The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1896, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO ‘CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1896. B, T, HUDELSON 0 FATHER YORKE, Declares the Chancellor Is a Very Skillful Dodger. OBJECTS OF THE A. P. A. Principles of the Organization Set Forth by the State President. SAYS THE PRIEST RETREATED. Answers Demanded to Questions Re- garding the Policy of the Church on Public Issues. In reply to a recent letter from the pen of the Rev. Father Yorke, State President Hnudelson of the A. P. A. T says: ¢ Call— Rev AR SIR: Having Father Yorke's st., and having tances, and_ having the A. P. A. are good, and Lostility to the A, P. A. cal sympathie Those who fever clean, honest pol upport the A. P. ining undisputed s contained nded use of eards which F cted for me to de: Heas sh. What con- d to make those frag- il And with what mar- ve balanced upon that flimsy foundation! W blow the frait ¢ . w sad must die nolish, not to So away with is scarcely one of the 1my own complai st wade Fatner Yorke would in his low “Greenleaf on Evidence.” 1do not, however, Mr. Editor, intend to per- | both striking examples of development Father Yo: cussion of ngh I shal ke 10 draw me wway and {rom the beiore 1 am awey 6t him YORKE'S RETRFAT. efore 1 get down to serious work I de- 10n of the readers of your sterly mane by s abandoned his ago his guns were booming and prancin y the proposition . us & religious organization. he first, he weakened his defenses ow-famous letter of the 13th to my first question, he said: v political society ng that the ty” (and, by ds me s to secrecy However, in'spite of h im 10 change front quite ill take notice that entation is that th soon. . P. A, teaches a great jour- an party, read political faith, ican party bound as to 1ts or the s it bound s in the ather both as to gs by its party “principles as aving the right so did it ever occur to ould for en in- ¥ 10 “couceive that that dividual of that party, ¥ is bound by what anpears umns or is responsible therefor? his is what Father Yorke claims, and this is apparently what he asks sensible men lumn after column from papers which e A. P.’A. movement, and lson, and your order et. Catholic literature concerning which he sa; T or not it was circulated by the A. P, pared to say,” and reiterates, on, and y: argume hat appes 1s? Is it not bound nciples and its teac m and dec formulated by the bodies I 1em 2 agine that a staut have the f e What logic! | Mr. Editor, it had not occurred to my lect that either your paper or t| v were bound by the state. ¥ have oc Ted in ¢ e ch you have printed. But Father quotes & “signed article” concerning an Rafael fortiticetion” and ‘‘holds me order responsible.’® e more, Mr. Editor, bad it occurred to you that stat 1ings uitered by a Democrat or_a Populist y other non-Republican are binding on You or your party? Have a care. It must be for Father Yorke says it. He quotes Dr. Lington Gisaden end Elbert Hubbard, non- members of the A end “holds me and my order responsible. And still again, Mr. Editor, did you know at the utterences of every Republican cam- paigner, of every perty orator and of every political disputant are bindir yourself included ? quotes to me irom the spe writings of members of th me and my order responsible.” cratic party responsible it Grover ‘Cleveland misses his aim when duck hunting Fie, Father Yorke. Yon have in your library a treatise on logic. Do reaa it a little. 5 Yet Father Yorke hes and individual YORKE'S 16NORANCE, Early in this controversy Father Yorke hinted at his unbounded knowledge of the sub- ject upon which he s writing in the following words: Mr. Hodelson may not know more abont the A. . A.than I do, but be knows nearly as much. Whether he does or not may not be impor- tani, yet your readers may be interested to learn that Father Yorke, at least, does not know what he is t ing ebout. has made several statements, any one of which is sufficieat to indicate though not to meas ure his ignorance. He says: ‘I'raynor is the boss of the institution ald Ross is the secretary of the adv o and Don- ory board, Neither statement is true. Donald Ross is | not secretary of the advisory board. Further than that, I'leeve him to care for himself. He is fully eble to do 5o, as Father Yorke may have already fou Traynor is not the boss of the He is its supreme president. But if Father Yorke imagines fhat the A. P. A. is “bossed” he should hold one of its executive offices for & while. Yorke also says: Adam Faw, L is one of its grand officers, Adam Fawcett is not ore of itsgrand officers, though he may have been at one time. Father. Yorke is behind the times. Yorke also says: The A. P. A. puts its followers at the mercy of advisory boerds. He might ae well talk of putting the people at the mercy of Congressmen whom they elect, Father Yorke has also attempted to make much capitai of the fact that I have not ex. pleined my right to enter & controversy with him. Each call forsuch un explanation is further proof of his ignorance of the subject he 1s talking about, for if he knew enyihing about the A. P. A. he would know whence that right arises. In closing, Mr. Editor, I desire to refer to | Father Yorke’s statement: I have offered to correct any misstatements T | may fall 1oto and apologize for any errors into which ¥ may be led. That offer I stand by, and when the Rev. Benjamin F. Hudelson can accuse me with truth of not living up to it, then I am willing to withdraw from the controversy, 1 have no doubt thet Father Yorke is more than “willing to withdraw from the contro- versy,” and precisely for that reason I shall re- fuse to prove that he ‘“‘does not live up to that statement.” In fact, I have feared that he would withdraw ere now—that his n e, while pre- | stions, dodgeda tne | its opponents, including A., which Father Yorke | ectness or as to her Yorke sub- tter. 1| -P. A. i5 8 “secret the way, that re- have not yet considered his objec- error, I did not ex- | reeras a man. Your | now the burden He prints anti- | ments concerning Republican | . P. A. and “holds Is the Demo- would require & change of air.” or he would “suffer hfl:m ovcrworlg," or would be “called | away on the work of the church,” or would be | “promoted’’ to some distant post for his ‘“‘mag- nificent defense of the faith,” or, perchance, would be sent as “delegate extraordinary to Rome.” Very respectfully, % Cboady ¥* B. F. Hubgsox, A. P. A. of California. President of th Postscriptum A.