The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WEDNESDA Y, MARCH 4, 1896. 11 (A voice—Why, you.) ‘e, of course. “In ‘case of conflict between you and me I say you ought to wi statement here, because he says that in case the church and the government oppose each other ihe church says, ‘Oh, the government ought to win.” Itis hardly necessary, Mr. Editor, to com- ment on this extraordinary and Judicrous de- scription ofmy denial. When I deny the state- ment that il never snows 1o sensibie person supposes that the present rations of ition of things in our State. CASES OF CONFLICT, When we bear in mind that the ‘‘civil pow- rs"’ are civil governments or civil institutions T persons iuvested with civil suthority, and c al powers” are church ¢ church insttutions or ecclesi. we can well imagine that many may 0cc: There might be a een the United Statss Govern- ¢ whoie church, there might be a dispute between o parish aad & county, there ght be e between & Bishop 'and a Mayor, there might be a row between a police- nan and a sexton. According to the proposi- all these cases, the United §i TATHER YORKE REPLIES TO ROSS He Declares the Church Does Not Want Temporal Power. el ol METHODS OF THE A. P.A. m - , the cou yor and the police- The Priest Says They Are s Ghosid quiets snd submissively step | F d 3 Eati i make room jor the ecclesiastical ent a raudulent and Entirely P. A. can see the absurdity of | Un-American. vidently D. Ross saw 1t | ng to prove the sub- n he neglected all al and civil powers and con- i« attention on tne legislaiive triumphantly declared that he had point when he discovered a quota- said thatin a confiict of laws the cival law should give Wey. A SPECIMEN. s his last ditch. He hasgiven up the cla he took the propositions out of Catholic publications. He has abandoned the attempt 1o prove the substance of the state- me He hopes, however, that i he can show one case in which the e 1astical prevails ivil he has won his point. n and his first proof I give wonderful words they are: epeaking of the ehurch The state is only an in THE POPE AND THE PRESIDENT. Meaning of the Quotations Made by | the Leader of the American Protective Association. second letter 1n reply to the Metro. 1 politan Hall lectures of the Rev. Donald cive the law ffom the M. Ross, champion of the A. P. A., the il ;1‘“3\3%{“;5 Jliable to t between one power supreme court and the perior court, the superior whose judgment shall be Rev. P. C. Y dgments and whose weight, and the other Yet Bronsox declares that :preme court and the siate 0 Place them thus against ,wing at ouce the supreme e church ought to prevail, and has lterins lecisions of the gov- e when those decisions reh.” ownson is talking about. 1igh heaven that he was and that be strove in every t of the writer. Let u is speaking not of but of the His thesisis Ty on em- commonwesalths, as upon politicians es In other , kings, prine: private individua or simple believers.” teal than an individual, and ian is as much bound to be hon- ie merchsnt in business. pose that any one will serio on. v has the right to si and ¢ 1sors are viola g certain adver 'y, he ims for the churc. n, Whose duty is it to re are we o for preis the Bible 1o 2 actions, and he claims 7, {0 rebuke when rs 100k it into their heads to ng was lawiul Dr. Case would med with his ble L laration of the 3 pd in his own words he would “ery 1d and spare not.” N ditor, would any one think. that, heppened, Dr. Case was Consti- p ayor or a me court over the Board of Super- d any sensible man refer to Dr, usive proot that the g 10 gobble up the but then the nu; they are joining elieved these calu as proof fation, it is true, is somewhat long, but I am adept in the art of seizing two or three it of the aut! e holds un r: der the law of nature, As long as e thiully its provisions r nights he without ecclesiastical restraint the Metropolitan pt to produce the £ nee = o & [BEIORIAA O e. But the church holds from de no attem - )ns a3 they were priz ¥ ludes, es integral in its fe thus admitted thai when sent | nature, and is, thereore, the teac] 1ization they were forgeries. | guardian of the natural as well &s of the re- and the other dark-lantern vesled law. She is, under God,the supreme judge of both laws, which for her are but one law; and, hence, she takes cognizance in her tribunals’of the breaches of the netural law as e God and mau guil r neigh v of bear- That is Peter C. Yorke’s | in California | weather-man are the normal | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 en argument and presenting them as | hown th well s of the revealed, and has the right to . Lo ke o e 0f its breaches by nations &s | P book, *“O s Lreaches individuals, by the | as well as by subject, for it is the su- law for toth. The state is, therefore, 1 inferior court, bound to receive the law from the supreme court and liable to have decisions reversed on appeal. 