Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-28
ARCHBISHOP FARLEYS PLEA
Attitude of the French Clergy &
Noble Spectacle, He Declares.
GREAT MASS OF CHURCHMEN
Ten Thousand People Were Turned
Away From the HipPodrome-
300 Police on Guard.

NEW YORK, January Zo-len thouSahu
persons had to be turned away last night
from a meeting in the lIippodrome TO pro-
test against the attitude of the French gov
eminent toward the Roman Catholic
Church.
. Every seat and inch of standing room In
the great theater was taken and for more
than two hours the audience was kept at a
height of the keenest enthusiasm by the
addresses of Archbishop Farley. Judge
James Fitzgerald. John ]. Delaney. John
G. Agar and others.
In anticipation of the crush the police
preparations were more far reaching than
has been found necessary in New York
since Dowie held his meetings in the Madi-
son Square Garden. Inspector Walsh had
two hundred and fifty patrolmen, fifteen
mounted policemen, three captains, five ser
Reants and ten roundsmen on foot to handle
the crowd. and the result proved that this
force was none too large.
More than an hour before the doors were
opened there were long lines of men and
women clamoring for admission, and at
O'Clock one of the lines, four deep, reached
as far as 9Th avenue and ADD street on the
south and up 9th avenue to 46th street and
over to 9TH avenue on the north.
But only those who had made an early
enough start to be in the lines within 44th
and 43d streets gained entrance as reward
for their patience.
AS soon as the great building had been
filled to It's capacity of about seven thou
sand which took only the first ten minutes
after the doors were opened, WORD was
passed down the lines that no more would
be admitted. 1t feared that there would
be difficulty in persuading the people to dis
perse but in short time there were only
here and there little knots of disappointed
ones bemoaning their misfortune.
Archbishop Farley in his scarlet cope
and mitre. occupied the center of the stage,
with many of the most prominent priests
and Catholic laymen in the east grouped
about him. At his right sat Moran j.
O'Brien, who presided with the other
speakers at the side and Immediately be-
hind the archbishop.
Denunc;ations of the acts of the French
government in bending efforts, as the speak
ers declared. to destroy the church in
France. and praise of the churchmen in
their hour of trial were received with tumul-
tuous applause.
Archbishop Farley Speaks.
THE noblest spectacle before the eyes of
the world this day is the entire body of
French bishops and clergy standing side by
side. their churches plundered, their SEM
inaries and homes closed taking up the
work of spreading the gospel without scrip
or staff. as poor as the apostles after Pen
tecost,' said the archbishop. The govern
nent OF France stands dazed at such I'M
looked for sacrifice today. 1t had counted
on al least schism amongst the priests
and bishops, which would be the beginning
of greater sorrow than has yet come upon
the church there. But the astute govern
ment has been outdone by the simplicity of
truth.
THE French government and those who
have sympathiZed with its legislative cru
elites have sought, by subtle cunning, to
cast the blame of the present disorder In
France on the sovereign pontiff but the
action OF the holy father appeals with con-
ndence from the French government to the
parliament OF the world. Heretofore only
one side of the case was presented to the
world, and that one side was hostile to the
church, but of late the case of the church
IL being listened to, the organs of public
opinion that hitherto have had only words
OF condemnation for her attitude now are
confessing their error. recognizing the
church's right to complain and condemn
ing the course of her enemies.
Public opinion is beginning to see that
the fault lies wholly with a government
that has never kept faith with the vicar
OF Christ; that has arbitrarily repudiated
Its most solemn contracts whose purposely
deceptive and evasive laws have no guar
antees. whose policy has been persistently
marked by insncerity. dishonesty and in
sults-an intolerable condition that had to
be resisted by the invincible non possumus'
of the head oil the church.
Government Policy Cowardly.
'Intimidated by the fearless challenge,
the French government has resorted to the
cowardly policy of the unstable PLATE:
See you to it,. they say, we wash our
hands and are innocent of the blood of this
just man. But, my dear friends, all the
water in the vast ocean between them and
us cannot cleanse their bloodstained hands
of this sacrilegious guilt
This is but one of the many trials which
the church had to pass through in her
mission of mercy through the ages, and as
al. II,
children seemed to despair of her. so shall
II be now, for the gates of hell Shall never
prevail against her.
such will be the issue of the present
conflict. Plus has spurned the hypoc-
Hsy Of a Herodan government and has
bade them feel that weakness is not weak
hess. that concession is not surrender.
His attitude, unchanging and unchange-
1be, recalls the sublime figure of Gregory
vi In times far darker than these; he has
Teen no less firm, no less courageous than
PAS Innocent XI with Louis XIV or Plus
VII with Napoleon: and as these heroic
hontiffs won glorious triumps, so Plus X
and his cause will live when his enemies
are forgotten and their memories held in
mslediction."
Conspiracy, Says Judge.
Judge Fitzgerald. preceding the arch
bishop, said. in part:
The question which agitates France to-
day is not alone a Catholic question; it is
a blow at civil and religious liberty the
character OF which. II permitted to go I'M
rebuked, would be destructive of that most
sacred of all rights-the fundamental basis
of our American Constitution-the guaran-
tee of the unalenable right of every indi-
vidual to worship-God in accordance with
the dictates of his conscience.
In addition to the political objects at
tempted by striving to force union of
the church and state, with the state in
the ascendant, the government at Paris Is
perpetrating a vulgar robbery, regulating
all the obligations OF a contract while re-
tanning every one of its advantages.
There Is no aspect upon which this
question can be examined that does not
entail the condemnation of honest men,
We place II before our fellow citizens in
It's true light. And we know that the
unanimous protest OF the American people
generally. without regard to religious diff
ferences, will unite with us In denouncing a
project which, no matter how plausibly 1t
may be set forth by its advocates and de-
tenders, constitutes naught but a bold
conspiracy to stifie conscience and legalize
plumber"
Given Four Months in Jail.
Just as Elliott Roberts. colored, was 60
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