The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28
DenounCes TraducerS
of Their Calling.
EDWARDS INSULT WOMEN
WARNED AGAINST CLAIM OF
MARGARET SHEPHERD. Q
The Catholic Champion Scores the
Escaped Nun" and Extols the
True Daughters of the
Church.

Church.
To the Fair-minded People Of the City
of San Francisco: 1t is with the deepest
am compelled by duty to call your atten-
ton to the insult offered the Catholic
people of this city by this mornings
Chronicle and Examiner. l am ashamed
that American men could have fallen so
low as to further campaign of calumny
against American women. The managers
of the Chronicle and the Examiner knew
what manner of creature Margaret Shep-
herd was. You know what manner of
women the sisters of the Catholic church
are. The managers of the Chronicle and
Examiner have CARRIED a common wanton
from England in the sacred robe of Sis
ter of Charity. From their columns this
morning her leering face looked out to in
suit us with charges than which nothing
more deadly could be devised against the
honor of men and the virtue of women.
While the managers of these papers have
been pocketing the price of Shepherds
shame, while the unfortunate creature
herself is pouring out her ISLANDERS to her
dupes, thirty sisters of the Catholic
church in the pestilential environs of
Santiago are smoothing the pillows and
bathing the brows of American soldiers
whom the yellow fever has laid low. 1t is
a shame, an indelible disgrace that
American men and American papers
should join with a shameless vagrant to
asperse the name of these absent hero
ines and to cast mud upon a garb that is
one of humanity's most glorious boasts.
But Indignation is even stronger tnan
shame. We have in this country ib-
erty of speech; but liberty is not IL
cense. No man would dare to proclaim
publicly in this town that Protestant wo-
men were all immoral. Should any man
do so the daily papers would fay him
alive. Many time and oft the arm of
husband or brother has written liar on
the cowardly hide of less guilty sland-
erers and the world has applauded their
act. But 1t would seem that in the
eyes of the managers Of the Chronicle
and Examiner Catholic women are a
class apart. A convicted swindler can
accuse them of every crime under he
sun and the columns of the Chronicle
and Examiner are at her service II
bands resent these ISLANDERS against
those who are nearest and dearest to
them, they are accused of sitting free
speech. Liberal minded men will never
consent that there should be one meas
ure for us and another for those who
defame us. Our nature is not different
from the nature of our fellow citizens
of other creeds. We have the same
parts, the same passions, the same affec-
lions. Love is as strong in our souls.
Injustice as bitter: Are we, then, to
Chronicle and the Examiner wound US
in our hottest tenderest feelings? Fell
low citizens, we should be worthy OF
every evil thing that might be said of us
were We to leave such an insult unre-
buked.
Ye know who and what we are We
are not wandering strangers. staggering
drunken from Jail to Jail. Our homes are
here, our lives are known to you; we are
part and parcel of this commonwealth;
we do not shirk our burdens; we do our
Against US comes this woman leaning
on the arms of the managers of the
she?
BY her own confession and by the let
tiers of such personages as w; T. Stead
of the Review of Reviews and Florence
E. Booth of the Salvation Army we know
the following facts:
!. The woman who now calls herself
the names of Miss Douglas, Georginia
Parkyn, Mrs Westly, Miss Probyn,
Louisa Egerton; Margaret Herbert, Mrs;
Riordan Isabella Marion, Adelaide, and
Miss Truefitt.
O. She represents herself variously as
of soldier, of Lord Archibald Douglas,
of Solicitor Truefitt and of others.
8: She is a bigamist and has two, prob
ably three, husbands living.
4. She was never sister or nun.
5. She is a notorious liar.
6. She has been common wanton, a
swindler, a forger, confirmed drunkard,
and has been several times convicted of
various crimes and sentenced to terms of
Imprisonment.
7. She has been confined In Hoxten
Lunatic Asylum, England.
s. She was an inmate of the House of
the ar Goe 6e Mep for
g. Afterward she was taken by the Sal
walton Army in England while leading
life of shame and the Army found her ut
terly incorrigible and disreputable and
had to cast her off.
10. In nearly every place she has been
she has left unpaid debts for accounts
run and money borrowed.
II. She is in the cause of slandering
Catholics for money
u. Even the Apaists In the East and in
Canada were compelled to cast her off
This is the character OF the woman
whom the Chronicle and Examiner have
set before the people of San Francisco in
the garb of sister of charity. The evil
dence which sustains these accusations
was in the hands Of the editors of those
papers several days ago. Therefore they
cannot plead ignorance. They knew what
they We're doing and they believed that
the time had come to forget the lessons
of the mast few wears and revive the war
upon Catholic men.
| may in conclusion ask our non-Cath-
Ole fellow-citizens one question There
Catholicism. Did you ever hear of con-
verified Protestant lecturing about the
iniquity of Protestant churches or about
true convert is not minded. and were
a hypocrite to undertake such a campaign
Catholics
against such dissertation of the Catholic
name.
To all liberal minded men and women
let me offer this word of advice. The
Shepherd woman is here with manager
and their sole object is to make money.
Keep away from her hall, keep away
from the approaches thereto, let there be
I no word or sign to give her the chance to
raise the cry that she is persecuted. They
! themselves at her meetings. No others
would be seen entering her doors. Where
| the carron is there shall the kites be
gathered together.
And If any one should not know what
Catholic women are, let them go to the
soldiers who are. waiting their country's
call at Camp Merritt, Camp Miller or
Camp Barrett Let him inquire there what
these Catholic ladies are doing day in
and day out for the boys in blue without
fee and without reward. While q mer-
cenary adventures is using the Chronicle
and the Examiner to SANDER them for
hire they are like the master they worship
quietly and unostentatiously doing good
| Oh. it is a cruel thing that men should be
found to offer even the shadow of an in
| suit to these angels of God on earth.
| Yours truly PETER G.. YORKE.