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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. MONDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1907. REPLY TO JUSTICE GAYNOf.

ck litis MEETING JUSTICE GAYMOB ADVISES THE BURIAL if BIGOTRY WILL KEEP CHILDREN HOME On December 24, if Christmas Exercises Are Held, Says Albert Lucas. freedom of religion. If you adhere to your own be entirely generous, and more than generous, to all others. The world too small, and, at all events, has grown too old, to live on hate and spite any longer. That dies with us, and lc this century, or, rather, I hope it does, never to be revived.

I am hound to say In all my experiences In this country I have seen no man suffer for his religion. I have seen It tried and heard talk of It, but I never saw It mature yet, either In politics or anything else. Our govern methods used In bringing about certain changes." Continuing Dr. Cadman said: "Unless we wish to destroy our country, we must keep religion in our schools. We are more anxious to make sectarians than to make broad and generous Christians.

This country can only be safe as it ts ruled by Jesus Christ the Lord of Lords. We should ask that a child be not forced to omit that name, because of the behests of men of other beliefs. Wo are all elect. We are here to learn that tho Jew has no special mortgage on God, and that we do not want to Interfere with any (ban's religion. We want no sectarianism In schools.

Why should the name of Socrates and other ancient magistrates bo pormltted In our school books and tho name of Jesus Christ shoved out? Is there any reason? There is only one answer." Tho Rnv nr Robert Uoirer of the tlce was a very gradual one. To substitute for the initiative of the Crown the judgment of the courts was a task not to be accomplished tn a century. Often, Indeed, there was no redress for tbe people save In the arbitrament of arms:" But to-day English Justice, Justice Woodward declares, to be without a parallel and even In this country there Is even less cause for criticism, and the writer reviews the work of the courts in correcting corporate abuses. "The courts have never sought to embarrass the Legislature or to defeat the will of the people. On the contrary, their decisions bear witness that they have uniformly defended the rights of the individual und the rights of property, that they have systematically developed limitations upon the judiciary and that they have tended to give the largest possible scope, within the bounds prescribed by the constitution, to the legislative department.

This Is evidenced by the rule that If there be two constructions, ono of which will render an act constitutional and the other void, that interpretation Is to be chosen which gives force to the legislative mandate. Furthermore, whether a statute be unconstitutional in whole or in part is not to be considered unless It be unconstitutional In respect to some matter which directly concerns the party before the court. Though vested with the power to review legislative action, the courts are absolutely Impotent until Invoked by individuals or by corporations In defence ot their rights. In tbe performance of their duties tbe Judges neither misapply nor pervert the laws. Recognizing that this Is a government of laws and not of men, they simply vindicate the organic law of the land, which was Instituted to preserve the Inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

"The courts have demonstrated by the continuity of their decisions that they are imbued with the spirit of the age. A thousand cases of tbe gravest import and character have been submitted to their deliberation. In those they have demonstrated Judicial pow.it that havo never been surpassed. Neither those triumphs of war nor thoae victories of peace of which we have so much reason to be proud have had greater influence than their decisions in -the making, the extension and the conservation of the Union. The rights of tbe nation and of its component states, the rights of the Individual us a man and as a citizen, tho powers of the corporation, the sphere of commerce In our civilization, the status of the Indian and of the froedman; these and a thousand other questions of the greatest consequence to the people have been judicially determined.

It will be conceded, too. that the courts have not failed to recognize that consolidation Is the order of the time, since to thrir fostering care tho development of he doctrine of nationality, the oxrmnsion of commerce ond the growth of national consciousness are largely due." From the foregoing Justice Woodward doubts not that the separation of tho legislative from tne judicial power Is a wise provision of tho Constitution. Albert F. Lucas, secretary of the I'uiot. of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of tu Uufted States and Canada, was the prlkctpa; speaker at a Chanukah cele bration In the Pike Street Synagogue, 11-13 Pike street.

Manhattan, last night. Mr. Lucas stated the position of his or ganization on the public school contro versy. In part he said: "We say. that the public school system has as a fundamental principle, that evory child whether It be the child of tho so-called blue-blooded Knickerbocker parents, or the child of the most recent ly arrived immigrant, must receive sn elementary secular education.

In ordor to make this possible, federal law, state law. charters of the various cities and of the various boards of education concentrate themselves Into an axiom that every child of school age must attend a public school, and this without respect to Its creed. Boards of education, throughout the country, are enjoined from permitting sectarian practices to be Indulged In. or doctrinal dogma to be taught In the public schools. This is the law of this country, state and nation, and I defy all the lawless, bigoted up-Christian ministers of the church to contradict me.

The charity of men like Dr. Parkhurst. if he Is correctly reported, shows a lack of appreciation of even the rights of domiciled aliens which Is little short of criminal. "I do not counsel defiance. I urge defense of our rights to the last ditch.

We are not ignorant aliens; we are not attempting to force Judaism upon the Christian children, as the proselytising Christian missionary does upon our children. We neither proselytise, nor bribe, nor eajolo tbo Christian In the desire to show him a better road to salvation than Christianity offers, but we ask that our constitutional rights as citizens in good standing In this country be upheld. "And if the' Board of Education, for reasons which it Is not my business to analyze, chooses to pander to the vicious un-Amerlcanlsm of parties who desire to force the publlo schools into sectarian practices, so that their own inability to fill their churches, to inspire their people to lead clean lives, may be less apparent, then we shall tie obliged to repeat an object lesson which, though It necessitates our robbing ourselves of our Just rights, cannot fall to do again, as It did last year, cannot fall to show our so-called Jewish representatives on the Board of Education that wo and not they are tho lead ers of the majority of Jews In this city. We shall again have to -appeal to vou, parents of the 160,000 Jewish children attending schools lu this city, to keep your children at homo on the 24th of December. Then can tho Chrlstlon child use our buildings, then can tho Christian teacher paid with our money teach doc trines which are repugnant to us.

