The San Francisco call., 1898-10-26

was careful to make no alluson to any church clergyman Protestant Catholic, and ly and, as l believed. honorably. AS far as the press was concerned l have there rested my case, but a lengthy article in to-days issue of The Call. dealing with my letter. forces
 Let me state here. MT. Editor. that well come in the main the article referred to. be- cause 1t goes to substantiate every one of my arguments or assertions. The head and front of my alleged offense Is my belief that the evil should be impounded and compressed. in- stead of diffused." still cling to this belief, for the continuous impounding and compress ing of thing tends inevitably to its destruc- ton. But the author of the letter in question in order to show the falsity of my position quotes the destruction of Sodom and GomoTah an example that is entirely on my side. When God wished to stamp out the wickedness of other cities and towns? Certainly not. Hav- ordered the departure of Lot and his family he burned out the evil and eVll-doers on the very spot where they had existed. If, then, the example of God is to be followed the evil complained of in this city should be stamped out on the spot where it has existed from time immemorial. I am far, however, from sug- gesting for the work the agency of fire or sword.
 The example of the trafhcking in the temple Is most unhappily quoted, because there Is no parity in the cases. and l refuse to believe that some of the statements connected there with have come from any clergyman. The buying and selling in the temple are stated the immoralities committed in his neighbor- hood. This is fearful doctrine to lay down!
  sections in themselves, and they could only have been unlawful from being carried on In a sacred place, but immortality Is essentially sinful in itself and never admits of parity of matter. When the writer likens buying and selling to revolting carnal crimes he makes light of the latter and forfeits all claim to public sympathy in his
 The writer asks the question: Did he hesi- tate lest the miscreants, being driven out would occupy other temple?" Let me inform the writer that this the only temple In Jerusalem. and that the traff1cking and scourging did not take place within 1t, but only In its precincts
 The author of the letter admires my illus tration of confnng a fire within limits and quenching 1t there or allowing 1t to burn itself out, and yet, illogically and impliedly, he main tains that these women should be scattered over the city for the eradication of the evil. That immortality is a necessary evil' no priest will assert, and the clergyman that would hold such a doctrine should be economically de- graded.
 Finally, MT. Editor, let me re-defne my po- children attending the public schools, the con vent school the day home and the Sunday schools of this section of the city, and these children are threatened with moral destruction. There are also here thousands of adults. male and female, threatened with an invasion of women worse than that of any plague epi- demic. Now in the front of these children and adults I shall stand, and if the fallen females and their male companions that infest the To- cality between Pine and California streets ter this parish 1t will be when I shall be over powered in the struggle T. CARRIER.
 October 20, 1898.