must postpone hissearch to & more favoraole opportunity, Meanwhile, I suppose, the learned Jesuits and other doctors who presumably aid Father Yorke in his scholastic researches are ransac| ing the diocesan libraries end racking their brains to find citations and ingenious argu- ments to break the force of the plain, direct utterances of their own Popes and church fathers which I adduced. But it matters not what they find or invent, I have plenty more testimony to the same effect, and can verify it to Father Yorke's content. < As for Roman Catholic books, if I did not de- pend entirely or chiefly upon them it was be- cause, I regret to say, Roman Catholic his- torians and dogmatisis are not always trust- worthy where the interests of their church are mvolved. ““JANUS."” If any of my readers will look at a little work called “Janus,” popularly written and easily accessible at the public libraries (for which reasons I refer them to it), they will find ample confirmation of this fact. 'This book was writ- ten by the great church historian, Von Doel- linger, who, up to the proclamation of the dogma of Papal infallibility, was a distin- guished and loval son of the Roman com- munion. Tnis dogma so outraged his histor- ical conscience and better knowledge that, unable like most of the dissenting prelates to accommodate himself to what he knew to be & fiction, he left that church. ‘“Janus” made a prodigious sensation, and ustly, for it is an able, learned and courageous o00k. I n a subsequent edition,*Das Papstthum'’ (*“The Papacy”), all its statements arc verified by the proper citations from the authorities referred to. “Janus,” then, from pages 75 to 122, and later, is’devoted to exposing the literary forgeries of the Roman church, on which, in right and absolute rule. These fabrications are quite well known to Roman Catholic scholars, and are yet defended, passed over in silence or condoned by them, while the ehurch continues to make use of these fictitious docu- ments to establish itself in both spiritual and worldly power. T is the procedure confined to the Roman Catholic publications of a former age. sonal friend of mine, formerl of some standing and repute in the Roman | chureh, found himself involved, in his loyalty |and zeal for his church. in a theological con- troversy with an eminent English Protestant seholar. He quoted from standard Roman Catnolic works certain authorities in behalf of the Romish claims. His opponent replied that the quotations were garbled, falsified and untrustworthy. My friend, the Abbe, was indignant beyond ex ion, and de- nied the charge. Finally he was induced to g0 with his opponent to the British Mu- seum and examine the oldest e g edition to verify ossible, his quotations. He dis- covered his amazement and sorrow that The more re- cent Catholic editions were interpreted or altered in the supposed interests of the church lied upon a d church, his ecclesi- gracibusly listened ended {0 compare his ritish Museum Librar essed his inebility to explain the d crepancies, but advised him most paternally , disregard his scraples and ote himself to the care ot sonls, yntroversial matters to the doc- tors of the chureh. My friend tried to do this, but his individual reason and love of tr which not even a Jesuit training of vears bad succeeded in crushing out ¥ {led him out of Rome into a freer and better on. 2 true story and its moral is obvious. PARROT LEARNING. des, what use is there in consulting Catholic books, when one is only a par- rot-like repetition of the other? The Ch of Rome has long sitice elaborated its doctrine | and usage, and determined the limits within which (5 theologians and scholars may think | and write. It permits no freedom of investi- | Zation, no’ variations of opinion, except as these tend to confirm its established dogma All expressions of individual iree opinion vhien displease it are placed upon the Index Expurgatorius, and its authors silenced. For this veason, there are tew il any scholars, in | the modern sense, among the Roman doctors. | They are simply éxpositors and_apologists, the instruments of their church. I | that t} chureh is not powerful enough in our day to | erush and silence everybody ns it once di | Bvt such ceptions only establish more | elearly the rule. 1t is to Protestantism that the modern world owes its free scholarship, iree science and free | literature. The great nameo in all these de- s are nearly all Protestants or fre to his opponent had stated truly. cal superior. his story, cond notes, made in the 3 do not deny The rise of historieal eri cism, natural science and modern litera- ture, which our age is witnessing, is the out- le most determined enemy. but of the principles | and methods embodied in the Protestant Reformation. he dominant races of the mod- ern world are the Protestant nations—Eng- nd, the United States, Germany and the e ‘Catholic people siowly sinking eclipse. Their day is over. Light is breaking. Freedom, not obedience; trath, not illusi reason, not sentiment; humanity, archy | now 1s. , ot are the watchwords of the hour that FATHER YORKE'S CRITICISM. Father Yorke's preliminary blast