Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1880-03-23


we remember to have seen is the tulmina-
tion of Father Hcmphill, Of Calvary
church, San Francisco, against Dennis
Ccarney and his gang. He is regarded
as the most courageous ond outSpoken
priest on the Pacific coast. He spoke not
rs an IriShman or as an American, but as
an upholder of good order and denounccr
of demagogueS and violent men. His
theme was the condition of San Francis
co, which has commanded such wide
spread attention, spread fear through So
ciety and paralyZed business, driven good
citizens and capital to take refuge in flight
and shaken the foundations of society.
He had not honied guile for diScontCnted
workmen, no 1lattery or gloss Of pre-
yarication, peculiar to the prostitucd new
spaper organ and debascd politician.
ScorninG subtcrfuge or lying Hemphill,
addressed himself to the solid, unvar-
nishcd truth. Mere claptray and popu-
larity he flung to the winds. The truth
he spoke struck those most needing to
hear it. Abiding to the threats of the
Kearney faction, he frowncd on the vasa-
bond aliens, who had threatened, for the
last four years, anarchy, riots, murder,
pilfcring and the destruction of the city.
But he made other, palmer talk. lie was
more explicit to those of his own race,
kth and kin.
"When | reflect that it is largely my
countryman who are doing this l am
saddened, San Francisco is to-day an
object for the Kissing contempt Of all the
world. These men are allowed to abuse
their right of free speech by threatening
When reflect on all these things l am
not at all proud of my country. The
patience Of the law-abiding citizens of
this city and State for three years or more
has been either sublimely heroic or mis-
crably coWardly. TO my mind it looks
more like the latter. For my part, L am
glad that patience has ceased to be Il
virtue, as is shown in the manifesto of the
Citizens Council. They declare that they
want to maintain public peace and good
order, and in this the manifesto has my
hearticSt endorsement"
Next in turn. he handled the dema-
gogue Mayor without gloves, who endor-
sed the "Sand Lots" denouncing him in
the strongest languagd:
"No, you Reverend Mayor, we do not
and cannot accept your voucher for peace
from the sand lotterS. You talked very
differently when you endorsed the re-
solutions Of the sand-l )tteIs. You talked
very differently in your speech ut Union
Hall on the 9th of last month, when you
said There will be trouble, there will be
bloodshed in settling this Chinese ques-
ton" DO you intend to insult our i'll
tellgence? You have not forgotten the
riots of 1877. Indeed, you have not for
gotten when one of your men inSultcd the
people Of this church when he shouted
: y ou' have not forgotten your insulting
visiting committee, which was sent TO
demand OF me u retlaction of II portion
of my previous lecture which have quo
ted tonight. Nor have you forgotten
your companions recent insult to the fore
most citizen of the United StateS-tho
OK -President-when he threatened to burn
him in etIigy, nor when your followers
threltlnad to erect gallows on the sand
lots to hang our citizens"
The talk was received with great en-
thusiasm by his hearers. A correspon.
dent telegraphs: