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A conference was held In San .Francisco Thursday of representatives of tha
Merchants Exchange, the San Francisco Produce Exchange, the San Francisco
Board of Trade, the Manufacturers*, apd Producers' Association of. Californla.-the.
Ship-owners' Association and • the Merchants* Association. This conference ex
pressed its condemnation of the Examiner* in the following resolutions: ¦ •
"Whereas, The daily Examiner, of, San "Francisco has, through its columns.
\erily, it would appear that the workingmen of. San Francisco have reason. to
pray to be delivered from their friends. God knows that in the struggle now
on their loV is -a hard one. . Deprived of labor themselves, there is want in th»
home3 or thousands. The conditions that have kept the necessities of life from
wives and children would long since have ceased, and the trouble would now be
over, but for the Examiner's course. And now this demagogic priest., whoso
occupation and prominence gives weight to what he may say. no matter how
unreasonable and ridiculous, adds fuel to the fire and urges strikers to a course
that means their utter ruin should they follow his advice.
;, The Stockton Daily Independent, on September 28, published the. fol
lowing- editorial r ~ '/ , :_"--; 1
"As of old the refractory slaves were lashed hito obedience, so now American
citizens in San Francisco are to be clubbed into slavery. How long will ye stand
it, ye wage earners of San Francisco?"
W^at Is it that this -priestly Yorke would have the laborers of San Fran
cisco do?^ Does he wish them to arm themselves and correct the evils he claims
exist with rifle and bayonet? Does he advocate the shedding of blood because
a policeman exceeds his duty? Granted for the sake of argument that the po
lice are guilty of the crimes of clubbing the inoffensive, robbing the unwary
and acting "as never did the police of. Russia act," does this hot-headed priest ad
vise the handful of strikers to take the law in their own hands?
"Before I close let me say one word on the general question of violence I
have warned the men against it. but I am beginning to cast in my mind If there
be not worse things than violence. Violence is to be reprobated when the law
protects you, but if the law is perverted, what then? The action of the Dolice
In this city, especially within the past few days., has been intolerable I have
seen an old man with gray hair and of venerable aspect ridden down and
clubbed by one of Sullivan's Bashl Bazouks. Every hour peaceable citizens are
held up, searched. . robbed, assaulted and there appears to be no remedy Never
in Russia did the police act as they are acting to-day on the water front* of San
Francisco and in our streets. .
"People of California, what Is done to-day to the longshoremen may be done
to you to-morrow.
. ' "Wage earner of San' Francisco, will you stand by and see your brethren
clubbed into submission to the Employers' Association?
In his latest article he wrote:
He devotes column after column to a senseless scolding of The Call hut as
.this is purely a personal matter, the public has little concern, with it. Whe'n how
ever, the priestly agitator openly advises violence and disobedience of the' laws
his utterances become significant. *
A FOOLISH ADVISER.
The Irreverend Peter C. Yorke is amusing himself and disgusting the Dublle
by publishing in the Examiner a series of articles that for choice invective and
unbridled abuse would not be decent in a layman, but which in his position ia
positively shocking.
The Mayor sent the Examiner a positive denial, declaring he had said nothing
of the kind, and that th'e accusation was wholly false. The denial was shown to
the priest, and In yesterday's Examiner it appears side by side with a communi
cation from nim in- which he has. the impudence to repeat the original assertion
and to say that it Is borne out by an affidavit from Andrew Furuseth, also
printed.
The affidavit wholly fails to support the priest's position. In fact, the only
words it attributes to the Mayor are these:
"I have listened to your story and I think you ought to go to work. The duty
of the city government Is clear. We must have peace al all-hazarda."
The affidavit concludes with an expression of opinion from Furuseth to th«
effect that he came from an interview with the Mayor impressed with the idea
that "the clubbing of peaceable, Innocent men would continue until they would
consent to resume work." But Furuseth is very careful not to put any such
words in, the Mayor's mouth.
