The San Francisco call., 1896-03-14
M0NAST|C|SM IN AMERICA
Major T. c. Ryan Declares It
Has No Place in the
United States.
HIS VIEWS ON THE SUBJECT.
Converts and Monasteries Alleged to
Be Maintained in Defiance
of Law.

Major T. c. Ryan, the eloquent speaker
again attracted g large attendance to Met
ropoitan Hall.
President B. F. Hudelson Of the State
Council of the A. P. A. opened the meet
ing by asking the audience to sing Amer
ica." This done, he spoke as follows:
FRIENDS: 1t is not my purpose to attempt to
make speech or anything like speech this
evening. / am before you principally to per-
form duty that is laden with pleasure and
honor-that of introducing Major Ryan. Since
his coming into our midst we have been made
to realize more than ever our great response
bility in this tremendous hour OF our country s
life ana history.
If there is an American within the border
lines of the United States to-day who does not
realize that this is critical hour in the history
OF our Republic, that man is not alive to the
issue and his eyes have not yet opened to look
upon the great and momentous questions and
problems with which we are confronted.
| am glad that in the far-away West the peo-
pie are becoming aroused as never before-the
people are thinking as they have not thought
for very many years. And after studying the
situation carefully for q year or more in the
profound conviction that the people are so
thoroughly aroused in California that with
two or three exceptions it is all absolute i'm
possibility to elect to any office in any county
of the State any man who is under the domin-
alton and control OF the Roman Catholic
Church.
This is certainly encouraging. and. as we
think OF this, we can, indeed, coneratulate our
selves. Friends, let us, as true, liberty-loving
men understand that we are standing for
great principles. Let us ever rise above these
little chickering's; these cOntem ptible questions,
when compared with the momentous qaes-
tions confronting US. This Is an hour when
hear voice and call from the Almighty God
to every man and woman in America to rise in
l,o;r hf n dot hail ty m 61yfv Tot
hear that voice and forget the little things.
The hour is coming when we, like the faith
ers of this great Republic, must forget the little
questions on which we have been divided
in all our work, there shall be that harmony
that conduces to the upbuilding of our great
order and the observance of the great prin-
cples that conduce to the up-building OF our
magnificent Government and the perpetuation
OF our American institutions.
In introducing Major Ryan he paid a
high tribute to that gentlemans elo-
quehce and probity. Major Ryan spoke as
follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t
gives me great pleasure to stand before this
audience in the discussion of what to me is a
great question. l have chosen for my subject
"MonasticsT has no place in the Republic"
hope to impress you with the thought that in
. land of liberty there is actually no place for
an institution into which the citizen of good
repute may not walk at any time and investi-
gate as to its character.
A real man ought to be able to govern him
self; q real man ought 10 be able to pray for
himself; real man ought to be able to fight
for himself, and q really honest man ought to
paw all his bills himself. We are now too much
inclined to leave these duties to others. The
duties of American citizenship fail to impress
us as they. ought. We fail to remember that
our liberties have been handed down to us at
q tremendous sacrifice of blood and treasure.
We fail to remember that nation. is a family
largely extended and that father always en-
deayors to prevent the introduction into his
family of anything detrimental or menacing
to the best interests of his family. The same
holds good of Government, which should pre-