The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1896, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1896 mmmeeeeeeeeeee——————————————————————————————————————————— L ———— PALMER QUOTES FROM THE POPES, Speaks of Their Writings on Civil and Religious Liberty. SOME QUAINT STORIES. They Are Frequently Used by the Divine to Point an Argument. “THE STRENGTH OF THE A. P. A ‘Details of an Important Convention RecentlyfiHeld in Rochester, New York. There was the usual large and enthusi- astic attendance at the Good Citizen meet- ing yesterday in Metropolitan Temple. H. W. Quitzow, Chairman of the Good Citizenship Committee, opened the meet- ing with the following remark: American Citizens and Friends: The assem- bling here to-day of this vast audience is again an evidence that we are determined to carry out the principles ot the American Protective “Associntion. We stand upon & broad platform and allow the same rights to otiers that we esk for ourselyes. We say again that the word “liberty” shall not be misinterpreted to mean license. Following the singing of ““America” by the choral society and audience Rev. Dr. C. A. Rabing delivered the following ipray Let us bow in prayer. We praise thee, our heavenly Father, in the name of thy son, our Bavior, for the privilege of once more assem- Dling here this afternoon. We thank thee, Lord, for these good things that are being ac- complished. We thank thee for enabling us 10 see such a mass of peovle out to-day 100king for the truth and right, and may we go hence doing according s we have been bid. We pray Ahee less these meetings from one Sunday to another and make the good that comes from them heard throughout the land. We thank ‘thee for what thou hast already done through “these meetings. Wilt thou lead their thoughts that right and liberty may prevail throughout the land. Blessourschools and the teachers herein. May the day not be far when we can feel in our hearts and sing that liberty prevails un- molested throughout our land.” May the day \soon come when old and young may praise “thee for all the victories they have won through these meetings. May the Lord bless our brother who is to speak to-day and make him fear neither man nor the devil, but thee alone. Miss May Cook’s rendition of the “Holy City,” as a vocal solo, brought forth such strong applause that she was forced to re- spond with an encore, for which she sang two verses of *‘The Star-spangled Ban- ner.” Chairman Quitzow then read from copies of the New York Herald from January 31 and February 1 extracts from reports of the Superior Council of the American Protec- tive Association, held in Rochester on the 28th and 29th of January. Among his quo- tations were the followin The convention represented an actual yoting etrength in_this State (New York) of 313,000, and in the Nation of about 3,500,000. 1t is an assertion not too iriprobable to make that the ailied patriotic orders, so called, form the most stupendous and powerful poiitical organization that ever existed. It dwarts the Knownothing party even, as it !;xr outranks it in stability and probable dura- tion. It 1s the most potent present factor in American politics, and only to a slightly less degree is it & factor in the politics of Canads, England and Germany, for the patriotic associa. tion circles the globe. Its_sssociate membership in Canada, En- gland and 10 Germany, where the name of the country precedes the title *Protective Associa- 1ion,” and in every nation where a republican form of government obtains or is among the tiings hoped for and striven for—in Spain, in Austria, In Italy, even in Russia and the colonies of the old world—numbers high in the millions. The Supreme Council of the world, which will meet either in St. Louis, Chicago, or Washington next May, will repre- sent nine millions of men, and women’s auxil- faries with & membership of about 400,000. The most important action taken by the council in Rochester was with reierence to the coming Presidential nominations. A political policy was formulated by the convention, the matter of candidates and a line of action laid down regarding the question of party platform and issues. The American Protective Association and the sllied orders are non-partisan. They make no nominations of their own, but indorse the can- d;dlcy of such men as are personae gratae to them. The superior council in following out tne re- quirements of 1ts constitution declared that it would indorse only that party or those parties which should nominate candidates whose records are not opposed to the rincifiles of the association, upon a platform which should em- hody patriotic utterances consistent with thesg principles. One of the startling statements made by a member f Albany was 1o the effect that Senator David B. Hill had acknowledged to a friend & lack of political foresight when he undertook 1o carry the State for the Demo- cratic party in 1894 on an_anti-A. P. A. plat- form. Another candidate who was declared to be persona_non grata to many in the associ- ation was Roswell P. Flower—not because of his personal record, but because of his afflli- ation with the Tammany organization. The American Protective Association will de- mand as the consideration for its s?porl of any nominee of any party for President that the platform of the National convention of that party shall resfiirm the principle of the total separation of church end state, the re- striction of immigration and the reform of the laws regarding citizenship and the rightsof franchise. It will demand, too, that such & party shall reaffirm its faith in tne American public- sch‘ool system as the basis of liberty and pros- erity. The allied orders make claim to & member- ship representing more than one-fourth of the voting gopulmiou of the United States. They @ssert that they hold absolutely the balance of power and that it isin their power to elect or defeat any Presidential nominee. The National league ‘or the protection of American institutions and the various patri- otic orders meet on