If the matter were not so serious. Father Yorke would appear supremely ri
diculous by this weak and foolish attempt to bolster up his false and slander
ous charge. His brazen repetition of so great a falsification, coupled with fur
ther low appeals to the passions and prejudices of the strikers, • is disgraceful
and indecent, and tends to bring reproach upon the sacred calling which he pro
fesses, v - •' ' . ,
To discerning persons it is plain that no statement of fact -which Father
Yorke may hereafter make is entitled to belief, In this or any other controversy.
The Daily Californian, of Bakersfield, published the following editorial
on September 27:
On Thursday last the Examiner reported Father Peter C. Yorke as havln*
charged Mayor Phelan with saying, regarding the strikers: >.
• "I£ they don't -want to be clubbed, let them go to work."
A GROSS FALSIFICATION BRAZENLY REPEATED.
' The time is not far distant when the workingmen of San Francisco will
use of and concerning Peter C. Yorke the same bitter language they now employ
in mentioning the hated name of Harry Knox.
The following is also from the Sacramento Bee of September 28:
And yet he cares not, so long as he can flount himself in the light of day.
Peter C. Yorke cares no more for the workingmen of San Francisco than for
the dust under his feet. He is infatuated only with his own notoriety. If he
were not delirious with the publicity which environs him he might pause to
consider that the counsel he Is giving the workingmen of San Francisco is that
of a man who preaches the blessings of suicide. He knows the cause for which
he shrieks is lost. He knows the advice which he furnishes points to the
Tarpeian rock, over which the strikers will' dash themselves if they follow
where he beckons.
The words of Peter C. Yorke in Thursday's Examiner mean » nothing less
than that. ' No other , interpretation can be put upon them by any one who
comprehends the meaning of English words.
There is a "soggarth" in San Francisco, but none of the "aroon" attaches
to him. \ . . ' .
Instead of preaching peace he advocates disturbance. In place of directing
his flock in the ways of moderation he endeavors to Incite them, to deeds of
turbulence. 'When disorder occurs he blackguards the authorities who have
endeavored to preserve the peace and protect the citizens from assault and
murder. When tae laws are being violated and men are assaulted and maimed
for- no other crime, than an endeavor to work In order to support their wives
and their children, he shrieks- at the police who are trying to maintain order,
and denounces, in the most atrocious billingsgate, honest, upright, generous and
manly American citizens ¦ whose only crime is that they have the audacity to
endeavor to conduct their, own In his French-Revolution harangues
<he, has been"" as7 'sparing of the truth in his statements as ' of - common decency
in his language. ' J "' <¦ ' ¦ .¦'.. ¦ ;
., ClSth^&'^vlth the"* authority ~6f' a Catholic priest, he has acted," not as a
counselor, but as a firebrand; not as one pointing the way to peace and moder
ation, but as one inciting to assault and riot. When labor leaders have advised
their followers to tread the ways of quiet protest, it has remained for this
alleged man of God to harangue them to deeds of desperation. With all the
demagogy and little of the cunning sagacity of Mark Antony he has
endeavored to incite the very stones of San Francisco to mutiny, to riot and
to crime. Instead . of counseling his hearers to obey the law and to respect an
authority exerted only to maintain order and protect the lives of American
citizens, he has denounced the preservers of the peace as criminals and ha»
endeavored — by every artifice known to a demagogue who has no regard for
truth, no respect for the rights of citizens and no consideration for upright
Americans whom he maligns— to precipitate the strikers into a combat with th«
authorities.
Time was when the "soggarth aroon" went among the poor, dealing out
charity and lo\'lng kindness to all, tending the sick, ministering: to the dying,
and not only offering prayers for the dead but giving good counsel and fatherly
advice to the quick.- • He taught his flock not only how to die, but as well how
to live. Ho instilled" into them the doctrine o£ affection, not the creed or
hate. He taught them for all mankind, not bitterness against political
, opponents and malice to employers. He Inculcated In them a regard for order,
an obedience to the 'law, a submission to necessary and salutary authority,
and a love for their, country. In times of heated industrial turmoil he cham
pioned when they were right and eluded when they wore wrong. But as he
,. championed he counseled. He ever preached the ways of peace: He ever
warned against violence and riot. He ever stood by the side of his flock— with
. one hand keeping back to the extent of his power those who would wrong them,
and with the other restraining his children from overt acts— the while be
preached moderation and that gospel of Chri«t:
. : "Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you."