—Now, having cleared away the mass of valueless, illogical stuff which Father Yorke was pleased to submit as argn- ment (), I return to the principles upon which Father Yorke has dodged and o my questions thereon. This chancellorof the Atchdiocese of San Francisco is a slippery debater, but it is necessary to pin him down if possible. There- fore I repeat my questions. ON TIE A. P. A PLATFORM. Question 9—“Ts Mr. Yorke hostile to loyalty to trie Americanism, which knows neither birth- | place. race, creeq nor party, as a_first requisite for | membership in any organization?” Question 11 (part)—+Is Mr. Yorke hostile to the toleration of all creeds?” Question 13—Is Mr. Yorke hostlle to the up- holding of the constitution of the United States &nd its guarantee of reiigious liverty to the indi- vidual?” Question 16—Does not exemption from’ taxation is equivalent to a grant nds? And is he hostile to the taxation riy, the title to which is not vested in 1°0r State Government, or their sub- Yorke believe that | ment in the military arm of the Governmeng of any one not actvally a citizen of the United States?” Qu pesl the act authorizing the naturalization of minurs without a previous declaration of intention, and is he hostile (0 a provision of law that persons to be naturalized must speak the language of the | l\ulhi nd must prove seven vears' continuous resi- | denc | tion of intention?’ | Question 20—+Does Mr. Yorke object to a protest against the laxity with which onr present natural- ization laws & A2 Question 21 inspection of all hospitals, asylums, reformatorie: or other Institutions in whica people are under re- straint? Question 29— +Doe; State legislation in fav country or of 2 o | Questto | tion of immi | buls and ana | administeres Mr. Yorke favor National or # any one section of the P. A. POLITICAL PRINCIPLES. Mr. Yor n as will prevent paupers, chists from landing on our Question 25 (part)—“Does Mr. Yorke wish the voiers of the country to be ignorant of the duties and privileges of citizenship, and the pliant too! of pol s ? Quest 6 % from the public funds one gen rian free public school system, | primary edncation of all chilaren | * Question Does Mr. Y orke oy tion of non-Governmental property " Question 29—“Does Mr. Yorke support for oflice any person who recognizes alleglance to any for- «ign or ecclesiastical ro:entate as superior to our overnment?”’ Postscriptum B.—Father Yorke said he was 10 prove his every assertion. | seid ihat he either fulsified, or he did not. d not, let him prove these statemen atement 1—I know. however, that a secret -al soclety can never bring about pure pol- If that they (the Methodist and preachers who are agitating the repeal on church property) pay more taxes A. P. A. put together. foreigner who Is not American- il never be Americanized.’” Lere are no universal proposi- 3 B.F. H. GREELEY'S EARLY LIFE Went to School at the Age of Two and Kuew Shakespeare at Eleven. Bishoy of the than t Statement 4. tions n politi erty; both were thoroughly American and under the new republic. Greeley came | from an ancestry that was toughened in | the old Queen Anne wars and the battles | of the Revolution. He got his intellect i from his mother, who was an attentive and | omnivorous reader. He said in | | aiter life that his mind was stimu- lated by his mother to an un- | usual degree. “She awakened thirst for knowledge,” Mr. Greeley used to say, and fostered the spirit of precocity so early manifested in the young Greeley He went to school when he was only | years old and surprised his instructors by | his aptitude for studies far beyond one of | his tender years. The traits which marked Mr. Greeley's childhood characterized him throughout | life. His career as a boy outlined his ca- In maturity hLe retained all , and his sympathies would ever overrule his judgment. When a boy he was never atraid of ghosts nor the graveyard by | 1 to stand up in a fight with another | boy. Asaman, when he was attacked by a Congressman, he stood and took his punishment without fighting back. Greeley had an insatiable thirst for | | his weaknesse: knowladge. He read the newspaper which | his father took, but which only served as a stimulus to his intellectual appetite. He | scoured the country for seven miles zround for books, and read everything he could borrow. He clung to his book at all times, whether on an errand to the cellar, the woodpile or a neighbor's. Like Lincoln, | many thousand miles away, he filled the | fireplace with pine knots and spent long evenings reading. When 11 years old he read Shakespeare thorough At this cleared farm in Vermont and working with | bis father clearing the land. With his brothers and sisters, he made the principal | children sitting on the floor around a five- | quart pan, eating from the same dish. His mother