5 be asserted if we assert the su- tian law aud hold the church to be its teacher and judge, forno man deny thet Christianity includes the natu- ral as well as the supernatural law. Who with t conceptions or any conceptions at all Christian religion will pretend that one 1 the Christian law and yet violate been misiec scknowledge ath: e loyal ru ,and that it ing. for &an oppor- he precepts of the church though ery precept of the decalogue,or that y the catechumen to the of nature, or what 0 1n s the at these cher and guardian of faith and Jorals— can no more be o without plenary au- thority with regard to the latter then to the former. Who, again, dares pretend that the law is not es obligatory on emperors, and commonwealths as npon {ans as upon wien it hat organization n Americs and every land under the sun, v nt under the sun, thers d-out into America the dregs if only they are Cathelics, there is sn anger showing the difficulty of Ameri- zing those whose oath of allegiance even | s not bind them.” [Applause.] 1 intend now to take up the quotations which \e produced from Catholic authorities and v what their true meaning is and how D. has tried to make dishonest capital outof | ¥ as expounded by the e ¥ » We igped hardly say that we advocate no amelgamation of the civil and ical sdministrations; they are in ure, a3 we have said, distinct, and the of the church which we assert is by supremacy of the clergy as politi- We heve no more respect for clergymen b THE FIRST LECTURE For reasons best known to himself D. Ross treated the fonrth proposition first. 2 “In case of conflict between ecclesiastical civil powers the ecclesiastical ougnt 1o vaii.” E hough he claimed to have a large library of books and tbough he gquoted from ten he never attempted to produce that stands. class of politicians of equal worth, perhaps not | quite o much; for we cannot forget that they in becoming politicigns descend from their sacerdotal rank asa judge does in descenaing from the bench to play the part of an advocate. We have had political priests ever since there was a Christian siate, and many of them have made sed work of both politics and religion. We have nothing to say of them but that they were politicans, and their censurable acts were not performed In their character of priests. The principle, we assert, does not exact that n roposition as it did he produce the substance of 11? Let » what is the substance. A power is de- Webster as “an individual invested an insiisution or governmeat | ¢ reises control.” The “civil powers” | re civil governments or etvil insti- | r persons invested with civil au- The ecclesiastical powers are church | orehur itutions or person ith church authority. The Droposi: ver there is & conflict e church become the state, or that the should turn_politicia: he and they should not. The clergy as politicians fall into the category of all poliucians, and their supremacy as politi- cians would still be the supremacy of the state, not of the church. The state is es thet whenever . supreme, if politicians as such be supreme, let pject whatse between any ecclfii them be selected from what clags of the com- power and an 1 power the civil | pyupjty they may. The principle exacts in- t always ster aside and make Toom | qeed the supremacy the clergy, but solely as the church in their sacerdotal and pastoral charecier as teachers, guardians and judges of the law of God, patural and revealed, subreme for individuals and natiops, for prince and subject, king and commorniwealth, nobie and | plebtan, rich and poor, greet ana small, wise | and simple; not as politicians, in which char- acter they have and can have no pre-eminence over D ians selected from the laity, and wmust stand on the same level | with them. We do not advocate—far from it— | the notion that the church must administer t | the civil government. What wedo advocate is her supremacy as the teacher and gnardian of the law of God as the supreme court, which must be recognized and submitted to as such by the state, and whose decisions cannot be disregerded, whose greronuves cannot be | abridged or usurped by any power on .earth without rebellion against the divine majesty and robbing msn of his rights. As Christians we must insist on this supremeey; asCatholics it is not only our duty but our glorious privi lege to assert it, and to understand ard pra tice our religion es God himself through his swn chosen organ promulgated and expounds it ~You see then, Mr. Editor, what Brownson’s church. D. ROSS’ VERSION. sion of the substance of the on is curious and instructive. I copy er that it may be preserved uuic erations: ween the ecclesinstieal celesiastical ought to | In case of powers th Catholic_chureh. 