The most lovable type of the "soggarth aroon" ever known on the Padflo
Coast was the priest and hero of Virginia City, Patrick Manogue, who died ,
as Bishop of Sacramento. In the Jurbulent times of the Comstock he was the
idol of the Miners' Union. There w'as n.> miner's home in all that section. where
the" wife did not pray every night for God to .bless Patrick Manogue. There was
not a house — be it of the rich or of the poor — In which he was not welcome. .
Doing God's work humbly and faithfully, he hesitated neither to reproach Capi
tal nor to criticise and even to lecture Labor. He feared only to do wrong.
In his humble sphere he was as the heart of Bruce, which the Scots threw
ahead of them In battle in the hour of their desperation, and, casting them
selves upon the foe, cried out: "Heart of Bruce, we follow thee!"
In the darkest days of the laborers on the Comstock they exclaimed with
one voice (Protestants as well as Cathelics): "Direct, Father Manogue, and we
obey!"
On one wild night In Virginia C:ty h-> stopped the hotheads of the Miners*
Union from deeds of desperation and crime. In all that camp of excitement and
of fierce will he was the only man with the influence and the pluck to stem
the current- of riot' and violence. And before the sun had reached its meridian
on the morrow he had exacted from the bonanza kings a promise that the
men. should all go back to work at the wages which they asked and to which
- they were entitled. . . ' .
That was the "soggarth aroon" of Virginia City and Sacramento.
THE "SOGGARTH AROON" OF VIRGINIA
CITY, AND THE "SOGGARTH/' WITHOUT
1 THE "ARO0N," OF SAN FRANCISCO
THE'article following is reproduced from the Sacramento Bee of Sep
tember 28. : The article ;w'as written by Editor McClatchey, also one
of the owners of the Bee, and is signed "C. K.":
7 HE Call herewith 'publishes extracts from some of the lead
ing nezvs papers of the interior of California, ivhich deal plain
'lywith the Rev. Father Yorke of San Francisco in reference
to the position' he has taken on 'matters connected with local affairs
and especially <.' his -utterances on the platform and in the press.
eaiifornia^ress' Forcefully Expresses Its Opinions
: Concerning His Utterances From the Forum
: V : and in the Public Prints.
ALTITUDE OF THE SAN
FRANQSGO PRIEST CAUSES
MUCH ADVERSE COMMENT
UNCLE SAM DETERMINED TO RID THE OF
THIS DOUBLE-HEADED MONSTER; : I . :i:
REPUTABLE PRESS LASHES THE REPTILIAN YELLOW JOURNALS
AND DENOUNCES INFLAMMATORY WORDS OF FATHER YORKE
FROM SEA TO SEA SWEEPS
THE STORM OF INDIGNATION
AGAINST ANARCHY'S HERALDS
Futile Attempts of the Hearst Newspapers to Defend
Their Malignant Teachings and- Attacks
on the Government. ; v ! -
7 HE press of the East and West continues its scathing denun
ciation of the Hrarst yclloiv jounials{and the latter* s s propa
gation of the tenets of anarchism and assassination. . The Call
herezcith publishes editorials appearing in some of the many ¦'• neivi
papers that arc scoring thc-\thrce Hearst pa per s and their' infamous
policies. . , - '? ' \ -. ';' ' ' r .
THE New York Press, in its 1 . issue of beptember 23,. rciers in seaming,
terms to the attempt of the Hearst newspapers to palliate their grave
and flagrant offense in their Vicious attacks on the late President
and their encouragement of anarchy. The editorial is as follows:
THE ONE DEFENSE OF BOTH.