testified that it cost not more than $3 a year to clothe Horace. |~ The turning point in his life came when | he was 13 years old and entered the print- ing office of Amos Bliss at Poultney, Vt., as‘an apprentice. He was bound out for five vears, during and sending his meager earnings to his father, who was now slru;zfilin; to clear | another farm in the woodsof Pennsyl- vania. He derived much pleasure and | benefit from the Public Library at Poult- | ney, and exercised his taste for composi- | tion by setting up original paragraphs for |the paper. "His dominating intellect downed all base passion and kept him | from the allurements of a life of pleasure ! at this time. There was one thing about | the young apprentice, however, a habit on the whole | which stuck to him all through life—he | was luridly and picturesquely profane. At the beginning of the fifth year of his | apprenticeship the paper for which he | vania, where he remained at his fathers house to recover from an illness. The next | Greeley, as work was scarce in that portion ; of the country and the pay was poor. Fi- | nally he gave up the effort there and | started for the metropolis, going down the Hudson River on a towboat. | the Battery in New York with. just $10 in his pocket and engaged board in a saloon | at $2 50 per week. His first few months in New York City was a peziod of struggle, Lecture by Congressman Cummings. e —————— THE E00DOO GONE. | The St. Pauml Will Be a Lucky Ship | Henceforth, | The St. Paul has proved herself the most | remarkable sea-going vessel afloat. Now | that she has escaped safely from ber third | disaster no harm can come to her or her | owners from references to episodes in her | career which might have sounded in an | uniriendly tone while she lay helpless on the Jersey sands. First—The original attempt to launch her was a failure. Her second and successful launching was on Friday. An old rigger in the employ of the Cramps, on that oc- | casion, gloomily grumbled amid the hur- | rahsof the multitude: ‘‘She doesn’t belong | to the International Navigation Company, that ship don’t, she belongs to Davy Jones’ locker.”’ Becond—While lying in her New York dock the head of one of her cylinders was blown out and several men killed. Third—She poked her nose into the State | of New Jersey. Now all believers in super- | stivions will agree that 1f three evils have been successfully averted in succession the object of the evil-eye is forever after free |irom the threat of disaster. If the St. | Paul had broken up on the Long Branch bar, the believers in her predestined il | fortune would have wisely shaken their heads and said, “Didn’t I tell you so?” But her successful escape not only has absolutely secured her future good fortune, according to all rules of superstition, but has proven her a maritime marvel.-Phila- delphia Times. n 17—“Does Mr. Yorke fayor the enlist- | n 19—Would Mr. Yorke obiect to the re- | in this country from the date of the declara- | Is Mr. Yorke hostile to the public | opposed to such re- | When he | Like Lincoln, Greeley was born in pov- in me a | night, but nothing could get | | time he was very poor, living on a half- | meal of the day on bean porridge, the | | my friends, to our shame and humil ure compelled toacknowledge that such an or- | 1ch he worked hard | at his case, improving his mind the while | | worked failed, and he started for Pennsyl- | few months were hard times for voung | elanded at | pulpits | and marked by poverty and privation.— The father | nre 4 it LOVALTY OF CATHOLICS, | Father McKinnion of Rio Vista Lectures on That Sub- ject. PROUD OF THEIR HISTORY. The Eloquent Priest Pays His Respects to the A. P. A. Before a Large Audience. The fifth lecture of a series given under the auspices of the Young Men’s Catholic Union was delivered last’ evening to a packed house in Metropolitan Hall. The lecturer was Fatber McKinnion of Rio Vista. In calling the meeting to order Samuel J. Haskins, grand secretary of the Young tures were ziven. He said that the course was intended to be educational and to vresent Catholic truths. The purposes of the union were described as benevolent and fraternal, and the members of this ' mustcome, and its dawn is already observed faintly shining above the horizon of liberty. Among the charges brought forward by these British and Scandinavian defenders of Amer- ican lfberty, none are repeated more fre- @iently than this, that Catholics are not and cul'l;lli_ol beloyal to the institutions of this Re- public. To show that this charge js false, that it is without foundation, that it is (like their other charges) the emanation of diseased minds, cor- rupt hearts and morbid imaginations, will be the object of this evening’s lecture, The lecturer stated that the Catholic churen taught its adherents to be loyal citizens, and that the history of America showed that Catholics profited by her teachings, By her system of Christian education she so earnestly and persist- ently advocates she teaches her children more loyalty to their country in one day than could be learned in a lifetime from the unclean lips of the whole menagerie of political preachers, Canadians, Orangemen and Scandinayian bigots who are inces- santly screeching about a patriotism they never possessed and about battle flags they would be too cowardly to defend.” He continued: The Catholic church, realizing the fact that religion and morality are necessary for the preservation of society and for the sajeguard of the Republie. i! is upon her children be- ing instructed not only intellectusally, but morally as well. While she maintains that both an intellectual and & moral training are