Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-14
ORDERS FROM THE VATICAN
Father Ducey Sending to Rome Information
About the Le1ow Investigation.
He Attends the Sessions Of the COM
mittee-The Deep Interest shown
by the Pope.

The New York World today prints a COM
munication from Father Ducey, the WELL
known New York Catholic priest, giving
his views of the investigation of the police
scandal by the Lexow committee Father
Ducey attends the sessions Of the commit
tee, and his summing up OF the facts
brought out is not based on hearsay. He
says: Remarkable as were the revelations
before the committee in it's first sessions,
still more astounding and wonderful is
their work since Monday last. The facts
presented to the public during the present
week must appeal to every well-disposed
person and make each and every honest
citizen of this community, be he Tammany
Hall democrat, independent or republican.
ask: What Is my obligation before God and
man in view of the evidence before meT
Il do not think that any father of a fam
lily, any brother who has a sense of his
obligation to the purity of his family name,
can rest In peace and claim that he has any
unless he shows that he is reused to indig-
nation and action to preserve the good
name and honor Of this fair city,
Duty of the Clergy.
In conclusion, he says: 1.-The World asks
me If the religious bodies in New York
should not make every effort to arouse the
various congregations to a sense of the
danger to which this great city is exposed,
and 1t further asks me IL l believe the
statement made in the World a few days
ago that the vatican had taken a deep in
terest In the proceedings of the Lexow
committee and its disclosures, for the rea-
son that the fair name of the church and
catholic morals were endangered by the
asserted afiiliation with the name of Tam
many.
II sincerely hope that all ministers OF re-
ngion Will see the necessity of safeguard
Ing, more vigorously and yigilantly than
ever, the peace and morals of the city and
the nation. The World of this morning.
in the editorial introduction to the story
of the Lexow investigation, has these few
significant words:
Yesterday there were several priests and
ministers present and it looks as If the
clergy have realized that there is great
work for them to do
A Clerical League Suggested.
DIR. Parkhurst, who has done so much and
done 1t SO fearlessly, should continue to
have the glory and merit that belong to
him, and he and men like Bishop Potter on
the non-Catholic side of the house Nigh.
deem 1t wise to organize a clerical league
COR aggressive and protective work against
everything that is vicious in the public life
of our city.
Do not misunderstood me when I speak
or protection. Such protective association
of ministers of religion will not receive any
monthly allowance for the protection and
perpetuity of vice.
know the truth of the statement made in
the World that the vatican had looked into
the reported condition of things In New
York, and l am delighted. 1t is very for
tunate that people have been unkind enough
to couple Tammany corruption with the
Catholic name, and it is very fortunate for
our good name that the Catholics as well
as the non-Catholics of New York can have
the assurance that Leo XIII and those close
TO him In the vatican show that they are
vlgiiant sent,nels on the watchtower, and
that the good name of Catholic is sacrediy
guarded by them in this great and far
distant republic.
A few days ago 1 received letters from n
very distinguished dignitary very near the
holy father. The first letter is dated Rome
August Ia, and a second letter bears the
date Rome, August 3D.
Both of these communications make ref
erence to the Lexow investigation Here ia
en- extract from the first:
His Orders From Rome,
"a few days ago." says my correspondent.
Il had long interview with Cardinal -
and had to go into details about the Lexow
investigation and it's disclosures and the
history of Tammany"
The second letter has the following pas-
sage: THE communications that have
reached the vatican in relation to Tam
many, etc, have certainly produced a deep
impression"
l have been requested in these commune
cations to put certain information in form
ana forward 1t Immediately to the vatican.
i am delighted at the interest for a moral
publication by the head of the church, and
l trust that my non-Catholic brethren will
De kind enough to stop impugning the fair
name CT our church. and not hold it re-
sponsible for the corruption that exists.
The priesthood is deeply interested in all
that concerns the welfare and purity of this
city, and In its ranks there are men who
nave sacrinced themselves in every way to
add to the fair name Of New York and of
the whole country.
In further confirmation of the extracts
which l have submitted 1 might refer to a
telegram directing me how to act in certain
public matters '
From these letters and kilograms YOU may
understand why I am just now watching
terest. "
TESTuMnNv a-.,xr.c, x