Tbe murdered President is buried, and thei world of necessity turns from the past to the
future, taking up again the concerns of life. . •" " • ' T" . -
There are things that need to be said, and that can be said NOW. , . ,
Prom coast to coast of the continent -this newspaper has been v attacked, ana is being
attacked, with assassin-like ferocity. ' . . '
We are getting the preposterous teaching that It is a crime In a newspaper to be human,
and animated and entertaining. '• ." ; k • • • A ¦ '¦ „ .
Because a villain or a madman ha* murdered a'Presldent of the Intted States we are to
have no more pollilcal controversy. ' " ' J " ¦ /«,.__ i
Is nil life hereafter to be lived in a graveyard by Americans and by American Journal
ism lest when death comes to a public man the severe word, Ihe light* word and the funny
jilcture may be produced in the death chamber?— New York '^Journal, September 22. . •
So this is the apology. Is it— this the defense? \ You r- were "human,":''ani
mated" and ••entertaining"' In your assaults on the late chief magistrate? - it
was merely -political controversy," was it. that fined your columns in ¦¦ your
presentation of and comment upon the 'policies of the .McKinley administra
tion in peace and war? It is only "light" werds or ."severe" 'words -that you
have spoken about social Institutions and prominent men generally? So you
say, so you ezcote yourself.
Then it was '-human" and "animated" to intimate by parallel the violent
death of William McKinley within five years? It was "entertainine" to pre
dict "an awful bloodv Quarrel" between him, "the Commander-in-Cnlef,
who had surrendered the control of the army and navy to the trusts."
and the "American peasant." to whom he had "tossed the answer 'the
trusts can do no -wrrons' " with his "fat. white hand." You say it was.
It was only a "lieht" or possibly a "severe" word— illustrated. by "funnv"
pictures, which we have been requested repeatedly to reproduce, but which for
decency's sake, we have declined— to name him as "an obedient lellvflsh." a
"Doliticastro." cue "ready to surrender every particle of national honor
and dismitv"P So you have written it down. ;
it was your notion of "politiaal controversy" to call him "an abiect.
weak, futile, incompetent poltroon," "bar one. the most despised and
hated creature on the hemisphere, his name hooted, his nsrure burned
in efflev." So you have said in plain print.-
There are other "light" or "severe" words on which stress might be laid. Such
is your advice to anarchists to leave things alone and come and blow up Amer
ican bankprs. manufacturers and corporation presidents. Such is your exhorta
tion, to society to treat a certain rich man "like a wild beast" — merely because
he Is a rich man. Such is your complaint after a collision between police and
rioters that "there have not been enough shot. No trust manager has ever had
a scratch." But we shall confine- the relation to these "light" words you spoke of
IVilliam McKinley. , . .
They "human"? They "animated"? They "entertaining"? They the language
of "political controversy"? When you" say so, Hearst, you flee for refuge within
that illimitable comparison of the martyr, who said of your pupil, "Poor fellow, he
did not know what he was doing." You palliate, in so grotesque a distortion of
the plain meaning of words your morai monstrosity with mental deficiency. You
proclaim that your counsel has advised you, too. that "your only defense is in
eaiiity." As your accomplice would escape in the straltjacket of the lunatic so
would you In the motley of the fool. - . ¦ .. .-
The Nashville (Tenn!) American said editorially on September 24:
FROBLEM OF YELLOW JOURNALISM.
The Chancellor of Syracuse University, James R. Day, upon being questioned
by the New York Journal for an expression upon PresidentMcKinley, sent the
following: ... , ; ¦ :. . ¦' . : • :
Samuel Hicks, General Manager New York
Journal— Dear Sir: Will you please never send to
this office any matter bearing the "imprint of the
New York Journal ? I loathe the New York Journal
as I do the unspeakable wretch who shot our great
President. I believe your paper, more than any other
agency in this country,' helped to make the conditions
which encouraged such assassination. To have our
institution commended by such a paper would be a
[burning disgrace. ; JAMES R. DAY.
