The San Francisco call., 1896-03-04

politan Temple to hear Majes t. C. Ryan's
lecture, given under the auspices of the
W. A. P. A. Council No. II.
The meeting was opened by the
audience singing America, after which
]. Mearnes played on the piano medley
of patriotic airs.
Rev. DR.. W. W. Case, acting in the
capacity of chairman, introduced the
speaker of the evening, Major Ryan, but
before doing so made a few preliminary
remarks, in which he took occasion to
congratulate the A. P. A. cause on draw
ing so large house on such clustering
night.
'There would be more here" said he,
"were il not for the reason that so many
of our A. p. A. friends are out digging our
opponents out of the snow banks. for we
at is well known" he continued, that
we are not contending against political
Romanism and Jesuitism.
ut is not our wish to injure the feelings
of our Catholic fellow-citizens or to stir up
the bad side of human nature Protest
ants recognize equal rights among all
classes OF citizens, irrespective of creed or
color.
"There are tens of thousands of Roman
OdlhOliSo III Oon IIanCiotO " NJ ACScihG
and command universal respect.
"The Roman Catholic church does not
consist of these nor OF the laity at all. 1t
is composed of lordly and tyran-
nical priesthood, certain members of
whom, the archbishops, own all the
church property and dictate the entire
policy of the church subject to foreigner
in Italy who has never set foot on our
shores. and who never will.
stIf 4 Ia nnnh n tbic
priesthood to destroy the public school
system of this country.
"They must have exclusive control of
the education OF their children or they
will lose their power over them. They
live for Romanism.
II fancy the priests would willingly give
the whole of Lone Mountain could they
but get the power thereby to blot out the
exposures and revelations OF monstrosities
of Romanism which have appeared during
the last six months. The speaker con-
tinued:
Does some one cry out, Cui bono? What
good? Has any one been converted:to Prot
estantism? / answer yes But that is not the
test. The last six months has been q seed
Hundreds have begun to think more closely
than ever before. They will go on thinking,
and as they think they will get light, and in
the light Romanism cannot flourish. Many q
no priest or Pope can shut them.
AS young Italian said to me the other day,
''The priest, he no damn get me to confess to
him some more; he got nuff to confess he
self" All honor to b. NJ. Rossl D. NJ. D..
must stand for David. Like the shepherd king,
he has slain the arrogant and boasting Goliath.
Or, IL not slain, he has taken TO the woods,
thinking, perhaps, that "He who fights and
runs away will live to fight another day"-or
run away.
But we would not be harsh We rather pity
him. He had q had PQrhapS
could have done better. No man can make
out his case in favor of Romanism in this
country and in this age before the great grand
jury-the people. 1 rejoice with you in the
splendid results of this discussion. Untold
good will result, gentleman OF note in Glas-
gov, Scotland, who read one OF my addresses
In this temple same months ago chow 1t
reached him cannot telD, wrote recently to q
forwarded 10 me, said: "Tell DR.. Case we have
no fear OF Rome in Europe, for when she lost
her temporal power she reached her Cay of
doom. She will never rise again." so We be-
lieye.
But came not here to talk. came to intro
duce the distin inguished orator of the evening.
A minister once introduced brother minister
TO his congregation to preach some thing after
this manner: "The Rev. DR.. Blank will now
preach to US on the subject OF the Devil, and /
am sure We shall have an able discourse for /
know the brother is full OF his subject" The
speaker of the evening will address you on the
principles of true American.sn, and, without
any left-handed compliment, can assure you
he is full of his subject.
Major Ryan then spoke as follows:
The subject present to you tonight was born
out of an incident l was present at the
Roman Exposition at Chicago, commonly
day when the President of the United States
opened this exposition by one of the most
patriotic speeches ever listened to.
believe this speech will be handed down