The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1896, Page 10

" 10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1896 FATHER YORKES FAM STAND The Chancellor Discusses the “Infallibility of the Pope.” HIS GREAT ELOQUENCE. For Over Two Hours He Holds the Attention of His Hearers. THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY. The Claims of the Catholic Church Brilliantly Championed by the Priest. When Father Yorke stepped on the plat- form at Metropolitan Tempie last night he was greeted with tremendous applause by the great audieuce that had gathered to hear him lecture on the “Infallibility of the Pope.” There was a tremendous crowd at the temple. Every seat was occupied and the aisles and corridors were crowded. -Ad- ssion was by ticket and several thousand peopie were turned away. The audience that Kistened to the dis- tinguished speaker was most enthusiastic and at times the.popular feeling ran very high. ‘The platform of the temple was deco- rated with National colors, ferns and flowers. Prominent clergymen of .the Catholic church, men prominent in busi- ness affairs, legislators, lawyers and phy- sicians cccupted seats on the platform. When the briliant voung Chancellor was introduced he received an ovation that touched his heart. The applause and cheering continued for over a minute, and through the discourse the feelings of the audience were expressed in frequent storms of hand-clapping. A large force of police was present to handle the immense crowds that clamored for admission to the hall. Father Yorke spoke for two hoursand a half. He was in splendid voice and his words were uttered with great force and eloquence. He said: : Ladies and gentlemen: The subject of my ning is the infallibility of the e all the dogmas of the Catholic h, this one has been misrepresented. 1n- there are few non-Catholies who have ct ideas of what it means. My object to- 1t will be to explain the doctrine as clear! as I can, to set before you the chief reason which support it, and to consider its bearin; on that ailegiance which we owe the Republic and which we give in as full mreasure and &s Iy and unreservedly as any other denom- n in the land. Sach of these points, you will readily ob- serve, would furnish sufficient material for a ong lecture. Y ou need not be afraid that end 1o inflict upan you three lectures in deed, ¥ and longwincedness, and half a dozen other disagrecable things, but I always re- wark that they who sccuse me are not sparing of the Still this evening I do not in- tend to try you beyond your strength. There is a limit to human endurance, and I am afraid that limit is nearly reached now. Therefore this evening I will barely outline the arg ment you will find developed in Cathelic boo) of instruction. All who take an interest in these matters should go to the documents in which Catholics express their own belief. Itis only a certain kind ot ’pseudoscbolnflhlp which contents itself with fourth-hand in- formation. 1f I hear stories or complaints about my neighbor, I do notgo provling round the block interviewing all the old women about his character. 1f1 respect him and wish him well and am anxious to_know the truth I £0 to him like & man and put the guestion to him face to face. No one hasa right to judge of the teachings of & religions body by the 1n- terpretations of its enemies. The Catholic church is mot 8 secret society. She is not an affair of yesterday. The greatest minds in the worid have believed in her doctrine and have set it forth in writing. The shelves of the libraries of Christendom groan with the learned labors of her sons. It is easy to find out what she believes. She courts investigation. And if there be any one Wwho cares to study this subject of infellibility or any other doetrine of the chureh let me say to them that there are thou- ®anas of books at your disposal which will ex- plain and wiil defend it. ere is not a priest in this City who is not only able but willing to assist you to reach those books. #Wedo not glrade the town boasting of our schol arship, ut we claim to know our own business. We believe and we are proud t0 proclaim our be- lief that God’s church is as the light which should not be concealed under the bushel; that she is as the city seated upon the mountain top which cannot be hid. Many of you ladies and gentlemen remember the outery which was made over a quarter of century ago when it was proposed in the Va can Council to define the doctrine of Papal in- fallibility. The wise men of the period prophe- sied all kinds of trouble, but the church was not afraid. Those who are familiar with her history know of her splendid courage. She be- lieves that she possesses the truth and she is not afraid to say what the truth 1s. From the earliest times when question arose about the extent of dogmas and =about their rela- tions one to another or to human science; when men and nations were dividea in opinion, then the church spoke. It did not matter that heretics shook the dust from their feet and went out from her. It did not matter that whole nations threw off her yoke and set- tled into schism. It did not matter that em. gerora and ngs smote the chief pastor and arassed the flock. Likea mother her soul earned after her rebellious chiidren and her eart was sore for the faithful slain before her eyes. Still she could not keep silent, . She has been set for a sign and a testimony unto the truth and speak she must. Greater than grlnces, kings, nations, aye, greater than the lood of her bravest and her best is that of which she is the witness—the truth of the live ing God. And 0 in our generation, ladies and gentle- men, when the need arose she proclaimed the truth as it is in Christ Jesus. The need came from the logical development of thought since the Reformation. You know that in the six- teenth century the reformers