necessary for & perfect education, yet she con- tends that of the two the moral training is the more essential. Thus, in teaching her children \ ¢ | to be guided by the principles of religion and | Men’s Union, explained why these lec- | morality, she teaches them at the same time to be loyal and patriotic subjects. The more | religious and moral they are the more loyal they will be. The more love, reverence and respect they have for Almighty God the more they will haye for him who, in the state, is vested with his authority. Nor does she limit her teaching to a general outline of duty. On REV. W, D. McKINNION OF RIO VISTA, CAL. society stood for their rights as citizens against all opposition. Miss Mamie Byrne sang “Hail, Colum- bia,”” and Miss Catherine Black *‘The Star- spangled Banner.” Mr. Haskins announced that the Rev. Father Yorke wished it understood ‘dis- tinctly that he would not engage in any debate or controversy with Rey. Mr. Ross. At the mentipn of the name of Father Yorke the audience cheered and ap- plauded with great enthusiasm and con- tinued the applause for an unusually long time. Father McKinnion was greeted with most enthusiastic marks of respect and | At the | welcome by the large audience. conclusion of this cordial greeting he began his eloquent and able lecture, The subject was “Catholic Loyalty,” and his treatment of it called out frequent bursts of approval. He said: Ladies and Gentlemen: It seems strange in this age of advanced ideas and liberalit thougit snd fceling that here on the ocean- washed shores of a free Republic, where equal rightst are the heritage or all, where the flag that floats above us isa synonvin of liberty, where every man is free to worship God agree- ably to the dictates of his conscience, any body of men could be found so blinded by hatred, bigotry and prejudice as to call in question the loyalty of patriotic citizens who 100k such # promihent partin the discover liberating and building up of this glorious R public and whose devotion to their country was proved on many a gory battlefield. Yei, tion we ganization of men exists among us, and the name of this traitorous body, the combination of baseness, vileness and iniamy, that seeks to uproot the fundamental laws of the land, th Je1y roundwork of our constitution, s the A. ¢ one fixed aim of (his politico-sectarian organization of skulking conspirators is to in- flict injury upon Roman Catholic them the right to labor and live. used are falsehood, slandér and forgery. men employed 10 wield these weapous are briefless lavyers, notoriety-hunting preachers | yple to combat the evidence of our'faith, seek and pinhead politicians. From this very plat- | form, Sunday after Sunday, these barnacles in human form have poured out their filth and obscenity on a patient and long-suffering public. But worse than this, ministers of tho God of peace, prostituting théir high positions to their hunger for gold and notoriety, have in the sume temple and at the same fime that they adored their God hurled the concentrated malice of their hearts, the poisoned shaits of calumny and detraction, at creatures fashioned | by the hand of the same God out of the same common clay and made in the same divine imagefor the same glorious destiny. Spurious documents filled with absurd and startling intelligence, and said to emanate from the illustrions head of the Catholic church, are scattered broadeast throughout the land. "Ap- peals are unbiushingly made to that low ani- mal passion, unfortunately inherent in onr na. | ture, which leads to crimes that St. Paul would not have to be even so much as named amon; Christians. Reverend blackguards, boaste ministers of the God of holiness and purity, make 10 scruple whatever in treating with the most disgusting detail from public platforms, end the press, certain matters that ded Christians would blush to think about. Such apologies for men as Bowmai Ross, Henry, Case, Palmer and others, think nothing of giving circulation to obscene mai- ters which would cover with disgrace the most ordinary citizen who lays 10 ciaim to any. pe- culiar sanctity, but simply stands forth clad in the panoply of an honest, decent man. 0 Nothing can be too bad for these men pro- vided it be only directed against che Catholic cnurch. Their morbid appetite for scandal re- jects mo tood, no matter how loathsome. The pure-mii | most obscene narratives of the most obscene and abandoned wretches like Maria Monk, or the most driveiing apostate like Chinaguy Anfl Slattery, are precisely what pleases tueir palate. To give their calumnies some semblancs of truth they take up Catholic books, pick up a sentence here and another there, their meaning by causing the words to pass through the alembic of their own impure minds; they string them together to suit the theory of their own foul suspicions, and they thus succeed 1n extracting (mpurl(f out of the things most pure, darkness out of iight. Like & serpent crawling through a beautiful flower garden and infecting the fragant atmosphere Wwith its pestilent breath, tbey succeed in ex- tracting but poison from the sweetest and love- liest flowers. All the crimes in the catalogue have by these methods been laid at the door of the Catholic citizens of this Republic, and it is indeed, & sad commentary on onr boasted enlightenment that it should be necessary for us to come forward to deny these charges. Yet euch is the case, for while we have with us the most enlightened and pure-minded of the Protestant community, there are thou- sands of ignorant haters of the Pope who, unless taught the truth, will believc ever; syllable uttered by these mounwhnn{ preachers. From