The San Francisco call., 1896-09-22
Protestant Preachers Blamed for
the SCATTERING of Moral
Forces.
TWO QUESTIONS FOR FLEENoR
Editor Barry as Chairman Pays His
Compliments to Leaders of
the A. P. A.

with full house at Metropolitan Hall
last night, where he delivered the fourth
OF the series of SIX lectures he has under
taken to give under the auspices of the
American Women's Liberal League. The
subject of his lecture was "Ministering
Angels" The usual hearty applause
greeted the Catholic cham pion's entry
upon the platform. He was accompanied
by James II. Barry, who acted as chair
man of the evening. In maklag his open
ing remarks Mr.. Barry said:
81 understand full well that you are not
applauding the individual, and therefore
1 appreciate those cheers. I know it is
the cause humbly represent that you APP
plaud-the cause of civil and religious
liberty"
After paying a tribute to the work of the
American Women's Liberal League for
its work in the cause of true liberty he
said:
''Of all the factors that have been op-
posed to the A. p. A.-conceived in in
fanny and carried on in shame-none have
been more potent to bring them into con-
tempt than the American Women's Lib
eral League.
LET me instance what these A. P. AS
are. Only few months ago l was stand
ing up against the best patron | had. l
denounced the Supreme Court for Its de-
cision. Suddenly l discovered he was
member of the a. P. A.-that he was at
their meetings and saying, we must keep
these proceedings secret while we are try
ing to free the country from the red hand
OF the church OF Rome
THE very day l found he was an &. P.
a. he visited my house with his wife.
talked OF nothing but A. 2. A. and told
him how bad it was to be an A, P. A;
hon hoI - .fo- : -,oSy,a
be an A. P. A; how bad it was a man who
desired to sit in judgment on his fellow
man to be an a. 2. A, and ali the reply
he made was to nod his head"
His reference 20 Winthrop, who was
yesterday sentenced To life imprisonment
by Judge Wallace, as an A. P. a. ELECTED
great applause. lit is a pity" ne con-
tinued, "Lhat they were not all sent in one
job-lot to prison." He placed Outflow,
who defended Winthrop, and Price, who
was convicted of dealing in obscene litera-
ture, In the same category with Winthrop.
Price boasted, he said, that 1t was impossi-
BILE 10 convict kim; 'but we shall see that
this lecherous scoundrel is punished"
added the speaker.
1.-The man who could live OIL woman's
shame only ten years ago-and he is 40
years old now-and say il was only boys s
indiscretlon, is a reptile worse than any
other on this earth. This is what l think
of BENJAMIN F. Hudelson, the grand presi-
dent OF the a. p. A." continued Mr..
Barry.
''Give it to him, " shouted some one in
the gallery.
Il am sorry" responded Mr.. Barry, "to
say tnat in this case 1 am euchered.
can't find words to describe him in the
English language.
Nearly three years ago there stood on
this platform a man called the Rev. J. O.
A. Henry and man named Slattery, who
sIandered the purest women on this eartn.
The only reason, they said, they could see
for my action IS that l have been hypno-
tized by Father Yorke and that [ am in
the pay of the Catholic church.
al never realized the infamy of the a. P.
A until my attention was called to an arti-
Gle printed in the a. P. A. organ attacking
the purest-mlnded women we know"
He read part of the article which broadly
implied, be said, that four LADIES who took
the oath of noviates were to become in
mates of religious brothel. He next read
his defense printed in the Star of the
women who had thus been attacked. 1t
was these women, he said, that Father
Yorke would talk about, and this was his
excuse for bringing up these unpleasant
matters.
Yorke's appearance.
''Where, oh, where has Fleenor fed p"
he began.
''Only short week ago he was rampant
on this platform. Can it be that only the
single question why he left Oakland
will ask him TWO more questions, so that
he may continue to flee.
"Why does he sign himself from Seattle
when he knows all about Ukiah?
"And the second question is: Did he
ever have anything to do with insane
asylums?
''Isy the time he answers these questions
there may be story to tell.
even the honorable Mr.. Outflow was
compelled TO hold his nose yesterday and
to apologize for one of his orators. Every
one OF these reverend and irreverend men
connected with the A. P A. have histories
which stink in the nostrils OF decency.
THE Rev. DIR. Goodwin was in evidence
Yesterday. giving the parting kick to the
Pope of Rome. He nicknamed me the
Czar of San Francisco and paid me the
compliment OF saying that had exiled
him. 1t is poor compliment, though, TO
call Los Angeles Siberia. 1 want to tell
him that l am not poundkeeper of
preachers. The Methodists seemingly be-
lieyed that change of climate would do
him good.
'eWho is responsible for the shattered
condition of the moral forces of this City2'
1.-THE preachers" came from an auditor.
"The preachers. You have said it, and
said it well, =" shouted the speaker.
''But they are not altogether RESPONSE
BILE. Inere is certain Jlme IN the uoR
days when all the cannes go mad and
there is period few months before cleo
tion when the wheels in the heads OF the
preachers begin to go round and hate
takes the place OF patriotism. The men
and women-our brethren, our friends,
our neighhors. members of the Protestant
churches who permitted their pulpits to
be desecrated by montebanks--they are
responsible, and they are TO be pitied, not
to be blamed Let them look over their
desecrated and ruined churches and let
them know that this is Gods judgment.
"One of the peculiar means to protect
our American institutions is this war
upon women"
He referred to the discourses of Henry,
Slattery, Case, Fleenor and others directed
against the sisterhoods of the Catholic
church, and continued:
II do not come tonight to make any
apology for tue Catholic sisterhoodS.
Their lives and their work speak for them.
True men who make no profession of re-