seemsmore noisy than destructive. Letu He denies citation from J. §. Hittell concerning Aqui- Twili Jet Mr. Hittell himself r that, simply remarking that I may have given-the Wrorg reference to his authority, as Hittell’s list of sources is noue of the clearest. Aquinas did sdy, by the way, that all heretics ought to be put to death. I just now the favorite theologian in Catholic circles. Second ly, Father Yorke denies my second | al citation from Hittell to the effect that Cardi Bellarmine declares that tne Roman Ponti has supreme power to dispose of the temporal affairs of all’ Christians. Mr. Hittell may an- | €wer for that eitation aiso, and_we will, in the meantime, hold our judgment in suspense. But Doellinger tells us (p. 318, Janus) that Bellarmine says the Pope has full right to ab- solve the subjects 6f & prince from their oath of allegiance.” Bellarmine, who seems to have | held a ehoice collection of opposing views, and | to have been a most dishonest character, was | the author of that charming saying: *Heretics { When strong are to be commended to when weak are to be committed to the exec: tioner.” POPE LEO XIII. The only point which Father Yorke is as yet able to find against my elaborate srticle, with all its reasoning and many proofs, is a Single | citation from a letter of Pope Leo XIII. He as I went, but asserts that I did not complete the quotation. Iadmit [ made my notes of it years ago, and did not have time to verify my quotation. Butletme sce whether the com- pleted passage helps Father Yorke's contention very much. I 'give my opponent’s rendering and come ments: DR. W] : Although in the ex-| And although in the traordinary condition of cxtraordinary condition these 1imes the church of these times the church usually acqulesces in usually acquiesces in ce; certain modern liberties tain modern liberties— -—not because she prefers not because sghe prefers them in themselves, but them in themselves, but becavse she judges il because she judges it expedient 1o permit expedient to permit them—in better "times|them—she would in hap- she would use her own pier times exercise her liberty. |own liberty, and by per- suasion, exhortation and entreaty would endeay- or, us she is bound, 1o fuifill the duty assighed o her by. God of provid- ing for the eternal sal- |va fonof 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 is no hint of any means being used but moral means—the same means which. Dr. Wendte would employ in such a juncture. ‘Why, then, did he stop n the mid- dle of a sentence? Why did he leave to the imagination what the Pope expressly stated? Is this a fair and manly way to deal with an opponent? Is Dr. Wendte reduced to the necessity of mutilating papal encyclicals to make & point against the Pope? Surely truth does not need such help nor such defenders.” CATHOLIC PERSUASION. In reply let me assure Dr. Yorke that I never imagined that the existing Catholic church would use force of arms to establish ber claims; certainly not in the United States, where she counts a scant eighth of the population. Ever since United Italy drove her piebald papal bat- talions out of the Eternal City she has ex- changed her policy of force for that of subtle persussion, politic dissimulation, ~Intrigue, anatization of her adherents and other arts to which weakness often resorts. With these methods she knows how to accomplish many ends in modern society promotive of her own interests at the expense of the common weal. ‘“Persuasion, exhortation, entreaty’—yes, we know these methods; every newspaper editor, every business man,every Assessor,every School Committee and every political caucus knows them. All Europe is convuised with them. Popes no longer lead armies in person. They use the secular powers as the agents and in- struments of their purpose. It wasat the “per- suasion and exhoriation” of the papacy that the gutters of Smithfield ran with blood, the forests of Piedmont echoed the anguished cry of martyrs, that thirty years ot war devastated Germauy, and Italians” were arrayed in bate against each other at Aspremonte. No one is decelved by such words but those who deserve 0 be. Bat is this all my opponent has yet been able to muster against me? Does this shortening of n single Tmmtinn, in the interests of that brevity which seems tobe alost art with Father Yorke, entitle him to pronounce me guilty of “a literary crime”? Alas! good father, if your literary conscience 1s 50 tender, what will it say to the forged Isi- L¥O X1IL. large degree, it bases its pretensions to divine | - ' 1S sovRCE | J ¢ are some exceptions to this, jor the “ | not of the spirit of the Roman chureh, its | in | acknowledges that I quoted it correctly s far | dorian decretals, the Gregorian fiction, the E[ARhnninn misquotations, the spurious acts of Roman martyrs, ihe fables, legends and miracles attributed to saints, the records and relics that have been fabricated by thousands. the two holy coats of the Savior at Treves and Argentine, “alternately exhibited: the two or three heads of $t. John, which are simultane- ously displayed; the bones of the 11,000 holy virgins at Cologne, which modern physiology