answers already given and the noble stand taken by Father Yorke we see that this disgraceful method of warfare has already recoiled and will still_recoil with ter- rible effect on tne heads of these blatant bigots wno are now the active leadersin this anti-Catholic crusade in this country. The American people will not consent to be forever duped; there is a int beyond which even their forbearance willnot go. The reaction | and su |a i | nothing injurious to our republican govern- | ment more perf | On vof | | ing that the oisoning | the contrary she specifies our respective duties both to the state and to the representative of Christ in the chair of Pe From this doctrine u will find that her jurisdiction is well defined and its limits too | clearly set to alarm an intelligent informed following her teaching a | mind, and from Catholic citizen of our Republic can be second to none in jealously separating the spiritual and temporal authority, in zealously insisting that the sanctuery alone is the sphere of the priest, while to the state belongs exclusive control of all civil affairs. The teachings of the church which built np stairied San Marino, Andorre, Venice and st of Old World republics, can contain :t than any of these have been. the contrary the Catholic doctrine is: Loyalty to the Républic is a divine virtue and resistance to its laws a sin erying to heaven for vengeance, for in the words of St. Paul, *‘He tnat resisteth the power resisteth the ordinence of God and they that resist purchase to them- selyes demnation. Wherefore be subject of necessity not only for wrath but also for con- science sake.” In the eyes of the church | loyalty to country is loyalty to God; patriotism | 18" n heavenly virtue, a high form of holy obedience; the patriot dying for his country wears the halo of a martyr. The Catholic church commands, blesses, consecrates patriot- ism. patriot. Our Bishops assembled in solemn council at Baltimore in 1846, in their toral letter of that date say: “The paternal authority of the chief Bishop is constantly misrepresented and assailed by the adversaries of our holy relig- ion, especially in this country, and is viewed with suspicion even by some who acknowledge its powerful influence in preserving faith and i It is unnecessery for us to tell you, brethiren, that the kingdom of Christ, of which the Bishop of Rome, a5 successor of Peter, has received the keys, 1§ not of this world; and that obedfence due to the Vicar of the Savior is in no way inconsistent with your civil alle- giance, your social duties es citizens, or your rights as men. “‘We cen confidently appeal to the whole tenor | of our instructions, niot only in our public ad- dresses but in our most confidential commu- and deny | DiCAtions, and you can bear witgess that we The weapons | The | tRings which are Cwsar's; to God the things have always taught you to render to Caesar the which are God's. Be not then heedful of the misrepresentations of foolish men, who, un- to excite unjust prejudice against that su- thority which has always proved its firmest support. Continue to practice justice and charity toward all your fellow-citizens, respect | the magistrates, observe the law, shun tumult and disorder, s free, and not & having liberty asacloak for malice, but as the servants of God. You, my brethren, have been called unto liberty; only make mot liberty aa occa- sion to the flesh, but_by charity of the spirit serve one another. For gll the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Thns you will put to shame the ca- lumnistors of our holy faith and vindicate it | more effectually than by any abstract profes- sion or disclaimer.” After citing the spoken opinions and the pastoral letters of American bishops to prove that Catholics are loyal citizens and | are taught loyalty to the Republic, the speaker said: Again, in our own State, who is stronger in his Americanism, who labors more earnestly, in public and in private, to inculcate the les: sons of patriotism and loyalty than the eccle- siasticai head of this archdiocese, Archbishop P. W. Riordan? I'might quote many other authorities show- Pope has no civil or political authority, power, jurisdietion or pre-eminence whatever in this Republic and never claimed to have any; thav the doetrine of the church in- 81sts on her children being loysl to the laws and :nstitutions or the innd—but I think it un- necessary. What I have already said should be guflicient to convince even an A. P. A. idiot. They have asserted the contrary to be a fact, | but they have never proved their assertion and they never can. 1 defy them to point out even one attempt on the part of the Roman Pontiff fo exercise any civil or political power in America or in any way interfere in affairs of its government. But a matter of one falsehood more or less does not count with these Orange protectors of American liberty. Father McKinnion dwelt at length upon the constitational right of all citizens of the United States to worship as they Ppleased, and this he said is different from the principles of the A. P. A. He quoted American history to prove that Catholics from the heginning have been loyal to the flag and to the free institutions of Amer- ica. Catholics were with Washington and Lafayette while' *‘the progenitors of the A. P. A were with Cornwallis and Burgoyne.” He continued : They were at Bunker Hill, at Lexington, at | Valley Forge, at Ticonderogs, at Saratoga and at Yorktown. They were in the invading army of our Government sent to Catholic Mexico a hslf a century ago and when they reached the boundary they found no Papal bull to butt them back over the Rio Grande, and when the Rebellion