But what difference does this make to the Journal? The leading preachers,
lawyers, politicians and editors erf New York City continue to write for its'col
umris. No New York paper can boast of such a stanT of special contributors. As
long as eminent leaders of thought earn pin money writing for the Journal, how
Is the "common herd" to know its other pages reeking with foul scandal, and
sensational fakes should be shunned?
When the Maine was destroyed the Journal telegraphed over the country
asking prominent citizens to accopt a place on its committee to erect a national
monument by popular subscription to' the men who went down with the Maine.
Most of the prominent citizens. Governors, etc.. accepted. One of the invitations,
however, was addressed to the Hon. Gnover Cleveland, and was answered In
this manner:
PRINCETON*. N. J., F«>b. 58. 1898.— To W. ,R. Hearst. New York Journal, New Tork— I
decline to allow my Borrow for those who died on the Maine to be perverted to an adver
tising Bcheme for the New. York Journal. GRQVER CLEVELAND.
Mr. Cleveland's 'was the dignified and sensible answer to a cheeky request,
what business was Jt of a newspaper's to raise a monument to the Maine's vic
tims?
But it Is difficult to draw the line between honest and intelligent criticism of
public officers and the ravings of the yellow Journals -which' hold them up with
pencil and brush as enemies of mankind. r .
¦ The yellow journal evil is well summed up by a Minnesota Congressman,
who says:
The evil of yellow Journals consists' in their pandering to the worst tastes of the Ignorant
and depraved. Intelligent readers are not affected by their utterances, or by the persistent
reiteration of false charges against public men. But to the uneducated man, coming from
a foreign country, and knowing little of American institutions, the vilest cartoons and the
moet Impossible accusations are taken at their face value. This man knows that in Aus
tria. Germany or Russia the Government would not allow such pictures to be printed or
utich charge* to be repeated, and the fact that they are published here in every conceivable
form is evjdence to his mind that they are true. He is not a wide reader, and some cheap
and pestiferous sheet is probably the only thing he ever sees. He learns from it that the
ruler* of the nation are men of the worst type; that they are personally responsible for pov
erty and misery. He comes to hold them to account for whatever he may himself lack of
the g-ood things of life. What wonder that he becomes a grumbler, and finally an anarchist?
But we are told the people are responsible, that the yellow papers but give
them what they want and that is what they should do. Ought ignorant and
untutored minds be given what they want? Mentally they are children. Do we
Clve children .what they cry for? ..If we did their appetites, would soon become
weak, capricious when satisfied, and not contented with simple and wholesome
food. . . -•¦¦.• '
A minstrel show in town last week gave black-faced representations of Mr
Bryan. Senator Depew. J. Plerpont Morgan and other well-known citizens Of
course., the galleries roared at their antics, and any respect it may have had for
any of these gentlemen vanished when they cake-walked across the stage. This is
an invasion upon the personal liberty of these gentlemen. This Is a free country
but it is the essence of tyranny for a man's personal .' appearance to be carica
tured night after night by a traveling minstrel troupe, and he to have no re
dress. '< - - •
, This Is not yellow journalism, but they are one "and- the same— too much lib
erty with other people's rights. ....
The Ledger, of Tacoma,' Wash., published the following in its editor
ial columns on September 25: ;
FACING -ITS ACCUSERS.
Yellow Journalism Is on trial. Cornered, It faces Its accusers. There was no
way of escape. The rat will turn and when it turns there Is venom in Its bite-
It remains a rat. > ' > • -. • '
When the Examiner was charged. with having- created the state of mind' that
breeds the spirit of anarchy, with assumption of superior delicacy* it declined to
reply. It said It would reply later. Its respect for Mr. McKinley and for the sor
row of the country restrained it: ]The body of the man it had traduced Is in the
tomb and now the Examiner feels, free to answer the indictment. The fact must
f>e remembered that the Examiner is one of three papers on equal plane -the
others being the New York Journal and the Chicago "American. Probably' the
same editorial appeared simultaneously m all and one estimate must embrace the
trio. • • •-¦,•••-..
