The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09
Major Ryan Addresses a Good
Citizenship Meeting at Met.
ropolitan Hall.
THE FUNCTION OF THE SCHOOL.
Nothing Pertaining to Religion, He
Said, Should Be Allowed to
Enter Therein.

otism and Its Demands" Chairman
Outflow. in opening the meeting, said:
Americans. Citizens and Friends-This is the
second anniversary OF our meeting in this tenn
The State Council OF the A. ?. A. has held Its
election and I am glad 10 say that President
Hudelson has been reelected without a dis
senting vote.
gious and our enemies are accusing Us ol De-
coming big-headed.
troll the coming elections OF the State OF Cali
fornla. l say we will do more than this. We
will dictate the policy OF good politics for the
State OF California.
After the singing of America" by the
audience Rev. DR.. c. a. Rabing led in
prayer, and then the audience sang Col
umbia. the Gem of the Ocean.
Secretary Turner OF the \. ?. a. Council
of California addressed the meeting briefly
in a patriotic strain, and was followed by
the four Cotton children, who rendered
1.-The Flag" in manner to evoke the hearty
applause of the audience.
W. F. Barnes, the newly elected treas
urer OF the State Council, made few re-
marks in commendation OF the newly
elected officers OF the council and con-
cluded by singing Hold the Fort adapted
TO the sentiments of the A. Z. A.
Major T. c. Ryan's appearance elected
address by saying:
have been asked to explain what I under
stand as an Irish patriotic American. l know
no such man. l hope the time will soon come
when we will know no Irisn-Amerlcan, no
German-American, no Italian-American, no
French-American. When a man comes from
foreign country and becomes a citizen OF this
country he should lose all foreign identity. l
will say this, however that an Irishman who
gives his allegiance 10 Rome has denational-
lied himself That is all need TO say on that
point. Whoever heard in Ireland OF an Ameri-
can-Irishman? Whoever heard in Germany of
an American-German? A true American loves
only this country and all its institutions. Be
an American then, by driving out that senti-
ment of the Romanlsts that the public schools
are not proper educator OF our children.
He referred to people who would not
blacken their boots on Sunday, but who
would not hesitate 10 blacken their neigh
bors character, and others who thought it
wrong to shave on Sunday, but would I'M
hesitatingly shave their nelghbors of their
last dollar. He said these people might
be opposed to these Sunday meetings, but
he hoped the gatherings would go on till
the words of Father Yorke came true. and
a great victory was won by the A. ?. A. in
the coming election.
Continuing, he said: ~ have come to
speak on Nineteenth Century Patriotism
and Its Demands We are endeavering to
demonstrate to-day that there is only one
Government tit to exist-one of the people,
by the people and for the people, We
have twice defended this idea on the field
of battle and have twice shot to death the
idea of divine right to rule" He contin-
ued thus:
No Government has ever done so much for
the welfare OF mankind and the advancement
of woman as the American n Government. There
is q good deal of talk about the new woman.
l don't know what is meant by that. 1t is
nix
self But l know this-that no one is better
equipped than the women to strike at Rome.
Taking up another idea, he said:
We must remember that among our 20, ,00O,-
600 of people We have been receiving the
worthy and unworthy of all lands And to-
day these unworthy have so strong hand on
our interests that IL / want my boy to learn to
be machinist | must go to some recent immi-
grant from Ireland and ask his influence to
carry out my plan. protest against this. This
is wrong and the end of this nineteenth GEN.
tury demands that this be rtghted.
We must put over this unworthy crowd the
little red senoolhouse, and we must see to it
that in that little red school there is no reli-
gion taught except that which teaches love for
that beautiful flag which represents freedom.
He protested against the schoolhouses
being decorated with pictures of st. Peter
and other ecclesiastical individuals or sub
jects and advocated the use of the por-
traits of the great patriots and statesmen
},
An American girl educated in the public
schools OF our country is better than all the
nuns in a convent. Any boy educated in our
colleges and universities is far better than all
the barefoote1 monks mentioned in history.
True Americans care not where man is
born. Let man be but true, let him learn
something Of the history OF our flag, and then
be loyal TO ii.
He spoke of the reconciliation of the
North and South and declared thatithe
South was now as one with the North in
it's fight against Romanism.
1--WE want" he said, mot only men of
moral courage IN politics, but we want
men of moral courage in the pulpits of
our country" He added that many were
afraid to join the a. 2. A. because of the
boycott they feared they would be SUBJ
jected to. 1--WE want men," he said, 'in
the pulpit and behind the counters who
will fight Romanism on every occasion. :"
He thanked God for the few in the pulpit
who dared to fight for what he termed
Professionalism and good government"
and mentioned the names of DIR. Henry
Rev. Donald NJ. Ross and Rev. DR.. w. w.
Case, each name being in turn greeted
with hearty applause. He proceeded as
follows:
The nineteenth century requires men who
are not afraid TO attack Rome; not afraid to
protect our free institutions We measured
the loyalty OF our people during the war by
their ability 10 do, not their ability to saw
never knew man who did not have the abil-
lty TO say. What we now want are men who
will do.
We ought to place but little faith in Rome's
expressions OF loyalty until she desists from
her opposition to our public schools Now, If
Rome is loyal to the little red school, why did
she at Boston on the 4th of July spit at it and
throw briekbats at 1t :? Loyalty to any institu-
tion is not manifested in this way.
Rome says she believes in free thought
and religious freedom he remarked, and
quoted from a Catholic author who de-
clared that free thought was sinful and
simply nonsense. He commented on this
as follows:
Then want to live in the realm of nonsen Sc
forever. The Romanists are anxious for re-
ligious freedom in the United States, but what
are thev doing in South America? If j want to
indulge in religious freedom in any of those
countries must conceal myself where l can
be Meth heard nor seen.
Catholicism is the most intolerant of creeds.
Cardinal Gibbons says that of necessity Ca
tholiclsm must be lntolerant, as truth must
always be intolerant of error.
Patriotism of the nineteenth century de-
plaQdS that the ROmaQist manner of wrong