common ground. The league is working for this amendment, the six- teenth, to the constitution of the United Etates: “Neither Congress nor any State shall pess any law respecting an establishment of Teligion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or use the property or credit of the United States, or of any State.or any money raised by taxation, or authorized either to be used for the purpose of founding, maintaining or aiding by appropriation, payment for ser- yices, expenses or otherwise any church, re- ligious denomination or religious society,or any justitution, society or unzemkmg whi is wholly or in Jpart under sectarian or ecclesi- astical control.” Regarding the personnel of its membership &n interesting report was read at the Rochester meetin t that 108 members of Congress, the Governors of four States,majorities in the Legis- latures of several States, the school boards of two hundred and fourteen cities and towns and & majority of city and town officials in every central and Western State were mem- bersof or allied with the A. P. A. The mem- bership in this State. which is 313,000, is growing at the average rate of fourteen coun. cils a week, to which belong at the lowest esti- mate 1000 members. Although the country membership now out- numbers the city four to one, yet the city councils are increasing in membersnip iu the ratio as agsinst the country increase. In Buffalo, in Elmira, and in Chemung and Brook- iyn the A.P. A.aiready holds the balance of power. Commenting on this, Chairman Quitzow said: ‘We may be encouraged with & sure prospect of being victorious when we consider that in a city like Brooklyn our organization holds the ‘baiancs of gower. We have only got to attend to our end here; the other end are doing their share there. . ‘When the choral society haa sung ‘‘Rally Round the Flag,” Kev. Dr. Ray Palmer made the address of the day, taking as his subject, “What the Popes Say.” He spoke as follows: “Ladies and gentlemen and friends: There are some people who wonder wny so large a number can come here Sunday after Sunday and never grow less in their enthusiasm. They say it is 2 wonder that we do not get tired of all this nonsense. *It reminds me very much of the little boy who paid a visit to his grandmother, and who, while she was busy knitting, went into the cupboard and ate up all her pumpkin pies. She wondered it did not kill him. But we said we are all not con- stituted alike and so it is with us. The reason why we can come here Sunday after Sunday is that we are not all consti- tuted alike. “I suppose our friends who have been delivering those addresses showing the loyalty and patriotism of Catholics have convinced their hearers that their state- ments are all true, and they have, perhaps, convinced themselves that they are true. There was a lawyer in Dallas, Texas, who, in his peroration in defense of his client whileaddressing the jury, said, ‘I am satis- fied that my arguments have convinced you of the innocence of my client, for my client is almost convinced of it himseif,’ and so it is with our friends. They have almoest convinced themselves that they are loyal and patriotic. “They have discovered in the American Protective Association an _un-American bugbear. They have found that in our society, which they presumed to be uncon- stitutional, the liberty of man.” The speaker then related the story of a member of the Illinois Legislature who was always objecting to things on the ground of their being unconstitutional. Abraham Lincoln, the lecturer said, was a member of this Legislature, and on one occasion, for the benefit ot the objecting member, related a story regdrding a cer- tain gentleman who fired three shots through his window at what he supposed was a sqirrel in a tree near by. The squir- rel failed to fall, and the marksman called the attention of his son to the fact of the squirrel’s wonderful escape. = The son looked for the squirrel and then at his father and soon saw the solution of the stery. Addressing his father he saic: “Why, Tather, you old fool, there's a bug on your eyebrow, and that’s what you took for a squirrel.” “That,” said the speaker, “'is what is the trouble with our friends. There is noth- ing more than a bugbear in their own eye- brows. *‘Our subject to-day is, ‘What the Popes Say.’ “Do you want to know Rome’s attitude regarding all our institutions? Then go to the head. It is the Pope who speaks with unquestionable authority. to 1870 infallibility was vested in the Pope and the council, but since then it is vested in the Pope alone. The Pope, whose word is a law from which there can be no appeal, whose triple crown symbolizes that he is the ruler in heaven, earth and hell, speaks for the whole*Roman Catholic world, and never did mortal man claim such absolute monarchy as does this man in Rome. ‘‘Let us hear to-day what the Popes say and take warning and act the part of wise men to protect the cause of freedom. “I want to prove to you to-day from the statements of the Popes of Rome that Rome is the enemy of religious liberty. ‘“‘Pope Pius VIII declared as foilows in omne of his encyclical letters: ‘The Govern- ment of France demands that we shall allow the free exercise of all forms of wor- ship. This article :1s opposed to the Cath- olic religion and we have rejected it.’ Thus, according to Pope Pius, the Roman hierarchy forbids usto worship God ac- cording to the dictates of our conscience. **Our liberties to-day are in the balance, and the more priests we bave upon our shore the morein danger are these liber- ties. They want to make us a present of the Pope. - They want all things subor- dinated. When a potentate of India hasa grudge against a man he makes him a present of a white elephant, knowing that its care will eventually ruin him. Our Catholic friends want to make us a present of the Pope and his rule. I say,- my friends, let them keep their white ele- phant; we don’t want it. “In the year 1815 Pope Pius VII pro- tested strongly against the council of Vienna granting Christian nations the right to worship as they please. “In 1818 Pope Pius VII was successful with the King of Naples in having the Catholic religion made the only reEzion permitted in the kingdom. ““The new constitution of Ecunador de- clares that the religion of the Republic shall be Roman Cflt%olic to the exciusion of every other form of worship. And so our Catholic friends ask us to look abroad in the world and to behold the great things they have done for humanity. We are doing it this afternoon. “This reminds me of the doctor who referred his complaining patient who ap- veared to lack full confidence in him to his other patients, and who was somewhat taken aback when the lady in question re- plied: ‘I have never learned the dead languuges.’ ““The design of Rome in the United Statesis to abolish freedom, to execrate and undermine our constitution. I say that we, as American citizens, will not sit, supinely by ard see thisdone. We will not allow ourselves to play the Gelliver w0 these Lilliputians. “I now quote from the encyclical letters from anotber Pope. I quote from Pope Gregory XVI. In his letter of August 15, 1832, he sail ‘From_ this indig'erence rows that absurd agitation in favor of iberty of conscience which is everywhere attempting to overthrow religious intiv- ence. Thisis the pest of all others which is bringing about the liberty of opinion.’ ‘“Why, the opinions we are expressing here from Sunday to Sunday are diametri. cally opposed to the teachings ot the Ro- man hierarchy. But, thank God, we live in free America! “I bave it in evidence from past ex- perience that minds religiously free will be politically free also. Now our Catholic friends in San Francisco claim that all members of the Catholic church are free Eoliticany, according to Pope Gregory. ut we know that the man who is bound religiously is bound politically, and I set Pope Gregory against Father Peter C. Yorke. ““The Pope could not exist without kings; the union of the church is essen- tial to its safety. These principles are utterly at variance with our republic and the republic is at variance with the hier- archy. 1Isay that whatever other nations may do I can speak with contidence when Isay that the American people will never recognize the Pope of Rome either as Ceesar or God. “Pope Pius IX said that the Roman Catholic church ought to be dominant so that every other form of worship would be interdicted. This same Pope Pius IX on August 15,1845, said that the absurd and ruinous doctrine of freedom of wor- ship is the most pestilent evidence of re- ligious liberty and is to be the most dreaded in the State. Yet such as Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Daniel ‘Webster have placed themselves on record in history as preferring liberty as we have it in this country, to life itself. When these men took up these frincip\es which have made them immortal they only de- raded themselves in the eyes of Pope regory VIII and Pope Pius, for they de- c::!red that liberty isthe most pesiilent thing. “I put these statements of the Popes against the priests, for the priests must be silent while the Pope is heard. “Where are your liberties, members of the American Protective Association? You are not yet bound to the recognition of the church of Rome, and to ask that the Pope of Rome might give you liberty. Yet we are called upon by the priests of San Francisco to believe that the Roman church is the friend of liberty. They know better, for they are all acquainted with the Pope’s encyclicals of Ronie. “‘Pope Pius IX set forth the unmistak- able stand of the ciiurch of Rome when he speaks of the absurd ravings in defense of conscience. anathemas come. We are not afraid of the anathemas of Rome. “They say that these Popesaredead and one. 'That is true. But though these opes are dead they maintain the same position. Leo XIII speaks with no un- certain sound on the question of con- science. In 1888, he showed clearly his objection to that state of men's minds which permitted that liberty of which we spoke, and which claims the right to teach what it pleases, “It is claimed by the Roman Uatholic church that Christ intrusted all the truths bLe had to it, and that this truth can only be learned through the voice of the church, as if it were the only church with the right to teach men. Tf the son of God should ever have commanded the people of this world to trust the Roman church he has made a mistake. This I say with all due reverence. This world will go to perdition before it will be subservient to the Pope of Rome. *‘Our constitution leaves religion to every man individually. Rome makes all take it from the church. “I want to say to you, my friends, that we are going to do the great'work of shak- ing this hierarchy as earthquake never | 2book the earth, and we are going to turn this hierarchy upside down. ‘‘Let Pope Leo XIII speak again for Rome. His word forever settles the ques- tions, though 10,000 priests deny it. The great hold of his church is universal suf- frage. Whatdo you think of that? The liberty of worship which rests upon the principle that every man is free to vrofess any religion or none. That is our prinei- ple. Let ussee what he says eoncerning it. ‘Justice and reason forbids the State to be godless.” ‘That is the step we have taken, for religious liberty is unjust and godless. . ‘“Cardinal Gibbons’ definition of re- ligious liberty is that a man enjoys re- ligious liberty when he possesses the right to worship God according to a right conscience. What is a right conscience? No man has a right conscience unless he is a Roman Catholic. _‘“He says also that a man enjoys re- ligious liberty whose religion 1s most in harmony with Go According to this not one of us has religious liberty, for the re- ligion most in harmony with God is Roman Catholicism, according to the church authorities. I don’t want that kind of liberty; I want that kind which Ienjoy to-day. ““The Archbishop of St. Louis says heresy and belief are crimes, and the per- sons guilty of these offenses are punished