The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-01
SLATTERY TO LEAVE TOWN.
A GENERAL FEELING or sATisFAC-
TION THAT HE Il GOING.


POIiee-Ten Arrests Made 80 Far
for Participation in Tuesday
Nights Disturbance.
Half the police force was on duty
around odd Fellows han last night dur
ing Ex-Prlest slatterys lecture. S=v-
eral hundred people gathered in the
streets andsin Telfair Place drawn 10y
curiosity. but there was no disturbance.
The police kept everybody moving within
block Of the hall. Wherever a knot OF
people gathered It was ordered 10 move
on"
The crowd in the hall was variously es-
innate at from 200 to 800. 1t was as
large as the han would hold. Fully
hundred were turned away because they
could not get in.
At the conclusion Of his lecture Stat
terry announced that while he was not q
representative Of the A. p. a. he was in
sympathy with the organization and
would receive applications for member
ship both in the a. p. \. and Ia the Junior
order of American Mechanics and would
forward them TO the proper authorities
He added that \. p. a. organizers are
now on their way to Savannah and would
be here within twenty-four hours.
There was practically no disorder and the
lecture was without interruption. The
police had to disperse only two small
crowds which gathered in the square, and
this was done without difficulty. The ex-
priest and his wife We're escorted to the
hall from the Pulaski house shortly after
o'clock by Sergeant Killourhy and a
squad of six policemen. They reached the
hall without trouble. The crowd began
gathering early. and the ticket taker had
gallery were crowded and couple of
hundred men were standing around the
sides Of the hall and seated IN the win
dows Those who came after that hour
had to squeeze their way to any vacant
spot they could find. There were probably
few Catholics in the hall, but they did
not make themselves conspicuous. The au-
dience was almost entirely Of the class
usually spoken of as American" about
one-half being worsingmen. There were
many young business men present and few
older heads The audience was evidently
in sympathy with the ex-priest and APP
plauded him literally
The subjects discussed by the lecturer
were the theology of the Roman church.
the celibacy OF the priesthood and the
confessional The lecture was marked by
ridicule and satire throughout. The lee
turer inveighed against marriages between
Protestants and Catholics, saying that
they were always unfortunate. productive
of discord and unhappiness. The church
of Rome, he said. holds no marriage valid,
except that performed by its own priests
and bishops.
The enforced celibacy Of the clergy was
discussed at some length. The speaker
declared II to be unscriptural, untradi-
uonal and unnatural lie quoted the
Scriptures to show that Peter. who was
said to be the first pope, was a married
man, and that there was nothing in the
Scriptures to show that celibacy was en-
Joined on priests and ministers He quoted
the writings of the early fathers to show
that celibacy was untraditional. The first
attempt to enforce celibacy was made by
a local council in Spain in 305, he said, the
second attempt some time later at the
council Of Nice, and the first law against
marriages by priests was passed in the
year 1856. This law was not received by
the Oriental Catholic church, he said. the
priests of which are, to this day, married
men.
There are six of these priests in this
country at present, he said and they
are creating a great deal of trouble in
the Catholic church by causing dissatis-
faction among the congrega lions Of other
churches in their neighborhood, who can
not understand why the Greek Catholics
are allowed to have married priests while
the other priests are unmarried Rome
he declared, IS trying to COLOMBO Amer
lea, and while he was a priest in Ireland
he saw frequent communica lions from
Archbishop ireland urging them TO send
out colonies to Minnesota. He went on to
describe how celibacy was evaded
Two or three hundred ladies' listened to
Mrs. Slattery's lecture in the afternoon
on the sisterhoods of the church and on
the confessional. The lecture was some
what of disappointment. il was an AL
legged expose of the practices of the con
fessional and the influence OF the sister
hoods, viewed from her standpoint The
reference to the sisterhoods were to those
in Ireland. There was no allusion to any
in this country. Preliminary to her tax
Mrs. Slattery commended Mayor Myers
for his action in affording herself and
husband protection and defending their
right TO lecture. She urged him as a
proper representative of the people IN con
gress and even in the presidential chair
He then took up the confessional giving
anecdotes from his experience in the CON
fessional as a priest. Incidentally he re-
marked that Dublin is the most immoral
city for its size on earth. He attacked the
moral theology Of the church.
The speaker discussed at some length
the information which the priests are ac-
customed to require of the penitents in
the confessional.
The speaker referred to the events of
Tuesday night. He said: There is no
government like our government, no peo-
pie like the people of the United states.
Be on your guard. The liberty you possess
has been won at the cost of millions of
lives
He called upon the Protestants to throw
aside the UNCONVENTIONAL barriers which
now separate them.
81 viii take the names" he said "of all
who wish to join the junior order of Anerl-
can Mechanics or the American Protective
Association. I did not come here as an
A. P. A. agent. but after reaching the hotel
Tuesday night ] wrote to the supreme or
ganizer of the order to send an organizer
here at once. An organizer is now on his
way to Savannah and viii be here within
twenty-four hours
The lecture closed a few minutes before