The Ledger is among the papers that have charged the Examiner with being
a wicked and unwise sheet, an" evil and unclean thing. This opinion was advanced
In sincerity and there has been nothing to weaken it. In Its rejoinder, directed to
the. American people, the Examiner says It has been attacked by the parasitic
the unsuccessful, the portion of the press that lives on alms. Such weak assev
eration as this will carry no weight. The process of analysis is hampered by tha
mass of the address. In general terms It Is the claim to personal purity and loftv
tn 2 tlv< i: l \ lB dc ? lal of M 2' appeal to class prejudice save euch as Christ -made
when he placed Lazarus oh the doorstep of Dives; It Is self-laudation the verv
essence of meglomania. ,, .. . .' ..¦ . '• y
Getting down to detail, the Examiner propounds these questions- = ''
"What good institution, w Hat good cause has the Examiner Injured'
"Has « assailed the state? Has it attacked the churches? Has'It'antagon
ized any reform movement?" — : . . -xo jl iniagon
At this point the citation of a few facts becomes necessary, the clrcum
ftance being borne In mind that the Examiner and the Journal are one and
Hearst responsible for both: . . . ¦ - . • ; • ¦ , ttIlu
It was the Journal which characterized McKinley, the President *n« "ar,
obedient Jelly-fish." Aptn: "An abject,- weak, futile, incompetent?^ Joltrbon • '•"
bar one, the rnost despised and. hated creature in the hemisphere; his name is
hooted; his fieure burned in effigy." •¦¦¦¦, - ¦ - . ."uiue is
The Journal charged McKinley. and ; "the Wall-street cabinet" with readiness
to surrender national honor and dignity. It said the trusts contf oiled the com
mander of the army and navy; that -McKinley and those who "controlled" hh£
»oupht to create an oligarchy with themselves as rulers; that Mark Hanna act-
Ing for McKJnley. would increase the army and use It against the organized labor
ne so much hated. j. ¦ > ~ . .' Z ¦
The mildest term that could; be applied to these statements wouW
have been to class them as lies, for not" only were*;they lies, but foiil'
baseless, villainous slanders. They were aimed at the chief executive'
and, so as truly at the heart of the republic as was the pistol that. was
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O. C. Miller, chaplain of the Artillery Corps at. the Presidio, delivered a most Interesting address yesterday after
noon to the men of the corps. .He paid a beautiful tribute to the memory of the late President McKinley, and. discoursed
upon the many phases of anarchy. His address was entitled; "Anarchy— a National Peril," and the soldiers listened to
him with great Interest. : " ' •"¦ , " . ¦ > ' • , • . . \ , . ..
,. -Chaplain Miller took for his text. James 11:12— "So speak ye and so do as they that shall be Judged, by the- law of
liberty." He spoke as follows: ... • , ., ,
The text lays down a safe law for speech and action; also a right
standard of Judgment. A' universal adoption of thls-rule of action and
standard of Judgment would prove the overthrow of anarchy, l^et us
pause amidst the deepest sorrow that ever befell us as a nation and
ask what It means. "Do men- gather grapes of thorns, or ftgs- of
thistles?" or. in other ' words, what of lasting, value can we gather
from the awful calamity of the. assassination of our beloved Presi
dent? Did he not offer up his life as a sacrifice to save. our nation
from being; overthrown by anarchism? Does his sacrifice not call
loudly to every one who. loves his country to arise and pledce him
¦elf-with unflinching determination 'to the uprooting of anarchy? bet
us notice | three things of vital* national Importance— the cause, the
curse and the cure of anarchy. • . "•'¦.•-.¦¦ , ¦
"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap", Is a universal
law. It 1* Inevitable. We as a nation have been sowing the wlml
and we have reaped the whirlwind; It has rent our hearts like the
rock-hewn mountains about the prophet's cave. Out of the depths. of
our sorrow let us cry unto. God and hear Ills voice.
