The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-29
FATHER CARAHER
IS WELCOMED.
Public Reception to the New
Pastor of st. Francis
Parish.
HE THANKS HIS PEOPLE
Company M, League of the Cross
Cadets, Greets Him With
a Rally.
REsENTs BARNES ATTACK.
The Vigorous Priest Proclaims for
Loyalty and Points a Way for
Catholics.
REsENTs BARNES ATTACK

A public reception was given by the
parishioners of st. Francis parish yester-
day in Washington Hall to the new pas
tor. Rev. Father Caraher, who week be-
fore came from Mission San Jose and as
sumed charge of St. Francis. The meeting
was held under the auspices OF Company
NJ, League OF the Cross Cadets, who took
advantage of the occasion TO hold one OF
their popular rallies.
The spacious hall was crowded with
parishioner1 and friends of Father Cara
her. The league, the Catholic temperance
organization, was well represented. Rev.
?. Organ its spiritual director; Thomas
Fallon, its president: n. J. Keogh and
Joseph Murphy of the executive commit
tee anG the pastor of the parish occupied
seats on the platform. Company M ana
other member of St. Francis parish
branch were in the front of the hall under
command of Captain T. Oman and Lieu~
tenants P. Qulrk and a. Conich.
In opening the exercises all present sang
the "Veni Creator" after which NJ. K.
Tupple. w. Donovan, Miss Hill, James
O'Donnen, NJ. I. Dwyer, w. Cadogan and
T. Lyatt entertained the audience. Amer
lea" and the ''Te Deum" were also sung.
When the chairman of the meeting, w.
]. Keogh, introduced the Rev. Father
Caraher as the new pastor of st. Francis
parish the audience gave evidence OF their
love and esteem for their new spiritual adj
wiser by prolonged applause.
Father Caraher said:
at is impossible for me fully to ex-
ba ~ uiuaS mo IN anneQr
before you this afternoon. 1 see here
ladies and gentlemen who have not for
gotten me. 1 need no introduction guide
or map to direct me when 1 face North
Beach. l have been with you before and
1 am with you again. Like William Tell
when he returned to his home, he raised
his hands and said to the crags and cliffs
of his youth, i raise my hands to well
come you and to show you that l have
thought of you when absent. And so it
is with me. l raise my hand to show you
that 1 have not forgotten you when alb
sent, and to signify my pleasure TO be
with you once more"
He spoke feelingly and kindly to the
members of the League of the Cross, who,
he said, had been organized to spread the
cause of temperance over the land. This
they have done and he hoped they would
continue to do so as long as they lived.
After exhorting them to continue in this
good work and remain firm and devoted
members of the church he paid his re
spects to the A. P. AS. He characterized
that society as canadian ours and Bashi
Bazouks from Belfast who are trying to
stir UP strife between American citizens.
ut is also the duty of the cadets to de-
fend this Republic with their lives" con-
tinued the pastor. ut was partly carved
out by aid OF Catholic swords and largely
brought to it's present grandeur and prom.
inence by Catholic energy and industry.
1.-THE A. P. A. is misnamed. 1t should
be called the Aaron Burr Association.
The power that strangled that traitor
should strangle this, and it is the duty Of
Catholics 10 strangle treason wherever il
is found.
81 see by the papers that General Barnes
has made an onslaught on the League Of
the Cross This Barnes is, no doubt, Of
the same stripe of generals as General
Morgan, whom Father Yorke has hayed
alive. No doubt they both belong to the
Captain Jinks- Of the Horse-Marines class.
''This General Barnes did noble thing
when he turned his back on the field Of
battle and returned to the Pacific Coast,
where there was no fighting.
He has seen fit to condemn the League
of the Cross because its cadets bear arms
but he has not one word to say against the
Junior Order of American Mechanics, who
not long since marched into Protestant
Church in Oakland and stacked their arms
in the church. But this dribbling from
anti-Catholics will have no effect on the
cadets OF the League of the Cross. You
Will go on unchecked, Notwithstanding
what those patriotic heroes who ran away
from the field of battle may say about you.
1t is your duty to defend and protect this
Republic and hand it down to posterity
as you got it from the great and glorious
George Washington.
81 love this country as Catholic and as
a priest. There is no other country on
earth that gives the same liberty of reli-
gion; liberty to the priest and to the peo-
pie. o, Columbus, 1 love thee for the
blessings thou hast bestowed upon the hu.
man family"
He thanked his pensioners for the re-
ception given him and urged the parents
to encourage their children to JOIN the
League of the Cross in the interest of tenn
perance.