Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-26
OF REV. VIM. O'RYAN
Burial of the Dead Priest in Denver
Today.
SIN AGAINST GOD AND SOCIETY
Chancellor Dunno Of Chicago Be-
Plotted in That City.

DENVER. Col. February 2s.-The body
Of Father Leo Heinrichs was taken from
st. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church
today to the Union station, where 1t was
placed aboard the Burlington train to b.
forwarded to Paterson. n. J., the Fran
ciscan fathers American headquarters.
The funeral procession was a notable
one and was witnessed by thousands.
who stood bareheaded as the hearse
passed.
The cortege was led by a squad OF
police. A company Of the knights Of st.
John in full uniform and with drawn
swords acted as a guard of honor. The
knights of Columbus and Representatives
of numerous Catholic societies followed
on foot and long string of carriages
brought up the rear.
For the services at the church every
available seat was filled. Gov. Buchtel
and Mayor Speer being among those
present. Five thousand persons waited
patiently outside until the ceremony was
over.
Solemn high mass was recited and the
service. under the unusual circumstances
attending Father Leo's tragic death. was
particularly impressive.
Rev. Father William Organ delivered
the funeral sermon In which he highly
eulosized the martyred priest.
Sermon Of Fr. o'Ryan.
Rev. Father Organ said in part:
THAT any sermon Is attempted on this
solemn occasion is not because Of Father
Leo. the simple Franciscan friar. who il
dead. nor even because Of the high Of
fense against the Almighty Father Of us
all who lives, but because or the society
in which We live, and its outrage and
loosened bond of law. Crimes such as
that OF last Sunday are assaults on no
mere Individual; they are against you and
men and all Of u.s. They strike and
tuary whence breathes the very life OF
the civilized state.
Father Leo was struck down, the muir
derer confesses, because he was priest
and not for any fancied grievance or
imagined injury that the murderer had
received from him. He never knew the
dead priest; he had never spoken with
him: their lives except in that one dread
touched. Nor did he kill him as priests
have been killed, in hatred of his special
creed. But the fiend knew that the priest
was some outward symbol and present
ambassador of that only authority by
which kings reign and magistrates exc
cute justice and human law rears itself
In awful dignity and finds It's sanction
the authority and governance o: God.
And because the murderer had revolted
against Gods authority his rebellion went
n lnoiC2l
tion: he revolted against its presence in
the world of human law and broke 1t until
II gushed human blood He revolted
against it's outward symbol. the priest.
and slew him.
Logic Of Anarchy,
The hour was logical. The anarchist
is never truer to his diabolical principles
then when he siays a Catholic priest and
Stays him at the altar of God. It mat
ters not that the individual priest pos
sesses little of the worlds power or goods
nor desires them for himself; it matters
not even that he is a follower of that
blessed Francis, who chose Lady Poverty
for his bride and gave his great love to
the poorest things and the most unloved.
Wherever he is the Catholic priest in
some great way carries In himself that
church of authority and of God. and e.-
ternalizes her to men. He is an officer in
that great army whose tramp Is heard
around the world whose discipline is
most perfect; whose organization is most
ninutely refined; whose banners are for
ever set against the enemy Of disorder
and anarchy in the hearts. in the speech
and in the actions of men opposed to
just human government and divine rule.
Yes, he was logical. He might hate
the ministers Of other Christian bodies.
but not with similar hate--the impotent
hate that slays, for they. alas. are too
divided TO be dangerous to him. He might
hate king. for he rules; but kings CONF
and go and kingly policies, have their
chances and changes
But the Catholic priest is slain but to
live. and the Catholic policy. the Catholic
accents of morality are unchanged and
Interchangeable as the throne of God. He
saw this at home in Italy. He saw that
there is not the parliament of the king
that saves his crown to him; II is not the
army Of Italy that saves her from the
spelling OF the socialist and the red hand
on the anarchist. Though weakened by
many OBJECTIONS. the one strong. coherent.
unyielding power is still an imprisoned
pope and an ill-used church.
Society Stands Mute.
".And hence the whole foul brood OF
them. the socialist who breaches and the
anarchist who translates the sermon into
red deeds. come here hating the church
and the priesthood. Here they learn to
to US, the power OF our President, the
wisdom Of our senates, the majesty Of our
courts and the quiet dignity OF our homes.
Great God. brethren, what are we do
ing? Oh what are we thinking? A great
President OF our country is slain by de.
generate who was nerved to the deed by
socialist and anarchist yaporings. We
read that anarchy has it's seat In New
Jersey. that she sits I'm council In New
Orleans or Chicago. They have a propa-
ganda, a red press. AN appeal TO reason.
forsooth. We are made aware. that soms
of them come here from southern and
eastern Europe in every shipload. and
with supine indifference we look on. Have
we found the pearl beyond price that We
may roll 1t into the dust like a childs
plaything? Have We grown so cold in
our love toward the fair vestal. liberty.
that we feel no Indignation when the ruf.
fan and the stranger treat her as II she
were the harlot Of the public placer
Fears Other Murders.