2 cog atholic o preva - Yorke says that in case of confiict urch and the government the ©S N0y say that the chureh ought to ; Look at it for Sye minutes. In case Peter - Yorke and I should so far forget onrselves as to take gurcoats nfltnndkge: into conflict—inink do you tnink ought ceord- ing to Peigr C, Yorke, . S to Wit 40K law?—that one i3 a good Christian | ly commissioned to teach and | turned politicians thau we have for any other | h should turn politicisn, and thus | 1t exacts that | | | cisions of the willof the | emonsirating that & state has no | | egree with him, that it is brutal eynicism to | Now he Lolds that | right to teach this moral | it is br very Sundey-school in the ses this right and every | Dr. Case gets into his pulpit | teaching is. There is such a thing as_the moral law, That law is independent of the is above the state. The state doesnot ke itand the state is not the judge of it. The judge of the moral law is either the in- dividual conscience or the organized con- science known as the church. When, there- fore, Brownson attributes to the church what every Protestant claims for hjmseli, how absurd it is to say that the church'is seeking to crush the state under its heel, or that the church claims the right of altering the de- | cisions of the government of the state, when those decisions overnment. You can see, too, the absolute honesty of D. Ross and his ” the soi-disant Major Sher- men. He had all this quotation befcre him. He had read Brownson’s reiterated statements that he did not believe in the church interfer- ing with the eivil power. He knew the opin- | fons expressed of clerical politicians, yet he suppressed all these things, no doubt, to get the true spirit of the author. He had time in his lectures to repeat the same old quotations ‘three or four times, yet he had no time for a few sentences which would expiain Brown- son’s meanings. No wonder it took him three months (o‘%:k out & word here and a word there to ake capital against Catholicity. He ook & sentence which by itself is misleading, and to make it the more misiesding he put an interpretation on it which he knew was false. CARDINAL MANNING. Ross’ next argument seems to be an estray. Logically it belongs to the third proposition, but D. Ross did not bother much about logic. As long as he flung chunks of quotationsat the public he imagined the right effect was pro- duced. D. Ross should remember that all the people in San Francisco are not by their siu- Pidity eligible for the A. P. A. Let me give the quotation and Ross’ own words as they appear in the stenographio Te- port. 1 must confess I cannot say whether the reporter or Ross slipped & cog, but the sen- tences are rather enigmatical. However, one can gain an adumbration of what he means: “Speaking of the laws of Germany, under Bismarek, Manning quotes these wor ‘And now the Berlin Government it is said, is about to attempt to impose on every bishop the fol- lowing oath’: “Just let us look at the oath and see how reasonable it is. ‘The bishops are henceforth to swear obedience o the laws of the country, t0 bind themselyes by oath to exhort the clergy and the laity to be loyal to the Emperor, patri- otic and obedient to the laws &nd not to per- mit the clergy under their control to teach or &ct in opposition to these prineiples.” “Manning says of that attitude of the Berlin Government this: ‘The cynicism of that oath is as clear as day.” Isthatnotconflict between the church and between the state? Meanning, the authority of the church, says that they ought not to be put to the bishops, but that they cught to be free, absolutely free to do as they pleased.” Now 25 a matter of fact Manning says no such thing and D. Ross knows it. Manning is epeaking of definite laws and what is more he describes them: ““The result, then, of these laws is that no | ‘official function,’&s the Berlin Government puts it, that is no spiritual act from the ex- communication