pronounces to be largely the bones of men and animals! But enough! I await with chastened hum- bleness, tempered with curfosity, your authori- tative declaration on the Roman Catholie doc- trine of church and state, from whose enforce- ment, in the language of the Litany, we pray, “Good Lord, deliver us!” 2 CHARLES W. WENDTE, Minister Unitarian Church. Oakland, January 16, 1896. FATHER YORKE'S LETTER. Accuses the Rev. Dr. Wendte of Making False Quota- tions. In answer to Dr. Wendte, Father Yorke writes as follows: To the Editor of the Call—DEAR Sik: My ex- posure of the péculiar controversial methods of the Rev. Dr. Wendte hasevidently disturbed his equanimity. He comes to the front this morning with unwonted alacrity to defend his quotations and his authoritie: Iremark with pain that Dr. Wendte appears to be deficient in allantry. He devotes two paragraphs to his riend, Mr. John S. Hittell. He has not a word to say for ‘that equally distinguished theolo- gian, his covk. Mr. Wendte seems tobe under the impression that I look upon John 8. Hittell with ‘*horror” and I beg to assure Mr. Wendte i sions are absolutely unfounded. Inever saw Mr. Hittell in my life, and I have 10 reason to suppose that I ever shall. To me he is the mere shadow of a name, without passions or affections. If I think of him as a person I view him with a benevo- lence which hardly rises to the dignity of con- tempt. My feelings are like those of the late Thompson Campbell. When Hittell was in the Legizlatura he developed a mania for pro- posing amendments to the constitution. apbell was chairman (I think) of the com- mittee to which these amendments were re- ferred. Once upon a time our theologian com- plained that his beautiful resolutions were systematically burked. After some words Mr. Campbell eut” short the discussion by declar- ing: “I don't want to have any. controversy | with a man who has quarreled with his Maker."” NO BENEFIT OF THE CLERGY. Dr. Wendte seems sore that I have ques- tioned his competency and his literary hon- esty. Yet what would he have me to do? Wiien 1 find nim quoting works he has never seen and quoting them ineorrectly am I to keep my discovery a secret? When I see him relying on men who have been guilty of every crime known to concoctors of false witness am L to seal to lips with silence? 'When I behold him mangling a sentence of the Pope beyond | recognition and serving up the remains as an awful specimen of Papal depravity am I to look on with a complacent simper? No, Dr. | Wendte; these tactics might do in a debating ociet; ut in a controversy like the present they are actions fll of moral turpitude. Re- | member, this controversy is & serious | matter. Twelve miilions of your fel-| low-citizens have been cherged” by you | with & crime they abhor. In fact, you are the seli-chosen champion against them. You have expressed your opin- ion that those who began the fight ‘were illit- erate and unskillful and you have leaped into the arena 1o show how much _better you could do. When at the very outset I prove that your lotations aTe unreliabie, your authorities unworthy of beli u have no right to ery out that I am attacking your personal char- acter. Of your personal character I know nothing. In this case youare your letters. When Ldrag these letters in the journalistic | tumbrils to the scaffold you have noright to plead benefit of the clerg OF INFORNATION. Iam more than surprised that after holding up his protesting hands in horror at my rude Dr. Wendte should confess that he quote his aunthorities at first hand. | remarks, does not | John s When he wishes to find t 1t what Catholie doe neis he goes 10 the en urch to learn. Let m sense people of San Fra 1 of this manner of aci Suppose a visitor from Mers came to America to learn about the olitical tenets of the Republican party, would [Be be safein consulting Democratic news: | papers? Dr. Wendte coolly co that | | when he wishes to know what Catholics believe | he inquires of those who hate Catholies. MY AUXILTARIES. Dr. Wendte declares that he is not impressed with the wide range of my own readings or the resources of my library. Let me reassure him with the reminder that first impressions are seldom lasting. He speaks mbout learned Jesuits niding me in my scholastic researe | and racking their brains for arguments to ov throw Dr. Wendte. Iam siraid that the rev erned gen tleman is suffering from an incipient attack of megalocephalitis. 