The San Francisco call., 1896-05-09
long record of intolerance and persecu-

tion.'
Quotations from Hallam and others were
repeated, and then the priest continued:
81 say, as l have said before, that l find
no pleasure in reta ling the misdeeds of
the fathers OF the Protestants, but l wish
TO show that if we are to be judged by
what our ancestors did, there is nothing
more against US than can be charged
against the Protestants."
Father Yorke took up the early history
OF the Protestant church in England, be-
ginning with the time wher ''the light OF
the Gospel" as he remarked, twas seen
in Anne Boleyn's eyes,
"Now. the Scotch" he continued, "haye
way of doing things thoroughly. When
they abolished the Pope they also abol-
ished the Bishops, and priests also. Only
one thing was more hated by the Scotch
than the Catholic Pope and clergy. That
one thing was the English Bishop. When
they first saw the Bishop who was placed
over them they did not like him. And it
is recorded that one woman arose from
her seat-they had no pews in those days,
and each person carried stool. This
woman arose and took the stool by one
leg, aimed it at the Bishop and-missed
him.
The narration of this incident was re-
ceived with laughter. Serious extracts
from the English historians were next
read to show the Catholics were perse-
cuted in Great Britain. "And yet" the
lecturer added, "people with the taint of
these outrages fresh upon their characters
come here to say how the institutions of
this country shall ne run"
What Professionalism Did for Ireland"
was the subject of another branch of the
lecture.
zone class of Catholics is singled out for
reprobation. We who ara thus singled
out even from our fellow Catholics rejoice
in the term of our disapprobation and we
are glad to be called the Pope's Irish
1.-THE people who have wronged the
Irish, and who hate them because they
have wronged them, and for no other rea-
son, are not content with what they have
| done at home, but have crossed the sea
with their hate. And we believe that the
organization which is now exercising its
| hatred against the Irish Catholics is sent
out from England. There is no action
taken against the German Catholics.
Italians are told that the oBly--obiect OF
the organization is to fight the Irish. Over
in Alameda County the organization gets
very effectively the Portuguese vote, and
| it tells the native California Catholics OF
| the south that it loves them like brothers. ="
Telling the story of the treaty of Linn
| erick and the Parliament violations of it,
] the lecturer said: "Remember that the
people who composed that Parliament are
the ancestors of the A. P A
THE A. P. A. has not yet come to the
| point at which they want to prevent the
| Catholics from voting. 1t does not care
how much they vote, so long as they have
| only Protestants to vote for"
The persecution of priests was made the
subject of powerful and vivid picture oi
| life on the Irish moors, when 65 was the
| reward for the head of priest, and f5 was
| likewise the reward for the head of a wolf
Following out that line of the discourse
Father Yorke stated that it was made q
matter of outlawry for any man to send
| his son or daughter out of the country to
be educated. The hedge schoolmsster did
his work in secret, and in spite of the
power of the British Government he
taught the children to read. Sometimes
the children went to the graveyards to
learn their letters from the headstones.
Their only path to education was over the
graves of their sires.
Education was not stamped out by the
Orange A. P. A.
And yet, in spite of this awful record
the people whose ancestors were RESPONSE
bic for all this dare to come and tauut the
Irish people for their ignorance"
The lecturer said that he would not at
tempt to place responsibility on the de,
scendants of those who carried on the old.
time persecution. To trace back fal
enough would show that all our ancestors
perhaps, were either cannibals or pirates
but that should not make all people enc
mics. But if the question of ancient intol
erance is to be raised at all it will be found
that the Intolerance or the persecution wa,
not all on the part of Catholics.
Father Yorke stated that in the confess
between Catholics and Protestants, wher
ever the Jews appeared the Jews appeared
to get the worst of it. He compared that tc
the case of the person who interfered in the
auarrels of man and wife. He quoted
from a life of Martin Luther an extract
severe upon the Jews, that the books of the
latter, and even the Old Testament should
be taken away and that rabbis should be
compelled to work for living. In com.
parison to that he read from an editorial
in The CALL of April 6, 1894, which edito-
rial in reviewing Graetz's History of the
Jews" said:
| Not the least interesting chapter in the story
| is the one which relates to the experience OF
] the Jews at Rome. When all Europe was hunt
ing down the children OF Israel they found a
safe retreat under the shadow of the Vatican
| Other potentates connived at persecution or