of & her down to the teach- ing of the catechism to school childrex performed without the sanction of t power uuder pain of fine or impris this failing, of deposition. President of Posen has already called on the ‘Archbishop of Posen 1o resign his archbishopric for numerous offences against the Falck laws, which offenses are so many high sbiritnal duties. If he refuses to resign within eight days he is to be cited before the royal tribunal of Berlin. The act 24 and 25, Henry VIII, made the King outright head of the church and by one stroke all jurisdiction jormerly be- longing to the Pope was transferred to the crown. This was intelligible. The Falck laws are indirect and circuitous. They compass what they donot elaim. They suspend all spirit- ual jurisdiction on the civil power and make the “sovereign absolute in the matter of religion.” Manning says. &n d every American will ask Bishops to take an oath to obey such laws One might as well ask D. Ross to take an oeth | o obey all the laws of the Catholic church or 10 an early Christian to take an oath offer incense to idols. That Manning com- mends the German Bishops for their heroic resistance to_enactments which were viola- tions of the German constitution is a pretty proof that the Bishops must always have their own way. If alawyer in this City breaks an | unconstitutional law to create a test case for | cal manhood,” the Supreme Court does his action_prove that he can ride roughshod over the civillaw ? If there had been a Supreme Court in Germany the Faick laws would not have stood ten min- | utes. The Bishops, therefore, were compelled to appeal to the court of last resort, the peo- ple, and [ am hapoy to say they succeeded in spite of Bismarck and Falck. Yours truly, P. C. YORKE. b HURGRY MAYS DENCE Thomas Williams, a Shoemaker, Breaks a Window in the City Hall. He Wanted Justice and Thought it Better to Destroy Public Property. A shabbily dressed little mar with wild, staring eyes went into the north corridor of the City Hall leading from Larkin street about 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and when he was opposite the office of the police property clerk he stopped and de- | liberately threw a cobblestone throngh one of the windows, smashing the glass in pieces. Policeman Wagner heard the crash and, running along the corridor, placed the man under arrest. “What did you do that for?" asked Wagner. “I want justice,”” was the reply, “Iam out of work and starving and don’t know where to go.” “But why did you break the window?” “Weil, I thought it was better to destroy public property than private property, as no one in vparticular would suffer by it Up to this time his reasons were intel gible, but when Wagner took him before | Captain Healy and he was asked the same questions he talked wildly about being swindled out of his worldly possessions in Sacramento four years ago by the belp of the detectives and police there. “I want justice,” he kept repeating; “for the wrongs done me, and I mean to have it.” “aptain Healy 1nstracted Wagner to take bim to the City Prison and placea charge of malicious mischief against him. He gave his name as Thomas Williams, a shoemaker, 40 years of age. WASHINGTON AT TWENTY-SEVEN The Painters of His Portraits ScarceDid Him Exact Justice. “At the time of his marriage (when in his twenty-seventh year) Washington was in the prime of his magnificent physi- writes . General A, W. Greely, U. 8. A, in March Ladies’ Home Journal. “Fortunately contemporaneous sources do not leave the description of his person to our imagination. Buch wasal- ready his exalted standing that these pen- portraits omit entirely or modify what might be thought to be defects, as for in- stance, the disfiguring facial marks from smallpox. Straight as an Indian, with limbs cast almost in a giant’s mold (he was 5 feet 3 inches tall at the time of his death), his seli-contained countenance, agreeable speech and dignified bearing made his personality most impressive. Probably half of his time at home was spent in the saddle, and thjs active out-of-door life gave him a glow of 'health and sense of vigor. We learn from his intimate friend, George Mercer, interesting details. His skin was clear aud colorless; the nose straight; the face long, with high, round cheekbones; the blue-gray and widely separated eyes shadowed by heavy brows; a Btrze. mobiie mouth, showing teeth somewhat defecuve; the muscular arms and l-go unusually long, and a well-shaped head, gracefully poised on a snperb neck. The brown