The San Francisco call., 1896-05-28
ing by Protestant preachers were mini
mized.
Continuing, he said:

m1ZeQ.
Continuing, he said:
A Britisher, Henry French, in defiance of
State enactments, has introduced Bible read
ing into the Normal School at San Jose. He
has, besides, removed every teacher with
Catholc athliations. This alien, who became
naturallZeQ American citizen short time
before Donald Ross, overrides the law with
lmpunlty because the sectarianism taught is
not Catholic.
Catholics are not spologizing to any one for
their paroehial schools. The parochial school
system is the crowning glory of the Catholic
church IN America. Catholics are not asking
LOT privileges, or rather rights, in this matter
OF education which they are not willing to
concede 10 Protestants the world over. When
ever and wherever Catholics are in the ma
Jority they cheerfully grant to Protestants
their own schools.
The Catholic church stands for Christianity,
and 1t is through these parochial schools that
she has preserved Christianity in this country.
Those preachers who rant and rail against the
Catholic church to-day forget that If it were
not for her the Christianity which they repre-
sent would be nothing more than tradition
here at the present time. If the Catholic
church were removed from the country the
preachers would soon become lonely 'spelicans
OF the wilderness" Their occupation would be
gone.
How much they really owe to the Pope they
so roundly abusel How thankful they should
be that he continues to exist! Do they ever
reflect what would become of them If there
were no Pope to abuse2 Perhaps in secret they
pray for his preservation When they retire
10 the evangelical chamber they pray no doubt
with JUNCTION: Ion, God, preserve the Pope;
keep him for thy love for us. For what would
were no Pope?" Gratitude may yet impel
them to erect church in his honor.
Take the local triumvirate of country savers,
the oracles of the A P. A. on both sides of the
6ay-Major Sherman, DR.. French and James
Taylor Rogers-and compare them, not with
Clay, Calhoun and Webster, but with the
leaders OF former days, and an apology will be
due those leaders for coupling their names
with the triumvirate of to-day.
sherman the First was proved by the Monitor
TO be the great test liar from the Yukon to Terra
Gel Fuego. His senile vanity impelled him to
try to get the Monitor 10 admit that he was the
greatest liar on earth. But the Monitor would
greatest. To say that he was the greatest
would have implied the possession of more
brains than the Monitor credited him with.
The grip of the teredo on the Oakland piles is
not frmer than that of the Sherman teredo on
every society and church organization in Oak
land. There is no tradition In Oakland that
he ever did q legitimate days work in his life.
Only recently, you will remember, he said
he was on terms OF intimacy with the elder
Foote. Skilled in tortuous finesse, past mas
ter in the art of deception, the old intriguer
for social position selects men as his acquaint-
ances who are either too dead or too far re-
moved by distance to put in disclaimer. He
dared not claim acquaintanceship with the
Attorney-General or Billy Foote. They were
alive and near, and the imputation, he knew,
would have been Indignantly denied.
This Is one type of leader. Dr.. French is an
other. He is the obscure pill-mixer, who fail
ing to get the public TO take his pills, wanJed
the public to take his Rose on the police force.
The public would have neither his pills nor
his Rose History affords scarcely q parallel
OF such unexam pied patriotism as this. He is
willing to forego the companionship OF the
partner OF his joys; he is willing to live alone
like cave-dweller at the foot OF Bernal
Heights that his Rose. dressed in q suit OF navy
blue, may save the country by clubbing horrid
men off the grass and looking after everybody
else's children, even to the neglect of her own.
Now 1 come TO the third type. That is James
Toxr lori for tn Nav SrTfr
The speaker ridiculed the assumption
also his aspirations for what Father Fergu-
son called literary fame. In reference to
the latter point, he played all the possible
changes of satire on the financial pubica-
ton of which Rogers is the author. Con-
tinuing, he said:
1t was reported a short time ago in the news
papers that the Mayor, like some of the preach
ers, had wheels in his head. Various reasons
were assigned for this obfuscation which
seemed to have settled upon him. They were
all wide OF the mark. The collapse of Sutro S
brain power can be ascribed to nothing else
than the close relations which he has held
wi tn James Taylor Rogers.
1t is this kind OF EN- pirical demagogues who
officer the knights of the dark lantern. They
are invariably men whose contemplate
abilities utterly unfit them for position or
place in either of the old parties. They are in
variably men whose utter disregard for de-
dency and Unsuitable greed for Office make
them worthy leaders, whose spurious profeS-
sions of patriotism excite ridicule and disgust
in the minds of every true American. They are
worthy leaders of society which is prepared
at all times to perpetrate the unspeaksble out
lawry of proclaiming one day that il is in ex-
istence to prevent Catholics from holding any
position OF trust or emolument under the Ma
tional, State or municipal government, and
ready the next day to proclaim that it makes
no war on any man because OF his religion.
Father Ferguson here related an Incl
dent connected with the last days of Web
ster. The dying statesman asked to view
his favorite band of cattle He was taken
to the window, and as the animals passed
before him he exclaimed, recalling the
trials and disappointments of his political
career:
az love the honest faces of the animals.
They look what they SEEM"
Father Ferguson then rounded out his
discourse as follows:
1t is appalling to think what might have
been the result to Webster in his weakened
condition If the A. p. AS had existed then
and those attendants through some mistake,
instead of driving up his favorite herd had
driven up the long-eared band whose initials
as well as whose acts stamp them as the Ag-
gregation of Pusillanimous Asses If the old
patriot had not dropped from his chair stone
dead from the anomaly presented to his
view on the lawn in the aggregation posing
as patriots, purifiers and country-savers, he
would have turned his face to the wall and
cried, "Take them away. Take them away. l
hate the dishonest faces of these animals.
They DON'T look what they seem. They are
Republicans part OF the time; but they are
beats, spurious and belated patriots all the
time"