went out of the Catholic church to found churches of their own, They appealed to the Bible as the sole and supreme judge in matters of religioa and rejectea the aithority of the Pope. You all know, 100, what the result was. They divided into numerous sects, each heartily hating the other and united only in their common hos- tility to Rome. As long as the chief Protestant churches were state churches and were pro- tected by law, and as long as conformity with their teachings was enforced by fines, imprisonment, stripes and_death, a certain permanency was assured them. But during 1his pineteenth ceutury the old penal laws have been Tepealed. Thebond between church and state has grown much weaker, and, as a consequence, Protestantism’ has had full Scope to %010 its logical extreme, At first it pro- tested against the church, then it protested 'i.m“ the Bible, soon it pmtexr,ef against Christ and finally it protested against God. I do not say these ‘things to offend the feelings of Protestants or to imply that all Protestants reject the Bible or Christ or God. I merely wish to draw your attention 1o the fact that the original protest against the church has produced all these other protests. I wish to ake clear that & system which is based upon protest only must end by protesting against everything. 1°do not mean to say that every IMAN Or every woman ruus through the whole gamut of protes Ve are mot altogether governed by Jogic, but 1 the long run logic tells. From the denial of the church to the deunial of God is a straignt road and though va- ious bodies of men have chosen to camp at 7arious points intermediate between the two #xtremes their choice does not disprove the existence of the road. The Episcopaiians pro- test against the Po&)e and they march along the roed and settle down &t thé first milestone. The Presbyterians protest against the Pope 1d sgainst the Episcopalians and settle down the second milestone. The Congregational- ists protest eguiust the Pope, prelacy and the vrecbylery and settle down at the third mile- -| and It is true 1 have been accused of ver- | stone. The Baptists grmzat against Pope, prel- acy, presbytery and infant baptism and the: seitle down at the fourth milestone. The Uni- tarians protest against Pope, prelacy, presby- tery, congregation, baptism and Jesus Christ, and they settle down at the fifth milestone. Colonel Bob Ingersoll protests against Pope, presbytery, prelacy, congregation, iufant dam- nation, baptism, Christ and the Bible, and he sits down with bis legs dangling over the abyss and laughs the whole procession to scorn. Be- sides the sects here mentioned, thereare others encamped atalmost every intermediate stage of theroad between the Pope and infidelity. £o you see, ladies and gentiemen, that I did not'exaggerate when I said that & system of religion based upon protest must logically end by protesting against everything. Now 1donot make these remiarks to attack orannoy Protestants. God forbid. 1 simply state them as facts which Protestants them- selves acknowledge end as factsin which many of them glory. ~We Catholics have no attack to make upon Protestants. We believe in our own religion, we believe thatit isthe best re- ligion, but we do not go around abusing the efilg‘on of our neighbors. I do not think, ladies and_genticmen, that we can be justly charged with stirring up religious dissersion in this community. It 1s true that the Sen Francisco Chronicle has charged us with this crime and me in particular. That paper has for two years printed everything to make Catholics odious to the people of this State still continues to print it. When we asked for space to defend ourselves to speak & word for the loyalty of Catholic men and the honor of Catholic women that poor privilege was denied, and is still denied us. Protestants as well as Catholics repudiate, such tactics as these. And now when we have an opportunity to speak for ourselves, the editor of that paper lifts up his hypocritical handsin horror and deprecates religious controversy. When his disingenuous piea wasidisregarded he commit- ted a crime on. the zood name of thisCity by printing a fake story that Catholics had at- tacked & Protestant churen. That story was ialse from start to finish, and no one was more energetic in asserting its fals than the pas- tor of the church himseli, Dr. Bovard. Heis a Protestant minister, and has no leanings toward Catholicism, but he is too much of a gentleman to descend to the tactics of John P. Young. No, ladies and gentlemen, it is_far from my intention or the intention of any Catholic in States to-day—and this is also true of Europe— ihe old ides of revelation is practically dead. Men seem to have forgotten in the strife of sect the right idea of religion.” It was to meet this idea that religion was nothing buta mat. ter of man’s speculation, and that there was no such thing as a speakinglof God to man, that a Vatican council was held some twenty- five years 2go. AsTtold you, the chufches are witnesses to the truth. Peter's rock stands as & watch- tower. The sentinel looks out over the:world— looks out upon the race of men. He knows which way the current sets, and so it was that when, in our. generation, he saw this tide of indifference sweeping things away from the faith, he warned the world against this tendency. It was nothing to him that contradictory voices were raised up against nim. He was set upon the watch-tower to do God’s work, and he should do it as his prede- cessors did before him. When all the nations of the earth were wan- dering from the true faith there was no fear in the breast of the Pope. He called to Rome 700 or 800. Bishops, who .gathered around him. They spoke with the wisdom of the Holy Ghost to proclaim to the world that there was arevelation from God -to man, and that that revelation was true and infallible. ‘hat