The mob of Hooligans on tho streets of New York will not emulate the Black Hundreds of Christian Russia. They will not kindle a blaze of our houses to hide their pillage. They will not use tho bludgeons of the police to kill the father or to disable the strong arm of tho brother who fights to protect the virtuo of the wife end the sister. And If It Is true that we are a hope less minority, we can allow the majority to enjoy its brute strength, and take dishonestly that which does not belong to him, but our children need not take part In a repugnant celebration." FATHER BELFORD'S VIEW Expressed In The Mentor -Public Schools Should Be Stripped of "Borrowed Robe of Quasi-R-eligion." 'The Mentor," of which the Rev. John S.

Belford of tho Nativity Church is the editor, and which, a year ago, contained a -bitter attack upon the Hebrew part of the city's population, defends the request of the orthodox rabbis that Christmas celebrating shall be eliminated from the public schools. In the December num ber, just out, the following editorial is printed: THE JEW AND THE SCHOOLS. There is much ado over the decision of tho Board of Education to eliminate the name of Christ and the mention of Christmas from Its song books. The protest of the Jews is quite reasonable. The public school is a secular Institution.

Religion hu no place In Its curriculum. Why should It celebrate Christmas? The day is essentially religious. The name and the work of Christ cannot be separated from the religion He founded. The Jew has not changed. The hatred that blinded him to the Light of the World has not been cured.

Is It any wonder that he protests against a practice that compels his children to chant the praises of one whom they count their arch enemy? Is It strange that they refuse to lend their voices and their presence to the celebration of an event that rang ths knell of their nation Consistency la a jewel. lxglo Is Inexorable. Law is absolute. we noid no brier for the Jew. He has rights.

These rights the laws of the land guarantee and the possession of every vice does not forfeit them. His position on the sorgs and ceremonies of Christmas Is consis tent, logical and lawful. Let the school celebrate secular events and leave the religious events to the churches. There Is, unfortunately, In every city a large numoer or long-haired men and short-haired women who feel that they have a divine commission to regulate all things political, social ina reugious. This, however, is a matter in which th whole community is interested.

We are surprised to find men for whom we have profound respect talking and acting as It there were an established church in this country, and seeming to make Protestant ism synonymous with Christianity. They cry out for separation of church and state, meaning the separation of every church except their own. They seem to think that the public school is the peculiar property of Protestantism. So long as Protestant hymns are sung, a rrotestant (and mendacious) version of the Bible read, a Protestant form of prayer used and a Protestant Sunday school anniversary obsorvod as a holiday, so long they are at peace. Under these conditions they feel tha' the schools ar doing their appointed work.

There is nothing offensive to them in the system. Others have no rights. Now, If the schools are for the people, as the law of land declares; If they aro essentially secular, as their founders maintain and the law guarantees; if they are absolutely non-sectarian, as so many boast and endeavor to prove, by all means eliminate Christ and Christmas. Let tho schools sail under their real colors. Strip them of thotr borrowed robe of quasi religion, and let them ap pear in all their nakedness, the common ground for Jew, atheist and Infidel.

The remedy for our Protestant friends is amend your laws, or do as we do, build and maintain your own schools, teach your own children and spare us the spectacle of pretense and sham that Is flooding the country with unbelief and paganism. Bear in mlr.d the figures, 80,000.000 population; 30,000,000 members of some church; 60,000,000 nothing no God. no creed, no worship. If we read aright the signs of the- times the day Is not distant when the atheist will demand the elimination of the name of God from song book and text book. Then the indictment of the public school system will be complete.

Protestants may be satisfied with it, provided the name of Christ and the celebration of Christmas remain. To us Catholics names and celebrations count for little. We believe religion Is a life and we feel that our little ones must live In a religious atmosphere all day long, at home and at school. We are convinced that the most Important lesson that they can have Is truth and virtue, how to live soberly and justly and godly in this world. This and this alone will make for a sound citizen ship and a permanent Christian char acter.

Article) in Columbia Law Review Prompted by Recent Utterances. THE COURTS AND THE PEOPLE. Separation of Legislative From Judicial Power a Wise Provision of the' Constitution. In view of the recent criticism of the Judiciary, uttered by one of the number, Supreme Court Justlco William J. Gaynor, at a dinner given In honor ot the two recently elected Judges of the Court' of Appeals, much Interesting discussion has ensued upon the Issue thus raised by that well known Jurist, who asserted, in substance, that the Judiciary had been prone from time immemorial to stand In the way of the world's real progress.

Supreme Court Justice John Woodward, Jus. tlce Gaynor's associate, one of the Justices of the Appellate Division In this department, takes issuo with Justice Gaynor In an article In the December Columbia Law Review, which was published today. "The Courts and the People" Is the subject of Justice Woodward's thesis; The writer starts out with the proposition that the constitution of the United States, as adopted by the legislatures of the several states, Is the nearest practicable approach to a referendum passible for the national, but that the constitutions of the several states are. In each Instance, on absolute referendum. On the Constitution Justice Woodward Bays: "The constitution, whether state or national, Ib a growth, tho result of calm deliberation and of long experiment, a crystallization of national custom, a historical evolution.

Adopted with the realization of past failures and of future tendencies, it Is invested with such checks and balances as will safeguard Its spirit and conserve Its Intention. It is for this reason that the Judicial functions of construction and of Interpretation are to be jealously maintained. And though In reo-ments of excitement, fomented by public agitators, there have been sporadic flashes of disapproval, a glance at our history will reveal the persistent fact that every constitutional convention in every state In this country has not only confirmed the powers of the judicial department, but has vindicated the courts by adding limitation after limitation to the legislative. Present In most constitutions by Implication, the place of the JuJIjIary as the guardian of the law Is expressly reserved in others. Thus Article I.

