The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1896, Page 9

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1896 FATHER YORKE T0 REV. ROSS, The Chancellor Loses No Time in Criticizing His Critic. RIDICULES HIS PROOF. Refers to the Fact That His Audiences Were Not Up to Expectation. AUTHORITIES IN ANALYSIS. The Catholic Champion Emphatically Declares That the Four Mooted Propositions Are Forgeries. Father Yorke sends th 5 cation to TuE CaLr: To the Editor of The Call —DEAR Srm: 1ast the Rev. Donald M. Ross has reliored the pense of an expectant public. To the extent 00 (at two bits a head) the multitudes ve flocked to hear him. For three months has been chewing and masticating papal cuments. Though often tempted to tell all De knew he has bravely held himself in. Si- cuce claimed him for her own, The only = of his existence have been diyers omin- mblings, symptomic of & controversial lic. But the days at last are fulfilled, and lo! Parturiunt montes et nascitur ridiculus e following com- "he mountains are in lab. s dragele-tailed Ross.” rmit me o make & few remarks on the aming farce which Dr. Ross is now engin- ng. There is no necessity of answering his wild tirades against me personally. The alleged lectures are their own best refutatior The spite, vulgarity and indecency which cha &cterize them are not unexpe The public what was coming, and chowed true ican common-sen remaining away. &y night he had not 500 to hesr him. he attendance has dwindled down or eand there ap- ave already stated that if 0. Ross pro- ducel anything worth noticing I would re Tough your columus. 1 will do so now as fiy asT can THE HISTORY OF THE hree months ago D. Ross atan A. P. d to quote from a Roman lication. “An unnaturalized *bo devotes himself (0 the protec- ons, must neces- sbug. The quota- uced demonstrated that he ey could be f blication. 1 wen and denied nce of them wes Catholic teach- d on Koss to produce his proof make the mattera test, I offered cvidence to three non-Catholic question was one merely of the renticity of certain documents and was, erefore, & question with which lawyers would ng a war dance on 1e papers, accompanied by wild whoops for 8 debate. {had charged him with deliberate falsehood when he claimed 1o read from Roman ¢ | ations. His answer was, e the matter.” If he had a ce or a grain of decency in his com- would have realized that his duty ace the Romen Catholic publica- which he read. and to produce them But no considerations of inteili- r decency availed with Donald Ross. was telling an_untruth, sud his ave off exposure as long 2t he deafened the public ra debate. He fixed & time ild give him & quarter of a vear to with that solicitude for th characterizes n kir » print tickets and to seil them. se and time agein I stated in my letters I would not debate with him. If he ed to produce his proofs in public and to 1o gull the people into paying something thing it was none of my business. I let 1 know aecisively that I would not bea to hambug. thet he comes and whines that I have ¢ treated him fairly he is but carrving out the unserupulous and insincere policy which has merked all his aetions. This fizzle at the Metropolitan Temple was Eoss’ own affair. He alone is responsible for it; he has no right to wiame me for the contempt which he has la- bored so hard to deserve. This fiasco at the Temple wassimply a money- making scheme. Heand Hubbell thonght they had (to use the common but expressive term) ruck & good thing.” The good sense of the however, Las irustrated their or. The'result can oaly be de- ribed in another slang expression as “a cold frost. TH e JUDGES. ed as a curtain raiser on Mr. Hubbell from Jackson- d solemnly three times for ludicrous if it were not in- I hereby apologize to Mr. Foote for hose men & chance to use his name. eived Mr. Foote’s answer eman’s position. Thecere- calling him solemnly three times to appear were no doubt suggested by emn appeals of the Jacksonville press Hubbell 10 retarn and pay hisdebts, en the time came for the appointment of dges t> decide the question at issue Ross ney by selecting a fellow named )w, who, in the sbsence of a worse, 1'at the Metropolitan Temple on Sun. and ularly slandered the Catholic soch & confession of n bad case . red even the American Protective Asso- ciation. A committee waited on Ross to with- draw Quitzow’s name. One of the local A. P. A. sheets made the same demand. To-night ays that he withdrew Quitzow because objections. Ross lies. I made no pro- t against Quitzow. I have not heard that . Yoote did. Quitzow was simply shoved 0 the garbage-wagon because the town could ot endure the smell. Then Ross produced as his judge a man namea Sherman, whose foul mind ana fouler tongue bave been for many a yenr one of the unsuppressible nuisances of tne Pacific Coast. The public of San Francisco can weil judge of the fitn of this Sherman to act as an ar- biter by the statement he made this evening: “I would not believe a priest under oath.” Certainly the Rev,Mr. Ross must have prayed bit and bridle to bind fastSherman’s jaw er he heard that confession. “I would not ieve a priest under oath,” and yet the fraud ed up his hand to heaven and swore to do justice in & controversyin which a priest was concerned.. “I wounld not believe a priest un- der oath.”” Let the statement stand on recod as 10 the temper of Donald Ross and bis un- biased judge. SHERMAN'S FALSEHOODS, The Monitor denominated Sherman as the most conscienceless liar from Alaska to Terra 10l Fuego. Sherman gave evidence this even- ing of that journals discrimination. I have 1o time, Mr. Editor, to enlarge on the matter, +let me take up a few of his statements and characterize them as they deserve. FALSEHOOD NoO. 1. Sherman says that ‘hf Jesuits killed Abra- am Lincoln, This is a lie, herman ‘s’ay: Wilkes Booth received the racrament from Bishop Spanlding. Another Sherman says Booth wore a Catholic medal around his neck, A third lie. Lct me state here that the official records of the trial showed just what was on Booth's iy when he was killed. There was no medal. it there were letters from the native place ot nald Ross, showing that the plot was hatched where D. Ross hlp{mnzd o be born. o cut a long story short, let me repeat a few ts on which Bherman ml(hz.’por‘x&er,u he sonder on enything