is meant by revelation? From the earliest times men have asked what is truth. And in their hurry to give a reply they have missed the answer. We are like men sitiing in aroom. We hear noises outside, and we ask what are these noises. Each may explain the noise differently, giving Lis best sense of. the sound as it strikes his ear. But one comeés in from the outside and can tell you what are the noises, for he comes from iwhere they originated. You beligve this one men.against | all the many conjectures that have been made. One is faith’; one'is reason. Withous faith, one man thinks the noise comes froma tramear, another believes it to have originated from a peddler’s wagon, another thinks it was some- thing else. Which are you to believe? It so happens that all are wrong, but you only dis- cover this by, faith—from the man who comes in from the scene of the noise. In this world we are shut in, -imprisoned within our five senses, as an audience in this hall. We only know by the five senses. Now, by the senses we can perceive many things. By belief we know most, however. All of us have 1aith. We all believe there is a land called the Transvaal, yet but few of us have who shall be setabove you all to keep your feetin the true path.” ° That one who had to rally the routed*army of Christ, who was given full authority, who Wwas set above all, was Simon Peter, prince of the Apostles. This was not the first time Christ had spoken to them. When Christ es- tablished tnis little society he did not_tell em all et once who he wes. They were rant o men, . and he tau bt th,en& owly. He lét the light in upon their min carefully. When cnfi;t p..m?" through Gali- lee some said he was John the Baptist, -others Elias and others Jeremiah. So -toward the close of his life Christ gathered about. him his John the Baptist and Elias and so on. And he asked them: “And whom do you think I am?” and Simon Peter said: “Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.” Then our Lord said: “Blessed art thou, Simon, and I S8y unto thee that thou art & rock and upon this rock I shail build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail agsinst It. And to thee I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven and what thou shalt loose ou earth shall be loosed in heaven, and what thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.” K 1f those Words mean nothing then they are the most misleading everpenned by man. They imply that Christ was to build a society that the very gates of hell should not prevail against. How was he to make itstrong and firm? Justlike the architect who goes down to the Tock ta begin his structure. So it was with Christ. He went down to the rock,and that Tock was Peter, He wauted to found an ‘or- ganization thatwould carry on his teachings for all time. All the old philosophers who founded schools saw them spiit up in sects. And so it is with all human societies. Christ had to face the difficulty of leaving his trath in the hands of men and he did not in- tend that the new society should split up as do all human schools of thought. In order to preserve his church s one and make it last until the end of time as the repository of Lis * truth, he founded it on a rock, wwhich is St. Peter. You will discover how this has ‘worked out in historv, Every sect that separated from the rockof Peter hassplitinto smailer fragmen ts, There are in the United States alone 242 re- 1 ligious sects. There 1s only one church that = ““ We have a history of 120 years in the United States, and surely if what our enemies say against us is true, they would have found a Benedict Arnold among us.” [From Yather Yorke's address last evening at Metropolitan Temple.] this town to attack or annoy our Protestant fellow-citizens. Since the foundations of this City we have lived in peace .and harmony and we are the last to wish to break the tradition of peace and harmony now. But there is no fair-minded Protestant in San Franeisco to-day who does not approve of our policy in defend- ing ourselves. When Catholic priests take to the platform and begin to slander Protestant women by raking up old' scandals against Protestant churches and to advocate the ex- clusion of Protestant men from office because their fathers persecuted our fathers, then it évm- be time for the respectable element of this City 10 cry halt'to the Catholics. - But if such & time should eyer come that any misguided Catholic priest or layman Bhould embark on such -a career of slander then there will be found none more anxious to crush out such a crusade than the Catholics of San Francisco. But as long aswe acton the defensive and protect our honor and the’ honor of those who are near and dear to us we are 10t to be cowed nor yet to be silenced be- cause & newspaper is afraid of losing a few nickels. The millionaire patrons of that jour- nal may not feel the necessity of our course, but the poor, the workingman who has been thrown out of employment, the girls who haye seen their positions jeopardized by the de- mands of & gang of foreign conspirators, they, feel it; and to them and 1o all true Americans I appeal to-night to judge between the Chroni- cle and me. Hence, ladies and gentlemen, when I speak of Protestantism and the doctrines of Protest- antism let me not be considered as making an aitack on our separated brethren. Though we worship at different shrines tney are still our brethren, and we have no right to insult the belief of any honest man. % Itis true I have been accused in the pubtic Tints of not saying nice things about_them. Laughter and applause]. I have been told that the whole Protestant world in San Francisco has its mouth wide open for the nice sweet things I would put down that mouth. But deeds speak more than words. When the time comes that we can go to the Protestant and say, “You are a nice loyal man,” and