Section 4. Paragraph 3 of the Constitution of the Slate of Georgia provides: 'Legislative acts In violation of this Constitution, or tho Constitution of the United States, are void and the Judiciary shall so declare the courts have never sought to substitute the judicial for the legislative. Within its legitimate sphere the legislature Is supreme, beyond the control of the judiciary; but If It transcend Kb Inherent l'tnlts the courts can and should annul such encroachment. It is fpr them to sec that tho two other de-nartments of government, which alone are clothed with political powers, keep within the law. Surely tho-example of an executive or of a legislature overstepping the prescribed constitutional limits Is not calculated- to produce that respect for the laws In tho Individual on which the safety and tbo stability of the government do- pends.

1 would think It altogether unnecessary to discuss the function of the Judicial department, were it not apparent that the public is at present sadly confused by the animadversions ot those who should know better. It seems to be forgotten that the courts can consider only such cases as come before thorn; that la delegated power cannot be redelegated save by the people themselves; that It Is the swum duty of the judiciary, sb the sentinel stationed to warn us of the r.rmles of apgrospion; to conform to the unmistakable loiter of the Constitution; that (be courts have no Jurisdiction over the e.to -utlvo snd tne legislative as such, but naly In a controversy Involving Individual rights; that tho spirit of a constitution must be interpreted In the light of custom and tradition, and not according to partisan expectation, and the Judiciary is the only department of our government which has not transcended Its original limitations. 'To reiterate such things as these seems therefore necessary. And now, when the very function of the courts is questioned and when their existence as a co-ordtuare branch of the government is subtly assailed is well also to remember 'hit the Independence of the Judiciary is tho sole guarantee of national permanence. Upon the courts' Interpretation of the Constitution, conceived in the spin: of uniformity; upon their decisions, in tho larger view of universal application, depend every right of person and of property.

Where else is our protection against special legislation? Where our defense against somo possible irresponsible executive, who, actuated by ambition or incited by the hope of popular applause, may so obstruct the settled course of-jus-- the Inalienable right of the person and of property, to protect which is the sole function of the government, will no longer jeeuro. However. It Is not the judiciary as Individuals which limits thp executive, bul the Judiciary as the exponent of the Constitution. It is not the power of the government which Is unboundod, but that of the individual to do everything noj forbidden by law. The government exists by equilibrium.

To avoid the concentration of power at one point, the Constitution provided three coordinate branches of government. The courts, as the only counterpoise to an overgrown exocut'vj and to a precipitate legislature, muBt declare the Inviolable and permanent law. They must determine what is Indeterminate, and from them In times of tumultuary agitation, in periods of popular commotion from them only proceed permanence and regularity." Justice Woodruff holds that the so-called arbitrary power of the judiciary is a myth and that it is the centripetal force of government as opposed to the centrifugal force of the executive and legislative branches. "It is th Legislature," he says, "which, besieged by special Interests, and often obsessed by enthusiasm for political nostrums and haphazard or academic panaceas, has ever manifested a growing tendency to overleap constitutional barriers." For this reason It is indispensably necessary for power to be lodged somewhere for the Legislature's restraint. Tho courtB being above political strife, be says, are the place of safety for this power.

While the Legislature may try experiments the courts establish boundaries and repair the national fences. "I heard only recently tho assertion," he says, "that tho courts have from time immemorial been opposed to progress and popular reform. I do not think this statement will bear analysis. According to De-Lolme the prevalence of corruption In the Romin Judiciary In the time of the Cora monwealth, and the consequent Immunity of the wealthy lawbreakors from punlsh- i ment, was owing neither to tho luxury I which prevailed nor to national degen eracy, but. to the nature of the government, which was altogether without effective checks and balances.

As the people, who alone had power to check the continued aggressions of the executive, gave concession after concession to their masters, nothing but an independent Judiciary to conserve the constitution could have prevented their final absorption Into the absolutism of the Caesars. "In the history of England, It Ib true. It Is not hard to find examples of corrupt and inefficient ludses: but this was before I the Judiciary had attained a separate Identity. Legal procedure Ib tne evolution of argument from force, and the early English kings, bent upon strengthening the central government, could brook but few arguments. From the time of Edward I.

the English Justinian, until. the year of the great reform bill, tbc approach to jus. Tells Young Hebrews How to Become Good American Citizens. ONE FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF. Squabbling of Israel Should Be and Have Been Left Behind, He Says.

Last night Justice William J. Oaynorof the appellate division of the Supreme Court addressed the Young Men's Hebrew Association at the Association Building, 815A Ninth street. The association ts not yet a year old. but already numbers several hundred members. Every alternate Sunday evening there is nn entertainment at the rooms in Ninth street consisting of music and addresses.

Last evening the attendance was very large and many were unable to got even stand-ins: room. Walter M. Effross was the chairman and Michael Furst, tho president of the association, sat on tho platform. After a pianoforte solo by Miss Lebo-r'ltz and a song by Mrs. Jerome J.

Stein, accompanied by Miss Rose R. Namm, the chairman introduced Judge Gaynor, who said: I notice on the circular which Mr. Furst has handed to me that the objects of this association are to promato men tal, moral and spiritual Improvement, and I presume physical also, from what I saw upstairs, and that is no smnn matter. I notice that all peoples who como to this country from various lands and you who come from all lands (for you have no land that you can really call your own) try when they como here to perpetuate certain things that they nave been brought up to. Now, at first sight that might seem to be objectionable In this country, but at second sight it is-not so St all.