1am alone in this controversy. Iverily my own quotations, ex- | amine my own authorities and write my own | letters. Moreover, I might add that the argu- ments of Dr. Wendte are not so difficult or so | sew that then refutetion would unduly strain | even the limited intellectuality of the domestic | hen. THE VALUE OF JA Of course Janus is the great armory whence modern anti-Catholics draw their weepons, Janus is & _work which appeared in Germany before the Vatican Council, It wasdesigned to ent the definition of the dogma of infalli- Dr. Wendte says it was written by Doel- . Like meny other ngsof Dr. Wendte | this is not true. It is very doubtful if it were | written by one person at all,and even the | London Spectatdr declared in’ 1870 that its | authors could not be Catholics, | But whether written by Doellinger or not | Janus is utterly superficial and untrustworthy. | | Dr. Wendte calls it an able, learned and cour- | ageous book, but it is a remarkable thing that in certain quarters every one who opposes the church is able, learned and courageous, while | men who try to do & man’s part in defending the 1aith of their fathers are condemned be- forehand as untrustworthy, tricky and evasive. | However, it does not make the slightest difference now whether Janus is reliable or or not. I do mot intend to rely upon hime fhough my library, according to Dr. Wendte, is not extensive I think I have the means at hand of controlling Janus’ citations. A FAIRY STORY. Like all veteran romancers Dr. Wendte en- livens his articles with interludes. He has fa- vored us with the story of the anonymous abbe whom it took twenty years to find out that Rome was fooling him. Will not Dr. Wendte kindly tell this learned abbe's name? It is such a find to a Protestant controversalist who is able to overcome a Cardinal that his | name should not be consigned to oblivion. Dr. Wendte says much about Protestant scholar- ship and Koman ignorance. He knows abso- lutely nothing about Catholic literature and, therefore, he talks with the cocksureness ol a sophomore. If Dr. Wendte's letter be a speci- men of Pretestant scholarship we poor Papists are in a sorry ptight. If the light that is in thee be in darkness the darkness itself how great shall it be? POOR HITTELL. As a specimen of the scholarship of Dr. Wendte and the reliability of the quotations | he has brought to prove an absurd charge against the church, let me examiue these quo- tations one by one. First, however, let me entreat Dr. Wendte not to shift the responsibility onto the shoul- ders of poor Mr. Hittell. It {s very unkind to say that Hittell’s list is none of the clearest. It is easily the clearest specimen of hodge podge I have ever seen. Moreover, Dr. Wendte copied out the reference correctly. The trouble is that Dollinger does not say what Hittell makes him say. In other words Jit- tell has been guilty of forgery pure and simple. Let me quote Dr. Wendte: “This is a true story and iis moral is obvious.” PRODUCE YOUR REFERENCE. Dr. Wendte has fallen foul of Bellarmine. e accuses him of being author of the saying: “‘Heretics when strong are to be commended to God; when wenk are 10 be committed to the ex- ecutioner. 1 defy Dr. Wendte to tell me when and where Bellarmine gave utterance to that monstrous sentiment. A CURIOUS CATALOGUE. I will now run over the rest of the quotations produced by Dr. Wendte in his original letter, and when I have finished the public will be very much edified by and instructed in the na- ture of Oakland scholarship: Dr. Wendte writes: In that extraordinary document, T ngel- feal and Syllabus,” of the late Pius IX, nearly all the achievements which form the glory of modern socicty—free schools, a free science, & free press, liberty of conscience and of religions worship—are indicted by name and condemned with the anathe- mas of the church, and mankind is enjoined under penalty of all the terrors and disabilities at the command of the Roman Seo to bend in penitence at the footstool of St. Peter. This must in truth be an extraordinary doeu- ment. What in the name of heaven an “Evan- elical” mn?’ be I caunot conceive. I wonder s it something to eat. The “syllabus” Iknow, but I emphatically deny that it condemns ‘‘ree schools, a frée science, a free press, lib- erty of conscience and of réligious worship.” The burden of proof is upon Dr. Wendte. He Las made the assertion, let him now back it up. 2. Again, Dr, Wendte writes: It would be easy to heap up similar declarations of purpose from the minor clergy and Cathollc press. Thus the eminent theologian, Dr. Brown- son,in his Catholic Review, affirmed that “Pro- testantism of every form has not and never can Lave any right where Catholiéity is triumphant.”” Brownson’s works are published in thirty voiumes and form a pile about four or five feet high, vet Dr. Wendtc gives neither page nor date for his reference. To show you how iguor- -the two being distant relatives. ant Dr. Wendte is of Brownson let me remark that this “'eminent theologien’” never had any- thing to do with the “Catholic Review.” Again Dr. Wendte writes: Recent Popes have denounced by name these es- sentlal institutions of our nation, calling them *the liberty of perdition,” “implous, absurd and erron- eous doctrines,” “detestable sentiments pregnant with the most deplorable evils, of all others most 10 be dreaded in & state.” Indecd Pope Leo X111, in the encyclical already quoted from, emphati= cally condemns the supposed right of & man to choose his own religion and calls it a “degradation of liberty,” and Pope Pius IX in his allocution to & consiatory of Cardinals, Soptember, 1851, said: “We have taken this principle for basis that the Catholic reiigion with all its rights ought to be ex- clusively dominant fn such sort that every other worship shall be banished and interdicted.”” Let me state first