then stick him with a dagger; when the time comes that, like the snake, we are to smooth over our vietims with saliva, then it will be time for mo to waste.my time with saying nice thingsabout | Protestants, which they don’t want and which uld be valueless 10 them and to any other honest man. - But what I wish to draw your attention to this evening is the fact that the result of the Protestant Reformstion was a church divided in many parts. This “is a very peculiar thing—that a1l Protestant churches believe in the right of private judgment; believe that a man should aye an open Bible and that he should search it intelligently and should draw .his own re- ligion therefrom. The result of all this has been to make men indifferent. Sensible men-who have made a suc- cess of business and who think for themselves look upon all these churches which contra- dict each other and they come to the. conclu- sion that €ither they are all false or that one religion is as good as the other. No country has shown this tendency more thah our own. -Out of our population of 65,000,000 people about 45,000,000 do not pretend to belong to any church. * Only 20,000,000 are members.of churches in the ‘United States, and half of these are Catholics, So in looking 1o see what has been the re- sult of private judgment ‘and an open Bible we find that oui of a population of 50,000, rotestants b which should be P: y training only 10,000.000 of them believe in the dogmas of the churches of our fathers. As & matter of fact, all over these United seen it. We could not go about our daily work if we did not have faith, if we did not believe many things we have not seen and cannot see. How, then, in religion, shall we be without faith? We have aspirations beyond material things, and map has always been speculating upon‘the nature of these higher aspirations, these higher and nobler things that we canno: see. No man has seen God. No man could live and see him. But all have speculated, even as men may speculate upon the nature of those outside noises. And many and various have been the results of those speculations. Now the}?ueauon prises, HasGod ever spoken toman? Has any one ever come to reveal God to us—even as the man from the outside comes in to tell us the cause of tbe noise? Yes; we have had a direct communication from_God. He has sent, us an accredited messenger in the personality of Jesus Christ. Remember, I am ‘talking only to Christians, those who believe that Christ was the Son of God, and that the Father gave him the necessary credentials. It would be another sub{ect entirely to undertake to prove that God did send his'only begotten Son into the world. vom Now what is the nature of .this message brought by Christ ? His message must be rational one, even as the explanation of the. man who comes in from the outside must be, It comes to us in theé nature of a revelation. If itis trueat all itis at all times true. 1t is un- quahfiedly true and can never change. If God Tias sent us a message his revelation must be infallible. If the messenger is capable of cor- Tupting the message he could not have come from God.. All Christians say there was a revelation and that this revelation—a direct message from God—was brought to the world by Christ. ‘we have two great divisions of éhrl!tiunlty- Protestants and Catholies. Only the latrer claims lnhuihllni'. How about the Protest- ants? Each one of their many sects claims to have an especial revelation. It is reasonable to sup;wu that God. has never spoken at all, but it is not reasonable to suppose that God. having spoken, was not able to preserve his word intact. Christ came to found a church. -He speaks of it as a sheepfold, as a city, and as in various ways, but always a5 a body, 8s & society. His mission was but brief in years and it was necessary that he should organize some societ: to carry on the work when he was depnrw\{ He spent his three years of minisiry in organ- izing this soclety. ‘He gathered about him twelve poor fishermen, and if I may say so without irreverence, you know how hard & job it was for him to teach these. . men, . you remember now what he told these men when they asked him ‘who shall be greatest in heaven. He did not say you shall all be equal, though he might have said £0; but he turned to the child and said that he who would be highest in heaven should become even as the child. So is it not clear that Christ meant that there should be grades in this society he came to found? That there should be dignataries and priests among them. He was the grea them all— akland scholarship will admit that he was greater than all his apostles. (Applause.) “I 8m your chief,” he said, “yet I have given you an éxample of humility, so that ye who would highest must be humblest.” It is strange how this incident has been distorted to the be- lief that Christ declared that all snould be equal, that there was to be no dignity in the church and no dignitaries. Did he not sy that the most humble will be the greatest? And does it not take true grellneas 10 be truly humble, even as a little child? The question had been asked, Who shall be greater? Christ tells them allare in the nands of satan, but he tells them also tha here is e one among you for whom I have prayed and has remained one, and that church is founded and rests on the rock of Peter, Revelation is God’s explanation to man of the things that mustbe. 