The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10


"Ladies and gentlemen and friends:
There are some people who wonder why so
large a number can come here Sunday
after Sunday and never grow less in their
enthusiasm They say it is wonder that
we do not get tired of all this nonsense.
ut reminds me very much OF the little
boy who paid visit to his grandmother,
and who, while she was busy knitting,
went into the cupboard and ate up all her
pumpkin pies. She wondered it did not
kill him. But we said we are all not con-
stituted alike and SO it is with us. The
reason why we can come here Sunday
after Sunday is that we are not all consti-
tuted alike.
81 suppose our friends who have been
delivering those addresses showing the
loyalty and patriotism of Catholics have
convinced their hearers that their state
ments are all true, and they have, perhaps,
convinced themselves that they are true.
There was lawyer in Dallas, Texas, who,
in his peroration in defense of his client,
while addressing the jury said, Il am satis-
he'd that my arguments have convinced
you OF the innocence of my client, for my
client is almost convinced of it him Self
and so it is with our friends. They have
almost convinced themselves that they are
loyal and patriotic.
''They have discovered in the American
Protective Association an un-American
society, which they presumed to be uncon-
stitutional, the liberty of man."
The speaker then related the story of q
member of the Illinois Legislature who
was always objecting TO things on the
ground of their being unconstitutional.
Abraham Lincoln, the lecturer said, was
member of this Legislature and on one
occasion, for the benefit OF the objecting
member. related story regarding GER
tain gentleman who fired three shots
through his window at what he supposed
was Sqlrrel in tree near by. The squir-
rel failed to fall, and the marksman called
the attention of his son to the fact of the
squirrels wonderful escape. The son
looked for the squirrel and then at his
father and soon saw the solution of the
mystery. Addressing his father he said :
"Why, father, you old fool, there's bug
on your eyebrow, and that's what you took
for squirrel"
That" said the speaker, sis what is the
trouble with our friends. There is moth
ing more than bugbear in their own eye
brows.
''Our subject to-day is. What the Popes
Say
''Do you want to know Rome's attitude
regarding all our institutions? Then 60
to the head. 1t is the Pope who speaks
with unquestionable authority. Up to
1870 infaIlibility was vested in the Pope
in the Pope alone. The Pope, whose word
is a law from which there can be no appeal,
whose triple crown symbolizes that he is
the ruler in heaven, earth and hell, speaks
for the whole Roman Catholic world, and
never did mortal man claim such absolute
monarchy as does this man in Rome
Let Us hear to-day what the Popes say
and take warning and act the part of wise
men to protect the cause of freedom.
II want to DrOVH To Won TODAY from tho
statements of the Popes of Rome that
Rome is the enemy of religious liberty.
Pope Plus VIII declared as follows in
one OF his encycllcal letters: The Govern
ment OF France demands that we shall
allow the free exercise of all forms of wor-
ship. This article IS opposed to the Cath
olic religion and We have rejected it,
Thus, according to Pope Plus, the Roman
hierarchy forbids us to worship God ac-
cordlng TO the dictates OF our conscience.
Our liberties to-day are in the balance,
and the more priests We have upon our
shore the more in danger are these liber-
ties. They want to make US a present of
the Pope. They want all things subor-
dinated. When potentate of India has
grudge against a man he makes him a
present OF a white elephant, knowing that
its care will eventually ruin him. Our
Catholic friends want to make US present
of the Pope and his rule. 1 say my
tnem Keep IQelr white ele-
phant; we don't want it.
in the year 1915 Pope Plus VII pro-
tested strongly against the council of
Vienna granting Christian nations the
right to worship as they please.
In 1918 Pope Plus VII was successful
with the King of Naples in having the
Catholic religion made the only religion
permitted in the kingdom.
fThe new constitution of Ecuador de-
PiaraQ of ha Iio
shall be Roman Catholic to the exclusion
of every other form of worship. And so
our Catholic friends ask us to look abroad
in the world and to behold the great things
they have done for humanity. We are
doing it this afternoon.
This reminds me of the doctor who
referred his complaining patient who ap-
peared to lack full confidence in him to
his other patients, and who was somewhat
taken aback when the lady in question re.
piled: i have never learned the dead
languages.
''The design of Rome in the United
States is to abolish freedom, to execrate
and undermine our constitution. | say
that we, as American citizens, will not sit
supinely by ard see this done. We will
not allow ourselves to play the GClliyer To
these Lilliputians.
81 now quote from the encyclical letters
from another Pope. 1 quote from Pope
Gregory XVI. In his letter OF August 15,s
1882, he said: From this indifference
grows that absurd agitation in favor of
liberty of conscience which is everywhere
attempting to overthrow religious infiu-
ence. This is the pest of all others which
is bringing about the liberty of opinion
why, the opinions we are expressing
here from Sunday TO Sunday are diametri-
cally opposed to the teachings of the Ro-
man hierarchy But, thank God, we live
in free Americal
81 have it in evidence from past ex-
perience that minds religiously free will
be politically free also. Now our Catholic
friends in San Francisco claim that all
members of the Catholic church are free
politically, according to Pope Gregory.
But we know that the man who is bound
religiously is bound politically, and l set
Pope Gregory against Father Peter c.
Yorke.
1.-The Pope could not exist without
kings; the union of the church is essen
tial to its safety. These principles are
utterly at variance with our republic and
the republic is at variance with the hier-
archy. / say that whatever other nations
may do | can speak with confidence when
l say that the American people will never
recognize the Pope of Rome either as
Cesar or God.
"Pope Plus TX said that the Roman