The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1901, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1901. REPUTABLE PRESS LASHES THE REPTILIAN YELLOW JOURNALS “ AND DENOUNCES INFLAMMATORY WORDS OF FATHER YORKE FROM SEA TO SEA SWEEPS THE STORM OF INDIGNATION AGAINST ANARCHY’S HERALDS Futile Attempts of the Hearst Newspapers to Defend Their Malignant Teachings and- Attacks on the Government, HE press of the East and 1Wcst contimues ‘its scathing demun- ciation of the Hearst yclloto journals and the latter’s propa- gation of the tenets of anarchism and assassination. The Call herezvith publishes editorials appearing in_some of the many ‘news- papers that are scoring thethree Hearst papers and their infamous policies. \ \ HE New York Press, in its issue of September 23, refers in scathing terms to the attempt of the Hearst newspapers to palliate their grave and flagrant offense in their vicious attacks on the late President and their encouragement of amarchy. The editorial is as follows: THE ONE DEFENSE OF BOTH. The murdered President is burfed, and the world of necessity turns from the past to the ure, taking up again the concerns of Iife. 9 Y (hings that need to be said, &nd that can be said NOW. Prom of the continent this newspaper has been attacked, and is belng Ve fie gerting the Dr is teaching that 1t is @ crime in a pewspaper to be human, and_animate i s : madman has murdered a: President of the United States we are to -y e 1o be 11ved in a graveyard by Amerlcans and by Amerlcan journal- 1sm comes to & public man the severe word, the light'word and the funny plcture m ed in the death chamber?—New York Journal, September 22 So this is the apology. is it—this the defe You.were “human,” ‘ani- mated” and “entertaining” in vour assaults on the late chief magistrate? ' It was political controversy,” was it, that filled your columns in your present ment upon the policies of ‘the McKinley administra- tion in It i= only “light” words or “severe” 'words that you have s cial Jnst nd prominent men generally? So yau say € vourself. T it was “human” and “animated” to intjmate by parallel the violent death of William McKinley within five vears? It was “entertaining’ to pre- dict “an awful bloodv guarrel” between him. “the Commander-in-Chief; who had surrendered the control of the armv and navy to the trusts. and the “American peasant.” to whom he had “tossed the answer ‘the trusts can do no wron his “fat, white hand.” You say it was. It wa a “light” or possib “gevere’’ word—illustrated by“t\mnr pictures we have been requested repeatedly to reproduce, but which, for decency’s sake, we have declined—to name him as “an obedient jellyfish.” a “politicastro,” cne “ready to surrender every particle of national honor amd di ty’’P? So you have written it down. It was your notion of *“political controversy” to call him ‘“an abject. despised an: weak, futile, incom: Fyedrig ol | tent poltroon,” “bar one, the most hated creature on the hemisphere. his name hooted. his o vou have sajd in plain print. sther “light” or “severe’” words on which stress might be laid. Such anarchists to leave things alone and come and blow up Amer- facturers and corporation presidents. Such is your exhorta- t a certain rich man “like a wild beast—merely because Such is your complaint after a collision between police and e have mot been enough shot. No trust manager has ever had we shall confine the relation to these “light” words you spoke of nimated”? They “entertaining”? They the language When you say so, Hearst, you flee for refuge within on of the martyr, who said of your pupil, *“Poor fellow, he know what he was doing.” You palliate, in so grotesque a distortion of ng of words your moral mepstrosity with mental deficlency. You counsel has advised vou, too, that “your only defense is in- sanity.” As your complice would cape in the straitjacket of the lunatic so would you in the motley of the fool. ashville (Tenn.) American said editorially on September 24: FROBLEM OF YELLOW JOURNALISM. The Chancellor of Syracuse University. by the New York Journal for an express following Samuel Hicks, General Manager New York Journal—Dear Sir: Will you please never send to this office any matter bearing the imprint of the New York Journal? 1 loathe the New York Journal as I do the unspeakable wretch who shot our great President. 1 believe your paper, more than any other agency in this country, helped to make the conditions which encouraged such assassination. To have our institution commended by such a paper would be a ,burning disgrace. JAMES R. DAY. difference does this make to the Journal? The leading preachers, ans and editors of New York City continie to write for its col- w York paper can boast of such a staff of special contributors. As James R. Da n upon Pres upon being questioned ent-McKinley, sent the long as eminent leaders of thought earn pin money writing for the Journal, how is the ommon herd” to know its other pages reeking with foul scandal and sensational fakes should be shunned? When the Maine was des asking prominent citize monument by popula of the prominen . was addre! stroyed the Journal telegraphed over the country to accept a place on its committee to erect a national subscription to'the men who went down with the Maine. citizens, Governors, etc., accepted. One of the invitations, ed to the Hon. Grover Cleveland, and was answered in PRINC] J., Feb. 2, 188.—To W. R. Hearst, New York Journal, New York—I decline t sorrow for these who died on the Maine to be perverted to an adver- tising scheme for the New York Journal GROVER CLEVELAND. Mr. Cleveland’s ‘was the dignified and sensible answer to a cheeky request. What business was it of a newspaper's to raise a monument to the Maine's vic- tims B it is difficult to draw the line b tween honest and intelligent criticism of public officers and the ravings of the yellow journals which hold them up with pencil and brush as enemies of mankind. The yellow journal evil is well summed up by a Minnesota Congressman, who says: e evit of yellow journals consists in their pandering to the worst tastes of the ignorant and depraved. Intelligent readers are not affected by their utterances, or by the persistent reiteration of false charges against public men. But to the uneducated man, coming from & forelgn country, and knowing little of American institutions, the vilest cartoons and the most impossible accusations are taken at their face value. This man knows that in Aus- tria, Germany or Russia the Government would not allow such pictures to be printed or such charges to be repeated, and the fact that they are published here in every conceivable m is evidence 1o his mind that they are true. He is not a wide reader, and some cheap &nd pestiferous sheet is probably the only thing he ever sees. He learns from it that the rulers of the nation are men of the worst type; that they are personally responsible for poy- to hold them to account for whatever he may himself lack of What wonder that he becomes a grumbler, and finally an anarchist? But we are told the people are responsible, that the yellow papers but give them what they want and that is what they should do. Ought ignorant and untutored minds be given what they want? Mentally they are children. Do we give children .what they cry for? If we did their appetites, would soon become weak, capricious when satisfied, and not contented with simple and wholesome food. P A minstrel show in town last week gave black-faced representati Bryan, Senator Depew, J. Pierpont Motgan and other wellkhown diisers “Hi course, the galleries roared at their antics, and any respect it may have had for any of these gentlemen vanished when they cake-walked across the stage. This is an invasion upon the personal liberty of these gentlemen. This is a free country, but it is the cssence of tyranny for a man's personal appearance to be caricar fured night after night by a traveling minstrel troupe, and he to have no re- ress. This is not yellow journalism, but they are one and-the same—too much lib- erty with other people’s rights. : 2 T Ledger, of Tacoma,” Wash., published the following in its editor- ial columns on September 25: FACING ITS ACCUSERS. Yellow journalism is on trial. Cornered way of escape it remains a rat. When the Examiner was char, '« it faces its accusers. There was The rat will turn and when it turns there is venom in its bite: ed. with having- created the s breeds the =pirit of anarchy. With Assumption of superior delioaest bt assiised 1x reply. It sajd it would reply later. Its respect for Mr. McKinley and for the sor row of the country restrained it. "The body of ‘the man it had traduced is in the tomb and now the Examiner feels free to answer the indictment. The fact must be remembered that the Examiner is one of three papers on equal plane, the ofhers being the New York Journal and the Chicago ~American. Probably the rame editorial appeared simultaneously n all and one estimate must embrace the wrio, The Ledger is among the papers that have charged the Ex: a wicked and unwise sheet, an evil and unclean thing. This upflv?::‘umlilhvg’:al:zs in sincerity and there has been nothing to weaken it. In its rejoinder, directed to the American pesple, the Examiner says it has been attacked by the parasitic the unsuccessful, the portion of the press that lives on alms, Such weak assev- eration as this will carry no weight. The process of analysis is hampered by the In general terms it is the claim to personal purity and lofty of any appeal to class prejudice save such as Christ made ben he placed Lazarus oh the doorstep of Dives: it is self-laudation, the very ence of meglomania. 