except Jesuits. sident Lincoln was murscred on the 14th of April, 1865, at the theater, by an actor numed J. Wilkes Booth, who entered the box, £hot the President through the head, crying: “Sic semper tyrannis—the South s avenged.” Nowhere in standard works, neither in the Briush nor American encyclopedias, do we find any charge that the Catholic church had thing to 4o with tke foul murder. he great biography of Lincoln by J. G. Nico- eana John Hay, in ten velumes, has not °n an insinuetion about the charge. . The official acts bearing on the entire sub- ject nave been published under the title, *“The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators,” compiled and ar- renged by Ben Pittman, recorder to the com- mission, “Yet in them all there is not a single charge against the Catholic church. The murderer, J. W. Booth, was of English descent, uud his feraiiy were Episcopalians. Herrold’'s whole family for at least twenty- ) e scene pr Monday night wh viile, Oregon, X ¥ « 16 by i n five years before the assassination hed been Eommgnicnnu of Christ’s Episcopal Chureh, ast Washington. During his entire incarcer- atenaupl the hour of his execution he was ohpnded by the Rev. Dr. Olds, pastor of that Atzerodt boasted only of his atheism. ¢ ITE. Surratt was the only Catholi e judgment of thopsands of Amer zens she was entirely innocent of any acy to murder President Lincoln. and on an eiti- ouspir- To clinch these facts allow me to copy a let- ter signed by John G. Nicolay, one of the blographers of Lincoln. It is in‘answer to an ‘\E‘oqr"kl_rf sent by the Rev. P. Guldner of New WasHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3, 1894. My Dear Sir: 1 have not before auswered your letter of October 30 because I wished first Lo consult my colleague, Colonel Hay, who has gt;t‘r; absent’ from the city until within a few To your first question, whether in our studies on the life of Lincoln we came upon the charge “that the assassination of President Lincoln Wwas the work of the Jesuits,” we answer that we have read such a charge in a lengthy news- paper publication. g 0 your second question, viz., “If you did come across it did the accusation seei to be entirely groundless?” we answer, ‘Yes; it seemed g0 entirely groundless as not to merit any atteation on our part.’ Yours truly, JoHN G. NICULAY. FALSEHOOD NO. Sherman brings out the old fiction about Churubusco and gives himself as witness. In Answer permit me to offer the following letter. Wwhich proves that Sherman is like Ross and the truth is not in him: WAR DEPARTMENT, ADIUTANT-G AL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. Mr. Philip 0'Ryan, 529 Clay street, Sa cisco, Cal—SIR: In reply o your inquiry of the 25th ult., 1 have the honor to say 1o record is made of the religious aenomina- tions to which enlisted men of the army be- long; that in the capture of the conventat Churubusco, Mexico, August 20. 1 12 prisoners were taken, and the official repor of the assault and capture do not show that any deserters from the United were among the prisoners capiured spectfully, J. C. GILMORE, Assistant Adjutant-General. FALSENOOD XO. 3. Sherman then introduced that great and good man, Chenequy, who, he said, led forty thousand Catholics from Romanism to Protest- antism. Of course he was lying as usual. He did not tell that Chenequy nad been sus- pended, had been turned out of his office for bad coniduct. He did not tell that he was ex- pelled from the Protestart synod of Chicago for fraud. He not tell that the whole Presbyterian body rejected him, He 1s indeed a fit witness for Sherman and hisilk. FALSEHOOD NO. 4. Sherman then read a long rigmarole about Bishop Foley and a certain Stephen R. Moore, 1 wish to say here that the thing is a pure fab- rication. Moore is a bigot 0f the Sherman stripe, and when the Rev. T. O'Sullivan of Chi- cago called npon him 1o substantiate his state- ments he admitted that no such records could be found in the court. I hereby challenge the whole matter as an outrageous iraud, and I demand Sherman’s proos. DONALD ROSS. S0 much for Sherman the unbiased, now for Ross. His beautiful mixture of who’s and whicl'’s has complete disdain for the cumber- some rules of syntax, his_unproveked assaults on the Queen” lish all mark the devotee of the I olhouse. But I have no time to waste on Ross’ person- ality. Let us see what he does with the propo- sitions. He opens with the startling statement that he never used them. They were inserted in the Chronicie report by some concealed Jesuit, presumsbly John P. Young. 1f so, how is it they were printed also in the American Patriot? How is it D. Ross never came out like a man to deny that he used them? He imagined he could get a little no- toriety end cash out of the defense of them, and now, when he finds they are indefensible, he would repudiate them. MY CHALLENGE. My challenge consisted of two parts: 1.'That_these propositions were not to be found in Roman Catholic publications. 2. That the substance of these propositions Wwas mot to be found in Roman Cetholic pub- lications, I—PROPOSITIONS ARE NOT FOUND IN CATHOLIC PUBLICATIONS. | These four propositions were read by Ross as taken from Roman Catholic publications. In their campaign literaiure the A. P. A. spread them broadeast over the country as genuine expressions of Catholic teaching. In Josiah Strong’s book, “Our Country,” they | e quoted from an “Encyclical.” Yet Mr. Editor. the four propositions are forgeri 3d Donald Ross knows it. He knows it, because Josiah Strong admits in the second edition of his book that he was mis- led. ile knows it, because he had athand the copy of the original propositions, which were manipulated 1o produce these forgeries. He knows that hecould not find these propo- sitions in any Roman Catholie publication, nd-therefore be has not produced any Roman Cstholic publication, even though he has had a quarter of & year to search. CONDEMNED PROPOSITIONS. In order to explain the four propositions let i me tell how the forgery was commitied The Catholic church has the mission of teach- ing truth. This mission was ziven her by our Lord when he said “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel.” This mission the church exercises in _two ways; first, by asserting the truth; second, by condemning error. Thus she