The San Francisco call., 1908-03-13

"a ing holy communion by demon who Judas
like had moment before received the blessed
sacrament from his hands, marks still another step
the development of anarchy the United States Only
few weeks ago Chief OF Police Shppy was ridculed and
IN many quarters severely censured for having employed
what styled unnecessarily repressive measures
against the local colony of reds Today as result of
the henous crime perperated in the name and in the
cause OF anarchy the entire country awakened the
imperative need of immediate action if we are to escape
from the disease which is eating into the heart of
European government the form of propaganda that
ntoerant of all whether social civil or religious
The murder of Father Heinrichs in spired by the
same motives, melted by the wild TRADES against
established society," that prompted the assassination of
President Mckinley. The assassin in each case was
a deluded weak minded degenerate who had been mad
dened into the commission of crime by hearing the
criminaly suggestive literature of gentlemen" anarc
lists, who, too cowardly to out in person their
diaboca plots against society play upon ignorance
and the criminal instincts of their unfortunate victims
until they have goaded them bloody acts of violence
such that which has just been recorded The anarc
ist is much victim he whom he murders Before
God the responsibility for the crime rests with the
moral assassin who from the safety of the platform or
the editors desk arms the hand of our modern Cain
The nation owes it itself as well as to the
maryred priest of Denver exterinate the cowardly
propagandts of anarchy who have dedicated themselves
their unholy principles.
Giuseppe Alo is Italian. That signifies nothing
Inc Italian people in Chicago asvel elsewhere
in the mass law abiding and deeply religious people
They are devout members of the church. and loyal c
zens OF the state The nationality of the
tutes no reflection whatever upon the Italians. But
among them to be found coteres of evil minded and
foul hearted who banded together for the pur
OF disseminating principles that make for social and
religious unrest and that seldom goad unfortunates
like Ao to terrible crimes 1t is against societies of this
kind that the city, the and nation must protect
themselves and their citizens
We do not hesitate TO place the Gordano Bruno club
OF Chicago in this category to public well
fare evil thing that the city police would do well
to kill 1t has been established here by paid official of
the Free Thought Club of Rome, the society which
celebrated the anniversary of the Haymarket riots
by disgraceful orgies upon the streets of Rome and
brutal insults to the priesthood of that city.
The Catholic church has time and again been
by her enemies to be the one great
conservative influence among the immigrant classes of
our cities She is looked today an essential
factor IN municipal government. In her schools in her
asyums thousands of the citys children are DEVELOPED
along lines which lead ideal citizenshp-for religion
and morality are the groundwork of citizenship Her
hospitals, her refugees are day and night to the
sick and the OF the city Her sisters are to be
found like mnistering angels seeking out poverty in
order to relieve it, and in order pour upon
the balm of sympathy. Have the sisters and the priests
ever proved recalcitrant to the commission of Him in
whose service their lives consecrated? "The noor
you shall have always with you Is not the influence
OF the Catholic church in Chicago as in every other citv
OF its kind, influence for untold good? Why then
IS this society organized under the auspices of gentle
men anarchists club of Rome and subsidized by money
from the same souSce allowed exist among us and to
fling its vile obscentes and its blasphemous caumnies
IN the face OF the cy Its campaign against Catholic
church springs from the intolerance of social order
and hankering after social and chaos that inspires
the propagandst OF radical socialism anarchy which
is the ultimate goal of Giordano Brunoism
We do not know whether the passionate speeches
delivered recently by members of the Gordano club or
the vrulent editorials appearing in its official organ La
Iribuna taliana to be considered responsible for
the murder of Father Heinrchs The evidence at pres
ent at hand show that the murderer actually
attended the meetings of the club and after being fred
with the basphemous denunciaton of the church. went
directly to the OF his crime What is important
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