The prime causa of anarchy Is liberty unrestrained by . moral law;
a hurtful freedom of speech and of the press that is fast undermining
the. foundations of our republic. A growing irreverence for the sacred
traditions of our forefathers. An alarming disregard for the necessity
of right moral conditions. . An -Increasing Ignorance of. the majesty of
salutary ' law. .The government of a .nation la. no • stronger than the
government of the homf-s which compose it. '¦ A lack of family govern
ment.. Indifference of parents. In respect to ". discipline and- training, of
their children, that reverses God's law safeguarding. the family; and
makes It read. Parents, obey your children. ¦, God set the solitary In
families, and such was the beginning of all government. A disregard
for the moral law as -given in the. Decalogue is hatching a mighty
brood . of . vile persons .- ready for any, vicious acts. Avlolatton of the
God-given sanctity of the Christian . Sabbath Is a disregard ; for the
most necessary and salutary law; and la therefore mighty ln'sowing;
the seeds of ruin and i anarchy. "A growing violation. of , the sacred ness
of the marriage tie as institutedby.the'Creator for the perpetuity of
the race Is to a most alarming -extent- encouraging '-" free ¦ love and
undermining the Institution, of the family. -Marriage" is coming to be
regarded- too- much as an- experiment, and not a» a bond of indis
soluble love. ¦ . '.'*¦'.'. s : . '. • ¦: ¦¦.
.'>'. Violence; Is Anarchy. "
Lynch law. Is anarchy, pure and 'simple-,' and of the worstUlnd be
cause It has the semblance of restraining vice; as if crime could be
restrained by crime 'or expiated ; by committing a." second. In the
Inhuman tortures, of the lyncher- Americans- have gained the unenvi
able reputation of surpassing the seml-clvlllzed Filipinos or even the
most barbarous tribes.' The lyncher, like the anarchist, Ignores the
law.- Corruption and fraud on the part of those set In high places to
Interpret ¦ and execute law are responsible for. lynching, and cultivates
and Inspires the red-handed anarchy that has slain twelve per cent
of all our Presidents, . and that,' too, in less than forty years.: '.. •
*In formerlda'ys Americans did not kill their, rulers. Agnosticism,
even though It sit in the professor's chair, is by no means guiltleES of
the blood of our most beloved and most comprehensive American.
Some of ¦ our theologlpal seminaries have also contributed their part
toward Inspiring the murderous deed of the assassin by bringing intw
question the Bible as the Infallible rule of faith and practice. The
higher critic has- done much to overthrow holy scriptures, destroy the
foundation of all moral law and therefore produce anarchy. .The
amassing of wealth by overriding the poor is doing much to embitter
the less fortunate in the race for social advancement, and thus plant
In their bosoms the seed thoughts of anarchy. Lastly, we cannot
suffer the church to escape, but must arraign her as a negative cause
of the evils that imperil our nation. She lias suffereil the sospePto
become adulterated with hypocrisy and worldllness till it has lost its
power and la , no: longer a savins leaven In the world's moral mass
of iniquity. /.: . v v ¦.•.:..:-. ; . . :
I need not ¦ multiply words In describing: the. curse "of anarchy; for
it suffices to say that it not only, destroys, the. good., but opens . the
flood gates of evil and devastates '"whatsoever thlncs are lovely and
of good report." .It is hard 'to conceive how one evil could destroy a
nation. Not so with - anarchy, . for, It represents the- combined forces
cf.the pit. The awful curse of anarchy, pervades every hamlet of bur
land.- It calls loudly at the door of every. man's heart for repentance
and ; the most • aggressive efforts toward the promotion of right living.
- Highest Liberty Is Law.