1 Getting down to detall, the Examiner propounds these questions: “yhat good institution, what good cause has the Examiner injured? as assailec e state? as ? e 3 P T e . attacked the churches? Has it antagon- At this point the citation of a few facts becomes y, stance being borne in mind that the Examiner and the Joarrel’ Hearst responsible for both: It was the Journal which characterized McKinley, obedient jelly-fish.” ~Agafn: “An abject, weak, futile, bar one, the most despised and hated creature in the hoo.tre;]; Jms figlur:;*1 hurge’da |1n‘ie}ng)'."d- e Journa! char; cKinley. and *the W. o 1o surrender national honor and ienity. 1t said the sty mecirancy foadiness mander of the army and navy; that McKinley and those who ‘‘controlled him sought to create an oligarchy with themselves as rulers; that Mark Hanna act. fng for McKinley. would increase the army and use it against the organtors i s the circum- are one and the President, ‘as. “an ncompetent poltroon * * ¢ hemisphere; his name is be so much hated. The mildest term that could be applied to these statements would | have been to class them as lies, for not only were they lies, but foul, baseless, villainous slanders. They were aimed at the chief executive and so as truly at the heart of the rcpublic as was the pistol that.was Continued on Page Seven. UNCLE SAM DETERMINED TO RID THE COUNTRY OF I THIS DOUBLE-HEADED MONSTER. FEELING THE STING OF THE (From the Cincinnati Comm ercial-Tribune, September 24) FTER months of persistent abuse #nd calumny directed against President McKin!ley, and after the incited - Sl LAS anarchist had sent two bullets from his weapon-—charged with powder and the malignity of yellow journalism —the New York Journal ceased its villainous political cartooning of . President McKinley. After the shot had been fired the Journal insulted all sense of public decency by fulsome eulogism where calumny had always had place, and waited until his death to out-Ferod hypocrisy in flaunting memorials on the Chief Magistrate whom it had held up as worthy the scorn peasant in his bloody quarrel with the Commander-in-Chief. and - the contempt of all men—and of the bullet of the Stung by enforced: appreciation of the esteem in which the public holds it, the Tournal now turns in its pool of venom and asks: What good institution, what good cause, has the Journal injured? 3 Has it assailed the state? Has it attacked the church? And the Journal then proceeds to-ask a question and to give its answer thus: Shall it cease to fight for the common man as against the privileged man, with brain and pen and artist’s pencil, with argument, cartoon, satire and all the legitimate weapons known to the literary soldier and the warrior of art? And the Journal answers itself in one word, “Hardly,” and gives as reason for the answer that “the world has not come to an end, nor the mighty, ever-living stream of American life been diverted from its course.” And because of that non-diversion—thank God for it!—the stream of condemnation of all men worthy the name of American citizen, and worthy the heritages of American citizenship, is rising to the flood tide of generous indig- nation and cannot be stayed in its anger. What good institution, what cause has the Journal not injured? ‘When has it not assailed the state in the person of its Chief Magistrate? Was it not assailing the state when it pictured the Chief Magistrate of the Republic as all that was vile, all that was imbecile, all that was merely a tool, forgetful of his oath, forgetful of his honor and forgetful of his American citizenship and the trust reposed in him by the people? ‘Was it not an assailant of authority and an inciter of anarchy and bloodshed when it pictured the Pres- ident of the United States, with “white, fat hand,” throwing from the window of the White House a ribband to the starving peasant with the inscription thereon, “The trusts can do no wreng”? . ‘Was it not an assailant of law and order, of a good cause and of gcod institution when it declared that thereupon “an awful, bloody war would break out between the Commander-in-Chief and the peasant”? Was it not an assailant of good causes and institutions, of authority, and an assailant of the church and of the state when it held up to the anarchists the example of Louis X VII, and the peasants of France, with the King