came they fought side by side with their Protestant comrades, laying down their lives freely to maintain the houor and dignity of the American flag. They fought as Ameri- can citizens, not as members ol any religious denomination. The speaker said that while the United States was at war with a Protestant Gov- ernment, Catholic France came to America’s assistance with money, flects ‘he true Catholic must needs be a true | and armies, which secured the final triumph. Catholic Poland was represented by Pulaski and Koscuisko. Catholic Spain was the first country to send a representa- tive to the United States and thus ack- nowledge them to be a nation, and during the struggle she contributed generously to the American army and opened her ports to the American marine. The names of several Catholic warriors distinguished for valorin American history were quoted, and the speaker recalled the part taken by Catholics in the War of the Rebellion. In conclusion he said : Our history in America, my friends, is one we need not be ashamed of ; it is noble and en- couraging. Its more frequent study must | make us love this our country better and our | chureh not less. In every departmentof American develop- ment Catholic minds and Catholic arms have been felt. We have given the Union warriors and statesmen in number and apility who can well bear comparison with those of any other creed. In science, in authorship, in oratory we have been represented as well as in digging and delying and carrying the hod. We can ook history in the tace, and putting our hands upon any part of the fabric of the State, we can say with truth, This is partly our work. I have not adduced these facts to found on them any claim to National gratitude at the present day. The Catholics in America in this generation want no Natioual gratitude. We ask only feir play, equel rights and the truth of history for the honor of our faith and the instruction of our children. Then with | God for our guide and our own labor for our | independence, we may defy the designs of | bigots and look as fearlessly to the future as | proudly to the past. LIVES ON THE OCEAN. A Rich Lady Who Has Boarded on a Steamship for Years. For the third time since she began her trips in 1893, the steamship Lucania came in here last week without having Mrs. Carson on board, and it was an event in the history of the steamer. It did not seem like the same vessel with this strange boarder absent. Any one in search of a good boarding- house might get some points from Mrs. Carson—address the North Atlantic Ocean, The old song tells of a *‘Home on the rolling deep,” but Mrs. Carson is probably the only person whose nome is realiy there. Officers and sailors ‘‘go down to the sea in ships” to “‘do business on the great deep,” and leave their homeson shore, but Mrs. Carson has aer home on the sea, and only goes ashore for business and pleasure. exr present floating home is the Lucania, and she is greatly attached toit. For how many years Mrs. Carson has been making her home on the North At- lantic nobody seems to know exactly, but she was going back and forward between New York and Liverpool for some time before the Lucania set forth for the first time. ‘When the big steamship was launched Mrs. Carson inspected her and concluded to take board on her. Sheselected a roomy cabin, and settling up her Lares and Peu- ates therein, settled down comfortably to enjoy her new home. ‘I'be Lucania is now in her twenty-sixth round trip, that is, she has crossed the ocean fifty-one times. Only twice before the present trip has Mrs. Carson been ab- sent from the steamer when she plunged *the ocean blue.” Therefore she has crossed the ocean forty-six times on the Lucania. For two years the ship has been her floating home. She has been on deck in the gentle breezes of summer and the fierce gales of winter; has seen the beauty of the sights of the starlight and moonlignt, and times, when the vessel is in port, she goes to a hotel for a day or two; more often she | doesnot leave the ship, for she 1s a steady | boarder. Of the reasons for Mrs. Carson’s choice of a boarding-house, only the bare outlines | are knawn. Sheissupposed to be a widow. She is known to be a woman of means, | and to cordially dislike and distrust the | relatives to whom her property will go | upon her death. She does not want to be | where they can get at her, and she does | like the sea. So instead of going to some out-of-the-way place on the Continent to live, where she would be lonesome, she | chooses the Atlantic Ocean as her home | and the Lucania as her boarding-house. | Mrs. Carson is about 45 years old, and is | slight in person. Sbe is a woman of edu- | cation and refinement and seems to enjoy thoroughly her strange life. Nobody | knows how many times she has crossed | the ocean since she took up her home on | the “bounding billow,” but her long ex- perience has made her a good sailor, and she knows all about the ship and the hand- ling of her in storm and calm. 1t_js supposed that some important busi- ness connected with her property caused this break in her life. It is confidently pected that she will be aboard next trip, for she has shown no inclination to change | her boarding-house. It is possible that | Mrs. Carson has gone to-inspect some | other ship, with an idea of moving, but the Lucania’s people do not think it prob- able. Mrs. Carson spends her money liberally, and, it is said, has announced her inten- | tion of getting rid of all she conveniently | can, 80 that the heirs she so much dislikes will not have so much enjoy after her death. She is an English woman, it ;nhu;.kl be said, and her property is in