as other criminals in Catholic countries. “‘He further stated that the Catholic church claimed it was in favor of religious liberty when it was in the minority, and added that this was the reason why the lCatholic priests of this country were so oyal. “Thomas Aquinas says that if after the second admonition heretics remain obsti- nate, they must not only be excommuni- cated, but must be exterminated. “The Church of Rome is always the same. The hierarchy never changes. The Popes have declared that they are not only the spiritual rulers, but the rulers of nations. The present Pope, at the Balti- more affair recently, denounced the rule of the majority, saying that 1f he had the power ixe would blot out this Republic, and would place the Pope of Rome in Washington City. They also thus reject civil liberty. *‘They make a distinction between ec- clesiastical and political power. They say, ‘We never murder. We simply turn’ over the heretics after excommunication to the civil authorities, who punish them.’ So the Jews might claim they did not crucify Christ. They did not with their own hands. Tuey simpiy excommunicated him and turned him over to Pilate to be crucified. “The Popes are against free speech, a iree press and free thought, and these rove them to be against our libertie: {)\‘ho is making it possible for these dis sensions to go on here in San Francisco? Who is making it possible for us to have liberty of speech, press and thought? Not Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XI11, but the A P. A ‘1 say to you this day that I have proved to the satisfaction of any reasonable man that Rome is the enemy of religious and civil freedom, Let the priests around the bay blow all they please, we will silemce them by what the Pope of Rome says. *I wonder that, knowing so many of these things, we have borne these things so long. It 18 a mystery to me how the American people have allowed such dis- loyalty to grow and thrive in their coun- try. Itisexplained by the fact that the Pope and the priests ‘work in secret, and that they have surprised us. They have been here a long time, and their welcome has almost been worn out.” e YORK VS. YORKE. Synopsls of a Lecture on “Revela- tlon or Insplration, Which 2" The following lecture was delivered at Scottish Hall last evening by Dr. J. L. York, replying to Father Yorke in relation to the infallibility of the Pope: Ladies and Gentlemen: We had the pleasure of listening to Father Yorke on last Monday evening in his masterly defense of the Catholic faith, and must say in truth that we were fay- orably impressed with his evident sincerity and able defense of Christianity; and while it is well known that we have no love for priests or reverence for their office or calling, yet we do respect them for their sincere belief and earnest endeavor to maintain their honest convictions of truth in the light of what Ro- manism considers a divine revelation. And I have no fault to find with the logic of Father Yorke, which from his premise or standpoint is to my mind irrefutable, and his deductions irrefragable. But we must not for- get that standpoint is everything in the con- ception and deductions of truth. And it mat- ters little how much honesty, sincerity and scholarship there may be involved in the dis- cus{silnn of any subject, if the premise assumed alse. And just here we take issue with Father Yorke on his definition of revelation and in- spiration, and the claims ot his church based upon & so-called divine revelation. And as Father Yorke stated, and many people hoid, that revelation and inspiration mean about the same thing in a religious sense, the reasons must be obvious to all :thinking minds why it is that such extreme claims are made on the part of Christianity and all systems of super- natural religion. A true conception of what & divine revela- tion is, ana what human 1nsglrnuon! are and their true source, would rid the world of much contention, bad blood, religious monopoly and despotism in the name of God and in the garb of religion. From the standpointof a naturalist divine revelations and human inspirations are widely different things and are not interchangeable terms, and should not be confused with each other lest fantastic and absurd tricks be played with the truth. And the infallibility of the Bible, church and Pope has grown out of a want of discrimination as to the true nature of the divine and what is simply human. And a confusion of these terms has led to no end of books, dreams, visions and false conceptions of nature, God, heaven, hell, life, duty and -des- tiny, entitled the word of God, which, for the most part, do not bear the stamp of divinity in any true sense, but rather the sealaud ear- marks of human i; loh‘ltlan, full of the limita- tions of frailty, passions, ignorance and super- stitions common to all mankind. With this key placed in Father Yorke’s hand we shall hope some bright day to lead him away from his idols out into the sunlight of reason, to stand face to face with the true revelations of the Divine in every natural science, and in all truth, however discovered by man, to recognize the stamp of divinity. For ages past the world has been grutly con- cerned about the revelations of God, and from the ancient Hindoo religion to the Mormonism of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and on down to Koresh Teed and_his hollow §\obe, all claim to rest on inspired revelation for their divinity, and the claim for divinity in one is quite as consistent as the other, for if we must have a nightmare, the mental malady of Joseph Smith is quite as good a nightmare as that of any other supernatural religion. Now, then, what is a revelation? We say a factor facts discovered or revealed to us of which we were before ignorant. Now whatisa divine revelation, and how shall I know it to be divine? To my mind, that which is everlasting is di- vine. That which is omnipresent and omninc- tive is divine, These are and must be atiri- butes of divinity, and with this definition of In 1864 he