The San Francisco call., 1897-02-27
Y0BKE AN WERS COYLE.
The Chancellor Denies That
This Is a Protestant
Land.
Says That 1t Is M-rely America, the
Land cf the Brave and the
Free"

OAKLAND, CAL, Feb. 26.-Rev P. G.
Yorke delivered his postponed address to-
night at the Macdonough Theater in an
swer to DR.. Coyle, who lectured on what
Liberty Owes 10 Rome" two months ago.
The speaker commenced his lecture by
stating that he proposed to take up DR..
Coyle's arraignment of Catholics para
graph by paragraph. He then said in
brief:
II we could bring our minds to the improba-
Die hypothesis OF the Oakland preachers
agreeing on any subject in the heavens above
CT on the earth beneath we might take DR..
Coyle's pronunoiamento as the official reply of
Oakland's preacherdom 10 my iast lecture
But This is not so, and presume that after a
year OF Wendte they may apprec. ate a few
months of Coyle.
DR.. Coyle says he has no quarrel with Catho-
lies, but his quarrel is with the church. This
is absurd. He does not attack me but he at
tacks the mother who bore me. strange logic
that, indeed. But away with such pretenses
DR.. Coyle can do no such thing, for the two
are inseparable. Elizabeth hanged Catholics,
not because of their individual religion, but
because they were loyal to the church, and the
same prosecuting blood flows in Dr. Coyle's
veins. DR.. Coyle is but one OF tens of thou
SANDS who have gone uD against the church
OF God, and the blows from which evangelical
preacherdom still reels were struck by Protest.
ants, who were not afraid to be fair, and they
nave demonstrated that the Protestant revo-
luton threw back the march OF civilization
over 200 years.
What proof has Dr. Coyle brought of his be-
lief? He makes assertion after assertion and
he has trayersed history backward and for
ward from the twelfth century even to the
present day. Like the energetic politician he
has claimed everything in sight, but unlIk
the wise politician he has not produced sim
gle fact 10 substantiate his claims. You have
heard or read his address, and challenge you
10 name single principle of good govern
ment which he has ascribed 10 Protestant
teaching. / challenge you to mention single
fact in the history of people struggling to be
free that may with justice be applied to their
reli gious belief in The Reformation. He has
it is true, made long catalogue of alleged
sggressions by the Catholic church on non
Catholic communities
Suppose every word OF 1t were true, does it
prove that Plotestantism is favorable TO The
rights of man? If prove that Mayor Dayie IS
the candidate of the saloon element in this
town does that demonstrate that Mr.. Thomas
is the chamDion OF prohibition? If he wishes
TO prove that Pro estantlsm is in favor of civil
and religious liberty !et him show the doc
trlnes OF Proestantism, or of the leaders of
Professionalism, which make for that belief
Let him explain away the standards of his
own faith and the standards of his own
theology. Let him name & single Protestant
sect in any age or in any country which did
not perseeute not only Catholics but all other
Prolestants when ii had supreme power Then
we may begin to admit his claims then we
may begin 10 believe that the preachers have
not been the brakes upon the whee,s of
progress, then we may begin TO hope that
civil liberty, or q measure OF religious free
dom, or a concession TO popular right, which
the ministers OF DR.. Coyle's denomination and
the men OF DR.. Coyle's stamp have not cursed
in its inception and have not tried to neutral
ize in its execution.
Your lecture, DR.. Coyle, was spoken for the
purpose OF influencing this coming election.
and was spoken for the purpose of influencing
it in favor of bigotry. You are The leader of
tho Sc candidates, men and women, who have
given their solemn promise that no Catholic
girl shall teach in your Oakland schools And
in this same connection you say let in the
light, and yet you exclude the Monitor and
the Star from your library.
DR.. coyle says that Catholic countries are
not fit to live in. How is this? In England
one person in every thirty nine is q pauper !;
In France there is only one pauper in every
145.
But, no doubt, what is at the bottom of all
DR.. Coyle's trouble is the United States and
the Pope's Irish. Let me tell Dr. Covle that
the United states is not Protestant country
and it's Government is not founded on Pro, es-
tant principles There are seventy millions of
people in this country and not fl teen mil
lions belong to any Protestant church The re
Is not principle in The Declaration of Inde-
pendence that may not be paralleled in the
writings OF Catholics hundreds of years before