The San Francisco call., 1908-11-16
STIRRING SERMONS VOICE
INDIGNATION OF PUBLIC
Pulpits Ring With Praise of
Wounded Prosecutor and the
Condemnation of GrafferS

OAKLAND, Nov. 15.-From the pull
pits of east side cities today there were
| given to crowded congregations tc
| hear words of tremendous force from
pastors whose righteous protest was
made against the evils which culmln-
ated in the attempted Staying OF Fran
els J. Heney No event since the as
sassination of President Mckinley has
so stirred public sentiment. Evidence OF
the deep feeling which has been aroused
was given today in the many houses
of worship where the crime was the
subject of discourse.
Right to the root of the situation
did pastor after pastor go. They ex-
coriated the boughten press. They held
up Hearst and his Examiner, De Young
and his Chronicle, Dargie and his Trib-
une. Calkins and his Globe to the scorn
of men. They denounced these men as
perverters of public opinion, dealers in
the paid lies of the associated criminals
of San Francisco.
With unanimous voice, the clergy
men demanded a new order of things.
They awakened their hearers to the
tremendous responsibilities OF the day
and they pledged united support in the
fight to control and to put down for all
time the viciousness which has been
predominant in the campaign against
/ those VINO are pdltltHS LII idN, OlUCA
and decency.
Rev. H. J. Vosburgh, D. D., pastor of
the First Baptist church. preached this
evening on The Attempted Assassi-
nation Of Heney" He scored the hired
press and blamed these venal newspa-
pers for the conditions in San Fran
cisco.
Rev. Leon L. Loofbourow, pastor of
| the Eighth avenue Methodist church.
/ A.
cities BY name he held up to public
scorn Hearst, Calkins, Dargie, linked
with Ruef, Haas and the higher ups.
His subject was "The Unholy Alliance y
The clergyman said
At the close of the Napoleonic
! wars Russia, Austria and Prus-
sia formed the holy alliance. This
was for the maintenance of reli-
gion, peace and order in Europe.
In the shooting of Mr.. Heney we
are confronted with another of
the acts of an unholy alliance,
which exists for the destruction
of righteousness, peace and or
der. We have the. struggle of
justice, of the law, of government,
to maintain itself And against it
alliance of the saloon, the subsi-
died press and the vested inter
ests.
If the prograft papers had not
had subscribers and advertisers
they could never be published. No
one decent man makes possible
the subsidized paper. But the
nickles and half dollars of one af-
ter another finally enable it to
live and do it's corrupting work.
One of our greatest difficulties is
that many right minded people
Will let a debauched paper do all
their thinking of civic matters.
The people can kill any newspaper
through its subscription list If
our decent people refuse the sub
sidized paper they can very large
ly kill its influence.
And back of both saloon and
purchased press in this business
is the vested interests. Mr.. Henev
used to call it ''the system" BY
whatever name we call it. it Is
the aggregation of capital so
greedy that it cares not for truth
or human life. Back of Claudi-
anes, Haas and Ruef are the finan-
cial interests that say the prose-
cution must stop. for it will hurt
business. Back of Hearst Cal
kins and Dargie are those same
interests. Gallagher knew where
some United Railroads money had
gone, so Gallagher must go. Henev
was that day getting the story
told again, and Heney must go.
Ruef must not go to San Quen-