tells those who as- | the infinite Ilook out upon the universe in sert liberty of conscience ard religious | 5¢arch of the divine, And the fist thing with ‘worship that they are wrong, but that the | 4 gj no r anathemaagainst the wrongdoers. which we come in contact is matter, which is vine substance, because it is universal and chiurch of Rome will neither employ force | everlasting—not ah atom can be denrou 3 cause Next is force, another divine thing, “But we are not to be coerced, for we as- | At is inhereut in matter snd coexists with it. sert again that we believe in religious lib- | NeXt, lnwlllfenct is divine, because It is uni- erty. the nght to employ force. versal and e say that no church of Rome has | farieiss™5, b Sncilivents fob hernon to Les their | rock, iyom oyster to nt; from radiate to Wan; 50 Wan 10 angels, 4 or lawgiver, and is eternal’ and if there be such beings; all bear that attribute of divinity. Next, natural law is divine, because it is om- nivresent and eternal; but permit me to note here that natural law does not govern maxter, 88 human legislation and law govern man. No, nature is infinite and complete in herself, and alaw unto herself, and S0 far as may bg known there is no power superior to nature. Nature being eternal no lulever,-nd is herself the divine and infinite. And what we call natural law is not the arbitrary fiat of the gods, but simply the uniform action of matter and force. Allbodies tend to the centerof the earth. Light bodies float; heayy ones sink; water 1inds its level by gravitation; fire burns; water drowns; poison Kills, and ali violations of na- ture’s conditions bring adequate punishment for every infraction—not because any of the 8ods said so, but because it cannot be other- wise in the nature of things. And it is be- cause that matter and force always, under similar conditions produce similar results, that we call this uniform action, law — the resultof conditions—and not conditions the result of natural law, as some suppose—but, being a property of matter, had'no beginning divine. Now, then, the universe, alone being infinite, is the only divine power which can reveal divine truth to mankind, An infinite revelation is an universal revele- tion, a constant revelation, an eternal revela- tion—not something which happened 4000 Yyears ago, but something that isphere now, something that happened iast ydar, and this year, and will happen next year and through all the years of eternity; a divine revelation, not simply to a few Hindoos, Jews, Moham- medans and Catholic Christians, but to all mankind. A divine revelation or message to man must be addressed to his reason and not to his ignorant fears, and in no sense can salvation be contingent on faith and belief when belief must depend upon evidence and is not subject to the human will. And to save my soul from hell I cannot believe that the Christian system is of divine origin any more than Buddhism. And if deity inspired men to write & rev- elation called the Bible, this book is wholly true and God’s word would be in perfect har- mony with all other truths in nature, else how can we tell what truth is? To say that God once spoke to somebody & long time ago, is no revelation to us to-day. To say that God gave over the salvation of the world into the hands of Peter and the succeed- ing Popes is a travesty on true religion and a source of priesteraft and theological claptra which has degraded the inteilect of the worl in the name of God and religion. To say that Mathew, Mark, Luke or John or Peter, or_even Jesus of Nazareth, ever held in his hands the salvation of the world is a mis- take, and a cruel mistake, which has held the world in bondage to religious superstition, and & sad reflection it is that the old zentle- man in Rome should wieid such & power over the minds and conscience of millions of people who seem to regard his voice as the voice of God. Not that we deny the voice of God in nature, but do deny that any particular re- ligion Is the voice of God only 5o far as they utter truth, susceptible of demonstration, as the teacher of natural science is our high priest and the schoolhouse and collegeof learning our most holy places. And to my mind all absolute truth, however revealed, is a divine revelation, whe *Yier in the Bible or outside the Bible, and is tl - voice of the eternel God speaking to mau. Mathe- matics is a divine revelation because 1t carries with it its own proof, and no faith is required to stamp its divinity. Chemistry is & divine revelation, because it asks no blind faith and is susceptible of demonstration a thousand times if you wish. Thus it is, science and knowledge are the only divine revelations and real saviors of tne world. 8o, also, art and in- vention are divine revelations, greater than the Apocalypse of John or Dante’s Inferno. And there is not & useful art or invention but has & moral side to it relating to our well-being and deveiopment. The discovery of steam as a motor-power in relation to civilization has been a greater force than all the missionaries on earth. The discovery of gunpowder, and the Krupp and needle gun, are greater divine revelations and have done more to stay the tide of war among nations than all of the bibles, tracts and testaments ever giver to the heathen world. 