Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-06
OF RED FLAG,
THE SONG OF BLOOD
Father Brann Denounces the
Demonstration in Gotham.
SHAME OF THE LEADERS
Horde of Foreigners Would Not Be
Permitted to March Elsewhere.
DISPLAY UN-AMERICAN, HE SAYS
Such Professions Create the Stuff
Which Breeds the Murderers Of
Presidents, He Asserts.
DISPLAY UN-AMER1CAN, HE SAYS

NEW YORK, May 6.-The Rev. Father
Henry A. Brann, rector of ST. Agnes Cath
Ole Church, at Ii3 West ADD street, stood
near the Grand Central Palace Saturday
night when the parade of socialists and
union labor men flung itself against the
hall, cheering the red flag, shouting the
Marseillase'' and bowling that Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone must not be con-
victed
Later, when the crowd broke up and
roared through the side streets, Father
Brann, in front of the rectory, at 141 West
43d street, heard more cheers for the red
flag, denunciations of President Roosevelt
and yells of applause for "our martyrs,
Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone." The
priest, who is himself in sympathy with
union labor, carefully observed the make
up of the parade and the character of the
demonstration.
Yesterday morning at high mass in St.
Agnes Church Father Brann delivered a
sermon on The Necessity of Religious Edu-
cation preaching before a congregation
composed in part of union labor men who
are his parishioners. These he compared
to their great advantage) with the men
Hc iidu SeeH tiic H6ht oSioiO la ehS peAA
carrying red flags and singing what Father
Brann called the song of blood, murder,
rapine and anarchy" Such men and such
demonstra tons. he told his congregation,
were un-American, disloyal. hostile to the
country which protected them Exhibitions
of that kind, said Father Brann, produced
assassins of the character of the man who
murdered Mckinley
ST was crowded Yesterday at high
mass.
Religious Education.
THE necessity of religious education"
said Father Brann, lis illustrated when I
observe that 200 union labor men were at
communion this morning, showing that they
have conscience and the religious belief
necessary for purity, honesty and the Of
servance of the laws, and then compare
them with TIE procession of last night.
That procession was made up of men
and women who profess no religion at all.
but, on the contrary, profess doctrines that
would destroy our country. In that pro-
cession there were flags that proclaimed
hostility to the rights of property and to
good order, and. consequently, hostility to
our national flag.
The hired bands ignored our good old
American airs, like The Star Spangled
Banner and Hail Columbia and instead
habitually played The Marseillaise,' which
IL national air of blood, rapine, murder
and violence.
A Striking Contrast.
"he contrast showed that in the one
case-the labor union men who were at
communion this morning-we had men of
conscience because they had religious con-
vctions without which, as the father of
our country, President Washington, said,
| no state could be permanent. On the other
/ how ~, tln I'D Iacf :ntnf fharn
was no conscience, nothing but hostility
to our institutions and to the chief eXecu-
tive of our republic.
Most of this horde were foreigners who
would not be allowed at home to have any
such demonstrations as they were allowed
here. If they had attempted such meet
ing in the countries from which they came
the authorities would have interfered and
punished the leaders.
That demonstration last night was In
bad taste, to say the least, and leads me
to suspect that some unprincipled politf-
clans paid for the hall, the flags and the
bands from sinister motives. That horde
could hardly have paid the expenses of last
nights celebration.
The Priest Cries Shame.
1T is a shame for such leaders to use
the vilest and lowest men in the city for
such an exhibition, and thus to influence
the passions of a mob SO that some one of
them might assassinate our admirable and
honorable President as one of the same
vile horde murdered President Mckinley.
THAT lamentable exhibition shows the
necessity of religious education for If there
is no belief in God and no practice of the
ten commandments our country can not
last. This horde used the privilege it got
when it was permitted to land on our
shores, and such exhibitions lead me to the
belief that we ought not become the dump
ing ground for the refuse of Europe
1T would take five such men as l OBJ
served in that mob last night to make
mentally and physically one such man who
| came to communion in my church this
morning
In his study at the rectory yesterday
afternoon Father Brann discussed the dem
| onstration of Saturday night even more
| seriously. He said that it appeared GER
| tain to him that lawless men, men Of no
religion, were being used by dangerous and
| wicked labor leaders and politicians. 1t
seemed ominous, he thought, that at this