proclaims there is only one God. She condemns the statement that there are less than seven sacraments. When the church condemns error she gener- ally takes the error as expressed by those who teach it. She selects a sentence from the works of erroneons writers which sums up their faise teaching and she says, “Such a sentence is wrong.” These sentences are cailed “Corn- demned propositions.” Now, therefore, when we wish to find ont what is the positive truth taught by the church | we have to consider these propositions very carefully. Those who are famlliar with logic know that the contradiction of propositions is a matter which requires very delicate hand- ling. 93 for instance, we find a condemned proposition stating -t is lawiul for a man to marry two wives.” The illogical man would at once jump to the conclusion that the doc- trine which the church teaches is, “It Is not lawful for a man to marry two wives.” But| such wouid not be the mind of the church. The proposition is condemned because of its vagne nnd general character. And it js just as false to sey “1t is not lawful for e man to marry two wives” az it isto say “It is lawful | for & man to marry two wives.” The true teaching is: It is not lawful fora | man to marry & second wife during the life time of the first. Or, again, su demned proposition is, “It never rains in Cal fornin.” We do not contradict it by saying, | It always rainsin California.” One proposi- tion is as false as the other. The contradictory is, “it sometimes rains in California.” This assertion 1s quite true and contains the doc- trine put forward by the condemnation of the proposition. w THE SYLLABUS. Bearing this ia mind, let us see where Ross got his propositions. In 1864 a coliection of condemued propositions was published by PiusIX. This collection is called the syllabus. Now, if we turn to the syllabus, we will find the forty-second proposition to run as follows: LATIN. NGLISH, XLIL In conflictu le-| Tn the confiict between gam utriusque potesta-|the 1aws of the Lwo po tls, jus civile prevalet. |ers, the civil 1aw prevails. The proposition is s universel affirmative, and it means that always and in every case the civil law should prevall. It is precisely the same kind of a proposition as “It always rains in California.” Because of its universality it is not true. The American constitntion recognizes cases where the civil law does not prevail against the ecclesiastical. Indeed thezgim of the con- stitution is to remove from the domain of the civil law matters which might esuse a comflict. Thus, for instance, our civil law - does not pre- vail in spiritual affairs, it does not regulate the services in our churches, thesalaries of our ministers. The proposition condemned by the Pope is also condemned by our American sys- tem, THE FORGERY. Now what does Ross do? He takes this propo- sition and twists it around. He denies “it never rains in_California” by saying, “It al- ways rains in California.” Let me put the original proposition and Donald Ross’ version of the seme in parallel colums: THE ORIGINAL. R0S8' FORGERY. XLII. In aconflict be-! In a case of conflict be- tween thelaws of the two tween the ecciesiastical powers the civil law pre-(and civil powers the ec- Vails, cleslastical powers ought 10 prevail. ? Let me say that these propositions false, just as the propositions, “‘It alwi in California” and “It never rains in nie” are both false. The true Catholic teach- ing is thet in a conflict between laws of both powers justice should prevail. If the church goes outside her sphere and inferferes with the rlfhll of the state, them the eivil laws prevail. If the state goes outside her sphere and interferes with the rights of the chureh the church laws prevail. This is plain common-sense and good American teaching. Tn eivil things civil laws rule,in spiritual things spiritual laws prevail. The history of this proposition is the history of the other three. ey areall, asI intend to snow from day (o day, distorted from proposi- tions in the syllabus. They are just as false as | ment which desery: | necessary the propositions which the church condemned, and because they are false I denied that they could be found in Roman Catholic publica- tions. 1I. THE SUBSTANCE OF THE PROPOSITIONS. 1also aenied that the substance of the propo- sitions could be found in Roman Catholic pup- lications as expressions of Catholic teaching. Let us therefore see what is their substance: In the case of conflict between the eccles astical and civil powers the ecclesiastical pow- ers ought to prevs . This proposition is universal. It means that in every case of conilict between the ecclesins- tical and civil powers the former should pre- vail. 1t does not matter whether the ecclesias- tical power is & Pope or a beadle, wheneverand wherever it comes in conflict with the ¢ivil Powers the civil power must give way. It was to_produce this iden that Ross read the proposition &t the Metropolitan Temple. It was 10 produce this idea that the A.P. A, distributed the pronosition inorder to gain adherents. The church must be defamed at all costs, and the best way to defame her is to pmlcn(lhat she is sceking a supremacy over ihestate. : Now in the vain attempt to substantiate his assertion that the Catholic church is seeking such & supremecy Ross produces & mass of quotations. He gives no references; produces no books. The quotationsare boldly torn from their con- text—Wendteized in that skil'ful fashion pecu- liar to preachers. They mean nothing more than what ail Americans intend—namely, that we give to Cemsar the things that are Casar’s, and that we give to God things that are God's. The Cathoiic teaching is nothing more nor Jess than that which every American citizen Dbelieves and every American court practices. ON MARRIAGE, Ross reproduces the outrageous and vile slanders of the A. P. A, about the Catholic teaching concerning Catholic marriage. He came back to that subject in his second lec- ture. Permit me to explain at some length what we believe about marriage. MARRIAGE A CONTRACT. The key to the understandingof the Catholic teaching about marriage is to be found in the idea that marriage is & contract. A contract is defined by Webster as “The agreement of 1wo or more persons upon a sufficient consid. eration or cause to do or abstain