The evening world., 1893-11-30
RING RULE SCORED.
DR.. Macarthur Attacks Tammany
from the Pulpit.
Says Russian Seridom Is Prefer
able to Life Under II.
Only the stars and Stripes Should
Fly from City Hall.

The Rev. Or. Macarthur, pastor OF
the Calvary Baptist Church, on West
Fifty-seventh street. delivered sermon
this morning on the criminal rule OF
the bosses and the parochlcal school
question.
Seldom has the city government had
such sweeping broadsidcs poured into it
from the pulpit The church was
crowded, and DR.. MacArthur's remarks
were frequently interrupted with bursts
of applause.
The clergyman at once got down to
most bitter and vehement attack on the
municipal government, which he charac
terized as the work of His Satanic Ma
jesty.
He said Russian serfdom was preferable
to life under Tammany's regime, Things
had come to such a pass that Republi-
cans had actually Joined hands with some
Club to fight the awful octopus persona
fled In our city government.
Turning to a large American. flag
draped around the sounding board and
raising his arm he said:
How dare amp flag but the Stars and
Stripes float proudly over our city Hall?
It Is useless t ofoat the green flag OF
or that Of any other nation in our faces
from the Flagstaff of our city Hall"
Continued applause was ELECTED by
this sentiment.
America for the Americans" he con-
tinued. Il protest against this country
being made the camping ground for i'm
migrants from Southern Europe, who
are poured through the naturalization
mills on arrival to swell Tammany's
vote"
Speaking OF the recent landslide DR..
Macarthur said:
From Bualo to Brooklyn the bosses
were nearly swept out of sight. 1t was
an uprising of the people against the
autocratic. sway Of the alien corner-sa-
loon politician, who heretofore held the
Our sister city across the bridge arose
in it's righteous wrath and threw the po-
litical vermin into the ash-barrel OF
this time in throwing off the Tammany
yoke, but they at least, to use a common
expression, turned down Maynard
ton Of I parochiai schools and ' said u the
Romanists had taken an aggressive at
titude in wanting public moneys for their
schools
He declared that a Roman Catholic
could not consistently, support the prin-
ciples of the American Constitution.
There 'ere many true Americans who
they smalntained other American ideas
at the expense of their religion.
Let the Catholic Church beware" he
said. land stop the. introduction OF the
Dill no" III course VI ploNll-
ing that public funds be given other
schools. A protest will go up when it
is introduced that will shake the Catho-
lie ChqTch in this country to its very
Here Or, Macarthur read the platform
roundly applauded. and 1t seemed more
like a political meeting than a congre-
CATION listening to a sermon delivered
as part OF divine services
He said over a million voters supported
the "A. r A." principles, and would
make things interesting for Romdnism
when the bill was introduced.
He declared religions political issues all
wrong. Ecclesiasticism should not enter
| into politics The question of church
| and State should not come up under a
| republican form of government.
| Then he returned to the question of
| New York's municipal government and
hauled Il over the Goals. saying Its
actions almost parelleled those Of the
| Tweed regime. and that the shades Of
that criminal seemed to hover over the
| City Hall.