that no Pope has denounced & single essential institution of our nation as “impious,” *‘absurd,” etc. Let me state secondly that Leo XIIT does not call our American sysiem of religious freedom as & “degradation of liberty."” _Let me state thirdly that there was no_con- sistory of Cardinals held in September, 1851, and that the words ascribed to Pius IX are spurious, 4. Again Dr. Wendte says: It 1s characteristic of the Roman clergy always to avail themselves of their immediate oppor- tunity, no matter how it may contradict the logic of their principles. Thus Louis Vieulliot, editor of the Catholic journal, L'Univers, and leader of the Ultramontane party in the French Parliament, on being reproachea for inconsistency, coolly repiied radical majority: “When we were in power we denied you free speech and action on the basis of our principles. But now that you are in wer we demand this freedom from you on the | asis of your principles.” With the experience we have had of Dr. Wendte’s quotations I am justified in refusing to crédit this until he produces his authority, 5. Again Dr. Wendte says: When Mary was Queen of England Pope Paul 1V issued a bull confirming the previous Papal grants ot Ireland to the English crown, and erect- ing it into a kingdom. He said therein: “By vir- tueof the supreme power which we have from God, who has placed us over thrones and nations, we erect Ireland into a kingdom.” The words in inverted commas were invented by John S. Hittell. 5. Agsin Dr. Wendte say: 1, whose pontificate extended from 858 thus to the Bishops of Lorraine: Lave the wrot the judging ail men owe obedie | guilty you should reject him_from | munion until we pardon him. power to bind and to loose. 1 tians cannot, under penalty of excommunication, | execute other judgment than ours, which alone is infallible. People are not the jndges of their | princes: they should obey, without murmuring, | | | | r of Christ, your coms We alone have the ® * & and Chris- the most iniquitous orders. * * * But if we de- clare & king heretical and sacrilegious—if we drive him_from the church—clergy and laity, whatever their rank, are freed from their oaths of fidelity, | . and may revoll agalnst his power.”—(Cormenin “History of the Popes,” vol. 1, 242.) Cormenin, who gives this letter, was a | French Protestant minister. He cites no au: thorities for it whatsoever. It is not to be found among any of Nicholas' letters. F epistles to the Bishop of Lorraine are extant, and nothing like this occurs in them. Jjohn . | Hittell knew the letter was a forgery because he omitted words which would show even the densest_bigot that no Pope could have uttered them. Here are the sentiments which even Hittell considered too strong for his ders. After the words “the most iniquitous ers”” the alieged letter continues: They shouid bow their foreheads under the chast ments which it pleases kings to inflict on them, for a sovereign can violate the funda. mental law of the sitate and seize upon the wenlth of the eitizens by fmposts _or by confl cations; he can even dispose of théir liws! without any of his subjects having the right to address to him simple remonstrances.” i | And we are asked to believe that these words were spoken by & sane man! Hittell omitted them. 6. Again Dr. Wendte writes; Gregory VII wrote to a Roman synod: *We can give or take away, at our will, kingdoms, duchi earldoms, and, in a word, the possessions of al men.” (Janus, i. e., the Dr. Doellinger cited above, | . 89) | In the first place Janus does not say tha Gregory wrote these words to a Roman synod. In the second place the very quotation given by Jenus does not make Gregory says these words at all. Inthe third place, in the original the words given by Janus are 1ot said by Gregory of him self, but of the saints of God in heaven. 7. Again Dr. Wendte writes: Pope 1nnocent IT1 clained (see Janus. p. 133) in | one of his ecclesiastical episties that <CLrist bas committed the whole world to the government of the Popes.” Pope Innocent II1 makes no such claim in the sense intended by Jarus. The words occur in the midst of a long letter to the Patriarch of Constantinople. That letter is teken up in proving the primacy ot Peter. Innocent says that the other apostles were appointed to ¢ tein provinces or churches, as, for example, James to Jerusalem, but {hat St. Peter was given the whole world for his province. Again Dr. Wendte says: he code of Gratian, as compiled about 1150, and ever since accepted by all the Popes as part of | the canon law, to which e ody owes obedi- ence, declares’ that the Pope ‘alone gives power and_eflicacy in the first instance to every law.” | (Gefrcken 1, 24). In the first place the code of Gratian was never aceepted by canonists or Popes as a part | of the canon law. It was a textbook for | sehools and nothing more. In the second place the code of Gratian does not say that the Pope in the first instance | gives efficacy to civil law. I think I have given sufficient proof now to show how untrustworthy Dr. Wendte's quota- tions are. If his scholarship can produce only | such scraps of learning as these the less he boasts the better. Ihave