hair was worn in a cue, and the small waist well set off by neatly fitting garb.” ~ . The mail of the Emperor of Japan is more than ten times as greaf as it was be- fore the war with China began. There is Lardly a city in the civitized world from which be does not receive letters. Many of his correspondents seem $o think that through him they can gain aa entrance to the Japanese market. The numberof in- ventions of all kinds offered bl? for sale is enormous.: F iffer from the decisions of the | | will of the supreme ] | OLD GLORY 0R FOREIGN FLAGS? Major T. C. Ryan's Stirring and Patriotic Ad- * dress. | RIGHT KIND OF CITIZENS Not Only Words but Deeds Necessary to Preserve } the Nation, DR. CASE ON ROMANISH. A Large Crowd Braves the Inclement Weather to Listen to the Speakers. The cold winds and sleet of last night | were not keen enough to chill the patriot- ism of the many who gathered at Metro- for genereations to come as a classic of Ameri- can patriotic literature. Cleveland said in the course of his speech, “The best of all is we educate people in America who are able to govern themselves.” He then planted his thumb on the button that set in motion the machinery of the great exposition. When this was done flags began climbing the flagstaffs, but the first flag that rose was a flag of no country—the Papal fiag; | the second, Glory. And when Isaw my flag sandwiched between these two flags I said: “Certainly history re- eats itself. A symbol of truth and purity was ikewise placed on the hill of Calvary.” ¢ Under which flag shall we live—under which shall our children live? This isa very impor- tant question. : But if there be anything atall in the signs of the times it is going to require all the effori and pover of the American people to perpetu- ate the flag in aill its glory. I go back to the time when our Government was organized. I follow our early fatihers through their ancient deeds down io the_time they made the ritish lion bow down at Yorktown. Remem- ber when Washington seid, “Put none but Americans on guard to-night.” When he said this he did mot only mean native-born Americans; he was broader than that, for many born on foreign soil are often- times more patriotic than those reared here. The foreigner is one who loves the institi tions of other lands better than our institu- tions of America. The foreign-born who be comes a citizen loves the institutions of thi land betfer than any other land ou earth. In the organization of our Government our fathers builded more wisely than they knew, yet at the same time they planted the upas iree, whose poison we now inhale. They said we should invite the inhabitant of every land to come and make & home with us. And'this was wise. All they required of these visitors was that they absolve themselves from allegiance to any foreign potentate or king. To those people who come here to educate their children and to labor for the good of our institutions are we indebted for our mighty ation. These people who came from 1789 to 1520 did not come to settle down for the good of our form of government, but rather the re- verse. So the Congress of that year (1820), discover- ing this, set & check on the incoming of people to our shores, That Congress of 1820 was & body of men who legislated not for few, but for an entire republic. , the flag of Spain; the lhird,Pld MAJOR T. C. RYAN. [Drawn from a photograph.] | lacture, given under the auspices of the | W. A. P. A. Council No. 17. The meeting was opened by the dudience singing ‘“‘America,” after which J.Mearnes played on the piano a mediey of patriotic airs. Rev. Dr. W. W. Case, acting in the capacity of chairman, introduced the speaker of the evening, Major Ryan, but before doing so made a few preliminary remarks, in which he took occasion to congratulate the A. P. A. cause on draw- | 'ngls;) large & house on such a blustering | mght. “were it not for the reason that so many of our A. P. A. friends are out digging our opponents out of the snow banks, for we | are well assured they areall snowed under. | It is well known,” he continued, *‘that we are not contending against political Romanism and Jesuitism. It is not our wish to injure the feelings | of our Catholic fellow-citizens or to stir up the bad side of human nature. Protest- ants recognize equal rights among all | classes of citizens, irrespective of creed or | color. “There are tens of thousands of Roman Catholics in San Francisco who deserve and command universal respect. “The Roman Catbolic church does not consist of