The San Francisco call., 1896-05-04

history of Italy and contrast it with that of
England and we can readily see why instead
OF a commercial people sending their ships TO
every port ii has such people as seek our land
reasons for this. In our own country you will
find that from the day the pilgrim fathers set
loot on plymouth Rock it has been the onward
march of one grand principle.
John w. Draper said: Rome never con-
sidered man as an individual, but always as a
thing. She might in her power have stopped
to mercy, but never to benevolence."
What contrast that presents to our own
country. Here the tendency has ever been to
sword from General Lee, instead of, like the
Romans, binding to their chariot wheels,
he extended his hand and said: Let US have
peace" That day is without parallel in hui
man history, and the American people showed
they had risen to a plane where they could
look upon vanquished foe brother
When thus compare tne two principles 1
am not hitting at the ola church. 1 pity il
from the depths of my heart. / am not hitting
at any individual. l pity all within the pale
of the church pity our friend Yorke was
once student in q Roman Catholic institu-
ton and learned some things have taken to
my heart I want to tell P. c. Yorke, if he
doesn't know it already, that some day he will
and not an individual. When he has served
its purpose he will be cast aside as filthy gar
ment- How many men have been cast down
from the highest ecclesiastical authority sim
ply because he dared to think for himself? No
priest in this City to-day dares to think be-
y0nd Wnat is written In the ecclesiastical laws
of his church.
A few DAYS ago q gentleman said to me,
Doctor 1 am half inclined to think our re-
publican form of Government is only an ex-
pertinent" thought back to the time when
this country, only little handful of people,
held in check the proudest Nation of Europe.
Surely the republican Government was not
then failure. Then / thought of the war of
1872. There was no failure there. So l thought
along the line of our progress. / said the
world never saw anything like this before.
Why do they call 1t an experiment. reviewed
our public schools. / said the man is mistaken
in considering il an experiment.
II you have men who do know the principles
experiment but if you have men at the head
OF the Nation who are schooled in the grand
principles of freedom the experiment will
always be a success.
There is only one thing that will make our
Government q success, our public schools.
While it may not be fattering to our vanity,
there is q principle in the fact that the young
think earlier than we did. do not believe in
nsubordination, but / would hate to have
son who thought he could go no farther than
had thought. Let the teachers bring out the
works in literature discoveries in science and
men competent in statesmanship.
The first OF Rome's subterfuges / wish to
speak of is the parochial school. Send your
boy TO a school where he must take off his hat
and bow his head at the sight of some shaven-
faced man ? Never. (Applause.l Teach him
TO give implicit obedience to an old man across
the sea Never. The cause embodied in that
old flag is the grandest the human mind ever
conceived. Send him where that flag floats
and he will come out ready to think for him.