5 Now, a word about inspiration, and see at & glanco that inspiration am on will divine only shows that vengeanée and hatred, aswell as knowledge, love and kindness, inspire man- kind, and the inspirations for good we should cultivate and cherish, while all inspirations for evil we should discourage and quench. And while we may not be able to define fully what inspiration is, yet we are fully convinced that the plenary inspiration of the Bible, or the Pope of Rome or any other human being, is impossible of fact and a false claim of Chris- tianity. P——————————— New Psychic Society. The Reformers’ League, organized to pro- mote reasoning and scientific investigation, held its first meeting in the Alcazar building last evening. Dr. B. Peters, the founder of the society, made the address of the evening upon “The Cause of the Present Suffering.” R. llgn.ru spoke of “Truth That Shall Make Us 'ree.” The society will hold meetings each Sunday evening hereafter. COLONEL ROBINSON WEDS He Forsakes His Bachelor Friends for a Charm- ing Bride. Miss Evelyn M. Clay Takes Him for Her Husband in the Ad- vent Church. Colonel T. P. Robinson broke away from his old bachelor companions yesterday and from his old bachelor ways and be- came a benedict. He dia it very quietly, although several of his friends who had heard of His intentions were present at the ceremony and gave him and his happy bride an enthusiastic send-off after con- gratulating them on the event. The bride was Miss Evelyn M. Clay, a charming younglady who has been widely known in society of San Francisco. Early in the aiternoon the wedding was solemnized in the church of the Advent on Eleyenth street, near Market. It wasan unpretentious ceremony. The bridesmaid was Miss Etta Bender and the groomsman Major H. B. Hosmer of General Warfield’s staff, The only other. close friends of the bride and groom present were Mrs. A. Nice, asister of the bride, and Dr. Nice, and they had the pleasure of seeing the knot tied by a minister of the Episcopal church. Immediately after the wedding the party, gix persons in all, drove direct to the CIiff House. The drive out in the beautiful afternoon was a pleasant one, so when dinner was served at the Cliff, these happy Iriends thoroughly enjoyed the elegant menu. While still at dinner, Colonel and Mrs. Robinson and their guests were agreeably surprised by Cassasa’s band, which serenaded them with a selection of insFiring and appropriate musie. Mayor Sutro called upon them from the Heights, and was a welcome guest. He spoke in a humorous vein, giving the colonel and his bride some fatherly advice upon the future. Colonel Robinson is an old favorite among votaries of baseball and other out- door sports. When baseball was at the height of its prosperity, he was a promi- nent manager, and during the Midwinter o )l;; DR. J. L. e \\ X \ AN W) YORK. [Reproduced from a photograph.] revelation is not, as Father Yorke says, about one and the same thing, but two widely differ- ent things. We are told that God inspired men. We say nature inspires all,and all of our senses are but so many open windows and channels of natural inspiration or inbreathing from the material universe of which we are & part. And inspiration is simply the impressions we take on fromavhat we see, hear and feel, and these impressions may be & correct index of truth or may not be true at all, and guide us quite astray from the truth. And while a divine revelation is a discovery of:facts anc truth,hu- man inspiration at the best is impressions and belief, and from human fraiity and limitations no human inspiration can be perfect or infal- lible, and yet is a ‘;rfme factor in promoting nd moral life even if only partly true. For as gravitation is nature’s method in stir- ring the material world, so also is inspiration nature’s method of promoting mental and moral life in the world. Inspiration is simply an impulse which ex- cites and intensifies and brings out what is inherent within us, but cannot create a whistle out of a pig's tafl. To inspire & bulldog or tiger would only increase their cruel power. To inspire a donkey would not create speech or song—only & louder noise and more mulish- ness. An inspired would stiil be noth- ml but a goose and after all do nothing but ss. Soit is, the quality of human inspiration will always depend upon organism, endow- ment and cultiyation. And the history of in- spiration shows that to be inspired does not destroy individuality, but increases the power ottherfood man to do more good and the wicked man to do worse, and as_a_rule isin keeping with the character and hakits of the person inspired. Inspiration is not, s some suppose, a relig- 1lous word, as men are inspired on every side and phase of life and being. The poet is in- spired with poetry, the artist with art, the naturalist with nature, the musician with music, the philosopher with science and the superstitious person or saint with religion. In fact people do not do anything real well without Inspiration, and all great leaders of thought in letters, music, military skill, poli- tics, science and religion have been inspired men. And a Newton, Watt, Stevenson, Frank- 1in, Napoleon, Grant, Wes] ey, Beecher, How. ard, Huxley, Darwin, Jennie Lind, Bradlaugh, Ingersoll and Jesus of Nazareth, each 1 d n his own way to do his own work, left their mark as ideals in the history of this world. Without inspiration to g en and stir the world of mind there could be little else but the dead level of stagnation and the history of all inspiration in the Bible and out- side of the scriptures, from first to last, shows clearly the good and the bad side of human hature.. Moses, David and Saul were inspired to acts of cruelty and blood, and Torquemada of Spain to rob and kill the defenseless Jews to promote Christianity. Jesus was inspired to acts of love and kind- ness. Peter to Yle and deny his master—his in- spiration of bravery and love had all cozed out when his master needed a friend, mflfionz Peter was hid away among_the hired girls in the kitchen, and crowned his meanness witir the basest action. Booth was inspired to kill Lincoln, Abraham to kill 1saac and Guiteau to kill - Garfiglg, sud I Fair, it was he who had full control of the games and amusements. His home used to be in Oakland, but he intends to live on this side of the bay hereafter. STRANGLED AND ROBBED. A Young Woman Living on Mor- ton Street Murdered for Her Money. An Unknown Assassin Ckoked Her With a Cloth and Escaped Unobserved. May “Smith,” a young woman, was strangled last night about midnight in a little room at 135} Morton street, near Stockton, by some man who afterward stole the money she had concealed in her m'wking. No ‘noise accompanied the crime, The murderer after choking his victim went out of the