Vou come from all parts of the world, some from lands of persecution, some from places where you havo been ill tronted, and some from other places where tho laws did not glvo you a squaro deal. You were brought up to certain thoughts and habits and your idea Is to hold fast in this country to those things that aro good which you have brought with you. You bring with you a lineage that Is unsurpassed in the whole world. It takes us back to tho antiquity of the w'nrld tn thn hnfftnning of thn world, or. at all events, to the twilight of tho border lino where fable scarcely ceases and history hardly begins.

There we find you, and there as almost the old est thing aro your institutions and your rellelon. The great parentage that you bring, or the great lineage, Is the lineage of a belief in one God, and that is the one clear thing that we are all ablo to accept absolutely. The fundamental belief of us all Is the belief in ona God. and that you bring to us. That is your heritage, your lin eage and your bequest to manKinu.

There is not a human Doing on earm but when he beholds this world, and contemplates the universe, tho stars and the sun Is obliged to ask: Whence is It all? And people fall back on the be-J lief that there Is one uoa, tno the producer of everything. That is inbred In you so strongly that when you come here you hold togothor and seek to porpetuato this Idea of the Deity. Now. some people think that religion should be made more poetical, moro im- Kinatlve. and that people then would es pouse It moro warmly.

But is there any thing warmer than tno HeDrow iniin in tho Groat Jehovah as expressed In tho Old Testament? Let me read you a pas sage or two on that point In tho XLlt Psalm. David expresses his love for God. Ho pictures, in his mind, a dner In the forost. and says: "As tho hare panteth aftor the wator brooks, so panteth ray soul after thoe. God." Is thero anything more warm in all religion attached to this one concrete mca ot one uoa just.

ono God? "My soul thlrsteth after God, for the living God. So shall I come and appear before thee." And then -the XXIII Psalm. Judge Gaynor read tho psalm, and continued. I might mul tiply tho readings ot tnese inings to show, not merely the idea of the Jow of the Almighty God. but the warm and fervid manner In which David invoked and worshipped, and that is the heritage i that comes down with you from an tne ages, even to this night, undefiled.

That Is your legacy to Christendom. The Christian religion owes you much. I do not lower tho "hristtan religion, nor do I unduly you in saying that. We talk abou. human mind, how great it is and how much greater than it used to be, but there has not a soul como inU) the world Binco these passages which I have read were written that could reproduce them or write anything like their equal.

That is how much greater the human mind Is now than It was then. Christianity is really the perpetuation of the lineage of the Jewish me. Wo how in reverence and acknowl edge that Jesus sprang from the Jewish race. He was born a Jew. uvea a Jew and died a Jew, and If there be any lack of respect for Him in the Jewish world (which I very much doubt), it arises from conduct of Christians themselves, which He never foresaw and certainly never would have sanctioned.

The most singular thing In history is that, having taken your Scriptures, the warp and woof of your religious life, Christians persecuted your raco and continued that persecution so long, even to this day. That persecution is still going on in some places In the world. We are ashamed of it to-day. and we are making amends for It. We begin to understand that we are all brethren, all striving for the same purpose, to uplift humanity.

We are all one, Protestants, Jews, Catholics, every one. The great minds of the world, however, have always appreciated the Jewish race, although the little minds have not, and although you have been persecuted you literature, through the Scriptures, your poets and your prophets and your great men, is the literature that has enriched the world. We have to marvel at what. In spite of persecution, you have accomplished. You have always had men In the forefront.

In the modern world you have had Hyman, Rubenstoin, Spinoza, Ricardo, Monteflorl. H'rsch, Jesse, Benjamin. Disraeli and many others. So when you come to this country you have something to be proud of. Other people have also, but in the matter of long religious lineage with a pure and unfaltering idea and worship of one God you lead the whole world.

So when you come here to adhere to these things that are good and graft them upon our Institutions or perpetuate them, you are doing nothing antagonistic to our institutions. It would be Intolerable if you and others should come here and seek to perpetuate certain purely racial or national propensities or ideas. That would make this a most Incongruous nation. But you have not done that. You will not try to perpetuate the squabbles of Israel In this country, or those of Russia, or tho d'ffer-enees between clans and tribes.

These you have left behl.id. My friends, ot all things, and ye Christians, r.f all things, let bigotry dl'i out in the world. Let persecution cease. The romf-mbranre of the thousand years I of persecution of the Jews by Christians will, of course, always survive. It will survive ten thousand years from now as the one unspeakable thing in the Christian history.

But, happily all that is passing from the world. The essential things we all believe pretty nearly alike. So that holding together to your own faith and to certain customs of your own nation Is not antagonistic to the free Institutions of this country. You camo here to adopt these free institutions; you enter- Into free competition; you bury bigotry yourselves (You have evory reason to bury it). Raise no religious issue or any religious opposition.

If there be hoarts that get solace from certain inliglous celebrations, say you not "Nay." Set the example to the whole world cl freedom ot thought and Protests Against "Demand to Eliminate Name of Christ" From School Books. CADMAN MILDLY REPROVES ANTI-SEMITIC SPEAKERS. Two Overflow-Meetings at Central Presbyterian Church Strong Resolutions Adopted. A mass meeting of protest against "the demand to eliminate tho name of Christ from the textbooks and songs used in tho public schools and the demand to abolish the Christmas festival in the schools" was held In the Central Presbyterian Jefferson and Marc avenues, yesterday afternoon. The .1,700 seating capacity of the church was overtaxed by 5:30 and two overflow meetings were held in other rooms.

These were addressed by the came speakers as the main meeting. Tho audience was In full sympathy with the object of the meeting, but did not accept with unanimity the radical anti-Semitic addresses of two of the speakers. Whllo the Rev. Allan Douglas Carlllo and Rev. James M.