beheaded and the peasants all eating—and this in the self-same article in which it portrayed the President eating, the peasant starving and the throwing of the ribband to - the peasant by “the white, fat hand” of the murdered McKinley? And with it all; with the blood from. the wounds of the dead President yet undried; with the grief of the people yet unassuaged, the New York Journal announces its determination to resume and to continue the stream of ma- lignity against authority, of vituperation against the Chief Magistrate, and of malevolence established institutions by the employment of against the state and “Brain and pen and artist’s pencil, with argument, cartoon and satire.’” And by the Journal is the issue made up and a test of American manhood and American citizenship is pre- sented, and there can be no doubt of the result. ARMY CHAPLAIN DENOUNCES ANARCHY ©. C. Miller, chaplain of the Artillery Corps at the Presidio, delivered a most Interesting address yesterday after- noon to the men of the corps. He paid a beautiful tribute to the memory of the late President McKinley, and discoursed upon the many phases of anarchy. Hlis address was entitled, ‘‘Anarchy—a National Peril,” and the soldiers listened to him with great interest. Chaplain Miller took for his text James ii:12—'‘So speak ye and so do as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.” The text lays down a safe law for speech and action; also a right standard of judgment. A universal adoption of this rule of action and standard of judgment would prove the overthrow of anarchy. let us pause amidst the deepest sorrow that ever befell us as a nation and ask what it means. “‘Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?’ or, in other words, what of lasting value can we gather from the awful calamity of the assassination of our beloved Presi- dent? Did he not offer up his life as a sacrifice to save our nation from being overthrown by anarchism? Does his sacrifice not call Joudly to every one who loves his country to arise and pledge him- self with unflinching determination to the uprooting of anarchy? Let us_notice three things of vital hatlonal importance—the cause, the curse and the cure of anarchy. ““Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap” is a universal law. It is inevitable. We as a nation have been sowing the wind d we have reaped the whirlwind; it has rent our hearts like the rock-héewn mountains about the prophet’s cave. Out of the depths of our_sorrow let us cry unto God and hear His volce. The prime cause of anarchy is liberty unrestrained by moral law; a hurttul freedom of speech and of the press that is fast undermining the. foundations of our republic. A growing verence for the sacred traditions of our forefathers. An alarming disregard for the necessity of right moral conditicns. An increasing ignorance of the majesty of salutary law. The government of a nation 18 no stronger than the government of the hom»s which compose it. A lack of family govern- ment.. Indifference of parents in respect to discipline and training of their children, that reverses God's law safeguarding the family, and makes it read. Parents, obey your children. God set the solitary in tami and such was the beginning of all government. A disregard the moral law as given in the Decalogue ls hatching a mighty brood of vile persons ready for any vicious acts. A violation of the God-given sanctity of the Christian Sabbath is a disregard for the most necessary and salutary law; and is therefore mighty in sowing the seeds of ruin and anarehy. A’ growing violatlon of the sacredness of the marrfage tle as instituted by the Creator for the etuity of the race Is to a most alarming extent encouraging free love and undermining the institution of the family. Marriage i8 coming to be regarded too much as an experiment and rnot as a bond of indis- soluble love. i Violence Is Anarchy. Lynch Jaw {s anarchy pure and simple, and of the worst kind be- cause it has the semblance of restraining vice; as if crime could be restrained by crime or expiated by committing a second. In the inhuman tortures of the lyncher Americans have gained the unenvi- abie reputation of surpassing the semi-civilized Fliipinos or even the He spoke as follows: most barbarous tribes. The lyncher, like the anarchist, fgnores the law. Corruption and fraud on the part of those set in high places to interpret and execute law are responsible for lynching, and cultivates and inspires the red-handed anarchy that has slain {welve per cent of all our Presidents, and that, too, in less than forty years. In former days Americans did not kill their rulers. Agnosticism, even though it