The San Francisco call., 1897-11-23

that heroic struggle for liberty and the
part the Catholics took in it. He referred
TO the esta bllshment of the constitution
OF the United States and the gradual dis
appearance of the laws prohibiting Cat O.
lies from holding office The ghosts we Z
lalo Tor time, but with the immigration
between 1920 and 1880 they were revived
agaln through the instrumentality of the
Orangemen, who had brought their hatred
OF Catholics with them from the old
country. Churches and converts were
burned and the inhabitants subjected TO
great indignities ana many outrages were
perpetrated on the Catholics. Continu-
ing, he said:
The microbe OF bigotry has period, like
the microbe of yellow fever or cholera. From
1880 to the Civil War, every ten years saw an
out break of fan aticisn. In 1884 we had the
burning OF the Charleston convent; in 1874
we mad the native American riots: in 1854 we
had the KNOWN Nothing riots AS yet we have
considered only the ancient ghosts, which
hourlshed in England. and which were i'm
ported here. In the forties we met with q
new ghost, which had its origin on this con-
tinent, and which is in very truth our own
ghost.
Speaking of the establishment of what
are now known as parochial schools,
Father Yorke said:
The schools of Philadelphia were modelled
on the same plan the schools of Massa-
chusetts The Protestant Bible was read to
the children, and naturally the Catholic
parents complained of this an abridg.
ment OF the rights of conscience. In 1S44
Blshop Kenrick petitfoned the School Board
to allow the Catholic children use the Catholic
Bible He did not ask that the Protestant
Bible be excluded; he simply asked that the
Catholics be permitted to adopt that version
which their church sanctioned.
The petition was misrepresen ted, and mis-.
represented designedly. The cry went forth
Ca n
from the schools The preachers as usual took
up the cry, and the ghosts OF the little red
schoolhouse and Rome's red hand scared the
Quakers. The Orangemen of Phllade phia, all
foreigners, were the back bone of the native
American party. They got up great meet
ing TO denounce the Pope, ana they also tooA
care to get up riot This has always been a
familiar trick of no-popery mobs. We have
had some specimens of it in this CITY, and we
know the dexterlty with which they can Gre
ate disturbance among their own ''plug
ugl1es" and then saddle the blame On the
Papists.
In Philadelphia this trick was tried with
success. The mob began an attack on the
houses occupied by Cath olics. Naturally the
Catholics defended their property and some
OF the rioters were justly killed. Next the CRY
was "to the nunnery." rush was made foI
the house occupied by the Sisters of Charity
but volley from lew defenders drove the
scoundrelly towards off.
The riots which followed were treated
of and the growth and decay OF the
know Nothing Party" Father Yorke
concluded by saying:
The end of the anti.Catholic agitation was
at hand. The great struggle between the
North and South was looming up. In 1856
the Know Nothing party was swept out of ex-
istence in the North. 1t fingered IN the
South but greater issues killed it there too
The cry of unpatriotism made against the
Cath holics and the Irish was drowned in their
answer TO Lincoln's call for volunteers, and II
h f,f ffnnir ri,
front The war brought Catholics and Prot
estants close together, as they had been
brought close together in the days of the
Revolution. For time Our Own Ghost was
laid in blood.