1f the Pope, as the #uardian of revelation, spoke of it s an un- truth then the gates of heil would prevail | against the church. If the Pontiff could lead the millions of people 3 revelation than the devil has prevailed against the church, and the mission of Christ wasa failure. Infallibility does not mean that the Pope does not sin. The Pope is & man like unto other men. We have had some 250 Popes. There were twelve Apostles and one of them Was & traitor. So there were men among the Popes who disgraced their sacred office. But throughout the 1900 years you can count these Po, on " the of one hand. And yet onr enemies are always alluding to these féw erring Popes in aupport of their outrageous attacks on us as Catholics. ‘We admit that there were bad Popes, but, my friends, if the time ever comes when some Congregational minister is vested with the power of pontiffs and_comes out as unscathed we will not feel called upon to criticize him. When we find men trying_ to prove that the Popes were not angels, and they fall to pre- serve their own angelic natnres themselves, we are inclined to think that they should not bollo until they get out of the woods. - The man who composed most of the psalms was King David. We find that he stole his friend’s wife and then murdered his friend. Yet God, whose ways are mysterious, uses David as an _instrument of his in. Wimuon. Infaliibility not inspiration. hen the Pope ‘says a certain doctrine has been revealed by Jesus Christ then we believe he tells the truth. If he could make a mistake what is the use of revelation? If he said that Christ taught a certain doctrine that roved to be untrue then he would not be in. allible. Tt is to preserve the revelation that we declare the Pope infalltble. 3 The Png’: mey write certain opinions which may not be infallible, but when he speaks ex cathedra he is infallible. Our blessed Lord did not come on earth. to teach spelling or establish i® new theory of government. But the Pope may be as fallible in his spelling as some of his Gpponents. He may-.even spell _phonetically, 3o may teach that the carth is at. But Christ gave him no assistance in teaching the sciences. He isopen to mistakes the same us any other man. When he speaks ;s the supreme he’gl' of Christendom, however, e is_infalijble, enty-five years ago, when the Pope defined this doctrine, the hubbub was raised - that Cl!hfluclfll':l'. divided in their allegiance, and at they were divided on 'the _question of in- i The, politleians . told . the the Pope; did all the tninkin; tholic peo that when he tol L 4 g, they were obliged 0 obey him; thatall Catholics, and especially the Jesuits, had wires attached to them, and ¥hen he pulled these wires they were to jum; Cardingl Plllnnh:‘ declared that the ¢ivil allegiance of Catholics was as undivided as the civil.allegiance of any éne else. There are two things which non-Catholics always confound—the authority of the Poj and his infallibility. He has nthornx. n spiritual matters. He has not, by the words of Christ; the smallest authority {n temporal mat- ters, no matter how much thése quotatioris be seasoned and sprung up like hideous puppets to frighten those who Enow nothing about the Catholic church or her dogma. Iu the- Catholic church, which is an_orderly government, we have the Pope as the chief ex- ecutive officer and we believe that when he speaks in church affairs it is our duty to obey disciples and inquired of them: “Whom do | men say am?” and they answered him that “some declared him. to be fingers | him. But we do not hold him infallible even in these maiters. But between God and man's conscience neither Pope nor rrlen can come, and the Catholic church itself teaches this great truth. If our conscience telis-us this line of action is right, or that line of action is right, though it carry us in the fat of the Pope, that is the Catholic conscience, we are morai cowards if we hesitate. - There are those who would bind us over handand foot to the state! What is the state? Whatis a State? Turkey is a State, Arme: :hu.t:tg [2pplause] and ina very bad state, at Those men who talk about a state do not know what a state means. When the state in Turkey goes out into the mountains and s]nush(en the Armenians are they obliged to bend their necks and receive the blow? No. Accordinf to the Catholic theory of conscience, | they would betray the reason which God gave to them if they were to follow out this idea. The authority of the Pope has nothing to do ‘Wit our civil allegiance. We are as .andi- vided as any other class. For nearly three months certain persons in this communit have been endeavoring- to find some vroofs against the loyalty of Catholics though we have a hisiory of 120 years in this country they have not found a Catholic traitor. Surely, if what they say about us were true they could at least produce a Bene- dict Arnold. ‘Oné of our opponents the other said of one of the soldiers of the Civil War, and one whose name we cannot hear without cheering,. that if on the day General Sheridan [cheers] was sweepin down the Shenandoah, if a Catholic priest hug put‘up a-crucitix before him_ he wonld have turued back. Well, I happened to be reading “Memoirs of General Sheridan” at the time, and I found that when he was riding to relieve the army he met a clergyman on the road. He was not a Catholic clergyman, either. He was the parson who was chaplain to the regi- ment. The general asked him where he was going; but he only cried out “Things will be all right, General,. when you get there,” and the parson continued his forced march—to the rear.” [Laughter and applause.] 