The cure is found In the perfect law of 'liberty aa stated -by St
James in the text. "By the perfecf.law /of .l.'berty"- all the powers
of-man'a being 'set -free by 'the truth I as it is in Jesus.. and developed
and perfected under the salutary restraint of that same truth "which
Is the gospel. The restraint of liberty is no new Idea. It is as old as
Eden. It began with, our first parents in the garden. "Of every tree
of the garden" thou mayest freely eat: but of the fruit, of the tree
which is in the midst of the Karden Goil hath said. Yo shall not eat
of it. neither .; shall ye touch it, : lest .ye die." The planets revolve
by the same perfect law : of >¦ liberty. Liberty ,. being' the . centrifugal
force, .restraint; the centripetal that'holds>it -to its-central .sun,; and
ARMY CHAPLAIN DENOUNCES ANARCHY
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:'.'¦ A FTER months of persistenf abuse-^nd calutony? directed against?. President - McKinley, and: after ; the incited "'•
. /\ anarchist had sent two ; bullets from: his wea^pon^hargediwith'pbwder'and the'jmalignity.bf yellow -journalism
J*"*"*k — the New York Journal, ceased- its ivillainous'-political cartooning of '.President McKinley.' After, the shot
JL Mm had been fired the journal insulted-' all sense of public decency' by- fulsome eulogism ; where calumny had
always had place, and; waited until his death to out-Herod hypocrisy in flaunting memorials on the Chief
"Magistrate whom it had held' up as worthy the scorn and -the* contempt of all , men— and of the bullet of the
• peasant in his bloody quarrel with' the Commajider-in-Chief. ¦ Stung .by. enforced^ appreciation of the esteem in which
the public holds it, the Tournal now turns. in ; its pool of venom andjasks: ,'./•'.
. What good institution, what good'eause, has the Journal injured? ]
Has it assailed the state? ":'*"' '
Has it attacked the church? . •„. • , „
And the Journal then proceeds toask a question and to give its answer thus:
Shall it cease to fight for the common as against the privileged man, with brain and pen and artist's
pencil, with argument, cartoon; satire and all the legitimate weapons known to the literary soldier and the warrior
of art? •• <" • \ . '-. ;. - ; ' •
And the Journal answers itself in one word, "Hardly," and gives as reason for the answer that "the world has
not come to an end, nor the mighty, ever-living stream of American life been diverted from its course.". ? '
And because of that non-diversion — thank God for it! — the stream of condemnation of all men worthy the name
"oi American citizen, and worthy the heritages of American citizenship, is rising to the flood tide of generous indig
nation and qannot be stayed in its anger. . ' ¦ • « i - % j
What good institution, what cause has the Journal not injured? V . .
When has it not assailed the state in the person of its Chief Magistrate?
Was it not assailing the state when it pictured the Chief Magistrate of the Eepublic as all that was vile,
all that was imbecile, all that was merely a tool, forgetful of his oath, forgetful of his honor and forgetful of his
American citizenship and the trust reposed in him by the people?
Was it not an assailant of authority and an inciter of anarchy and bloodshed when it pictured the Pres
ident of the United States, with "white, fat hand," throwing from the window of the White Souse a ribband to
. the starving peasant with the inscription thereon, "The trusts can do no wrcng"P .
Was it not an assailant of law and. order, of a good,cause and of good institution when it declared, that
thereupon "an awful," bloody war would break out between. the Commander-in-Chief and the peasant"?
Was it not an assailant of good causes and institutions, of authority, and an assailant of the church
and of the state when it held up to the anarchists the example of Louis XVII, and the peasants of France, with
the King beheaded and the peasants all eating— and this in. the self -same article in /which it ; portrayed the
President bating, the peasant starving and the throwing of the ribband to - the peasant by "the white, tat hand"
of the murdered McKinley P
And with it all; with the blood from, the wounds of the dead President yet undried; with.the grief of the people
yet unassuaged, the New York Journal announces its determination to resume and' to continue the stream of ma
lignity against authority, of vituperation against the Chief Magistrate, and of malevolence against the ' state and
established institutions by the employment of
"Brain and pen and artist's pencil, with argument, cartoon and satire.'" . .
And by the Journal is the issue made up and a test of American- manhood and American citizenship is pre
sehted, and there can be no doubt of the result. \ ¦- , '
FEELING THE STING OF THE LASH
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY,, SEPTEMBER; 30, 1901.
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