Farrar were speaking there was a restlessness throughput the church which betokened discomfort and dissent. This feeling was finally voiced by Dr. Cadman, who admonished tho speakers that tho meeting was not Intended, as an attack on the Jews. -Coler, as Usual, Blames Maxwell. 4:10.

when the Rev. John F. Larson, pastor of the church, opened tho ntaln meeting, every seat was occupied, and many' people were standing up. Borough President Color acted as chairman, and said: do not bellove that even, in a larger degree the trouble eomes'from tho Jewish race. It is a much stropgor and broader proposition than mcro elimination of Christmas songs.

has come from a man at the beid of tho Board of Education who do-olares that there should bo no religion the public schools. The board Is lodging, for I have reason to believe that orders have been given privately to the publishers of school books that they need not obey the board's earlier ordor to. print books without Christmas references. I would bet tho Borough Presidency on that, if I could. "It a municipal engineer should think of something new for hlB work, it would belong to the city and not to him, and if he sold It he would go to Jail.

This is tho case with others who aro In the employ of the city, but it docs not seem to be so with tho members of the Board of Education. They earn not only their but they are ablo to make considerably more than that by writing textbooks. They are powerful persons, but they aro easy to beat If they wish to attack the idea of religion in public schools. The churches will have to move and take up the No child can be properly brought up where the name of Christ Is held In a poor light." Frank L. Brown of the local board declared that the members of the Board of Education had no right to say anything about the singing of Christmas carols in the schools.

When they forbade the songs With Christian references, they eliminated many of the best hymns, such as Kipling's "Recessional." Jt a us the World's Man and Christmas the World's Festival, Says Dr. Carson. Dr. Carson of the Central Presbyterian Church quoted Governor Hughes, the mention of whose name was cheered loud and long, "The safeguards of democracy are education and dUcusslon." Or. Carson said In part: "This Is a matter of interest to our school system, to tho whole country and to the next generation.

American Ideals must be maintained. The Christian features of our American life shall not be eliminated. Public schools are the foundation of the republic. We want no sectarianism in the schools, nor will we suffer the establishment of a Mohammedan or a Jewish school supported by public money. We are re-echoing that there should be no religious school in America.

The name of God came over with the Mayflower. It was in the first official document of America and every document since has rung true. When our Board of Education Interpreted the charter, they did It with a spirit of Ignorance, of devliishness. The charter may pro-vent the establishment of religious tenets in schools, but when they say it prohibits all Christian teachings, they go too far. America is not a Jewish nation; it is not a Buddhist nation.

It Is a Christian nation. Jesus is the world's man and Christmas is the world's festival, and to eliminate this Is unpatriotic and absurd. In America, American ideals must prevail. Whoever stands at the rudder of our ship of state must be American. The trouble with Americans is not that they are too narrow.

It Ib because they are too broad, so broad that there Is no depth, and so broad that they become flat. No racial nor sectarian notes shall be struck, but we will welcome all those from abroad, not to assail American Institutions but to support them." Export Jews to Palestine, Says Dr. Carllle, in Anti-Semitic Address. The Rev. Dr.

Allan Douglas Carllle. pastor of the Throop Avenue Presbyter-Ian Church, made an anti-Semitic address. There were signs that the audience did not sympathize with the extreme views which he expressed. He declared that the "arrogant self-asser-tlvenees" which began the present agitation was only a wedge for a deeper set and more general movement to fight Christianity. "A political pull." ho added, "was necessary to bring this action In regard to Christmas carols about and It must come from the Jews or antl-Chrlstians.

I greatly sympathize with this movement here and hope that It will be attended with success. However, there Is a broader view and deeper concern about the Jews than is shown on the surface. They are attempting to bring Into established Christian life. Ideas and methods which they have among themselves. But I tell you when our people are aroused, they will thoroughly eliminate the cause of their agitation.

When that time cornea, America will be an uncomfortable place for the Jews. Thelt Influence Is wonderful, but the strength of it is due to the fact that Christians arc divided. The Jew is united In a common belief and object, but there is no unity among Christians along civic and political lines It Is known that the Jews can be voted as such in favor of their own Interests, but the Christians will always he divided. The Jew will grow. But some day there will come a great crisis that will unify the Christians in this country and then we will move with an rreslstlble force.

The Jew will no longer scout at Christian ideals, and then the question will be. how will we get rid of them p. what will we do with them? Palestine Is the only answer. That time will be a day of glory both for Gentile and Jew. Pr.

Cadman Deprecates Attacks on Jews. The Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, paBtor of the Central Congregational Church, said that the meeting was not Intended to be sn attack upon the Jews, but only a protest against the assault made upon the.

Christian religion through an attempted elimination of Christian songs. "The Jews have as much right to their own belief as we," the pastor declared, "and the best way to Impress that fact la tn Inatnf that thpv nrrnrrt tn us. Wo did not nro- voke the attack, but the trouble was caused by the secret and nefarious ment rests entirely on the people; It is established by the people. Never, back in the remotest time of the Jewish race, was there a more simple government of the people than In this country, and it is our ambition to continue that order of things if we can. It Is a government of the people; people making the laws and having them interpreted by their government.

That is the spirit of this country, and the spirit of all people who come hero ard understand this country. Be loyal to the government. Be loyal to the Institutions. Of all things, stand up for the country that stands for you. Don't run down your officials.

Don't abuse those In nubile life without a cause. When you come to men in pub lic office that make mistakes only, It is easy to forgive them. But when It comes to a man in public office who does wrong, then I don't say for one moment that you should forgive him or mlnimlzo his attitude. On the contrary. ho who being put Into public office, great or small (and any publlo office Is a great place), str.tighlway betrays those who put him there, should not be for given, ana bis conduct should not be condoned.