1f there had been a traitor among us our ene- mies would have found us out. If we have liberty we owe it to. the old church. When the barbarians swept down on civilization and . buried it the Popes went out to meet the enemy and finally conquered, and they sent out missionaries to teach them. There is notsa liberty for which the Popes have not fought. The history of the papacy is a giorious one. No one can look upon thatlong procession of old men, strong and vigorous, standing up for God’s truth for 1900 vears, without feeling his heart throb. Nothing has ever been seen like it in the world. They had neither wealth nor arms 10 support them and yet they ruled the world. The last of them sifs a pris- oner iu the Vatican—the aged and illustrious Leo XIII. [Great applause. They say that with our ides of the Papacy we can have no allegiance to this, our coun- try. Yet Leo XIII has fearlessly said to the people of Europe: “Look at thé eonstitution of the United States. There is your model. [Pro- longed cheers.] - They tell us that the Papacy 1s_failing. It would seem otherwise. When we Iook at the condition of the world to-day, we find those not of the old church tossed about on the seas of uncertainty. Still the rock of Peter is firm. For 2000 yearsit has remained unshaken by the storms. The empire of Rome thought to sweep it away in a torrent of Blood. Where is the empire to-day? Where is the church? The barbarians swept down upon her, but she rose mrore glorjous than be- fore, and to-day she stands before the world un- l;:nyred and unscathed by the storms of centu- Ties. At the conclusion of Father Yorke’s ad- dress there was prolonged cheering. while hundreds of excited people gathered about the platform to shake his hand. The programme for to-morrow evening is as follows: . Piano solo, Miss M. E. Coonan; “The Dolores Mission” (essay), Miss M. Driscoll of Cathedral Cirele: vocal solo, Miss Theresa de Bernardi of Faber Circle; “Dion and the Sibyls” (essay), Miss Mary T. Lorigan of Thomas Aquinas Cir- cle; recitation, Frank McGlynn of Montgomery Circle; “‘Development of Englisn Language’” (essay), Miss M. Kennedy of Archbishop Rior- dan Circle; vocal solo, Miss Dlls; Keane; “St. Catherine of Sienna’ ((:essu'), Miss Christina Regan of Mon!fiomery irele; vocal solo, J. J. Sandy of Cathedral Circle; “Idealism and Real- ism in -Literature,” Miss Julia C. Coffee of Cathedral Circle, PIETRO GORI, ANARCHIS. Arrival in This City of an Ora- tor Who Has Attracted Attention. He Will Preach His Peculiar Doc- trines Before the Italian Colony. Pietro Gori, a well-known attorney, who has attracted a great deal of attention by reason of his utterances that border on anarchism, arrived in this City last Sun- day, and he proposes to, in the near future, address the people of this City on the subject of the doctrines he advocates, which are more than socialistic. Gori is well known to the Italians of | this City and other parts of the world by the beautiful sentimental poem addressed to his mother on the eve of his departure for America. While there are many who are not in sympathy with the ideas he ad- vances, “‘they,” said & prominent Italian, ‘“‘will go to hear him, for he is an eloquent and forcible speaker.” £ 2 Pietro Gori was born in Messina in 1869, his family heing quite prominent. His father was colonel of an artillery regiment. In 1886 he entered the University of Pisa, and it was not long before his socialistic ideas drew the attention of those around to him, In the contest for the crown of laurels he presented a forcible and bril: liant thesis on *“Misery and Crime.” ‘When he graduated he went to Milan, where he entered the law office of Filippo Pietro Gori. [From a’ photograph.] Turati. In the great metropolis of Lom- bardi he soon acquired fame as an orator, and he was listened to with marked atten- tion by all classes, who were charmed by the simple yet sincere language he used. He, however, soon advocated his pe- culiar doctrines and thus drew the atten- tion of the Government officials 10 him, anad to avoid arrest and a term within the walls of a_prison he left the country and went to the canton of Ticino in Switzer- land, but there he met with no better re- ception from that Government than he haa in the country he had left, and he was driven out .of the Swiss republic. He went to Germany, to Belgium, to England, and finally to Holland, where he shipped “as a common sail ‘and _ after a long voyage reached the United States and located in Paterson, N. J. - He shortly after his ar- rival gave expression to his views and it wasnotlong before he founded an anarchist journal. He went to New York ana from there started on a tour of many cities of the United States and some in Canada. He was in West Hoboken, Orange Valley, Boston, Quincy, Barre, Montpellier, Proc- tor, Montreal, Buffalo, Cleveland, De- troit, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Cotorado Springs and Denver, where he was cordially received by the socialistic organizations. 3 e is at the Hotel Toscano. and | .| cember 21, 1889. 10 GET BACK THE LAND. Civil Suit Arising Out of the 0id Redwood King Frauds. ACTION BEGAN YESTERDAY. Special Attorney Bergen’s Bill to Re- cover $1,000,000 Worth of Hum. boldt County Land. As a sequel to thé old Redwood King timber land frauds suit in equity was brought by the Government yesterday in the United Btates Circuit Court to set aside the 163 patents to timber land claims in ‘Humboldt County, which King, his associate, Evans, and their company of Scotch capitalists se¢ured between Novem- ber, 1882, and August, 1883. A bill wasfiled by Attorney ‘Benjamin F. Bergen under the title of The United States of America vs. The American Lum- ber Company and the Central Trust Com- pany. Mr. Bergen, who came to the coast in 1885 as special agent for the Land De- partment and who succeeded in prevent- ing the patenting of about 250 claims be- tween that {ear and 1890, and worked up the criminal cases against King, Evans, Walker and their two sub-agents, or “rustlers,” Beach: and Marks, was ap- ointed special United States attorney Fnt June to prosecute the big action he has just begun. The land, he says, amounts to between 26,000 and 27,000 acres of the finest redwood timber, valued at nearly $1,000,000. Altogether over 400 entries were made through the King-Evans-Walker combina- tion on the choicest quarter-sections of the belt. They extended from Trinidad to the Klamath River. To do this a syndicate was formed Octo- ber 21, 1882, at Edinburgh, Scotland, com- posed