The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-27
His Controversy No Longer
With Rev. Donald M.
Ross Alone.
ANSWER TO DIR. CASE.
The Minister Called On TO Make
Good His Previous AS
SertionS.
OATHS BRANDED AS FALSE.
The Priest Says the Curse of Ex.
comm unication" was Taken From
An Obscene Book.
OATHS BRANDED AS FALSE.

The Rev. Father Yorke submits the fol-
lowing in reply to the recent communica-
tons of Major Sherman, the Rev. DR.. w.
w. Case and G. A. Hubbell.
December 26, 1895.
To the Editor OF the San Francisco CG1-DEAR
SIR: l regret TO notice that Z. A. Sherman OF
Oakland has not the common-sense to mind
his own business and TO allow me 10 mind
mine.
In letter to you, dated December %, he
says: "Since my appointment as judge IN this
controversy have neither examined into the
merits of the question at issue nor have as
vet any information as to the programme TO
be followed" In an interview published De-
cembcr 81 he said twice: 81 have said moth
this con troversy, and have read nothing re-
garding it,
This morning he declares Rev P c. Yorke
"keeps up his newspaper discussion, desiring
own statements the evidence to be presented
and the formal decision of the authorized
court"
Now Mr.. Editor, what 1 want to know is
this: II Mr.. Z. \. Sherman has read nothing
about the controversy and If he is unac-
Quainted with the merits OF the case, how does
he know that | am forestalling the evidence TO
be presented in my contention with Mr.. Ross
Allow me to remind Mr.. Sherman once more
that he is talking too much.
beg to request him in addition to mind his
own business. The controversies in which l
am now engaged have nothing TO do with Mr..
Ross. If Mr.. Sherman thinks that MessTs. b.
ward, Brewer, Case, Hubbell. Morgan, Outflow,
ct al. are surreptitiously tapping the thunder
of MI Donald Ross, the remedy is to be sought
from them and not from me. Yours truly.
PETER c. IoRKE.
The Rev. W. W. Case has sprung forward
once more 10 the defense OF his decayed repu-
tation and his damaged quotations. In my
commentary on his speech l took exception TO
ten points. % I showed that his cousin, J. H.
Nelson, was jailed for blackguardism in Brazil.
% l demonstrated that Spain is neither in
tolerant nor low in the scale of nations. ~
called Arch bishop Hughes 10 answer his latter
day detamers as he answ cred them of old time.
~ I proved by the facts OF history and the
testimony of historians that the Catholic
church had nothing to do with the murder of
Abraham Lincoln. (5) produced John Wes-
ley's own reviingS against the American col
Onies, SO that the public might be able
to judge between MIN and the Jesuit,
John Carroll. ~ In the matter of quo
tations, I gave the evidence OF the
editor OF the Shepherd of the Valley against
the excerpt which Dr.. Case attributed to il.
a called on him to produce the work OF
Brownson which contained the alleged extract
from that author. ~ l asked for the number
and date OF the hypothetical New York Tablet
(9) I verified my accusation that he had
vamped the quotation from Father Hecker by
SURPRISING sentences, emitting paragraphs
and putting into the mouth of the author sem
timents he abhorred. (10) l sent you Curry to
establish my charge that DR.. Case had deliber-
atelv forged an answer, and that where Curry
replied eyes" TO the question, care ecclesias-
tics bound TO obey the civil law?' DR.. Case of
malice aforethought substituted mo"
In answer to these ten charges DR.. Case
comes on Christmas day with communica-
ZION weighted al the end with cant about
Eight and truth" With mastery insincerity
he ignores seven of the points on which he was
shown TO be untrutnful, and with the aid of
many words and much balbucination he tries
TO defend himself on the three questions of
Gury's Compendium, Archbishop Hughes and
Father Hecker.
~ With regard to my charge that he falsi-
fed Curry, he replies:
''If his copy OF Gury's Compendium, as he
claims, reads yes where mine reads no. then
having TWO different editions of their unsavory
textbooks-a genuine edition for the training
of the priests and licentiates and an expur.
gated copy for the laity. My citations from
Curry are correct in every particular"
Concerning this answer l will merely say
that ii is worthy OF Dr. Case. 1t well becomes
man who has allied himself to the vendors
OF the Jesuit oath and forged encyclical. I
wonder what do the Methodists of San Fran
cisco think OF this minister of their religion
Urged by vanity and an itching palm, he has
plunged into a warfare where the only weapons
are lies. Cornered in his mendacity his only
refuge is to preyaricate the more. Stand up
before your people and let them look at you,
DR.. Case. Hireling of q foreign conspiracy
when confronted with the evidence of your
mendacity, your only course is to bespatte
the character of those who convicted you
you out you would libel better men than you
When freed at last, and no hope of escape at
hand, true to your nature you would over
whelm US all with that factor which is CON
genital to the unclean beasts of your kind.
But, Dr.. Case, neither billingsgate nor cant
will avail you now. You are not speaking to
the bats and moles of proscriptive society;
you are speaking to the American people, and
principally to members of your own church
whom you dishonor. Before them you STAND
on trial and to them you must answer The
Oh dScrnQ IV0= ie fAaf
textbook OF the Catholic Church. You saw
your citation is correct-produce your author
1ty. You say there is an edition for the priests
and an edition for the laity-produce your
proofs. The Curry which is lying at THE CALI.
office is the selfsame copy which | used in nv
college course, and am both a priest and a
hcenuate. Before all the citizens of this State
chalIenge you to produce an edition OF Curry
which asks the question, care ecclesiastics
bound TO obey the civil law?" and which an
SwerS il, mo" No quibbling ahont Iaeuitrv
will avil you now. Produce Your book or Tor
ever stand before your people as a man who
has prosututed the livery of Heaven 10 serve
the father of lies.
(2). In his Sunday lecture Dr. Case declared
FIFTY years ago Archbishop Hughes was eadh
and ears In politics. He did ali in his Dower
at mat early stage OF our history to destroy the
pubne school system in this country" I
answered this charge, but quoting Archbishop
Hughes challenge, which replies to Ali his
calumnlators-past, present and to come. Did
Dr. Case meet this challenge like a man? Did
he face the old lion OF New York and come
out with mis- names, his dates and his places9
Let the people mark ii well. He lodged into
the byways OF history and tried to escape in
the obscurity "Arch bishop Hughes y he cries.
''was opposed to our public school system. !" -
The ignorance OF the Little Read Patriots in
matters OF spelling, grammar and geography is
paraLeed by their ignorance of this eountrv's
history. II, Or. Case. You wish 10 demonstrs to
that you are an ignoramus you should not do
1t in such way that every boy and girl in the
high school must laugh at YOU There Is moi
one OF them who does not know that Arch
bishop Hughes HAD nothing whatever to saw 10
"our public school system" His great agits-
ton on education was carried on in 1S41, and
IN 1S41 there was no yestige of .sonr nihiic
school system" in the city OF New York.
The first provision for common schools
In the Empire State made at
the suggestion of Governor Clinton in
1875. In 1900, however. the measures taken
had failed and the schools were declining -