Eng- and. One of the Lucania’s people said yester- day: *Ido notknow why Mrs. Carson did not come this trip, I am sure. It must have been something very important to keep her ashore, Only twice before has she missed a trip since the ship was launched, and we miss her very much,”— New York Press. - LEFT-HANDEDNESS, A Peculiarity That Is Almost Impos- sible to Overcome. One of the prevailing ideas about right- handedness is that it is merely a matter of training, and that left-handed indi- viduals have become so either from want of care on the part of nurses and parente, or from imitation of some older person. In many children the vreference for one hand is shown from a very early age—be- | fore the child has learned to handle any- thing but the very simplest toys, and, | therefore, before trainin can have caused a preference at all. More than this, the experience of left- handed persons is on record in whom the peculiarity has been early noticed and combated, but without the slightest effect. In the case of one child, both whose parents were left-handed we are told: *‘His mother, accordingly, watched his early manifestations of the same ten- dency, “and employed every available means to counteract it. His left hand was | bound up or tfed behind him; and this was persevered in until it was feared that the left arm had been permanently injured. Yet all proved vain. The boy resumed the use of the left hand as soon asthe restraint was removed.”’ It must not be supposed that all persons, whether right or left handed, have so strong an instinctive preference for one hand as this. There are many degrees and shades of right and left handedness in adult life. A Iuia number of persons seem to have had no strong natural bias either way, and accordin%ly fall in with the prevailing usage in all or nearly all respects, and these seem to become right - handed by training and 1mi- tation. In some of them a trace remains of their original indifference in the shape of a preference for the left hand in some actions; it is not uncommon to meet with people right-handed in all other respects’ who yet use two-handea implements, such as an ax or a cricket- bat, with the left hand hext the ‘“‘business end,” after the manner usual with the left- handed. There is no doubt that amon, those who have a strong instinctive pref- erence for one hand, the right-handed are in a large majority. The proportion they bear to those right-handed by trainine only is, and will probably remain, quite uncertain.—Chambers’ Journal. “Faniliarity breeds contempt” is a proverb found in one form or another in every European or Asiaticlanguage havin a literature. Its earliest form is believe to be the Sanskrit. the sights of darkness and storm. Some- | SPRINKLING MAY CEASE Merchants Threaten to Let the Streets of the City Go Dusty. MUST USE MUNICIPAL FUNDS. They Will No Longer Bear the Private Expense of a Public Function. No more. streets are to be sprinkled unless at the public expense. Such is practically the determination of the mer- chants that have for many years con- tributed privately to have the dust settled in the main business thoroughiares. Partly through the efforts of the Mer- chants’ Association, an appropriation of $150,000 was made last year for cleaning and sprinkling the streets, but up to the present time not a cent of the amount hds been spent upon sprinkling. No contracts have been let for the work, although the merchants have repeatedly requested the Board of Supervisors to take action upon the matter. But somehow the subject has only been revived each time and then allowed to subside, after being mysterious- ly laid aside by the Board. The report at the end of the first six months of the fiscal year shows that there remains of the $75,000 supposed to be em- ployed in the half-year for cleaning and sprinkling, a balance of over $17,000. From this showing the merchants argue that there is money for sprinkling; that it was appropriated for that purpose and cannot be diverted to another; that the people generally are paying extra taxes incident to the increased street cleaning fund, but are not getting sprinkled streets except in the old and limited manner and at the expense of the few merchants who are themselves subjected to an additional burden by reason of having to pay pri- vately for what they pay taxes for and do not receive. iy Until recently no perceptible opposition was offered to municipal street-sprinkling. The only objectors had been the five or six owners of private sprinkling routes maintained by particular merchants. It was to protect these people in their occu- pations that the Merchants’ Association obtained a division of the street contracts into the sweeping and sprinkling depart- ments. But none of the present sprinklers would bid for the City privilege, nor would any of them listen toa proposition made by the Merchants’ Association of employ- ing their wagons, including driver and team, at $5 a day each. Otner persons of- fered bids ranging from 25 cents down to 4 cents per 1000 square yards sprinkled, but those bids have never been acted upon. Some of the property-owners of the Mission, Hayes Valley and other outlying districts have entered a protest against having public funds used to sprinkle any particular part of the City. Attorney John T. Dare represents the interests of 750 per- sons whose petition has already been filed with the Supervisors, and fully that many more whose names have been ob- tained since. They object to the City sprinkling any streetsunless all the streets can be sprinkled, and assert that the pro- osed plan of sprinkling only the main Ensineas districts embodies the principle of