from do some ac The Catholic dictionary says “Marr s a natural contract between man and woman.” To us, therefore, marriage is an agreement between man and woman by which they covenant to live together as husband aud wife. If we keep this definition clearly hefore us it will not be hard for us to understand the regulations of the church. THE MINISTER OF MARRIAGE. In the first place, then, &s marriage is a con- tract, it follows that the contracting parties aloné are competent to make the contract. Marrizge does not consist in appearing before any oficial of church or state. It consists solely of the agreement to live together s man and wife. Looking at the subject from a mere natural standpoint, there is no resson why this agreement should be made in the presence of witnesses or after any specified mode or in any particular place. Natural marriage is a natural contract, and simple consent is suffi- cient to form it. As soon as that consent is given the contract subsists, just as the contract of buying and selling goes ‘iato effect as soon seller accepts the terms offered by him who buys. IMPEDIMENTS. Now itis well understood that all persons are not capable of entering into contracts. The tenant to whom you lease your house has | no right to sell it, beczuse the house does not belong_to him. a certain parcel of goods for & certein price 10 one person you cannot &cli the same goods to another person. Contracts made by persons not iy their right mind or in durance have no value. Thelawsand customs of pecple hedge contracts round with many conditions, all of which must be fulfilled before the contract can be valid. Inthesame way even in natural so- ciety the contract of marnage is surrounded by conditions which must be fulfilled under | penalty of having the contract declared null and void, Conditions which must be fulfilled before the marriage contract can exist may be called e impediments or hindrances to marriage. Some of these conditions are necessary for all | contracts, some are peculiar to the marriage contract. Thus, for instance, insane persons, children, those who are not iree, who are held by force, who are temporarily deprived of t Son by drugs or drink, are incapabl Thus f tract of marriage, because, and this is peculiar to the marriage contraect, such closeness of rela- tionship injuriously affects the children who are the offspring. CLANDESTINITY. Still looking at marriage as a mere natural contract there is another cond. s notice here. said, marriage is a contract and in order to enter upon it nothing more is required than the consent of the contracting parties. Mar- riage, however, is peculiar in this that the state or community has an interest in it. For instance, the trausier of property depends a good deal on the marriage coutract and in order to obisin securily in titles it becomes to take measures to control the marriage contract. The case is precisely that of a man .who wishes to sell land. The buying and selling can in the natural way be consummated by the simple consent of the parties concerned. But the state for its own protection orders that the transaction be entered on the public records. In the same way up to a year ago in this State of California the contract of mearriage was valia without witnesses or other formalities; but at the last Legislature the State interfered and declared that in tuture the contract must be & public contract made before witnesses under the pen- alty of nullity. This condition is called the Imvediment of Clandestinity. In its highest ideal, and under the conditions of its primitive constitution, marriage is & contract which lasts until death,and it can only be made by one man with one woman, though by reason of the hardness of men’s hearts both polygamy and divorce have been allowea. Now we come to enother point of view—merriage under the Christian dis- pensation. It is the teaching of Catholic church that natural coutract of marriage to the dignity of & sacrament called matrimony. Just as he raised the natural washing with water to baptism and the natural eating and drinking to the eucharist, so he made the union of man and wife the sacramental em- blem of the unjon which exists between him and his church. We must rgmember, however, that this elevation exists dnly for Christians. For those who are outside the pale of Christen. dom}marriage is stili the mere natural contract; but for those who profess tofollow Christ's teach- ing foi baptized marriege is everand above this a sacrament which is governed by peculiar laws and regulated by the conditions imposed Christ himself. When Christ made mar- ¢ a sacrament he did not destroy its char- acter as a contract. Hence, according to Catho- lic teaching, the priest is not the minister of this sacrament. The contracting parties are the ministers. For some time before the Council of Trent the presence of any wit- wo persons related i0 each other in the 3 legree h able to make other con- n to the contract was not neces- sary for its yalidity before the church. In “other words, th> law of the church on the validity ot “contract mearriages” or ‘‘clandestine marriages” was Frcciscxy the same as that of the State of California. The same reason, however, which led the last Leg- islature to abolish “contract marriages” led the Council of Trent to abolish “clandestine marriages.”” It therefore decreed that in fu- ture marriace except in the presence of the parish priest and at least two witnesses. In order, owever, to preserve all rights the council added that this law should not be operative until proclaimed in each parish. Hence it came to pass that the law bound ouly in_countries which were Catholic, while in the new Protestant countries it has never been proclaimed. Later on, when the movements of population broughta majority of Catholies into a Protestant country or a number of Protestants into a Cathelic” coun- try, a grave difiiculty arose, This was the quéstion of marriages between Protestants, or between Catholics and Protestants, not cele- brated before the parish priest. In order to meet this diflicuity a decree was fssued which declared that the impediment of clandestinity did not bind except where both parties are Catholic. This decree holds in California, and to-day if a Catholic marries & Protestant before a minister or & Justice, though he sins grievously and gcendaiously, the church holds the marriage to be binding. Hence I may sum up the Catholle teaching on marriage in the following three proposi- tions: 1. The marriages of Protestants in California (where ‘the Cotincll of Trent binds, and & ortiori, outside of California where the Coun- cil of Trent does not bind) are valid iu the eves of the chureh. 