these nor of the laity atall. It is composed of a lordly and tyran- nical priesthood, certain members of whom, the archbishops, own all the church ,pmperty and dictate the entire policy of the church subject to a foreigner in Italy who has never set foot on our shores, and who never will. *‘Itis the unchanging purpose of this priesthood to destroy the public school system of this country. “They must have exclusive control of the education of their children or they will lose their power over them. They live for Romanism. “T fancy the'&-iesta would wiliingly give the whole of ne Mountain could they but get the power thereby to blot out the exS_u{osures and revelations of monstrosities of Rumanism which have appeared during the h:t six months.” The speaker con- tinued: Does some one cry out, Cui bono? What good? Hasanyone been convertedito Prot- estantism? I answeryes! But that Isnot the test. The last six months has been a seed time. The seed hes been sown broadcast. Hundreds have be%un to think more closely than ever before. They will go on thinkin, and &s they think they will get light, and the light Komanism canuot flourish. Many a young Catholic is getting his eyes open, and no priesi or Pope can shut them. As a young Italian said to me the other day, “The priest, he no damn getme to confess to him some more; he got nuff to confess he- self.” All honor to D. M. Ross! D. M. must stand for David. Like theshepherd king, he has slain the arrogant aad boasting Goliath. Or, if not slain, he has taken to the ods, thinking, perhaps, that “He who fights and runs away willlive to fight another day”—or Tun away. _ But we would not be harsh. We rather pity him. He had a bad cause. Perhaps none could have done better. No man can make his case in favor of Romanism in this nd in this age before the great grand jury—the peo 1 rejoice_ with you in the splendid results of this discussion. Untold good will result, A gentleman of note in Glas- yew, Scotland, who read one of my addresses n this lemgla same months ago (how 1t reached him I cannot tell), wrote recently to a friend of his in this country, and his letter was forwarded 10 me, said: “Tell Dr. Case ve have uo fear of Rome in Europe, for when she lost her temporal power she reached her day of fioom. ghe mfi) never rise again.” So we’be- ove. But I came not here to talk. I came to intro- Quce the distinguished orator of the evening. A minister once introduced & brother minister o nis congregation to preach something after this manner: “The Rev. Dr.Biank will now preach to us on the subject of the Devil, and T am sure we shall have an able discourse for 1 know the brother is full of his subject.”” The ¢ speaker of the evening will address yon on the principles of true Americanism, and, without politan Temple to hear Majot T. C. Ryen’s ‘ “There would be more here,” said he, | if you go to Washington you canwmost hear | them tramp in the corridors of your Capitol. |~ Another Congress has now convened, and if [ 1tis notcaretul people will shout derisively | when it dies. Thereis a_aifference between the Congresses of now and that of 1820. A different motive sends men to Congress in this age. Now we think of the candidaie’s | bank account. We are to a certain extent to | blame for this, for [ tell you that the good, the | protestantism'of a country—isin the majority. It is necessary to judge of the character of !me people would, come here in order to know what flag they shou!d be under. The German is the best educated man on the face of the earth. | Heis the lover of liberty, and on every one | of the 252 bettlefields of the last civil war the | German took his gun and sword, and all can attest to his deyotion to the stars and stripes. These German people being, therefore, intelli- gent and industrious are eligible 1o American citizenship. From England we have received 2,501,973 of their people between the years 1820 and 1892. And as far as my observation goes an English- man makes as good a citizen as the German. The flag suffers no danger in the hands of these men. We have received from Scotland during this same period 338,6 It is said these Scotch- men are raised ou oatmeal porridge and Solomon’s proverbs, and_if that diet makes such sturdy, honest men, I pray God to intro- duce it everywhere. To Scotchmen we are in- debtea for the field of blue that adorns our flnz.l They are intelligent and industrious and ogal. pass to another little country that has been cursed from time immemorial by an ecclesi- astical government. We received from this country 3,644,239, When my father came to this country from Ireland and set his foot on our shores he lost his identity and became an American. Isay now that as a man of Irish descent I say let no man come to this country from Ireland until he is able to read and to write. 