taxation of the many for the immedi- ate henefit of the few. The merchants, some of whom have been maintaining private sprinklers for nearly twenty-five vears, do not concede that they are the only ones benefited. J. Richard Freud, secretary of the Mer- chants’ Association, speaking yesterday for it, said: During the last ten days we sent out our su- perintendent with the driver of a sprinkling- cart, furnished at our expense, to make esti- mates upon the expense of sprinkling streets included in the specifications for City sprinkling, according to the understanding at the time tne extra $70,000 was appropriated. He found that the original estimate of 20,000 | ver year wotld be more than enough for the prescribed area and enough for much outside of the district. The point made by the Merchants’ Associa- tion, and it is borne out by Supervisor Tavlor, is that if the originel estimate for sweeping and sprinkling was $150,000, why should the merchants now be asked to contribute practi- cally for what is already paid for by the City funds now in the vaults? There is no disposition on the part of down- town merchants to detract from the interests of the merchants in the outlying districts. We maintain that to sprinkle the main streets where the greatest amount of trefficis done and whers the most peoj le go constantly, s a benefitto the whole City. There is mo clty where sprinkling is so necessary as here, be- cause of the sandy soi) and the strong wind: In three days recently & man from the Mer- chants’ Association got 835 of the best and largest business firms in the City to sign & peti- tion to the Supervisors to let the bids for sprinkling. Last August the street-sweeping contract was let to the lowest bidder, but the sprinkling bids offered at the same time have not been noticed. & The residents generally come in for the ben- efit to be derived from sprinkled streets, be- cause the members ot every household must use the main thoroughfares in doing their shopping and in going to and from the main business centers of the City. Heretofore it has been two or three or more of the most enter- prising and public-spirited merchants in a block that have had to bear all the expense of & benefit in which the other merchants, the occupants of upper stories and the public ns- ing the street have shared. They have decidcd to stop it. . ‘The district that it is intended to sprinkle is very much more extensive than is generally supposed, and includes every business street in the City—Market, most of the streets branch- ing to the north and west, and for a distance of many blocks, and all the business streets south of Market. President Dohrmann of the Merchants’ Association said: The people have why don’t they get the sprinkling is done down to San Jose avenue, the Southern Pacific station, the ferry ‘and alt round the business part about Market and north of Market, out Montgomery and Van Ness, embracing a district where every- body goes, where the business and the traffic is greatest and the most people are annoyed by the dust, sprinkling is a benefit to all.” Is the sprinkiing not in such cases done where the greatest taxes are paid? 1t is always the storekeeper that has had to pay nine-tenths of these voluntary taxes for private sprinkling. Ido not epeak from sonal motives, because I fear nothing. YPin for the sprinkling, and he NEW TO-DAY. Charles Gounod the well-known Composer, wrote of 1 VIN IMIARIANI THE IDEAL TONIC: «Honor to ¢ Vin Mariani,’ that admirable Tonic-Wine, which so often restored my strength.”” Mailed Free. ! Descriptive Book with Testimony and Portraits OF NOTED CELEBRITIES. 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Mr. Davis of Davis Bros., another mer- chant opposed to further private expendi- tures when there is public money on hand for the purpose, said: Some people say, do they, that t be no sprinkling unless the ‘whole : sprinkled? Do these same pzople also believe that there should be no sweeping unless every street in the City can be equaily swept' Down town the streets be swept all day long, while in somea places in otner parts of the City it is necessary to sweep ol week or less often. To sprinkle all the streets every day would manifestly be impracticable, particularly where some of them are so little used, and to sprinkle some of them once & wegk or once a month would not accomplish the purpose. The Merchants’ Association presented a petition yesterday to the Board of Super- sors requesting that action be taken in the matter of letting out the sprinkling contract, A detailed statement was also made of the position maintained by the association. It was also asserted that New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Salt wLnk?, Cambridge, as well as Oakland, Sacra- mento, San Jose, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Ala- meda and other progressive cities recog- nize the sprinkling of streets as a proper municipal function. Knew He Was Coming. A gentleman a short time ago was a pas- senger on board a steamer plying between the fashionable watering vplaces of Black- pool and Southport. Feeling rather lonely and wishing to engage in conversation with some one, he approached one of the sailors and said to him: ““We have a very smooth sea this morn- ing; it is like a sheet of glass. You don’t always have it like this?’ 0, sir,”’ was the answer, ‘‘but you see as how they knowed as you were coming to-day, so the authorities at Blackpool telephoned to the corporation at South- port, and they at once ordered out the steam-roller and rolled the sea down for the occasion. That is how it is so smooth. 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