2. The marriage of a Catholic and of a Prot- estant (even before a Justice) is a valid mar- riage in the eyes of the chureh, though we hold the Catholic party commits grave sin, 3. No marriage is invalidated by the Coun- cil of Trent in America, except the marriage of two Catholics. As both the contracting pariies are Catholics they are supposed to obey the laws of the church. 1f they don’t llke these Jaws they gasetont But "they eannot })_e Catholics and still violate Catholic discip- ine. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, let me refer toa wonderful discovery of D. Ross. He states that the Pope read a certain document to 265 cardinals. Why did he not make it 365 while he was about ii? This example of egregious lx{naruncu is a fair judge of the caliber of Don- ald Ross. What he says of me (pereonn“y does not trouble me much;- He said, however, that he had a priest helping him in this controversy. [ hereby brand him as a malicious liar. No priest has helped him in this controvery. He has, however, consorted with & inan who was once a Catholic--a ot and a fautor of thieves; but he is no more a priest than Donald Ross is, and to all the aid this befuddled ingrate can afford D. Ross is welcome. It becomes & slan- derer to consort with thieves. Of course there is some excuse for Ross’ pro- fanity and vulgarity. He has fallen awfully flat, and no wonder his vanity isinjured. An 1f you have agreed to deliver | ng the contract of marriage because | y are incapable of making any contract. | the | Christ _elevated the | no one could make a valid contract of | |t | —ought to have dc , are not ailowed to enter on the contract | | the Py ion or impedi- | Aswe have | office boy, who now and again dips into-poetry, hins delivered himself of the following jingle; which summarizes the situation and the feel> ings of D. Ros: Nowfonald Ross of Douglass street He lifted up his voice, And when ne lifted up that same His sayings were not cholce, And all he said i cannot tell, TFor Donald no lamb; His epith ere rousiug hot, His phra an as they ought not With a di a — For Donald Ross of Douglass street Was sad nd sore, alack ! As sad and sore as \when a man its down upon a tack. For he sat down upon the Pope (Whom 1 » Lord amend); And only then did he find out What L had often heard about— That Fopes and tacks, without a doubt, Possess a business end. For Donald Ross of Douglass street, He stood right up and said The archives of the Pope 1seen, And all his secrets read. Now I prodnce before you here Four things he's going 10 do; As sure’s my name is Douald Ross, The Pope will come the Seas across, And all our 1nstitutions boss And turn our noses blue. Morcover all his bloody priests And other Irish Micks, Are trying to subdue this land By cunning little tricks, For they is putting Rome’s red hand Into the public purse, And if a patriot says them nay Erects his ears and brays his bray As I am doing here to-day. ‘And ofc have dope in Canada “They smite him with their curse, Besides, I tell yez, patriots true, He'll massacray us allz He will not spare or age OF sex: He'll slay both great and smail; The papists all are acn Our country for to tak So rouse ye quick, me I Me Scandinavian y Canucks and Finns make l0ls of nolse And sce the papists quake. All these predictions, patriot Are wrote down in & book, And here’s that book 10T yez to see, So close yo es and fook. And if there’s any doubis my word, "This book is here to show And prove right out that Rome’s red hand 1s stretched forth to grab this land; To squeeze our gallant patriot band And lay our banner low. Yours traly, P.°C. YorgE. POSTSCEIPTUM. The second act of the comedy shows D. Ross roving that the Pope and the priests ought to gn\'e dominion over temporal affairs. I re- merk with much surprise that Dr. Ross has steered clear of the sylinbus and has prac- tically confessed that he could mot find the second proposition in Koman Catholic pub- lications. 2 Let meé explain, as briefly as I can, the origin of this second proposition. Tne twenty-seventh proposition of the syllabus runs as follows, in Latin and English: XXVIL Sac The sacred Jesia ministers minisuri Ko que of the church and the pontitex ab o um Roman Pontiff should be temporatium cura ac entirely excluded from dominio sunt omnino ail administration and exciudendi. ownership of temporal |things. 2m” means not dominion ntence was written wut the Pope and the The word “domini but ownership and il by & man who though | priests had no right to own even the coats on their backs. When, however, D. Ross got hold of the Deup osition. he treated it as he did the fourth. To show the unblushing character of the forgery I will put the translation and the misrepresen- tation in parallel columns. The sacred min; The Pope and the of the church and the priests osght to have Roman Pontiff should be dominion over temporal entirely excluded from affairs. all_administration ~and ownership of temporal This, then, wes the st the country. It means Pope and the priests ¢ ement spread all over as it stands that the wht to run everythin; on over temporal af fairs. D. Ross 10w comes with more of his evisceraied quotations to prove that the Pope aud the priests persecuted, that marriage is a sacrament, that the of Rome belongs to pe. Even supposing that all this was true, \\'fmt in th of common-sense has it to do with & general assertion that the Pope and the priesis ought to have dominion over temporal affairs? The Catholic teaching about dominion over temporal affairs 1 have explained time and time again. The church and the state are two separate societies, One denls with spiritual affairs; the other with temporal affairs. The dominion over temporal affaizs belongs to the civil authority, not to the Pope or the priests. This s Catholic doctrine. Itis also American doctrine. No wonder Ross was afraid to face three law- yers who would not be deceived by the spurious