front door of the room un- observed. He left no trace behind him, and there is as yet no clew to his identity. The girl’s real name is unknown. Her veople reside in this City. She lived at 330 Geary street with Jack Smith, a man without any occupation. She provided for both. The young girl was seen about 11:30 o'clock by her chum, May Howard, who occupied a room opposite. About mid- night the Howard girl noticed that the Bmith girl's door remained shut. It was not opened until 1:15 when L. Spines, who has charge of the rooms, entered and found the girl lying unconscious on the bed. He called a woman and Dr. Quinlan :i":d summoned and found the girl was lead, The murderer had called upon the girl and when the opportunity presented he seized her by the throat and stifling ner Ciles with one hand, choked her to death with the other. Then he had tied a towel rifnuy around her throat. The towel was found around her neck, but the purplish red marks of the strangler’s fingers showed how the deed Was committed. The money the girl was known to have Posseased earlior in the evening was stolen. PADEREWSKI OBJECTED, Had a Violinist on One Side and a Pianist on the Other. AND HIS ROOMS WERE CHANGED The Great Musician Is Diffident, but Cannot Avoid the Persistent Newspaper Woman. “It was quite frightful, I assure you,” said Ignace Paderewski, the man of the long hair. Paderewski was apeskxpg of the rooms that had been assigned him at the Palace Hotel. “Imagine!” he said. *‘There was a man of iands injured since the Hall report, say six- teen years, from the same cause, whether in the past or the recent present can readily be Jaced at double the above figures, or, say, 80,- 800 ‘acres, but which must bave been very much greater had its spread net been checked by the construction of levees atenormous ex- pense to the riparien proprietors. 1t will also be observed that what the Statg engineer found injured the Government engi- neers found ‘destroyed” only a few years h}f\‘;i the barriers against further filling raised the water level between them, thus increasin, the pressure against the artificial banks an: upop their alluvial foundations, through which now percolates sufficient of the floods to render unproductive and valueless a region far in excess cf the original bottom lands de- stroyed. 3 The United States Circuit Court in its re. view of these injuries denominated the process as “Destructive, continuous, increasing ana threatening to continue, increase and be still more destructive.” And yet the amount of debris found on the lands bears no sort of comparison to the amount lying in the streams, river channels and bays. Investigation by Government offi- cers places the amount in cubic yardsat several dundred millions, although no absolutely cor rect estimate can be given. Yet with each recurring examination the additions seem ap- palling. The following estimates are suomitted as approximations of fill in the places named and which were mostly given in court: San Francisco Bav, cubic yards........ 34,000,000 San Pablo Bay, cubic ya . 76,000,000 Carquinez Straits, cubic yards. . 68,444,000 \ “““Ullluvmwg IO N, The Virtuoso Pianist Paderewski, Who Arrived in This City Yesterday—As He Appears in Life and in the Imagination of the Flippant. ([Sketched by a “ Call” artist.] practicing on the violin in the room on one side of me and a woman playing the pianoin the room on the other side. Can you conceive a more awful combination? “And I wanted a room where I might | practice!” | “Then you are disturbed by noises when you practice-"’ *‘No, not by noises. Idon’t hear noises. l But the tones of a musical instrument ap- peal to me. They come with an insist- ence that demands my attention, and to practice I must be able to concentrate myself.” The great artist spoke guietly. There was even an air of diffidence in his man- ner. There wasno diffidence in the manner of Hugo Goerlitiz, the pianist’s personal manager, however. The entire clerical force of the hotel was kept busy by him till his employer’s room were changed to a quieter quarter of the house. 'aderewski’s private car reached the Oakland pier shortly after 5 o'clock yester- day afternoon. “I am glad we are at the end of our | trip,”’ he remarked. | *'Did you' not find it difficult practicing while your car was moving?” was asked. “Oh, practicing was impossible. The motion of a ship is not so bad. Butona car I have to wait sill I can stop. *‘We have the car sidetracked. Then I practice, well, about three hours and we proceed again.’”’ “Busy? Yes, indeed. The only time I bave for myself is after the concert is over. | And I fearthat I am going to find it too | cold here to go out much. You see,” he added, “I spend the dav before my concert in pracficinf and rest. Days when I have no concert, 1 practice more.’" ““You were in society considerably in New York and Boston, were you not?"” The artist smiled, and nodded an assent, as he quietly blew forth a puff of smoke and wavea the hand whicg he held his cigarette in a way that indicated that the matter was not of much importance. ““And you are fond of society 2" There was a very decided negative shake of the mass of tawny hair that surmounts the artist’s head. ‘‘No,” he said. “In fact usually I woula rather be alone with my music, or in the company of one or two congenial friends. Those people are nothing to me. My family are all in Europe. % Paderewski has four people in his suite— a valet and three managers. He remsains in this City ten days. His trip to the West was made entirely for financial reasons, tbough the fame of California had made him more eager to come. Considerable time will be spent in sightseeing and more in practicing. The management has decided to give three morerecitals. They all will be mati- nees, and will be on Monday, February 17, Wednesday, February 19, and Friday, February 21. The sale of seats for these events will begin this morning at Sher- man, Clay & Co.’s. HYDRAULIC MINING. George Ohleyer of the State Anti-Debris Association Gives the Views of