The Irish standard., 1890-10-11
FALSE TATISTIOS.


Il In his Contribution to the Symposium
on the school question which recently
appeared ia the independent, the Rev.
Wayland Hoyt. pastor Of the First
Baptist church Of this city, made Ger
tain statements which are challenged
by the Rev. Alfred Young, one Of the
Paulist Fathers Of New York. In his
article Rev. Wayland Hoyt said that ac-
cording to statistics gathered by Mr..
Dexter A. Hawkins from the census Of
1870 there are furnish. d to every 10, 600
Inhabitants IN the United States by
Roman Catholic schools 1, 400 illiterates,
40 panpers and 100 criminals, and that
in the state OF New York the Catholic
parochial school system turns out three
and half times as many paupers as the
public school system. Father Young,
in last weeks Independent, says he is
prepared to prove by documentary evil
dence that MIR. Hawkins never pub
lished such statistics as those given by
DR.. Hoyt, and that the statement about
the illiteracy, pauperism and CRIME in
New York cannot be found in his writ
ings. He states further that IN the GEN.
sus of 1870 there are no statistics what
ever concerning illiteracy, pauperism or
CRIME IN any way made referable to, or
noted as produced by parochial, public,
Roman Catholic or any other system of
schooling, either in the whole country or
in any particular state. The statistics
used by Mr.. Hawkins were not compiled
from the United States census, but were
taken from an article published by John
Jay, the president of the Evangelical
Alliance. The Evangelical Alliance, Of
which the notorious DR.. Josiah Strong
ls the general secretary, has caused the
statistics attributed to Hawkins to be
published and distributed in several
documents all over this country, and
has continued to so publish and distri-
cute them for six years after they were
proven to be false.
Father Young is Justly indignant at
the action of the Evangelical Alliance
in sending forth false statistics deroga-
tory to the Catholic church. The good
father must remember that the Alliance
could not live and thrive by telling the
truth; IN fact, the truth is not in the Al
lance or in any Of its managers. 1t
ives upon the ignorance, credulity and
bigotry Of Protestants. DR.. Strong has
put mere concentrated hes and misre-
presentations between the two covers of
"Our Country" IN the chapter on
Romanjsm, than we have ever seen else
where, and until recently 1t was quoted
as an unquestionable authority by every
pulpiteer IN the land. DR.. Strong has
grown rich by propagating falsehoods
against Catholics. and it is not to his 1n-
terest to tell the truth. Father Young
concludes his letter in the Independent
as follows: II think If the Evangelical
Alliance as body, does not publicly
call for and insist that shall give to
the public definite, documentary EVIL
depce in proof of what / have stated,
they cannot hope to have any further
standing before The American public, at
least none where the Roman Catholic
church is in question. We have borne
these unwarranted accusations too long
and too PATIENTLY. 1t is high time they
were brought to book" The Evangeli-
cal Alliance will not call for any docu
mentary evidence to falslfy their Stats
tics, and if Father Young knew the cha
racter of the men composing that body
he would not expect them to give
him chance of exposing their contem-
ptible work.