1t’is quite well known that out of this ig- norant contingent is born the worst element of our Nation. The worst men standing between the gates of hell and sing Sing prison are those of the Tammany gang. And this Tammany gang came from this uneducated contingent. From every nation on earth we have received some good people. From Italy we have re- ceived 597,911 in the last sevenieen years. The blue bosom of the sea is whitened with the sails of vessels bringing these people here, and these fellows, many of whom can neither read nor write, are taking the ballot in their hand and trying to dictate to us as to our edu- cation. All this is done under the leadership of this man Satolld, How long shall the siarry flag wave over the schoolhouse of California if this immigration keeps on? Tne people of Poland have no idea of our form of government, and the only flag tney honor is the flag held in the hands of the Tiest. From Hungary we have received 536,952 immigrant these fifty-three out of every “100 can neither read nor write. From the Scandinavian peninsula 1,805.153. I have been in Wisconsin, 1liinois and Minne- sota. 2 These people have 5one out into the forests there and have'earned out their farms. and'in every one of these neighborhoods there stands a little red schoolhouse, and I venture to say there is no better citizen in our country than one of these. Holidays may come and holideys may go, Yet they are content that no other flag than the Stars and Stripes shall be floating above their buildings and their homes. God bless them. Iwish the whole Seandi- navign peninsula were in America. I believe 1 was raised in that sehool of political economy that advocates the protec- tion of American labor. T wouid tear down every restraining wall that stands around our Nation for the protec- tion of our commerce could I erect another so high that no man from a foreign shore who bears a stick of dynamitein one hana anda torch in the other could scale it to ruin my home and the fruit of my labor. To give you an idea of the fluctuations of n;; igration from 1820 by decades, listen to this | From 1820 to 1830 . 128,363 From 1550 to 1840 - 589,391 ¥rom 1840 to 1850, 11,423.337 From 1850 to 1550 79,495 From 1860 to 1570 21,964,081 From 1870 to 1880 . eaeee 2,834,040 From 1830 to 1890 15,246,613 The whole of this is thoroughly systematized by Rome. She isat the bottom of it. Vote for no man that owes allegiance to foreign power and i3 in ‘sympatny with & &ny left-nanded compliment, I can assure you heis full of his subject. Major Ryan then spoke as follows: ‘The subject I present to you to-night was born out of an incident. I was present at the Roman tion at Chicago, commonly known as the World's Fair. I remember the day when the President of the United States opened this exposition by one of the most patriotic speeches I ever listened to. I belfeve this speech will be handed down -|Romean Catholic foreign hierarchy. it y‘ou do this you will be & blessine to the wer. The very first thin they do i# to rise in front of me and you an say to us. we shall -not be allowed toenjoy a prerogative guaranteed to us by the constitu- tion of the Government under which we live. That is free s‘:eech. _Think of the lands from which they came, steeped in socialism, Catholicism and Jesuit- iem, ‘Whenever you assail the right of free speech 'yon assafl every star in that flag, and when you assail that you are a traitor to the best Government on the face of the eartn. The men who are ready atany time to. take this flag out on the field of battle, receive the salutation of the god of wer and the praise of millions. % These ignorant foreigners not only assail the vrivilege of free speech, but they also lift up their slimy hands. to attack the American I school system. | Loyalty does not_consist in saying; loyalty | consists in doing. I measure a msan’s loyalty | to the public-school system by what he “does | for that system. And if he ‘s loyal he will, | his children in those schools. When we sing “The Land of the Free'” there \ comes ringing up from every patrioiic breast, | “Since Christ died to make men happy, we will | die to set them free.” | _We all ought to love this flag more than we | do and let us maintain that