The San Francisco call., 1896-04-06
Claim Made That Father Yorke
Instructed for Certain
Candidates.
TEXT OF A TELEGRAM READ,
Priests Sail TO Have Been Ordered
TO Work for the Defeat of
A. P. A. Men.

Rainy weather tended to make the at
tendance at the good citizenship meeting
yesterday at Metropolitan Temple some
what less than it has been for many
weeks. The attractions of Easter services
at the various churches also probably
tended to interfere with the usually large
attendance.
After briefly referring to the diminished
nu mber of auditors, Chairman Outflow
said:
We are still pursuing our course and shall
continue 10 do so long as there is an enemy
TO combat, and we hope eventually TO make
these enemies our friends. l am sure they
will be our friends when they real lie what we
are trying 10 do for them-release them from
one Of the worst tyranies ever attempted in
this country; then we shall have a united
country and one in which all will be Joined
under one flag TO work for the best interests of
the country.
Rev. Donald NJ. Ross led III prayer and
also made the address of the day, taking
as his them Evolution of Patriotism
Before Mr.. Ross began his address Ch air
man Outflow called attention to the exist
ence of the North American Turn Vereln,
which. he explained, was German organ
ization to which no one could belong who
was not a citizen or who had not de-
clarei his intention to become
citizen. 1t even went further in its
patriotism he stated for if member was
five wears in this country and had failed to
become citizen he was expelled from the
society, unless he gave some satisfactory
explanation of his action.
Isn't that A. P. A-ism ?'' concluded Mr.
Outflow. $50 you see, we have an able
auxiliary in this society. They do not call
themselves German-Americans,b but simply
plain Americans"
Immediately preceding the address of
the afternoon there were some excellenty
rendered patriotic selections by Mearn's
orchestra, an innovation III the musical
programme that met with approval from
the audience.
Hearty applause greeted the appearance
of Rev. Donald NJ. Ross He spoke as
follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Friends: Before I began
the study and preparation of my address,
looked up in the dictionary the meaning OF the
word patriotism" That word, found, meant
good deal. 1t means beyond everything else
an intense love of country. No man can be
patriotic who Is not honorable and honest.
Now, I am going TO show that certain people
holding certain ideas cannot be patriotic. Men
who are selfish cannot be patriotic. The
country can go to the dogs so far as some men
are concerned if his interests are at stake.
have just laid before you the groundwork X
on which am going to proceed. Unless q
man or society of men are prepared to lay aside
their peculiar interests they are not patriots
And lam going to tell you in plain language
that the teachings of the Roman Catholic
church are such that man cannot be Roman
Catholic and q patriot at the same time. l do
not wish 10 place any of this blame on the
laymen. They are controlled by some holding
whiphand over them. And this whiphand
is held by the Roman Catholic church, and the
whip is purgatory.
Mr.. Ross charged that the Catholic
priests controlled the voting power of all
communicates. He then read q telegram
which he said was sent by Father Yorke
on November 5, previous 10 the last elec-
tion, TO all the priests in Northern and
Southern California in the name of the
Monitor Publishing Company. He added
that he would omit the names mentioned d
in this telegram, but would make the m
public later, just previous to election. He
explained that these men now held re-
sponsible positions; that all were Protes-
tants, and that two were Democrats and
two Republicans. The telegram wa then
read. II was as follows:
Work for there came the names which the
speaker declined to mentionl for Judge, Sem
ator and Railroad Com mjssioners. Vote and
work for these men, They have been placed
on the ticket to defeat the A P. A. Circulate
widely.
Commenting on this, the speaker con-
tinued:
And this was circulated widely by the faith.
ful. Two or three of US have the originals of
these kilograms. And say it is impossi BILE for
the men who do these things and who OBJ ey
such instructions to be patriotic
With such things being done at eyerv elee-
ton, the Catholic church should be compelled
TO take itself out of politics or we never will
have free vote and fair election. We must
apply drastic remedy. We must give them
the choice of stopping these things absolutely
or go to County Galway, Ireland.
The speaker then referred to certain
passages in what he declared was an au-
thentic Catholic book, wherein all marri.
riages not performed by Catholic priest
were declared to be no marriages at all.
He then said:
They have asked me for proofs of what have
claimed to learn from Catholic works before,
"ub guess tney Will quit now asking Tor
proofs. / am not to blame for these disclosures
against the Catholic church. Father Yorke is
the man who should be blamed. He defied me
and simply accepted his challenge, with the
results already known. And propose to ring
the changes on these teachings for the next
forty years, # am able TO do and it is neces-
sary. How can a man who promulgates
and the man who believes such an
lnlquitous thing as this regarding mar
rage be patriot? Can a man who
looks upon Protestant home in this country
as a mousse Of prostitution be patriot? can
not believe that the Catholic laymen want to
take this view, but they are forced to believe
In II by their priests.
AS an instance of the result of these
teachings he related an incident which he
sad transpired in Judge Campbell's court.
A Catholic woman had been arrested for
calling Protestant married woman vile
name. For this the offender was fined
$40 Her only defense" the speaker said.
was that the church had said so and thai
the priests tell the parishioners that this
is so."
He next referred to one of the teach1nes