sit in the professor's chair, 1s by no means guiltless of the blood of our most beloved and most comprehensive ~American. Some of our theological seminaries have also contributed thelr part toward inspiring the murderous deed of the assassin by bringing intn question the Bible as the infallible rule of faith and practice. The higher critic has done much to overthrow holy scriptures, destroy the foundation of all moral law and _therefore produce anarchy. . The @massing of wealth by overriding the poor is doing much to émbitter the less fortunate in the race for soclal advancement, and thus plant in their bosoms the seed thoughts of anarchy. Lastly, we cannot suffer the church to escape, but must arralgn her as a negative cause of the evils that Imperil our nation. She has suffered the gosel to become adulterated with hypocrisy and worldliness till it has lost its power and is no longer a saving leaven In the world's moral mass of iniquity. I need not multiply words in describing the curse of anarchy, for it suffices to say that It not only destroys. the good. but opens the flood gates of evil and devastates ‘‘whatsoever things are lovely and of good report.”” It is hard to conceive how cne cvil could destroy a nation. Not so with anarchy, for it represents the combined forces cof the pit. The awful curse of anarchy pervades every hamlet of our Jand. It calls loudly at the door of every man's heart for repentance and ‘the most aggressive efforts toward the promotion of right living. Highest Liberty Is Law. The cure {s found in the perfect law of liberty as stated by St. James in the text, “By the perfect law of I'berty" all the powers of man's being set free by the truth as it is in Jesus, and develo; and perfected under the salutary restraint of that same truth which is the gospel. The restraint of liberty is no new idea. It is as old as Eden. It began with our first parents in the garden. “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the fruit of the tree Which is in the midst of the garden God bath said. Yo shall not eat neither shall ye touch it, lest ve die.” The of it, e planets revolve by the same perfect law of liberty. Liberty being the . centrifugal force, restraint the centripetal that holds it ‘to its central sun, and Continued on fm Seven. ATTITUDE OF THE SAN ; ~ FRANCISCO PRIEST CAUSES MUCH ADVERSE COMMENT California Press Forcefully Expresses Its Opinions Concerning His Utterances From the Forum and in the Public Prints. HE Call herewith publishes extracts from some of the lead- ing newspapers of the interior of California, which deal plain- ly with the Rev. Father Yorke of San Francisco in reference to the position he has taken on matters connected with local affairs and especially his utterances on the platform ang in the press. HE article following is reproduced from the Sacramento Bee of Sep- tember 28. The article was written by Editor McClatchey, also one of the owners of the Bee, and is signed “C. K.”: THE “SOGGARTH AROON” OF VIRGINIA CITY, AND THE “SOGGARTH,” WITHOUT THE “AROON,” OF SAN FRANCISCO Time was when the “soggarth aroon” went among the poor, dealing out charity and loving kindness to all, tending the sick, ministering to the dying, and not only offering prayers for the dead but giving good counsel and fatherly advice to the quick: ‘He taught his flock not only how to die, but as well how to live. He instilled®into them the doctrine of affection, not the creed of hate. He taught them Jlove for all mankind, not bitterness against political opponents and malice t& employers. He inculeated in them a regard for order, an obedience to the law, a sub sion to necessary and salutary authority, and a love for their country. In times of heated industrial turmoil he cham=- ploned when they were right and chided when they were wrong. But as he championed he counseled. He ever preached the ways of peace. He ever warned against violence and riot. He ever stood by the side of his flock—with one hand keeping back to the extent of his power those who would wrong them, and with the other restraining his childre; acts—the while he preached moderation and that gospel of CI “Do unto others as ye would that othe from overt t: ould do unto you."” The most lovable type of the “soggarth aroon” ever known on the Pacifle Coast was the priest and hero of Virginia City, Patrick Manogue, who died as Bishop of Sacramento. In the turbulent times of the Comstock he was the idol of the Miners’ Union. There was n) miner’s home in all that section where the wife did not pray every night for Goc to bless Patrick Manogue. There was not a house—be it of the rich or of the poor—in which he was not welcome. Doing