The San Francisco call., 1896-04-27
This Declared to Be the Atti-
tude of the American Pro-
tective Association.
ADDRESS OF REV. A. M. RUSSELL
Chauncey Parke Talks of the Need of
Greater Moral Culture Among
the Masses.

There was large attendance at the Good
Citizenship meeting yesterday afternoon
at Metropolitan Temple, Rev. A. Nj. Rus
sell and Chauncey Parke being the speak
ers of the day.
The former was new advocate in the
cause of good citizenship, but met with
the hearty approval of his audience from
the very start.
He announced that his subject would be-,
"The A. P. AS; the best friends the
Catholics have" He then spoke as fol-
lows:
Now, am serious about this. say in
perfect sincerity the principles of the A
P. A. are better calculated to strengthen
their institutions than anything else.
say this because We are working for the
enlightenment of the Catholics. They do
not know their own history, except as
they get it from Father Yorke and such
vile sheets as the Monitor. Every intelli-
gent man knows that these are falsifying.
They tell only such part of that history as
suits them. There are dark, horrible
chapters in. that history that they never
refer TO.
Neither do the Catholics understand
the genius nor the purpose of Protestant
ism. Therefore say it is the part of the
n ~. W CLAlBnlC tleIu Oh These
points.
II feel that the A. P. A. is not only the
best party for their enlightenment, but for
their liberation. A dog may wear collar
so long that he would feel the loss of it.
| say so it is with the Catholics. They
have no proper conception of liberty; the
priests are their masters.
IL want to work along another line now.
l want to show some of these Catholics
how they can put money in their pockets"
This elected few scattering Misses from
the gallery. Scarcely hesitating, the
speaker continued:
"Oh, heard goose when 1 was boy,
but L have never been afraid of one of
them-then or since. Laughter and ap-
plause.
81 repeat, want to show the Catholics
how they can make money. / know they
love money, and l say this with all sim
cerlty. Why, Catholic cannot be born
without paying his priest for the privilege.
he must be baptized as soon as he is born,
and that is as bad as paying for the privi-
lege of being born. Then take the matter
OF forgiving sin. The Catholic can have
his sin forgiven by going TO the priest and
paying for It, l am just as capable of for
giving sin as the Pope of Rome. He is
false pretender. l would rather put my
hands III mans pocket and steal his
money than get it In this way. But there
are many ways, l tell you, of railroading
the money into the pockets of the priests.
But our Catholic friend may get tired
OF this and say: We'll, l will get rid of
this burden of taxation by the priests by
dying But i'll this he is mistaken. For
the Catholic priests even follow a man to
the grave. anG When they get him there
they keep him there. Why, it is more
difficult TO get out of the clutches of a
priest than out of the hands of the devil
After a man is dead his estate is as
s. = L.
leaves nothing his friends are taxed with
this burden. So long, in fact, as there is
dollar to be extorted from relatives or
friends the mans soul is reported to be
suffering in purgatory by shese pretenders.
.! repeat, then, that the A. z. A. is the
best friend the Catholics have by exposing
these impositions for their benefit. profit
and enlightenment.
The priest holds soul in purgatory
until he gets ready to let it go. Shame on
men and women who allow themselves to
be so deluded. We should do our utmost
to hberate them from this terrible bond
age OF the soul to which the Roman
church mas confined them for the past 1000
years.
Chauncey Parke was then announced.
He SAID:
II propose to speak to you in regard 70
our personal interests in the public well
rare. This involves good citizenship. and
good citizenship involves good govern
ment."
The speaker attributed the prevalence Of
crime and lawlessness to the failure of So
ciety to educate its individual members in
a proper moral manner, as punishment
he declared, was known not to be a sue,
cessful deterrent of crime. He advocated
not only protection for social. civil, politi-
cal ana religious liberties, but thorough
educatlon in regard to them. so that every
man and woman would have a proper COM
prehension of these matters.
Il believe" he said, ''our Nation an.
proaches these conditions most nearly. bit
even 1t is a long way off, There is too lit.
tie attention paid TO moral education and
Ine creatlon OF good and manly character.
Fear of punishment is depended nno,,
rather than the proper education of the