not done with his communication yet. Iam sorry that he com- plains of my verbosit However, 1 cannot Ixelp it. A fool can ask more questions in a minute than a wise Iman can answer in a year. At the end I would advise Dr. Wendte to con- suit the dictionary now and again. He speaks of “the bones of 11,000 holy virgins at Cologne, which modern physiology pronounces to be largsly the bonmes of men and animals!” I would humbly remind him that neither an- clent nor modern ‘‘physiology” could have | anything whatsoever 10 say on such a point. Yours truly, P YORKE. SEINOR NUMNS ESTATE Upward of $100,000 Left to a Brother Residing in This City. - No wonder Mr. Timothy Nunan of Powell Street Made Rich by the Death of a Relative. Timothy Nunan, a carpenter, whose home is at 916 Powell street, will not have to work at his trade any more. He has just received word that he is heir to the $100,000 estate of his brother, Ed- | ward Nunan of London. Tne latter was formerly a resident of S8an Francisco. He was a well-known Supervisor here and he served one term in the State Senate. The carpenter is the ex-Senator’s brother and it is supposed that he is the only heir. Senator Nunan, a local capitalist at the time, was one of the bondsmen for Mat- thew Nunan when the latter was Sheriff, An at- tache of the Sheriff's office defaulted with about $25,000 of the county funds and the Sheriff and his bondsmen were com- pelled to make good the loss. Soon after that the ex-Senator gave up all his business here and removed to Lon- don, never returning to this country. A week or two ago J. B. Eliot of this City received a letter from a firm of Lon- don solicitors stating that the ex-Senator had died and requesting that notice be sent to the dead man’s relatives if any could be found. A search was accordingly instituted by Mr. Eliot and it was found that the Powell-street carpenter, a brother, was the only relative near enough to have any claim to the estate. In London ex-Senator Nunan resided at 101 Leadenhall street, E. C. 1t is believed that he has no relatives there and the San Francisco brother will get the greater por- tion of the estate, if not all of it. ‘When the ex-Senator went away from San Francisco he had property that was valued at upward of $100,000, and it is sup- posed that in the ten years or more since his departure the estate has increased. The local heir will have his claims looked out for by San Francisco and London law- years, and it is probable that he will go to London to personally take care of the property. New York women spend more on dres: than any other women in the world, e ABOUT FALLING WATERS, The Storm Had Given the State Eleven Billion Tons of Rain Yesterday. BIG, SLOW AND INTERESTING. The Peru Overtook the Storm and Beat It in an Ocean Race of Seven Thousand Miles. The storm that has been here during the past few days is long and broad and deep, able bodied, but not savage. It has tra eled thousands of miles without getting tired and there are things about it that the finite mind can but vaguely compre- hend. Of course, the first things people want to know are, “How much has it rained?”’ and “How long will it las$?” At 5 p. M. yesterday 2.46 inches had fallen during the storm at San Francisco and vicinity. By midnight the precipitation had undoubtedly amounted to half as much as that of the whole season before the storm began—6.05 inches. good prospect that the threatened dry sea- son will turn out to be an average one. The rain has been a widespread one, general over this State, Oregon and Wash- ington. In California rain ‘has fallen everywhere except over the Colorado Desert. The rainfall has ranged from 8 inches in the Siskiyou Mountains to traces at the desert edges. The storm struck the northern and central coast of this Sunday night and has worked s ns the round front of the storm worked in d. The rain reached Los Angeles ednesday night. Forecast Official Hammon says that the rainfall has been_sufficient for all present | needs north of Berenda at the center of the San Joaquin Valley. The rain has been a steady, gentle, soaking one and so has been largely retained by the earth. Last evening the storm seemed to have | made up its mind to quit trifiing and in | the City the rain came for a while in floods, filling the sewers and driving peo- ple into doorways. Hammon and McAdie, ‘Weather Bureau, trace this storm 6500 miles out at sea, and Mr. Hammon rather thinks that this is the storm_ that gave the cruiser Baltimore such a time a few weeks ago. Thbe Baltimore left the China coast for Honolulu early in Decem- ber and soon ran into the storm. Definite reports from the Baltimore are not at hand, and it is possible that it was another storm thatthe Peru overhauled about 70 deg. east of Greenwich and far west of Honolulu in the steamer track. The unusuval thing has happened that two steamers have passed through a big torm at sea, and beaten it to the Pacifi Joast, bringing advance reports for tl weather map of the storm’s doings for two weeks before it _has put in an appearance where Uncle Sam keeps barometers and up in December 31 when it wasonly 1500 or 2t miles from