God's work humbly and falithfully, he hesitated neither to reproach Capi- tal nor to criticise and even to lecture Labor. He feared only to do wrong. In his humble sphere he was as the heart of Bruce, which the Scots threw ahead of them in battle in the hour of their desperation, and, casting them- selves upon the foe, cried out: “Heart of Bruce, we follow thee! In the darkest days of the laborers on the Comstock they exclaimed with ce (Protestants as well as Catholi “Direct, Father Manogue, and we On one wild night in Virginia City "> stopped the hotheads of the Miners’ Union from deeds of desperation and crime. In all that camp of excitement and of fierce will he was the only man with the influence and the pluck to stem the current of riot' and violence. ‘And before the sun had reached its meridian on the morrow he had exacted from the bonanza kings a promise that the men. should all go back to work at the wages which they asked and to which they were entitled. That was the “soggarth aroon” of Virginia City and Sacramento. There is a ‘“soggarth” in San Francisco, but none of the ‘““aroon” attaches to him. Instead of preaching peace he advocates disturbance. In place of directing his flock in the ways of moderation he erdeavors to imcite them to deeds of turbulence. ' When disorder oecurs he blackguards the authorities who have endeavored to preserve the peace and protect the citizens from assault and murder. When tue laws are being violated and men are assaulted and maimed for-no other crime than an endeavor to work in order to support their wives and their children, he shrieks at the police who are trying to maintain order, and denounces, in the most atrocious bilingsgate, honest, upright, generous and manly American_citizens whose only crime is that they have the audacity to endeavor to conduct their own business. In his French-Revolution harangues he has been-as sparirig of the truth in his statements as of common decency in his language. Clothed With the“authdrity "of a Catholic priest, he has acted, not as & counselor, but as a firebrand; not as one pointing the way to peace and moder- ation, but as ome inciting to assault and riot. When labor leaders have advised their followers to tread the ways of quiet protest, it has remained for this alleged man of God to harangue them to deeds of desperation. With all the demagogy and little of the cunning sagacity of Mark Antony he has endeavored to in-ite the very stones of San Francisco to mutiny, to riot and to crime. Instead of counseling his hearers to obey the law and to respect an authority exerted only to maintain order and protect the lives of American citizens, he has denounced the preservers of the peace as criminals and has endeavored—by every artifice known to a demagogue who has no regard for truth, no respect for the rights of citizens and no consideration for upright Americans whom he maligns—to precipitate the strikers into a combat with the authorities. The words of Peter C. Yorke in Thursday's Examiner mean than that. - No other interpretation can be put comprehends the meaning of English words. Peter C. Yorke cares no more for the workingmen of San Francisco than for the dust under his feet. He is infatuated only with his own notoriety. If he were not delirious with the publicity which environs him _he might pause to consider that the counsel he is giving the workingmen of San Francisco is that of a man who preaches the blessings of suicide. He knows the cause for which he shrieks is lost. He knows the advice which he furnishes points to the Tarpeian rock, over which the strikers will dash themselves if they follow where he beckons. And yet he cares not, so long as he can flount himself in the light of day. The time is not far distant when the workingmen of San Francisco will use of and concerning Peter C. Yorke the same bitter language they now employ in mentioning the hated name of Harry Knox. The following is also from the Sacramento Bee of September 28: A GROSS FALSIFICATION BRAZENLY REPEATED. On Thursday last the Examiner reported Father Peter C. Yorke as having charged Mayor Phelan with saying, regarding the strikers “If they don’t want to be clubbed, let them go to work.” The Mayor sent the Examiner a positive denial, declaring he had said nothing of the kind, and that the accusation was wholly false. The denial was shown to the priest, and in yesterday’s Examiner it appears side by side with a communi. cation from nim in- which he has the impudence to repeat the original assertion @na to say that it is borne out by an affidavit from Andrew Furuseth, also printed. The affidavit wholly fails to support the priest's position. words