and irrelevant matter which he ‘inticts upon those who pay two bits to be humbugged. No wonder he preferred to engage in & debato in- stead of producing his prooss, In conclusion let me reiterate my assertion that Ross is not helped by a priest. He says he does not know what a “fautor” of thieves means. Let him sell some of his wonderful Catholie books and buy a dictionary. He will there sce that fautor means ‘‘one who gives | countenance or support,” “a favorer,” and | seeing he will understand what I mean by saying that the fuddled renegade who runs with him is a fautor of thieves. WARDALL ON POPULISM, The Chairman of the State Cen- tral Committee Diagnoses the Party. UNION WITH THE SILVER MEN, The Leader’s Views on the Necessities and Prospects of the Populist Faction. E. M, Wardall of Los Angcles, chairman of the Populist State Central Committee, yesterday gave an exposition of the condi- tion and hopes of the Populist party. He has just returned from a six weeks’ tour of the East, during which he has attended officially, as a representative of the party in California, the meeting of the Populist National Central Committee in St. Louis January 17 and the supreme council of the Farmers’ Alliance held on February 2. He wasa member of a special committee sent from St. Louis to the silver conference at Washington on January 22. During his Eastern trip he met with the State Reform Press Associa- tion of 1llinois, gt Cnicago, January 11, stoppved in many cities and talked with many people and spent a day with Gover- nor Waite at Denver. So he arrived here last Saturday fresh from fountains of political information. When asked yesterday for the sum of his impressions and an opinion on the party in this State, he talked as follows: The party i in good condition. We are con- fident of big gains this year on our own ac- count irrespective of any afliliation with the silver men or other reform elements. There are 1o factions in our party anywhere as there are in all other parties, and {t'is in a growing condition. AtSt. Louis we invited all friends of mone- tary reform to meet with us in St. Louis at the time of our National Convention, July 22, and by subsequent Aghrzement the silver men will meet there at the seme time. There will be separate conventions and each conyventiorf will adopt platforms expressive of its own viewson the silverand other questions, but the silver men are going to make silver their only issue. They will fight on thatquestion alone. If they adopt the money plank advocated at the con- ress, it will embrace the full money question: First, the unlimited coinage of silver irrespect- ive of international agreement; second, the Government shall issue all paper money with- out the intervention of banking corporations; third, opposition to the issuance of interest. pearing bonds in times of peace. It will fayor the issuance by the Goverument of sufficient paper money 1o provide an adequate volume of currency. All thatis in harmony with our views on the money question. We will have other I)]anks in “our platform, but what they will be cannot anticipate. 1 think, however, that our National platiorm will bé more simple, direct and clear than four years ago. We will not abandon any important prineiple, but onr platform will be pruned down in comparison with our last one, I think that there will be ‘some things left ont this year, but thata plank {avoring *“‘direct legislation” will be incorpo- rated, as it was not last time. My impression is tnat our State plattorms this year will also be brief and contain little more than the National platform. 2 Ianticipate that when the Populist and Sil- ver conventions meet at St. Louis there wiil be appointed a conference committee to agree upon candidates and I do not foresee any diffi- culty in effecting such an agreement. 1t is anticipeted that the Populists and silver men will be able in many States to vote for the same Presidential electors, and to agree upon Con- gressional and legislative tickets. In snch®| cases the Populists would divide the repre- sentation with the silver men. There may and likely will be union in some States upoi State officers, but the main combination would naturally be upon electors and upon legisia- tive tickets. There is a feeling throughout our party that we are sure of carrying a pumber of States without any assistance. We are particularly strong in Texas, North and South Carolina, Alabama ana Georgia, and we expect to be able to carry those States. In the West we are similarly strong, in Colorado, Kansas, Ne- braska and North Dakota. Inall these States we will show greater strength then ever before and, as I say, I think we will be able to win without assistance, My impression is that the silver men are thoroughly 1n carnest and that they will go in to fight for their one principle irrespective of party, and will not be deterred irom it by any- thing. It'takes courage to do thatand Ire- spect men who will do it. In our opinion the money question rises in importance above the tariff and other questions, We now have ten representatives in Congress including the five Farmers’ Alliance Congressmen from North Carolina, and we expect to meke large Con- gressional gains in the coming campalgn. At the session of the Reform Press Associa- tion of Illinois, which I atiended, there were seventeen papers represer ted, two of which were Prohibitionist organs, and Mr. Harvey of “Coin’s Financial School’”” was there. It was unanimously decided to advocate a union of all the forces in the State advocating mone- tary reform. There will this year likely bea union everywhere 10 a large extent with the Prohibitionist element. Our principles are the same with the sole exception of prohibi- tion. Governor Waite, whom I saw, isnot a very active man now. He isan excellent man. but 100 radical to be a great success in polities. But he is & man of generous impulses and honest and true. In California our campaign will concern only Presidential electors and Congressmen, and I cannot predict what will be done here until after the conference of the silver men and Populists in St. Louis in July. Asfar as I have been able to observe theré is the best of feeling between_the Populists and silver men in this State. No party in_this State is 1n better condition than ours. It has no