That Body. Zo the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In s former article written for THE CALL on the mining question the writer sought to explain to the distant reader what hydraulic mining really was. To the uninformed all mining where water is used 18 termed hydraulic, but the hydraulic mining under review refers only to the use of water under pressure, driven through iron pipe and a nozzle against a bank of earth, gravel and sand with such force as to reduce townships in extent to flowing mud, to vex the streams and lands of the valley. The methods and execution were then described, and need not be repeated here; but it will be well to heed the consequences arising from the operation, especially since the methods are sought to be restored, behind dams if they maust, and l%paiu'en!l)' without damsif they can. Since it {s boldly proposed by some of Cali- fornia’s Congressmen to secure aid for this pml{ rivate business from the public treas ury of the United States, it becomes once more a living issue, especially to those who reside below the hydraulic mining beit. And, since a number of restraining barriers have been carried away within the past few weeks, and among them several naving the approval of Government engineers for their solidity and permanency, we may well be ex- cused for opposing further experimenting at Government expense and valley risk. That the world may know what is involved in this debris question, it shou'd go with us to the dump, which is the lower rivers and the bays and harbor of San Francisco. In 1880 State Engineer William H. Hall found and so reported to the Governor and Legislature, that 43,546 acres of land had been injured ana destroyed by the onflow of hy- grflnimo mining debris’ in the Sacramento ey. WA Géverntmenz xnmxnsrg{.nlon x‘epord!.:d‘ to l‘lile ar rtment in » acreage “‘destroyed’” on memnwlng three rivers: b4 Feather River, acres. Yuba River, acres. ,200 Bear River, acres. 8,800 Making a total of.. 41,046 The above does not include the lands injured or dumgd on the American, Cosumnes or other southern streams, A moderate estimace | Suisun Bay, cubic yards. 67,730,000 Sacramento and Feather Rivers, below Marysville. cubic yards, ..120,000,000 Yuba River and on bottom lands above Marysville, cubic yards. . -408,000,800 Making a grand total of 7 74,000 cubic yards of the finer refuse lying in the streams to tax the pockets and ingennity of Govern- ments to care for and counteract. 1t §s asserted that this can be done and ayoid the injury. We doubt it. Wken mountain debris reseryoirs can be reduced to a grade of four inches to the mile, which is that of the Sacramento River below Sacramento city, then it will be in order to discuss the proposition, although the river is filling the bays on that grade. The above estimates were made five years ago by a moiety of the late United States De- bris Commission. A little over a year ago the same engineers reported as follows: The commission has examined to some extent the condition of the Sucramento River and of t empties, with reference of the bottom since the beginning of hydraulic mining. Takir - Suisun Bay, the earliest coast survey chart (Ringgold's map, made in 1850 gives its total area as 199,327,000 square yards. The latest coast survey chart published (survey of 1878, most of the hydrography made in 18689, gives the bay a superficial arca of 160,882,000 square yards, Comparisons of similar cross sections, taken every half-mile over this territory, gives the fol- lowing average depths: 1850, 14.05 feet; 1878, 7.92 feet: average fill, 6.13 feet.§ showing that nearly one-half the original volume of water In the bay was replaced by sediment between 1850 and Partial surveys and estimates made in 1885 and since leads the commission to say:; Taking the above figures as reliable there wers deposited in Suisun Bay between 1850 and 1878 407,000,000 cubic yards. Assuming that the fill since 1878 has been at the same rate for the whole bay as that shown at the mouth of the river the indications are that the rate of deposit in the bay was about 10,000,000 cubic yards per year from 1878 to 1885. Now, assuming that the flow of debris to the bays has continued to date at the same rate, we have twenty vears' flow of 10,000,000 cubic yards, or 200,000,000 to edd to the figures glven above and of material so fine that it went there on & grade of four inches or less to the mile. In conclusion the commission say mento and San Joaquin rivers from near Colling- ville to near Benicla is a question that must be gliven seriousattention before definite plans for the cleaning out of the rivers, etc., be formulated. Below Benicia and the Straits of Carquines the bays widen and the debris floats to the shallow waters on either side and is deposited nlnnithe Alameda and Marin County shores, the shores pushing out toward deep water con- tinuously. Professor Davidson of the Coast and Geodetie Survey was surprised to hear that the water had receded so rapidly, but he knew the shore- line was changing several hundred feet annu- ally. The first United States survey of the bay was made in 1852; the secona in 1886. The old survey marks were in places inland three- quarters of & mile in 1886, and the shallow water had extended out almost to the river current. He (Professor Davidson) accounted for the filling of the land by continued settling of mud carried from the river (Sacramento) in solution and deposited opposite its mouth be- tween Petaluma Point and Point San Quentin. his may suffice for our present purpose though the subject is by 1o means exhausted and cannot be in the ordinary limits of a let~ ter. But, it is said, the process can be pr cuted behind barriers shorn of the injur tendency. This beingalso a debatable que: tion our next article will be devoted chiefly the so-called remedial measures. By orderof the State Anti-Debris Association, GEORGE OHLEYER, Chairman Legislative Committe NEW TO-DAY. WHY SUFFER From troublesome feet ? 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