it attributes to the Mayor are these: “I have listened to your story and I think you ought to g0 to work. The duty of the city government is clear. We must have peace at all-hazards.” The affidavit concludes with an expression of opinion from Furuseth to the effect that he came from an interview with the Mayor impressed with the idem that “the clubbing of peaceable, innocent men would continue until they would consent to resume work.” But Furuseth is very careful not to put any such words in the Mayor’'s mouth. f the matter were not so serious, Father Yorke would appe: 4 alcuionn by tbis weak. and; foollan” attempt to DoIster up his false and Slender ous charge. His brazen repetition of so great a falsification, coupled With fur- ther low appeals to the passions and prejudices of the strikers, is disgraceful and indecent, and tends to bring reproach upon the sacred calling which he pro- fesses. To discerning persons it is plain that no statement of fact Yorke may hereafter make is entitled to belief, in this or any ome‘;l::‘;:tm!;‘etr};;f The Daily Californian, of Bakersfield, published the following editorial on September 27: A FOOLISH ADVISER. The Irreverend Peter C. Yorke is amusing himself and disgustin, by publishing in the Examiner a series of articles that for chojes. ufv:?fi\%"kl,'fi unbridled abuse would not be decent in a layman, but which In his position is positively shocking. He devotes column after column to a senseless scolding of The Call, but as this is purely a personal matter, the public has little concern, with it. When, how- ever, the priestly agitator openiy advises violence and disobedience of the laws, his utterances become significant. g In his latest article he wrote: “Before I close let me say one word on the general question of vi have warned the men against it, but I am beginning o cast in my m‘ln?ileixr‘cuerieri be not worse things than violence. Violence is to be reprobated when the law yrnteqts you, but if the law is perverted, what then? The action of the police n this city, especially within the past few days, has been intolerable. I have seen an old man with gray hair and of venerable aspect ridden down and clubbed by one of Sullivan’s Bashi Bazouks. Every hour peaceable citizens are held up, searched, robbed, assaulted and there appears to be no remedy. Never in Russia did the police act as they are acting to-day on the water front of San Francisco and in our streets. “People of California, what is done to-day to the longshoremen may be done to you to-morrow. “Wage earner of San Francisco, will you stand by and see your brethr clubbed into submission to the Employers’ "Association? ¥ - “‘As of old the refractory slaves were lashed into obedience, so now 1 citizens in San Francisco are to be clubbed into slavery. How long wmA)T.:zfi':: it, ye wage earners of San Francisco?" ‘What is it that this priestly Yorke would have the laborers of San Fran- cisco do? Does he wish them to arm themselves and correct the evils he claims exist with rifle and bayonet? Does he advocate the shedding of blood because a policeman exceeds his duty? Granted for the sake of argument that the po- lice are guilty of the crimes of clubbing the inoffensive. robbing the unwary and acting *“‘as never did the police of Russia act,” does this hot-headed priest ad- vise the handful of strikers to take the law in their own hands? Verily, it would appear that the workingmen of San Francisco have reason to pray to be delivered from their friends. God knows that in the struggle now on their lot is a hard one. Deprived of labor themselves, there is want in the homes of thousands. The conditions that have kept the necessities of life from wives and children would long since have ceased, and the trouble would now be over, but for the Examiner’s course. And now this demagogic priest, whose occupation and prominence gives weight to what he may say, no matier how unreasonable and ridiculous, adds fuel to the fire and urges sirikers to a course that means their utter ruin should they follow his advice. The Stockton Daily Independent, on September 28, published the fol- lowing editorial: A confgrence was held in San Francisco Thursday of representatives of the Merchants’ Exchange, the San Francisco Produce Exchange, the San Franciseo Board of Trade, the Manufacturers’ and Preducers’ Association of California, the Ship-owners’ Association and the Merchants’ Association. This conference ex- pressed its condemnation of the Examiner in the following resolutions: “ “Whereas, The daily Examiner of San Francisco bas, through its columns, —_— Continued on Page Seven. nothing less upon them by any one who In fact, the only i