It Is an unpardonable crime, because It goes against all and to the detriment of all. Have faith in your government; uphold the arm of power; help In the administration of the laws; vote intelligently. Don't be led around by tho nose by some miserable politician In your neighborhood. Be affable, to be sure, and bid him "Good morning." Lot him think what he likes, but you do ns you like when It comes to voting. I nm sorry to say that we have many a native American to-day who makes this boast: "I nm a Republican (or a Democrat), and my father was, and his father was, and I always will be, and will be nothing else." Just think of such a specimen as thatl What a howling wilderness must be lu his hoad! That is not the way to be a good citizen.

Be a thoughtful citizen. Read; know what government is and what your rulers are doing, and be perfectly willing to change your vote on Election Day if your consclenco and judgment require that you Bhnuld. Don't allow prejudice to stand In tho way for ono moment. That is what makes government good. Don't run down officials for nothing or for small mistakes.

They are correctible. Take tho President of tho United States, whether Republican or Democrat, ho has a hard place to fill; has not ho? He starts out to try to accomplish something, say, that the railroads of tho country must be used for all tho people according to law; that one man. or a few men, shall not be permitted to havo their freight carried by tho railroads for one-third, or half, of what other people hnvo to pay, and enable them to undersell in the market and drive their rivals out of business. When men try to accomplish things like this they have men who are profiting by tho low rate to cry them down. Let not us cry them down, but let us find out what the truth Is and stand firm for it, no matter who may be trying to carry It out.

I am very glad to como here and speak these words to you. Everything good In this world comes from organization. Ono man alone can do very little; he needs to unite with others. I make no doubt that in this section you are doing much and far more than you have any knowledge of; and I hope you may continue to do It. BILL FREELY PRUNED.

Oyster Bay Town Board Allows a Contractor $622 on a Bill of $3,400. (Special to the Eagle.) Glen Cove, L. December 2 A good deal of speculation Is being Indulged in here as to what will be thn outcome of tho determlatlon of the town board to pay David G. Burns, the contractor, who, acting on an order given by, Health Officer Dr. W.

J. Burns, cleaned up the Glen Cove ponds and presented a bill to the town board for over $3,400 and whose bill the town board cut down to $622. It Is hardly probable that the contractor having done work entitling him to the larger Bum will be willing to accept the smaller. The situation is the outcome of an order given by the Town Board of Health to the town health officer to have the ponds cleaned and put in a sanitary condition. The health officer not only bad the cleaning up done, but also had dikes, built so that the lower poud could be kept flooded, this, in his opinion being necessary to maintain- proper sanitary conditions.

The bill for the entire work was presented to the town board, and after some consideration that body decided to pay for the cleaning up some $622, but disallowed the bill for the other work. When tho bill was flrst presented to the town board. It appeared in a lump sum, and the officials were surprised at its Blze. They asked to have it Itemized and then found that a large part of the amount had been expended on tho dikes, etc. As the order was given for the cleaning of the shoro of the ponds only, the cls'm is made that the board is not liable for the extra work, although In the health officer's opinion It was highly necessary.

It Is hoped that the matter can be ad-Justed between the town board and the contractor, so that both sides will be satisfied. It is extremely unlikely that the Town Board of Health would have given an order for work to be done to the amount oi the bill, as its funds are limited. But the trouble seems to have been in not specifying the amount which might be expended, and In practically giving the health officer a free hand. Justice Corks of Glen Cove was the only member of the town board who opposed the cleaning of the ponds. He stated in outlining hlB position In voting against it ho did not think the ponds were unhealthy and he thought moro trouble might be caused by disturbing them than by leaving them in the condition in which they had been for years.

The situation Is being used as campaign argument, on the ground that if Glen Cove wore Incorporated, a sewer system would probably very soon be established and conditions such as have prevailed for many years would bo rectified. CONLON LEDWITH. waHHIn. wa solemnized on November 27, at. the home of Mr.

and Mrs Garrett Ledwith, 457 Baltic street, when their daughter May was married to Harry J. Conlon. The bride, who was given away by her father and attended by her sister. Miss Janet Ledwith, was gowned in white crepe de chine, trimmed with duchess and point lace. She wore a tulle veil caught with a diamond sunburst, a gift of tho groom, and carried a shower bouquet of white chrysanthemums.

John J. Flynn acted as best man. Both the bride and bridegroom's popularity was shown by the many gifts left by their friends. After a short trip the couple will reside In Brooklyn. Among the guests were: Mr and Mrs.

Oarrett Ledwith. Miss Ledwith Janet ledwith, Lulu Ledwith. Garrett Ledwith. Richard Conl-n. Edmund Con on.

Walter Conlon, Albert Conlon. Irene Conlon, Margaret Carney, K. Conlon. Joseph Mc-Oulre. Miss M.

Ackroyd. Miss May Ryan. Miss Josephine Clark. Mr. and Mrs.

J. E. Clark. Gertrude Irving. Hhoda Irving, Mrs.

Robertson. Miss Graoe Robertson. Mr. and Mrs. MOran.

MISS 1. iv.iiiruy, John Kecte of New Haven. Mr. and Mrs. J.

J. Slavin. Miss R. Slavln. Mrs.

Bavin. M. Slavln. Miss Agnes O'Donnell. Mary Loughlln.

Kate McUonough, Mrs. Hartman. Lauretta Klernan, Mrs. L. Davis, Mr.

and Mrs. Hugo Tollner. Hugo Tollner, IVrs Clarence Bloomer. Miss N. Fetters.

