The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-01


matter for US TO stand together if we did agree
in our religious belief; but he American prin-
c1ple is thls-that men, thoul h they may fer
in what they believe, yet when II comes down
To the good OF the community and OF the body
polite, when ii comes down to this great prin-
clple oil rclglous tolerance, stand together as
one man. ApplauSe.l
The trouble OF relie ious intolerance is that
II grows on that on which it feeds. You may
pegln 10 persecute a SIN all and an insignificant
sect. but by the force OF logic you are bound to
push your persecution further You may
begin TO persecute the Catholics to-day; you
VIII surely have the Jews Tomorrow and the
Gay alter tomorrow you will have every
Protestant sect that does not agree with you
placed under the ban of this organizat iOn
when is the open sore upon our body polite
Ana not only Catholics and Jews, but the
Protestant Who has a Catholic wife, the Pro-
testant who sends his children to whatsoever
school he pleas s. the Protestant who has
Catholic friend, aye, and the Protestant who
viii not put his neck under the foot OF the
paramour of Il bad woman and do in politics
what that scoundrel dictates. loud applause.l
neither 1t was the effect OF the early ram or
not laughter, l remark that the Rev. W. W.
Case has come out from his retirement. Last
Sunday evening he PAID his respects to your
humble servant and after declaring that those
other learned controversiai1sts have not lelt
me leg to stand upon, he proceeded to try
his own hand al throwing me down.
However, the speaker subsequently con-
cluded, Mr.. Case was scarcely worth vast
ing their valuable time upon. He humor-
mysteriousiy worded advertisement, which
at one time appeared in some OF the street.
cars and which began: Don't be Woody.
Laughter Chew somebody's gum. II
they could only induce the Kew. Or. Case
TO chew some kind of gum and II that
gum would only stick his teeth together
for the rest of his natural life, he-Father
Yorke-believed that DR.. Cases own CO.
religonlsts would be heartily glad OF 1t.
Father Yorke accused DR.. Case OF dis
honest attempt to foist upon the pubic
Credulity a quotation from spurious
French translation of Gury's Compen-
dunn, in which quotation 1t was asked:
Are Roman Catholic priests subject TO the
civil law2 Or. Case gave negative answer.
He Gather Yorke) finally LETT copy OF
Curry al The CALL office, in order to show
the public of San Francisco that after the
question was put-"Are clerks or clergy
men bound by the civil lawp"-the an
swer was not No, but, in plain terms, Yes.
Applause.
He declared last Sunday evening that he had
document which proves me 10 be liar.
viii not return him the word; he may keep it
and use il as often as he plesses but l say here
again that the quotation he gives from Curry is
q forgery from top TO bottom. And ! say TO
the good people of the Methodist Episcopal
church upon whom he is forced for their sins
Ilaughter, that they are sitting at the feet of
man who knows not what the truth is when it
comes to dealing with CatholiciJy.
l tell them-and the responsibility rests upon
their heads-that they are supporting man
who has been shown in the public prints of
this City to have, in questions OF fact, stated
the thing which was not and to have made
quotations and given excerpts which never
appeared in the books TO which he referred
them. l think l can safely leave the Rev. W.
W. Case 40 the people OF this City, and will
further add that If the Protestant religion has
need of such defenders then ii is a sad day for
the Protestant churches OF San Francisco and
California tApplausel
Father Yorke in his third prelude ar
raigned the Rev. Mr.. Fleenor once more,
quoting in this connection several extracts
from that gentleman's last public utter
ance, bearing more particularly upon J..
II. Barry's denunciatlon of the Rev.
Benjamin Hudelson. This Mr.. Fleenor
had characterized as a lie of Rome and
the devil. Ii so. asked the speaker, why
! was not Barry of the Star in jail? Loud
| applause.I The charges had been made
not in genera terms, but with names, and
| unfortunately for the Rev. Benjamin
Hudelson they had been given with date,
and the truth OF the matter was that Rev.
Mr.. Hudelson was man who had stepped
| from the trough OF sensuality into a Chris
tian pulpit and who still reeked with the
vile smell OF the Sums.
The charges against Hudelson are no libel;
the charges are that this man, who hall a dozen
years ago. when he had arrived al the full age
OF manhood, had fallen as low as ii is possible
human nature 10 lAll. he charges are
that in two or three months he stepped from
this state OF degradation into Christian pull
pit; that he is now at the mead OF a society
which accuses the foreign popul alton OF
this country with being criminals which
declares that large section OF
this community are unfit to have Office;
that they and he have come 10 save this coun-
try and protect our institutions. Surely Won
derful saviors. Wonderful projectors are the
Rev. Benjamin Hudelson, the Hon. Mr.. Quit
zow and all his Kiud. [Applause.l Ii the Rev.
Mr.. FleeQOr remains CITY for a few
mon tbs, thereby breaking his record OF con-
tinuous residence in any city in which he has
hitherto been-he may hear something more
a bout the Hon. and Rev. Ben smin Hudelson,
and hear it in the courts of this State Zap
plause.l
The speaker then proceeded TO deal with
the true subject-matter of his address
the little red schoolhouse, or the public
traced from the earliest times down to the
present day. He pointed out that the
modern non-sectarlan system was not in
troduced by the Pilgrim Fathers, as some
people would lead the public to suppose,
but was the slow outgrowth Of intellectual
development. He voiced gratitude of
the Roman Catholic community toward
Arch bishop John Hughes of New York,
who was primarily responsible for the abo-
lition of religious teaching in the schools
of that State.
He outlined his reasons for opposing the
INTRODUCTION OF the BlDle into the pubic
school, and emphasized the fact that the
Roman Catholics rather than risk The
true freedom of education, had gone to
the additional expense of providing
schools of their own, wherein the tenets
of their religion could be installed into
the mind of their children. In San Fran
cisco alone 10000 Catholic children at
tended these schools, at a yearly EXPENSE
OF $500, 900. He remarked upon the in
justice OF the sentiment which dictated
opulaE outcry about "Rome's red hand"
whenever a Catholic sought election as a
school superintendent, while the Pro-
testant clergyman, on the other hand, in
variably showed himself appreciative OF
the spolls of Office.
He reerreI in strong language of con-
domination to g vernon Budd, whom he
accused of reversing for political motives
the action of the School Board of San
Jose by reintrod ucing the practice OF Bible
reading, and further of appointing as
trustee of the Normal School OF San Jose
Henry French, a mem Der OF the A. z. A
He particu arly referred to the episode
IN which Trustee Henderson of this City
recently figured when Council 1 of the
A. P. A. placed him upon his trial
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