The San Francisco call., 1897-08-20
FATHER YORKB
AND THE LION
Lectures on "The lingo
Jubilee" and Scores
the English,
Gives the British Tail a Twist
and Criticizes the
Jubilee.
Says 1t Was a Great Carnival of
Grief and Shame for the
Irish People.

Rev. Father P. G. Yorke delivered an
interesting lecture under the ausl ices OF
Company I, League of the Cross Cadets.
at Mission Parlor Hall last evening.
There was a large and apprecialive audi
ence present and the speaker was fire.
uuently interrupted with bursts of ap-
plause.
Father Yorke chose for his subject,
"The Jingo Jubilee" and those who went
to hear him, expecting that he would
twist the lions tail, We're not disappointed.
The English Government came in Tor
some pretty hard raps and the Queen her.
self did not escape some words of CEN
sure.
After the introduc ion of John OGara
as chairman of the evening, there was an
Instruments song by Miss Esther Hig-
gins; vocal trio composed OF ]. d. Va
lerga Charles H. Parish and Mrs. Lulu
VaIerga, and solo by Miss Eta Welsh.
The chairman then introd duced Father
Yorke, and the audience soon showed
that they were in full accord with the
speakers utterances.
Father Yorke began by saying that he
had been speaking so much of late that a
friend had advised him to follow the ex-
am pie set by the town pump and dry up
but he felt it his duty ever to respond to
the call of tenn perance and for that cause
his services were always to be com manded.
Coming TO his subject the speaker referred
to the Irish mem bers of Parliament who
had refused to participate in the recent
jubilee.
What was this jubilee he asked.
WAS it merely o personal cee bration to
the lady who rules over the English peo-
y,oI tr,L
woman, good wife; woman who was
fond of her children and her family. Good
women are not so scarce but that we could
get up a Jubilee celebration for them in
this country.
s'Being a good and honest woman is no
such extraordinary virtue that the papers
of the United States should be filled with
il. There are thousands Of good women
who do not receive iublees. Therefore
the celebration could not have been for
that purpose. 1t was glorification OF
system of government. II was a govern
ment setting itself before the world to
celebrate its great achievements. There
fore, it is open 10 criticism. And when
we crit cize the jubilee we are not casting
M I'D at a coed woman"
Referring to the famine in India, Father
Yorke said:
''At the time when this great Jubilee
was going on came the voice of a people
from far across the Eastern seas, and men
who looked with eyes of knowledge-men
who saw not what the papers said but
who saw things as they were-saw through
the long expanse Of Asia and heard the
dying cries of starving multitudes One
hundred millions were said to have been
spent on the jubilee, but there was not
one dollar 10 buy bread to put in:o the
mouths of starving women and children.
India has always been great and rich
country. Every conqueror since the world
began has looked with envy upon the
treasures OF India, and now she has come
by plunder and fraud into the hands of
the English. England is responsible for
the want and suffering existing there.
What have these people to jubllate
aboul2"
The speaker then referred 10 the famine
fund OF $3.50 0G0, 900 which England was
supposed to have with which 10 relieve the
starving people. and said that when they
came TO look for it they found that the
officials had stolen it. The malad no mis-
tration of the English Government was to