The New York herald., 1920-12-06
BAPTIST ASSAILS
ARCHBISHOP HAYES
Catholic Prelate's Letter on
Union Club Flag Riot
Is Denounced.
HYLAN ALSO ATTACKED
The Rev. Carl Petty Advises
Noisy and 0fficious'
Irish to Go Back.


in his sermon yesterday with Archbishop
Patrick ]. Hayes on the stand taken
by the Catholic preiate after the Thanks
giving Day riot at the Union Club, OPP
posite st. Patricb's Cathedral.
DIR. Petty. who is of Scotch descent,
said he had no personal feeling against
the Archbishop or the Catholic Church.
but as a good American he resented the
letter Archbishop Hayes wrote to some
of his Pensioners who protested the
attack made on the club by Irish SYM
pathlzers angered because the British
flag was flying. The Archbishop re-
ferred to them as guilty of as nice a
4, piece of church Bolshevism as ever
expect TO look upon again.
I'm addressing you this morning on
the very important and significant COM
munication released to the public press
during the last week by Archbishop
Hayes of the Roman Catholic Church"
DR.. Petty told his congregation, Il
assure you that l have no intention of
maligning that communion of Christians
of which the gentleman is distinguished
prelate.
"As free man on the quest for God
| find 1t necessary to formulate my
statements of. Gods revelations in a
manner very different from my Catholic
brethren. To me much that they take
seriously is Grass superstition and their
confidence in sacrameatv end piiesthoods
! is to me an. anachronistic survival of
pagan magic and necromancy
II wish to eliminate the Irish ques-
ton. ireland is a part of the British
Empire and what attitude Great Britain
shall sustain toward so-called Irish
freedom is an internal problem to be
faced and solved by British statesman
ship. An overwhelming majority Of our
American citizenship resents the en-
barrassng situation that Irish radical
ism has thrust upon us in the way it has
haunted its insults in the faces OF our
British friends and allies.
'This majority of our citizenship is
incensed and disgusted with the presence
of De Valera in America. It was a
humiliation to many loyal citizens Of
this municipality when the Irish Mayor
OF the city hung the flag over the City
Hall at half staff upon the death of the
Lord Mayor of Cork The Protestant
citizenship of this State silently re-
sented the presence of its Governor at
the Polo Grounds in honor of man
who had died while in prison for melting
revolutionary measures against q
friendly nation with whom we had so
recently suffered and bled for the free
dom of the world
"The Union Club affair speaks for
itself. The sincere friends of Irish free
dom, as well as other American citizens,
lament such an outrage of the rights
and privileges of American liberty. 1T
is manifestly unfair TO judge all irish
by the fanatical violence and vicious
ness. OF q few representatives of that
race. but this much can be said The
Union Club outrage has done more To
, counteract the influence of subtle forms
Of propaganda on behalf of the so-called
! Irish Republic than could hours of ora
tory or pages of literature.
/ II want more carefully and fully to
! consider three very significant situations
} involved in the events that led to the
: writing of the Archbishop's letter and
contained in the letter itself. ] would
like to know IL the Archbishop concurs
in the spirit manifested and the senti-
: ment expressed by Father Lavclle In his
Thanksgiving address, when he greeted
the Corkmens Association gathered in
the Cath sdral as the citizens of Greater
Ireland
7 IF on last Thanksgiving morning a
German minister addressing a group OF
conspicuous German citizens in Luth-
, eran church i'm this city had begun his
utterance with greetings to the citizens
OF Greater Germany, you know and
know what would have happened. And
, yet such an utterance on the part of a
German is no more un-American than
such an utterance by Roman priest or
behalf Of Ireland.
/ 81 have felt for a long time that IL the
loquacious friends Of Irish freedom were
s as sincerely patriotic as they are noisy
= and ofIlcious they would find II inrpos-
/. sble to stay In case and plenty In this
Q land when Ireland was in the unhappy
D situation that she Is to-day.
The time has come to spike the
I hyphen in this country of ours. Mer
D who sincerely long for a Greater Italy
a Greater Germany, a Greater Russia
, or n Greater Ireland ought to be willing
l TO make the sacrifice necessary to pro.
1 duce such greatness. But II they remain
. in this country their only loyalty Is tc
: Greater America. It is treachery OF
!. their part to indulge In demonstration
| and give utterancc TO sentiments tha
involve this nation in embarrassing situ
: CtiOnS with friendly Powers
II would like to know and I thinl
America has the right to know II th'
Archbishop concurs in the spirit mani
tested and the sentiments expressed II
such an utterance as the greeting mad
by Father Lavelle In his Cathedral OF
, Thanksgiving morning.
1T would also be interesting TO know
how the Archbishop explains his asser
Z tion that q group OF American Catholics
because they saw at TO protest openl,
and publicly the Churchs silence on 81
crude a display OF lawIessness as tina
of Thanksgiving Day, are guilty o
church Bolshevism
: "This refusal on the part OF Catho
Z lie prelate in America 10 admit tn
inallcnable right OF group OF free In
dividuals 20 protest TO the Churcl
against n civil outrage perpotrsted b,
] an infurlated mob OF the Church's ad
, herents is "a striking illustration OF I
problem that will grow more and NOR
acute I'm Catholicism as the years pass
Il would also like the Archbishop q
r explain the subtle underlying implica
tions involved IN his distinction bctweei
civil and ecclesiastical law. We writes
Just az the right Of the Union Club &
: display any flag on It's own premises !
Z beyond question and guaranteed by civi
law. so the right Of the Corlsmen's AZ
I sociation to come to the church and pra.
= for tho repose Of the soul OF tho lat
Lord Mayor of Cork is equally beyon'
} question and guaranteed by ecclesiasu