factions and no bosses; it is heving big accessions right aloug. Tn the last campaign our average vote on the State ticket was 60,000. Ican’tsay how biga vote we will poll this time, but my opinion is we will carry the State. The Prohibitionists in this State will vote for prohibition first and with us next. They are generally Populists, except on the point of prohibition. There are 10,000 Prohibitionists' in this State, and we wiil get at least hali of this vote for our State ticket, which we did not get before. The lead- ers of the Prohibition element this yeer favor getting the reform elements together. Then the amendments to the Australian bal- lot law passed at the last session of the Legis- lature wili give us one man in every poliing booth in the State,and that will be worth many votes to us. The amendments regarding the voting of illiterates will also give us many yotes. ThenI apprehend that the silver men in this State will not stop at Presidential elec- tors, but will vote with us for Congressional and Legislative nominees. The natural growth of the party will give us many thousand votes without any combination or reform forces, and for these reasons 1 predict that we will be strictly in it this year. Ihaven't had time yet to talk to many sil- ver men since I returned, but if the effort at combination su s at the National Conven- tions 1 subpose it will suceeed here. There will not be any great activity in the arty in this State or elsewhere before the National Convention meets, because our action will depend so largely upon the action of the National Convention. In the meantime there will be hitle talk _about the men who will be nominated at the National Convention. Our nominees there will depend largely upon the conference with the silver men, and in the meantine nobody will be boomed for office in our party. The State Central Committee held a meeting last October, at which it was decided that the State Convention should meet in Sacramento at a time to be designated by me. Within a | short time I shall issue a call fora primary and | for a meeting of the State Convention early in | May. Beyound that little will be done soo: besides the distribution ofliterature, which wi; especially consist of the speeches of Tillman and Butler. Mr. Wardall will remain in the City for | two or three days and then return to Los | Angeles. AT PRODIGIOU NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. 5 REDUCTIONS TO FORCE THEM OUT TO-DAY! The immense quantity of goods to be cleared out before the end of our sale Saturday impels us to mark down the following and many other lines TO BE FORCED OUT TO-DAY REGARDLESS OF SACRIFICE! GLOVES! closed out at 45¢ a vair. RIBBONS! be offered at 20c: 60 pieces 'ALL-SILK 5INCH DRESDE offered at 25¢. LADIES’ be offered at 50c. LADIES’ WAISTS, made of fancy lawn: GLOVES! At A5 Cont . 110 dozen LADIES’ 5-HOOK AND 4-BUTTON GLOVES, dressed and undressed kid (manufacturers’ samples), colors and black, , rezular values §1and $125, will be COLORED DRESS GOODS. At 45 Conts. 120 pieces 50-INCH FINE ALL-WOOL LADIES’ CLOTH, in plain and mixed colors, RIBBONS! S __At 20 Cemnts. 50 pieces ALL-SILK 4}4-INCH STRIPED RIBBON, in assorted colors, value 35¢, will At 25 Cents. N RIBBON, entirely new, value 45c, will be MEN’S SILK HANDKERCHIEFS! At 1O Conts. 45dozen MEN'S8 JAPANESE HEMSTITCHED SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, large size, regular price 25¢, will be closed out at 10c each. EMBROIDERIES! At 1O Coeonts a Tard. 3000 yards CAMBRIC. NAINSOOK AND regular value 2(c, will be placed on sale at 10c a yard. SWISS GUIPURE EMBROIDERY, WAISTS! At SO Cents. LADIES’ WAISTS, made of fancy stripes and checks, laundried collar and cuffs, will At $1.00. dimities and cuifs, extra full sleeves, regular price §1 50, will be offered at $L. ercale, laundried collar and MURPHY BUILDING, Markal Sireat, comer of Jongs, SBATNT TTRATNCOTSOO. COOK WILL MOVE. His Courtroom Will Be Given Over to Police Judge Campbell in Future. The Board of New City Hall Commis- sioners at their meeting yesterday decided to relieve Police Judge Campbell from the burden of holding court any longer in the basement of the City Hall and to provide | him with a room on the first floor. Justice Cook signified a willingness to | move if other quarters were prepared for | him, and it was decided to give his room | to Judge Campbell. Justice Cook will be | given quarters on the second floor. | The Commissioners declined to grant | the application of J. C. Pelton, the pioneer | educator, for quarters for himself and | family in the Hall, ———-—— Oakland Opera Season. At the Macdonough Theater to-night the Tavary Opera Company will open & two days’ season with “Il Trovatore.” Guille will sing Manrico. Atthe Thursday matinee “The Bo- hemian Girl” will be sung and on Thursday evening “Carmen,” with Thea Dorre in the | title role, | NEW TO-DAY, CRGARETTE SUCKERS. Men Get Roped Into All Kinds | of Skin Games. The Worst Roped Man Is the Cizlre“e‘ Smoker—Robbed of Heaith and Man- | hood, His Most Precious Possession. “Say, where| a’you get that cof- | fin nail, Chim-| mey?”’ | “On, I caught it on the fly from de | guy on de corner.” Aud the twolittle bootblacks — G o d bless ’em, they didn’t know any better—sat on the | curb and smoked | the cigarette out of | sight. Ve often wonder when we sec and hear such things | how the other haif | of the world lives, especially when so many spend their money, and, worst of all, their vital- ity, in smoking cigarettes. If you don’t think cigarettes, in fact any form of tobacco-using, hurts you, watch the ‘cigar- ette-smoker who has induiged the habit for some time. See how his hands tremble; the anxious look on his face tells of irregmlar heart-beat; his nervousness betrays itselfin a @dozen ways. 1f you are a cigarette-smoker you are never fee}ing quite at ease unless you are puffing a stinking hittle nerve-wrecker. Don’t you want release? Dor’t you want just a few months with a pure, sweet breath, improved health, vigoro manhood? See what No-To-bac has done for others—will ao for you: v CURED IN LESS THAN A WEEK. OAKLAND, Cal,, No. 1821 Market st., Augus) 20, 1895, Sterling Remedy Co.: 1 bought & box of No-To-Bac three weeks ago. from your agents here—Kirklend & Trowbridce— and it cured me (n less than