John vivnn Peter HuRhes, Stephen Shannon, John Orirn Frank Klnkle. Thomas Grlffln, William Sheriff's, Joseph Grlflln and Daniel McMahon. FROM AUSTRIA AND GREECE. The Austrian steamship Olulia arrived yesterday at the Bush Company's Independent stores from Trieste and Patras. She brought 11 cabin and 1,042 steerage passengers and a cargo of hollow glass, magnesite.

currants, oil, wine, cheeo and other products ot the Adriatic and Greek ports. Church of tho Oood Shephard predicted that in time to come, it the present movement continued, there would be no chap lains In the Army nnd Navy.The president of tho United States and the governors of tho statrs would not be nermltted to ue ciare a Day of Thanksgiving to God. But such Ideas will not prevail, he said, tor Christianity Is the great pride of Amer ica, as the public schools are. Dr. Fajrar Is Also Anti-Semitic.

Tho Rev. Dr. James M. Farrar. pastor of the First Reformed Church, mado, an other anti-Semitic address.

"The Jews have three claims on the country," Bald Dr. Farrar. "One is that Jews came over with Columbus. They did; but the discoverer could obtain no men to sail with bim without taking them from prisons. It is asserted that Jews were early settlers of the country; but they were driven out by the Portuguese.

The third claim is that of patriotism in the Spanish-American war; and that is Cased on the foct that Jewess was the first woman to kiss Lieutenant Hobson after his exploit with tho Merrlmac. The Jews have heen nersecuted in many countries and America has sympathized with theni. as it sympathizes with all the oppressed. But I think that tho Jews were persecuted because they deserved it. If they are not careful tho day will come when they will meet with tho same treatment here." Tho Rov.

Robert H. Carson of tho Grace Presbyterian Church compared the Board of Education to a man on the fence, with a leg on both sides. The Christians, ho said, were now united and would fight for their rights. The Rov. A.

M. Trelstad of the Norwegian M. L. Church was the concluding speaker. Resolutions Adopted.

Dr. Carson read a list of resolutions which bo had drawn up. to express in words, tbo object of tho mass meeting. Dr. J.

8. Chadwlek, In seconding them, laid special stress on tho last and Bald that the meeting was one of the most remarkable gatherings that he had witnessed in Brooklyn sinco his resldenco hare. Tbo resolutions were as follows: in ih nnwn of a movement looking to tho elimination of existing- Christian features from our public schools, we, citizens of the Borough of Brooklyn of tho City of New York, assembled Id mars mooting, do adopt the following: First Tho American republic has sprung from a Christian ancestry. Christian Ideas and intnrwnven with tho vory texture of our institutions, and America has attained her present high position among tno reason of tho great am! mighty forces of Chris, tian civilisation. Wo declare In favor of maintaining existing Christian features in our civic life.

In order that the United States of America may stolid intact and strong, tho world splendid example of an aalightened. free. Chris tian republic. a0nrfTVi. mniuH of our American Insti tutions provides for the absolute separation of church and state, and for tho right of every man to worship Ood according to me uwww.

of his own conscience. We declare In favor of every provision that prohibits the teaching of any sectarian or denominational tenets ft doctrine. I Third-Belief In Ood and belief in God as revealed In Jesus Christ lies at the basis of our national history and of our national prosperity. If the republic Is to be perpetuated along the broad lines on which it was founded this belief must be conserved and cultured. We declare against any movement whose effort or tendency is to eliminate this belief and strongly protest against any action or attitude looking thereto.

We regard the demand to eliminate the name of Christ from text and songs, used in the public schools, and the demand to abolish the Christmas festival in the schools as one of the most colossal impertinences ever flung into the face of the republic. Fourth The republic welcomes to Its liberties and privileges the people of all lands. In the spirit of Christ the republic has openea ner doors to all who wish to come to enjoy the blessings of a free country, but her doors are never open to those who come to overthrow the foundations on which the liberties of the republic are built. In America American Ideas must prevail. The American people are tolerant, but will not tolerate any attack upon established Institutions and customs.

Fifth We believe that the Board of Education of the City of Now York has assumed, without due warrant, to go beyond the fair Interpretation of tho provisions of the city charter. Intended to exclude sectarianism from the public schools, and has ordered the exclusion of all allusion to religion Itself from Christmas exercises any matter of a sectarian or religious character' Is the language of the action of the board), so that even tho name of Christ shall be omitted from the carols used at the Christmas exercises, thus disregarding and contravening the customs, convictions and sentiments of a majority of the tax payers and supporters of the public schools, as well as Ignoring decisions of our highest state and federal courts, to the effect that this republic Is a Christian nation. We declare our respectful but determined opposition to this action of the Board of Education and demand a rescinding of this action. Much emphasis was laid upon the Imperativeness of the demand upon the Board of Education as expressed In the last resolution, by one or two men in the audience. A motion was made to appoint a committee to wait upon the Board of Education and present the demands of the community as Indicated In the resolutions.

It was decided to send copies of the resolutions to the Governor, the Mayor and the city superintendent. The committee selected Included: Charles A. Schieren, George W. Bally, Bird S. Coler, Andrew D.

Balrd, John N. Beach. George D. Beattys. Frank L.

Brown, William McCarrolI, A. Gardiner Cooper, Silas B. Dutcher, F. H. Ecker, Frank M.

Button, W. W. Freeman. Will-lam G. Hoople.

S. W. Osborn, W. P. San- ford, W.

C. Humstone, John T. Barry, Samuel Rowland, Henry E. Ide, Darwin R. James, Frank B.

Jnnes, Horatio C. King, Edward P. Lyon, Frank D. Arthur, Herman W. Vaughan, D.

W. Mc-Wllllams. A list of locally prominent men to the number of eighty acted as vice presidents, ni a or the m.ver-f'nt. The vice presidents occupied tho first three rows in the main floor of the church auditorium. The list Included the following, most of whom were present: Frank P.

Abbott, Walter W. Alkman, Thomas J. Atkins, Dr. Benjamin Ayres, George W. Bally, Colonel A.