every inch of i ag. | . Teach our children that no Irish flag shall be waved ia this country. Teach them that no Itakian fiag shall wave, and that no Papal flag shall be tolerated. Teach them to love | free speech and noble independence. Teach | them to be men and women. MERCER CROSSED THE TRACK. It's Against the Japanese Law, and So . He Missed the Train. The true story of how Congressman | Mercer of Omaba caught the train at | Tokio, Japan, last summer has never been | told. It was like t! In the first place there is a law in Japan against crossing a railway track. If the train you want to take is on the other side of the platform you cross a viaduct, which lands you on another platiorm next to your train. To cross the track a la Ameri- the eyes of the Japanese. swing himself upon a moving train stamps him with a tendency to paresis. Mercer had been delayed in making change to pay fare for himself and party to the next station, fifty miles distant, and the ladies had crossed the viaduct and taken their seats. Justas the Nebraskan came running out of the waiting-room the train was pulling out. In Japan the trains always move faster when they start than when they are under full headway. To the religious dismay of the crowd of Japs on the platform Mercer made a dash for it, right across the intervening track, and landed on the platform of the departing train with a graceful bound. In a mement panic and pandemonium and onlookers, and some say the Imperial Guard of Japan as well as a regiment of sharpshooters were called ount. At all events the excitement produced by Mer- cer’s daring feat was as great as if the Chi- nese had thrown a company of tirailleurs into the flank of the spectators Mercer saw that there was violent signalling with a red flag from the engine cab, and an- swering signals with red flags by the switchman ahead. And then "the train slowly came to a stop. He was vaguely citement was about him, but blissfully ignorant of the cause of the great sens tion he had produced. He had never studied the revised stat- utes of Japan and the municipal laws of the city, and the gravity of his offense never occurred to him. As soon as he stepped down on the ground he wasim- mediately encircled by a cordon of sol- diers, police and train officials, all gesticu- lating and gibbering in one grand sym- phony of protestaticn. It looked blue for Mercer. is friends say he told them in English that he was a member of the Fifty:- fourth Congress of the United States and his person was sacred. He denies this. But fortunately at this critical juncture an Americanp elbowed his way through and called out to him: *Stranger, you're all right. apper lip.” “What in thunderis itall about?” asked Mercer. “You crossed the railroad track, and that's against the law,” said the American. “Oh, is that the cause of all this excite- ment?”’ said Mercer; “I thought I had committed lese-majesty or was suspected of wanting to hold np the train.” 2 The Japs kept crowding around and Mercer began to edge up ageinst a coach to protect his back. “Don’t let 'em touch vou,” shouted the A an, ‘‘they have no law for that.” 1 lay out the first man that puts a Keep a stiff Mercer. “By the great horn svoon there goes the train, and my wife’s aboard.”’ *That's an old trick of theirs,” said the other, *‘but you cin telegraph her to wait for you at the next station.” Mercer saw_the train disappear, and after a short del in an interpreter, and in five minutes the difhculiy was in course of adjustment. The Japs by this time had recovered their politeness and were making bows on every side to show they were sorry for what hap- pened, and in a short time the station agent, or whatever the man’s position was, brought out tea and cake to tbe offended i Congressman to show that they harbored | no_ill-feeling. Mercer telegraphed hi | wife at the next station to wait for him and took the next train to meet her. She was there, reached her. Howewer, the operator had received it. He pulled it out of his vest pocket and handed it to the Congressman with a broad grin. “That's all right,” said Mercer; “just the way we do in the United States. ou people are rapidly becoming American- 1zed.”—Washington Post. | NEW TO-DAY. AN APPEAL FOR AID. Thousands in the Throes of Tobacco Torture. Only Prompt, Decisive Action Can Save Them—Some Already Saved Prove That There Is a Way. Are these the days of fnlaedom7 o 3 s everybody out of bondage ’y Would that we could answer, “Yes! 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