of Charles H. King, now of East Oakland, David Evansof Eureka, H. C. Put- nam of Eau Clare, Wis., James D. Walker, Thomas Nelson, William J. Menzies, J. D. Lawrie, R. Bruce Johnston, J. Campbell Pennie, D. Forbes Dallas and others, and the language of Mr. Bergen’s document charges these gentiemen with having com- bineg to acquire large tracts of land by means of fraudulent entries for the timber thereon and for speculative purposes. The 400 and more entries covered about 75,000 acresand the entries were made under the act of June 3, 1878. For awhile_the svndi- cate was known as the California Redwood Company, but finally, in July, 1888, it was incorporated as the American Lumber Company. £ It was necessary to have the land located in an apparently regular manner. King and Evans were made managing directors, and Charles: E. Beach and Harry C. Marks, as sub-agents, contracted to find for them what locations were reeded. Beach and Marks had an obscure office in Eureka, and the men necessary to locate the land were found. The locations were duly made, the entries recorded at the land office there, and ‘“mense convey- ances’” were executed by the locators to Agent Evans of the company for a consid- eration of $50 each. Beach and Marks were sunccessful “‘rust- lers” and had little trouble in securing over 400 men, who for $50 each would go through the form of making the entries. It soon became kunown among the irr sponsibles who constitute the floating populsation of any place of consequence that a man could make $50 very easily— that all he had'to do was to' sign a blank entry, acknowledge it before a notary gublic, execute a deed'to the company aud raw his money. The office had a big supply of all the requisite blank papers on hand. F. W. Beil was the notary public before whom the locators all went, and there were six men who, under the pzy of the company, acted as regular witnesses when the entries were filed in the land office. These six men were W. P. McCormick, James Mec- Cormick, James Gregory, O. A. Horner, George Lewis and William Wright, They did all the swearing required and Receiver Solomon Cooper and Register Charles F. Roberts accepted everything, apparently as a matter of course. The deeds to the company were all drawn up by ene-man (David Cutten), under & contract made with Evans. At that time it was not necessary under the law for the man mak- ing the entry to appear personally in the 1and office. Truly. a “land office business’’ was done by Beach and Marks. They made.as many as eighty-two entries in one day without the Registrar and Receiver appearing to suspect - anything. The witnesses were paid §3 every time they put down their name, and the scheme proved highiy lucrative to everybody concerned. ‘Fhen came the expose. ' Beach, Marks, Evans, ‘Walker, King, Joseph Russ and M. E. Roberts, a brother of the Registrar, were all indicted in course of time. Beach was convicted and sentenced to pay $3000 fine and to serve three years’ imprison- ment. He asked for a new trial, and is now at-large under $25,000 bonds. Marks’ case did not come toa trial, and the in- dictments against Evans, Walker, King and the others were quashed. As already stated, Mr. Bergen prevented 250 patents from being issued, and now brings suit to have the 168 patents secured set aside and the land thrown open for settlement. He alleges in his bill of complaint that the applications and their accompanying affi- davits were false because not made in good faith. The Central Trust Company of New York is made a pangeresé)ondem because the American Lumber Company a year after its incorporation bonded its land thus ob- tained possession of to the Central Trust Company for $300,000. It gave its trust deed to the Central Trust Company De- Tuere may be some difficulty in ‘winning this case because the Government will have to rum up against the prevailing doc- trine of the Federal courts that a patent is conclusive evidence of the facts that were supposed to have warranted its issuance. The Government will have to show that the patents were obtained by fraud. After the redwood land frauds had been f{erpetra.md under his- regime Register oberts became Collector of Customs, FOREIGN GAME AND FISH, Thousands of Trout Eggs That - Arrived in Splendid Order. - ‘What Commissioner Babcock Says of the Pheasants Liberated Near Folsom, Chief Deputy Fish and Ganie Commis- sioner *Babcock said yesterday that of the several consignments of eyed fish eggs the State Commission has received, the lot that recently arrived from the State of New York was the most perfect in every detail. ‘The several thousand eggs of the brown frout that journeyed across the continent to their destination at Sissons,” eaid Mr. Babcock, “arrived in .magnifi- cent condition. They were packed by some one who certainly understood his business, as only a _comparatively small number of the eggs perished before the con:i’;nmem ‘was received by the chief deputy of the Sissonsbatchery. The eggs. although not as large, are of a.more lumin- ous color than those of the rainbow. I think that the brown trout will prove a great acquisition to the fishing interests of this State. SR We are now pretty well supplied with trout of many varieties. Two_years ago we received from the United States Fis Commission at Washington a consign- ment of eggsof the Loch Leven trout, and it would have greatly pleased you to see the little fellows, which are now about eight inches in length, enjoying them- selves in the small lake in which they are placed. They are fed twice or three times a week through holes cut in the ice, and next spring some of them will be liberated in streams adjacent to the hatchery. ‘‘Before the cold weather arrived I con- cluded to try the game qualities of the little fellows, and placing a cast of small flies on a leader—of course, the barbs of the