The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
Ray Palmer Addressed a Large
Audience at Metropolitan
Temple.
sLANDERERs SEVERELY SCORED
No Sympathy for Those Who Have
Made Vicious Attacks On the
Women.

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account of the inclemency of the weather.
After the usual organ voluntary H. W.
| Outflow made few opening remarks, in
the course of which he said:
In looking at this vast audience one cannot
help but believe that the people are deeply in
terested in the question of American liberty.
would refer those who wish to be thoroughly
informed of the controversy now in progress
to THE CALL of this morning, which publishes
the synopsis of the situation by Rev. Donald
Ross.
The singing of "HaiI Columbia" was
followed by remarks of an Introductory
character by NJ. T. Brewer, who said in
part:
will ask You to bear with me few mo-
ments while say a few plain words. Yester-
day my attention was called to something in
The CALL written by Father Yorke. demon
stration. Honor bright, now, friends. l know
your manhood and your womanhood. Now,
| no Kisses for any one, and never ask for ap-
plause. But want you to hear me patiently
and manfully. My attention was called as was
| saying, to an article in The CALL written by
Father 1i., Yorke Ia demonstration was again
Yorke.l read it carefully. 1t referred to the
slandering of women of the Catholic faith.
have q loving mother, a dear wife and
| precious daughter, and if Peter C. Yorke or
anybody else had cast slur our women
would have been bitterly indignant; and am
has said in derogation of the women who be-
! long 10 the Catholic church.
say that in the end OF the nineteenth CEN
| fury all should have liberty to worship as
| they like. say that no man has the right to
| say that the women of the Catholic faith are
worse than those of any other denomination.
| The Monitor and Father Yorke have chosen
to say that the words spoke ON this platform
| did not mean. now say that mean every
] word that say here at all times.
But when any one attempts to interfere with
| schools. then q
want the fullest liberty of conscience for our
selves, and all that we want for ourselves we
| are willing TO mete out to all in the free land
! We ask nothing Tor ourselves that we will not
| grant to others.
Let us see to it that the principles that IN
| derlie the American Protective Association are
| American principles-are for the unity OF the
Nation for fair and honest count; for gov
eminent by the ballot, for no one can say that
we desire to govern any other way.
The members of the Young Mems Institute
| sometimes say: 'Why, that P. A. is so secret"
l wonder if the Young Mems Institute is not
| secret. | am afraid they would blaekball me if
l applied for membership tomorrow. They
say in all seriousness, and I suppose in all
truth, they have no politics discussed in their
meetings. wonder what the members of the
Young Mems Institute would say if 1 told
them that politics was never discussed in any
council of the a. P. A l want to tell Father
Yorke and the Y. NJ. l. that if any officer of the
A p. A. allowed politics to be discussed he
would lose his Office. So we are very nearly
alike. say though that if politics is not dis
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the behests of Father Yorke and the Catholic
hierarchy.
When the speaker of the occasion was
introduced, Chairman Outflow had barely
got the words 1--WE will now hear from
Rev. Ray Palmer" out of his mouth when
Kisses arose in the gallery, which were,
! however, quickly drowned by applause.
Then the reverend gentleman spoke as
follows:
am here to speak on "What Is True Ameri-
canism?"
We believe that the Roman Catholic HER
great many cons iderations, only few of
which can l speak about to-day.
No Catholic can really be true American
They may sincerely believe they are truly
loyal, but they cannot be. Take the case OF
Bishop Ireland
Applause in the gallery, followed by
cries of "Put him out!"]
mo, don't put him out; don't put anybody
out. l am glad to have our Catholic friends
here, but don't disturb me. have no feeling
/ against them.
Thus great Bishop Ireland would never have
| become a Bishop if he were true American.
He may perhaps believe himself to be one.
make no charge against the Bishop or any
! other man. They may believe themselves to
| be, though they cannot be so, as we know.
Our friend who made great claims to patriot
! ism closed his address last Tuesday in an
apostrophe to free America and took oc-
easion to speak of 'Catholic Columbia" I
! don't know when it became Catholic. ZAP
plausel want to say to you that no A. T. A.
man could have delivered more patriotic
words than these. We do not believe that
Father Caraher spoke these words with the
same underlying feeling that would have
prompted the true American. We don't be-
| lieve his words came from profound love of
Americanism, love above his ecclesiastical
! allegiance. l say that our Catholic friends
may love our country In many ways, but say
| that they do not yet love our country with the
true love that regards the best principle of
! of American INTERPRETATIONS liberty.
They claim to be sending men from over the
water to teach us better Americanism and
! higher patriotism. Let us take the recent in
vestiture OF Satolli with the honors of q
Cardinal. l say such demonstration is un-
| American. The details OF that affair were
| something like those of the ancient Romans.
| The great pomposity of 1T was incongruous
with Christianity and Americanism alike.
! When see these things fear for Americanism,
| and we should protest against them.
| We say that if Americans needed Cardinal
| why did not the Pope select an American
| Bishop and make him a cardinal. Why send
man away from Italy AMI make him a Car
dinal in our country.
The Bishops and Archbishops show their
deep servility TO the Pope in not protesting
against this invasion. They said it was only
another exhibition of the Pope's love for
America. Ii / were priest or Bishop would
send a protest TO the Pope against such a
course. | should think that under the circum-
stances it would be very embarrassing to
Cardinal Satolli to face the priests, Bishops
and Archbishops OF this country. He came TO
this country without being able to speak even
a word of our language, yet he is exalted over
all the priests of his church and is to give us
lessons in better patriotism.
/ believe that the Roman Catholic hierarchy
is an enemy of America because they are still
trying to suppress free speech.
He then read newspaper dispatch re-
lating to the assaults made on a Protest
ant preacher by Catholics at Fort Will
liams and other places in Canada, and
continued as follows:
| I don't say that the priests are to blame-that
| they engendered and encouraged these out
| breaks But they should have been able to
| control these things and prevent them.
! We believe that the hierarchy is un Amer-
can because our Government is democratic, and
| it is opposed to our Government. In THE CALL
| of the 23d one of the defenders of the Catholic
church says that the Roman hierarchy is DEM
] ocratlc. Neither Father Yorke nor any other
| man has shown can show that the Catholic
! hierarchy is democratic. In q democracy the
people have all offices: in the hierarchy the
! people have no office. The Pope is the great
| fiywheel in the great machine shop of Cath
| olicism. He keeps things running smoothly
In the Catholic church the priests are called
fathers" 1t seems to me he is not only called
.tfather" because he is the spiritual instructor,
but because he is the master and controls his
people. 1t is un-American to call any one
father except God, and the term master is also
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