one week, since which time 1 have recommended it to several otners. and have induced at least half a dozen to begin the treatment, all 02 whom say it is helping them. I weighed 155 pounds when I began the treat- ment and now 1 weigh 163—a gain of 8 pounds within three weeks. I am 24 vears of aze and have used cigarettes and chewing tobacco since I was 12 years of age, SImoking on &n average for the last five years of about 25 ci.arettes a day. Yours respectfully, EDW. J. DONNELLAN. You need not take our word for it, nor do we sell No-To-Bac on the recommendation of others. Simply buy from your own druggist, under absolute guarantee, and you run no | risk. Get our booklet, “Don’t Tobacco Spit | and Smoke Your Life Away,” written guaran- tee of cure and free sample, mailed for the :00, | Between RAILRCAD TRAVEL! LOW RATES BY RAIL PORTLLANIDI, OR. FRIDAY. _FEBRUARY 28, And Every Fifth Day Thereafter, Leave from 8. P. Co.’s Ferry landing, foot of Market st., at 8:00 . x. —Including Berth in Pullman Tourlss LALSO.... First-class tickets, including berth in Pullman Standard Sleeper, Sleeper. $15:00 SPECIAL NOTICE. This traln will not stop to deliver or take on pae. sengers at intermediate stations, nor will tickets ba sold or baggage checked to such points. 8%~ Through Tickets for Puget Sound Ppoints on Sale at Reduced Kates. For further information apply at 613 MARKET STRELT (Grand Hotel Ticket Office), San Francisco, RICHARD GRAY, T. H. GOODMANX Gen, Traflic Mgr. Gen. Pass. A'gt SANFRANCISCO & NORTH PA- (IFIC RAILWAY (0. Tiburon Ferry—¥oot of Market St. ©o San Rafael. San Francisc: DAYS—T:40, R S 12:35 , 5:10, 6:30 P. X Thursdays—Extra trip aturdeys—Extra trips as 1:30 P 4 8:00. 9:30, 11:00 a. M 1:80, 3: 5:00, 6:20 P. at. o San Rafael to San Francisco. WEEK DAY 9:30, 11:10 A. w.; 12:45, 8:40, Saturdays—Extra trips &t 1:55 p. M. and 6:35 P. M. SUNDAYS8:10, 9:40, 11310 . 20 1:40, 3:40, : . an Fran schedule as &l WEEK 3: 0 and Schuetzen Park same Arrive Sneffect | san Francisos. ve San Francisco. WEEK | SUN- Sus- | Week Davs. | pavs, |Destimation| v | Doy 7:40 AM|8:00 A¥| Novato, |10:40 Ax| 8:50 AX 30 P 9 | Petaluma, 5 P3| 10:30 an 6:10 Pax|5:00 P3| S2nta Rosi.| 7:50 px| #:15 rx Fulton, 'mnml Windsor, 10:80 ax Healdsburg, Geyserville, 8:30 »ar{8:00 axt| Cloverdale! | 7:30 px| 6:15 px Pieta, Hopland & 7:40 00 4x| Ukiab. | 7:30 px| 6:15 P 7:40uI g 10:30 ax 8:00 Ax|Guerneville. | 7:30 n‘ 3:30 P 7:40 AM|8:00 Ax| Sonoma | 6:10 Px 5:00 P3| and | Glen Ellen. T:AOAMI800 A% | sopastopol. Stages connect at San Rafael for Bolinas. Stages connect at Cloverdale for the G & rs. tages connect at Pleta for Highland Springs, Kelseyville, Lakeport. Stages connect at Uklah for Vichy Springs, Blas Lakes, Laurel Dell, Upper Lake, Booneville, Green- 0od, Mendocino City, Fort Bragg, Usal, Westport, Cahto, Willetts, Calpella, Pomo, Potter Valley, John Day’s, Lively's, Gravelly Valley, Harris, ~Scotia and Enrexa. Saturday to Monday round-trip tickets at reduced Tates. On Sundays round-trip tickets to all points be- yond San Rafael at haif rates. Ticket Offices, 650 Market gt., Chronicle building. H.C. WHITING, R.X. RYAN, Gen. Manager. _ Gen. Pass. Agent. NORTH PACIFIC COAST RAILROAD (Via Sausalito Forry). ¥rom San Francisco, beginning Octoker 27, 1895. WEEKDAYS. For Mill Vallev and San Rafael—7:30, 9:15, 11:00 A 1:45, 3:45, 5:15, 6:50 P2t Ban Quentin—7:30, 9:15'A. 3. 1:45, 5:15 ». a. Extra trips for San Ratael on Mondays, Wednes ‘days and Saturdays at 11:30 P. . SUNDAYS. For Mill Valley, San Rafael and San Quentin— 8:00, 10:00, 11:30 A. x.; 1:30, 3:00, 4:30, *6:15 P.M. *Uoes not run Lo San Quentin. THROUGH TRAINS. 7:50 A. M. weekdays—Cazadero and way stations. 45 P. x. Saturdays—Tomales and way stations. 8:00 A. 3. Sundays—Point Reyes ana way statioas B;ja Cali;‘orhia Damiana Bitters 15 a powerul aphrodisiac and specific tonic for the sexual and urinary organs of hoth sexes, and & t remedy for diseases of the kidneys and biad- er. A great Restorative, Invigorator and Nervine, Sells on its own Merits—n0 long-winded tesiic monials necessary. asking. Address The Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. NABER, ALFS & BRUNE, Agents, 323 Market St., S. ¥,—(send for Circular.) | | q19:08p “Sunset Liited, RAILRCAD TRAVEL!. 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M 4180p Niles, San Jose, Livermo; tockton . 5:00p San Leandro, 8:301 New Oricans Lxprecs, Iresuo, Bakers Tos Angeles, w Orleans an :00r for Moja¥ g 10:434 8:00¢ Furopeau Mail, Ogden 5a 0p Haywards, Niles and San Jose. T:4Ba 0r Valicjo . 17:45p 7100 Oregon ville, Rtedding, Portland Sound and Eas ...... 7:00r San Leandro, Haywardsé: 9:00P San Loandro, Heywardsk Way " Frewno, Los les, El Paso, New Orlcans & H and Kast. | 44103287 8an Leandro, Haywards & 154 SANTA CRUZ DIVISION (Narrow Gauge). 8:15A Newark,Centerville,San Jose, Feltor Boulder Creek, Santa Cruzand Way Stations........ #3:15p Newark, Centerville, San .jose, Now Alinaden, Felton, Boulder Creek, Sauts Cruz and Principal Way Station: S50 *11:204 9:504 i y7:900 wnsend Sts.) 1:452 :454 Ban Joso and Way Btations (New Almaden Wednesdays only),... $:184 San Joso, Tres Pinos, Banta Pacilic Grove, Paso’ Robler, San Luls Obispo, Guadalupe aud Prin- tations 20:404 San Joso and Way Station A4S P 30 San Jose and Way Station: 301 San Joso aud Way Stations 51 San Joeo and Way Station: CREEK ROUTE FERRY. From AN FRANOISOD—Poot of Market Street (Slip 8)— +7:16 9:00 11:00a.M. $1:00 2 ;i *:00 2500 *6:00par. S drom OAELAED—Foot of Broxdway.,— 10:00 800 10:00A.m. $12:00 *1:00 2 o e $2:00 0 3400 A for Morning. -smufiixé'{,"ua;s St undays Monday, Thursd: a Y flun;:mrd nmymfl.&wnhy:flumu RAILROAD Tralns leave from and arrlye 8 Market-Street Fegry. SANTA FE EXPRES To Chicago via A. & P. Direct Line Leaves every day at 3:30 P. 3, carrying Pullman Palace Sleepers and Touriss Sleepers to Chicagy via Kansas City without change. Annex Cars Denver and St. Louis. CHICAGO LIMITED, From Los Angeles to Chicago. Solld Vestibule Train Daily, with Dining-cars, under unfi"v”ey.‘g ‘management. Connecting traing leave San Francisco at 9 a. . and 3:30 e, 3. daily. The best railway from California to the East, New ralls, new ties; no dust: interesting scenery; and good meals in Harvey’s dining-room or dinings ArS. Ticket Offico—644 Market Street, o Chroniclo BuilGing,.