The San Francisco call., 1895-10-16
THE RED HAND OF ROME,
Subject of Father Yorke's Lee
ture at Metropolitan
Temple.
He Replies to Charges Against the
Catholic Church and Presents
His Side.

Under the auspices of the Y. NJ. c. q, at
the Metropolitan Temple last night Father
1orke, chancellor of this diocese, delivered
lecture on "Rome's Red Hand" An
immense crowd gathered to hear him, and
every seat and aisle of the house was filled
before O'Clock, and sti II throng crowded
about the entrance unable to find even
standing room.
He said in part: 81 have been asked to
speak to you concerning the charges
which week after week have been made
against our church and our individual
honor. We are taunted with the cry that
we have no answer to make.
"They say it is better to ignore charges
OF base character, but when a mans
character has been aspersed and the good
name OF Catholic wives and mothers has
been traduced it falls upon US TO vindicate
the falsity of these charges like men.''
Father I orke described the services of
those noble ladies who, during war and
pestllence, nursed the wounded and sick.
He continued:
The organization responsible for this
attack is known as the A. P. a. While its
leaders publicly declare they make war on
no mans religion. yet President Hud-
dleson in the Oakland Tribune saws: The
A. r. A. will strike straight from the
shoulder and beneath the fifth rib of every
Roman Catholic; would not belong to +
if it did not W ~
THE means employed by the A. P.
has been long catalogue of forgeries,
They spread all over the country ouota-
tons alleged TO have been taken from
Catholic books l need not tell that whnt.
ever has been said the only object of the
A. Z. A. is to set Protestants against Cath
olics, men against brothers, to sow the
seed OF dissension and turn back the hand
OF time on the dial of history to that
period OF religious persecution which.
thank God, is beyond all doing"
he then read the scroll of the A. PA.
10 demonstrate, as he said. its in
tolerance to Catholics and their church.
This is the genuine oath of their mem
bers, whose accredited leaders are minis
ters of the gospel" SAID he. "They saw
these things and then claim they seek not
warfare.
1t is the hue and cry of these leaders
that Catholics will soon control the politl-
cal affairs of this Nation. That the whole
country VIII be under the hand of that
terrible old man at Rome, the Pope. The
IDEA that 0,000, 600 Catholics will Law the
RED hand of Rome on the $4,000, eco Pro-
testantS OF this country is ridicnlous
enough without elaboration.
we are somewhat disappointed With
san francisco, we Catholics who have
had so much to do with her foundins ANA
her prosperity, to find that when men who
claim to be ministers of the Gospel stand
on this platform and hurl at the HOLY
Church utterances, whose mere hearing
brands them as lies, that not one Protest.
ant clergyman will openly deny such
accusations and defend us. What can Won
think 0 an organization that will thrive
on forgery? 1t is beneath the dignity of
the church to listen to the false accusa-
tions made against it.
THE teachings of the church make ms
loyal citizens. Church and State are for
ever separated- The loyalty to one goes
ma mana In hand with loyalty to the other.
We owe no civil allegiance TO the Pone We
owe no spiritual allegiance to the State. We
render TO Cesar that which is Caesars. but
We do not deny God that which is Gods
1t IS foul calumny to say that the Catho.
TIC church does not recognize the marriages