D. Balrd, Eugene F. Barnes, John T. Barry, John N. Beach.

George D. Beattys, Dr. E. R. Bedford, B.

A. Brooks, Arthur L. Brown, John M. Bulwinkle. Dr.

Walter B. Chase, Bird S. Coler, Samuel H. Coombs, John H. Coon, G.

Duane Cooper, A. Gardiner Cooper, Robert G. Davisson. S. B.

Dutcher, F. H. Ecker. George F. Elliott, W.

W. Freeman, F. R. Gillespie, James M. Ham.

Halsey W. Hammond, Dr. Edwin A. Hatch, Frank Healy, William O. Hoople, John Horton, James R.

Howe, Manly H. Hubbe, Walter C. Humstone, Henry E. Ide, Darwin R. James, Dr.

J. A. Jenkins, Frank S. Jones, Seth L. Keeney, Horatio C.

King, James W. Lott, Edward P. Lyon, Edward Lyons, G. W. Mabie, James J.

Matchett, G. D. Matthews, James Matthews, G. B. Mead, J.

V. Meserole, William McCarrolI. Thomas P. McCracken, Walter McDou-gall, D. W.

McWIUiams. H. R. H. Nicholas, J.

S. Ogllvie, Professor F. W. Osborn, Edwin Packard, H. W.

Palmer, Dr. Warren B. Palmer, Caarlos E. Perkins, Timothy Perry, James H. Post, H.

L. Quick, A. S. Rirhey, Samuel Rowland, William P. Sanford.

Charles A. Schleran, Dr. Daniel Simmons, Alphonzo Smith. George H. Southard.

George C. Stebbios, R. T. Stokes, C. H.

Tiebout, David H. Valentine, Hermon W. Vaughan, A. J. Waldron, Robert L.

Wensley, E. Wheelock. Edgar Whitlock, After the singing of "America, large congregation dispersed. the PRETTY GIRL RESCUED. Abducted From Manhattan by Italians and Kept a Prisoner at Whitestone Millie Ferrando, a pretty 15-year-old Italian girl who has been missing, from her father's home-at 76 Baxter street, Manhattan, since November 18, was found by the police at Whitestone early yesterday morning, where she claims she has been kept a prisoner in an apartment over a saloon.

She told the agents for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children that whllo a prisoner In the Whitestone apartment she waB compelled to receive many visits from Italian labor ers who their headquarters In the saloon under the flat. Santo Gelleto, 49 years old, of Seventh avenue and Seventeenth street, White-stone, the alleged proprietor of the house, was arrested on a technical charge of being a suspicious person and held for cx amlnatlon by Magistrate Luke J. Connor ton in the Flushing Pollco Court undef $1,600 bail. The police explained to Magistrate Connorton that they wanted time to look up Gellcto's record, The girl Is small for her age and show evidence of shocking treatment. Her story Is that a fortnight ago a young Italian with whom she bad an appointment on Monday night.

November 18, at the corner of Mulberry nnd Canal streets, Manhattan, aided by two other Italians, carried her bodily into cab, drove to the Thirty-fourth street ferry and crossed the river to Long Island City, where they took a train for White-stone Landing. They displayed a large knife, she said, and declared they would kill her if she cried out. She says that in the apartment at Whitestone she was poorly fed, and all the money that was given to her was taken by her captors. She was not permitted to leave her room all the time she was In Whitestone. When an officer visited the apartment the girl was found In the company of two powerful-looking Italians, both old enough to be her father.

Tho policeman was not quick enough, however, and the Italians got away; but tho alleged proprietor, Gelleto, was then arrested. Tbe police believe that they have a clew that will lead to the arrest of the Italians who kidnapped the girl. Anthony the girl's father, ts said to be a wealthy and influential resident of Baxter street, and his Italian friends have taken an oath that those who are responsible for the girl's treatment shall suffer. The girl will remain in the custody ot the Children's Society until the police have completed their investigations. DIED IN STRANGER'S HOME.

Bronx Woman Seized With Heart Failure While Going to Son's House in Rockville Centre. (Special to the Eagle.) Rockville Centre, L. December Mrs. Margaret Keckeissen of tha Bronx, died suddenly on Saturday night, in her 64th year, of fatty degeneration of the heart, augmented by fast walking. The deceased arrived here on the 5:47 trftln on Saturday evening, to visit her son.

After reaching the station she proceeded to walk to her son's residence, and had gone about three blocks when she became exhausted and sank down on tbe piazza of the residence of Mr. Ross on Lenox road, where she was seen by Mr. Ross, who assisted her Into his house, and, perceiv ng that she was a a precarious condition, telephoned for Dr. DeLano, but the woman died soon after the arrival of the physician. In the meantime the son had been informed of the sudden illness of his mother and he arrived shortly before she died.

Acting Coroner Wallace, who was notified, held an inquest and upon tion from Dr. DeLano, gave a of death from heart disease, and Issued a removal certificate. Tno remains were taken to the Bronx on Sunday afternoon. ACTRESS SPRAINED HER ANKLE. There will be a Nancy SIkes limping on a cane at Payton's to-night.

This will not be the result of Bill's brutality. Bill it hut. he did not do this. Miss Minna Phillips, who ploys Nancy this 'week played Nell Gwynne last week and leaped through a window in the fourth I i niLvit nhA Roraed her act. ankle In the Jump and has been laid up ever since.

She can get out to-day but a stout cane will be a necessary part ot her makeup. Knights of St. John and Malta. A regular stated meeting of Montault Chapter, No. 117, Knights of St.

John and Malta, will be held this evening at Wilbur Hall. Brooklyn avenue and Fulton street. The orders of servants arms and priesthood will be conferred on several candidates in full form. The floor work will bo done by Company under command of Captain C. A.

Robson. The special order of business will be th annual nominations, and election ot.