00 PEltlLS. — llOMANISM. 



than one-third.^ In the ^vllolo country there are 

 not quite two-thirds as many Romanists as there 

 are members of evangeUcal churches. Not including* 

 Arizona and New Mexico, which have a large native 

 Roman Catholic population, the six remaining territories 

 in 1880 had four times as many Romanists as there were 

 members in all Protestant denominations collectively; 

 and including Arizona and New Mexico, Rome had 

 eighteen times as many as all Protestant bodies. 2 We- 

 are told that the native Romanists of Arizona and New 

 Mexico are not as energetic as the Protestants who are 

 pushing into those territories. True, but they are ener- 

 getic enough to be counted. The most wretched mem- 

 bers of society count as much at the polls as the best, 

 and often much more. It is poor consolation which is 

 drawn from the ignorance of any portion of our popula- 

 tion. Those degraded peoples are clay in the hands of 

 the Jesuits. When the Jesuits were driven out of Ber- 

 lin, they declared that they would plant themselves in 

 the western territories of America. And they are there 

 to-day with empires in their brains. Expelled for their 

 intrigues even from Roman Catholic countries, Spain, 

 Portugal, France, Italy, Austria, Mexico, Brazil, and 

 other states, they are free to colonize in the great West, 

 and are there, purposing to Romanize and control our 

 western empire. Rev. J. H. Warren, D.D., writes from 

 California, in which State there are four times as many 

 Romanists as Protestant church members : ' ' The Roman 

 Catholic power is fast becoming an overwhelming evil. 

 Their schools are everywhere, and number probably 200 

 in the State. Their new college of St. Ignatius is, we 



1 These are the fip^ures for 1880. On this point the statistics of the Eleventh 

 Census are not yet available. 



' The writer has been criticised at this point also for comparing Roman 

 Catholic population with evangelical church memhership instead of popula- 

 tion (which latter is something not definitely known). But the critics miss 

 the writer's point. The comparison is not between the strength of Roman- 

 isni and Protestantism in the West, but between the relative strength of 

 Romanism in the whole country and in the territories. 