hooks were broken—I made a cast over a spot where the Junior Lochlevenites were congregated. - The water actpally boiled when the flies Janded. I think the entire school made a dasn for the artificial lure. Anyhow, I caught three, one on each fly, which, of course, were immedi- ately returned to their element. I am satisfied that the Loch Leven trout will, as a game fish, more than please the wishes of the most fastidious of anglers, “‘Of the trout family we now have on this coast the steelhead or rairbow, golden, dolly varden, cutthroat, New Hampshire, brown-and Loch Leven. This is an excel” lent variety and in a few years hence the lovers of trout-fishing will have sport par excellence within a day’s journey from this City. “The pickerel which were planted in some of the lakés in Southern California are doing splendidly and the commission will stock Clear Lake, which is in Lake County, with a number of those fighting fishes in the springof the year. he pick- erel is a splendid food fish, being large of bone and winged in such a manner as to give it great power and speed. Those fishes will aid to a great extent in ridding Clear Lake of its moss undesirable inhabe itant, the German carp. ‘‘Departing from the fish question 1 am pleased to be in a position to say that the Mongolian pheasants which were planted in'the vicinity of Folsom aregetting along first class, and’ the residents are sanguine that, in a few years, they will have multi- plied to such an extent as to afford grand 8port to those who have a predilection for shooting. ‘“‘Referring to the siatement that poach- ers have been killing steelheads in Lagu- nitas Creek, in Marin County, and the Sonoma Creek, in the vicinity of .Glen Ellen, you can say that deputies will be instructed to patrol those streams until the opening of the trout-fishing season in Avpril, and the Commissioners propose to teach those trangressors of the fish laws a lesson this vear which they will not very readily forget. OHEFS IN NEW YORK. They Are Generally Persons of Cone sideration. Cooks were men of high pay and much distinction in old Greek days,and they have come to be persons of consideraticn in modern New York. When a man lunching at a club the other day found a particular dish especially to his taste he asked with some hesitation whether the cook could be persuaded to reveal the secret of its composition. The head waiter thought he might and und ertook: to be the diplomatic intermediary between the din- ing-room and thekitchen. There came in reply an inquiry from the gentleman below stairs as ‘to whether the gentleman above stairs could read French, and when this query had been answered in the affirma- tive, there came from the nether region the recipe, neatly written and well ex- pressed in’ that language, upon the note paper of the club. The club member sent his respects and acknowledgments to the invisible potentate of the kitchen, and thus an agreeable incident came to an end. Nearly all clubs and considerable hotels have French cooks, male, “of course, though it is usual in small elubs to employ as second cook a woman. The chef in large club has as many assistanté as lie demands, and is a personage of the highe est consideration, well paid, much deferred to, and, as far as possible, conciliated. Cooks maintain their ancient reputa- tion for ill temper, and the com- any in the luncheon - room of a ifth - avenue ciub was startled one day 10 see some sort of kitchen underling burst into the apartment. actively pu:- sued by the raging cook, butcher-knife in hand, bent upon doing execution upon the frightened offender. A good club cook costs from $750 to $1200 a year,.and thnere are some who receive much higher salaries. One finds in some of the smaller French restaurants a woman cook, perhaps the wife of the proprietor, a tireless creature, who labors late and early, and manages by her :peculiar gift to confer a special reputation upon the place. A wife such as that is an unspeakable treasure to any restaurant-keeper, for not only does she do the work of a skilled and well-paid man, and keep it up for twice as many hours as he can be induced to stay in the kitchen, but, above all, the cooks that are at the same time wives, whatever their peculiar traits, and however ill their tem- pers, do not_‘‘give notice.” The services of such a wife can hardly be valued in money, and widowed indeed is the man that loses her. A pleasing feature of a reasturant that has now; alas, deserted the oid French quarter for the new was the occasional presence of the cook, clad all in white, his paper hat on his head, in the dining- room among the guests.c He knew some of the regular patrons, and it was his custom to honor ome or another by taking a seat at his side and entering into conversation. The chef in most clubs, hotels and restaurants is an object af awe to all his fellow-sery- ants, if, indeed, the cook may, even by implication, be called a. servant. His moods are watched, his moments of rage are induiged. The waiter that must carry to the kiichen a dish that has been re- jected in the dininf-mnm sneaks in with fear and trembling and endeavors to propitiate him whose art has been called in question. The cook comes in for a large share of the Christmas box atevery club. Though he may be unknown by sight to any member of the clup, and a stranger even to the House Committee, he is known by his deedsand he stands tirmly for all his rights and privileges. To dis- miss so great a man is a duty-that few care to take upon themselves, and 0 admonish him is the most delicate and diplomatic of tasks.—The Sun. g NEW TO-DAY. ‘The igap | That" Mild vana leaf, the NeWESTRELLA. New crop, new jight colors, and new sizes—a new delight . for you if you try one, 5 for 25¢,3 25¢, and 10c straight.stob ESBERG, BACHMAN & CO., Wholesalers, - g PN L S S N N N O § ¢ $ 4 - q a