Yokchama. Asthesteamer pro- gressed the barometer kept ind other signs showee that it was running toward the center of a slowly moving storm ahead of it. The Peran passed through the storm south of its center, and arrived here a day ahead of the eastern | edge of the storm. The Australia also passed through itand got in ahead. From the steamer reports, the present storm is fairly well charted from a point 6500 miles westward. This is done right alo passed, from the daily weather reports re- ceived under the new sysiem from all c pened before that a batch of daily observa- | tions of a coming storm at sea have been received in advance while the sun was shining. This storm is one of those regular “Jows” that come in, but it is bigger than usual. The diameter of the storm, cyclone or “low”’ is about 2000 miles and yesterday the center was about Fort Canby on the northern coast. The wind blows to the center from all directions and so yesterday San Francisco had a south wind. It will probably rain for a day or two yet and pos- sibly longer. Mr. Hammon made a trifling skirmish yesterday with the incomprehensible ques- tion of the amount of energy expended by such a big though rather gentle storm. | He took as a slightillustration of one form of its energy the amount of rain that had fallen over a very small fraction of its | path during a fraction of its existence. | There has been a rainfall of about one inch when averaged for the State. A rainfall of one inch over a square mile | amounts to 72,000 tons of water. Say that in this State there has been this average fall over 150,000 square miles. That gives 10,800,000,000 tons as the measure of the water California has re- ceived since Sunday. Mr. Hammon esti- mates that for the coast there had been yesterday an average of one inch over 500,000 square miles, and this would give 36,000,000,000 tons of water. This amount of water has been raised into the air by the expenditure of energy | in the form of heat. When it was precipi- tated the heat was released and changed from the latent to the sensible form. The evaporation of a quart of water will raise the temperature of 512,000 cubic feet, of a certain density, 10 degrees. This gives an intimation of the Eroblem oi how much heat energy has been expended in the present rainfall and what might be done with it if it could be kept on tap. Mr. Hammon countermanded orders from the Secretary of the Navy yesterday. The Boston had” been ordered to proceed to Honoluly, and was in the stream ready to go. The captain_sent Ensign Howard uF to the Weather Bureau with his com- pliments to ask if he could go, and was told that he couldn’t. The Boston stayed. Selecige g DAMAGE BY STORM. Stores and Houses Flooded and Streetcars Stopped—Breaks in the Sewers. The heavy rain of yesterday resulted in x(xngrent deal of damage throughout the ity. The shovkeepers on the gore block of Market and McAllister streets suffered from the overflow of water from the Mc- Allister and Jones streets sewers, which enter the main Market-street sewer at that point. Every year these sewers cause a vast amount of trouble, and have resulted | in the annual flooding of the basement of | J. J. O’'Brien’s dry-goods store in the Mur- phy building. Dl}rlng the afternoon yesterday the rain- Inl{ in Hayes Valley and the Western Ad- dition was so great as to fill the sewers leading therefrom to their full running capucity. When the storm burst in all its force, between 6 and 7 o’clock, the surplus of water could not be drained off through the cesspools and it began to back up. In less than ten minutes, Market street, from near Taylor to Seventh, was covered by a large sheet of water, varying from one’ to eighteen inches in depth, and this body of water backed up McAllister street almost to Leavenworth. All of the sidewalks on the west side of the street were under water. On the Market and McAllister streets gore this did considerable damage, for the water crossed the sidewalks and entered the stores from the two entrances on Market and McAllister streets. The drygoods-store at 1302 Market street was an inch too high for the water to get in. There is a | g months after a storm has | | help pull | George Moschky was thrown | had to es of vessels, but it has never hap-| { | i | | | | | | | | second vice-president ; vate 1 the floor, and the waiters l\)\'fml‘«‘z:tunh?;‘ut the premises with their s rolled up. m’i‘ll‘::rbia{'ber-shon at 1306 escaped by the use_of mais on the thresahold. At the Palace shoestore, five lnc!leso v\‘?[er covered the floor and the clerks were kept busy removing the stock from the ua:er.l xt door is S. Shirek’s furnishing-goods- store. Into this man’s premises the water rushed in a flood. o suaden did the w: idera damage was 4 t 0 «s)::];‘;:‘dblnfcur the floor. When at its nexgz!% the water was more than ankle deep al over the store. Opposite the store on the street the water was eighteen inches in del,flh»mmemp,s paint shop, at 1314 Mar- G. A ke B emises were flooded, as AL tore at 1316 Market vas Schoenfeld’s shirt s ;‘l‘::elf:h\l)uun Bros.’ saloon at 1318 caught the water from the front and rear. In Dave Wise's music store next door the experience was the same as the (_‘Alhersi The water ceased to back after it 13:3]( reached Levin Bros.’ grocery store at 1324 Market street, but it did raise high enough in the store to set the egg boxes, hams, ete., to floating about. 3 Opposite this store is a low place in the street where the flood found a chance to cape down Seventh street. For a time it ran like a millrace down that street and came within an inch of flooding two grocery-stores on the corner of Mission street. gt For hours last evening the clerks in the stores mentioned were at work barefooted sweeping the water and mud out of their stores. The damage amounted to many hundred dollars before the waters sub- sided and the sewers were able to perform their functions. P About 7 o’clock out in the Mission in many places the streets were flooded, llars tilled with water and mud, sewers blocked up and car lines stopped. On Folsom street, between Fourteenth and Sixteenth, the water for a time was eigh- teen inches deep; the sewer seemed to have been stopped and the streecs were entirely impassable. At Seventeenth and Toward and Fourteenth and Howard the water was in places four or m'e_xm-hesdoep and at Fourteenth and Valencia there was nches of water. s The Folsom-street sewer at Fifteenth and Folsom caved in and caused a heavy back- ing up of water in the neighborhood,where considerable damage was done to cellars. In many of the stores er came in on the floors. The Castro-street cars were stopped at Twenty-fourth street, the Twenty-second street branch of the Mission-street line, the Ingleside cars and the electric-cars on the San Francisco and San Mateo line all ceased running for a time. These stop- were caused by water and sand cov- ing the tracks. The sewer at the corner of Turk and Webster streets was broken in, and about 7 o’clock Dave N an, a_teamster for L. Eikins, passing by asked to stop and a horse out of the hole. rmer of Fillmore and Geary -re flooded, many lower floors were inundated. A Haight-street car, during the storm, was suddenly stopped by some obstruction on the track and a passenger named zainst the bead badly cut. He ng Hospital for ater rise that con- 2one to the goods el At the window and had his was taken to the Rece: treatment The Market-street Railway Company suffered considerable annoyance b, ) rush of waters and sa in several places along its lines. cipal annoy in the e of the McAllister-street branch, on F and Lott streets. T e is situa upon a block of low, flat foct of several hills that arise to the north and west. When the principal downpour took place the sewer near the engin failed to carry off the sur! flood burst into the engine-room and tered the pit in which are the la over whieh the cable tu soon filled and, of cour: be shut down. hour to turn the stream out of the encir house, pump the water out of the pit and art the machinery in operation aga No damage was doue. REPUBLICANS RALLY. round at the New Officers of the Lincoln Club In- stalled With Specches and High Jinks. There was no limit to the patriotism, enthusiasm and good feeling expressed at the high jinks and installation of the officers of the Lincoln Republican Club at its headquarters on Powell and Union streets, last night. Over a thousand invi- tations have been issued. In spite of the storm the club rooms were crowded, among those present being most of the more important county officials. The first work of the evening was the in- stalling of the officers who were elected a fortnight ago. Those taking the obliga- tions as officials were: Henry S. Martin, president; Charles Heinz, first vice-president; Adolph Wolif, E. G. Kendall, re- cording secretary; Thomas . Mullen, financial secretary; L. R. Rea, treasurer; | George W. Faber, sergeant-at-arms. The executive committee was chosen as foilows: Alexander Campbell Jr., Melo Ellich, Louis Strohl, George Hauser and John Walsh, The investigating committee consists of H. J. Ostheimer, M. M. Bushway, A. J. ger'\egri, W. B. Corcoran and Joseph Bare etta. The newly installed officers and a num- ber of visitors made eloquent speeches, foretelling sweeping victories at the next election. Songs, recitations, more speeches and bountiful and varied refreshments, both solid and liquid, made the evening pass most pleasant NEW TO-DAY. 'Gladness Comes |W ith a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrupof Figs, prompt- 1y removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of families, and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness, without debilitating the organs on whichitacts. Itistherefore all important, in erder to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have the genuine article, which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep- utable druggists. Ifin the enjoyment of good health, and the system "is regular, then laxa- tives or other remedies are not needed. 1f afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, then one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywlere, S; p of Tigs stands highest and is most, argely The Junction Cafe, at 1304, had an inch | Wsedand gives most general satisfaction.