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Cahensly and His Followers
Mean to Have Other Than
Irish Bishops.
Language, Customs and Re-
Iigion Are Held to Be
Inseparable.
Much Speeious Reasoning in
This Very Strange Doeu-
ment.

BERLIN. June 3O.-Copies of the full
text of the second memorial present.
ed by Herr Cahensly to the papal
secretary, Cardinal Rampolla, have been
put into circulation. The greatest I'M
portance is attached to the memorial.
If. as it is hoped. the Holy See can be
induced to follow out Its recommends
tions and appoint a large number Of
German cIergymen as bishops in the
United States, the German influence
across the Atlantic will be vastly in
creased. and will rebound directly to
the growth of the home German govern
ment in American affairs. Herr Ca
hensly, indeed. appeals for aid to other
foreign governments-Italy, Austria,
Spain, Canada-prOmising them in re-
turn a due share of the prestige which
will come from a division of the episco-
pal sees of America among the repre-
sentatives of the different classes of i'm
migrants. 1t is felt here, nevertheless,
that the lions share will fall to the lot
of this empire. The
War on the 'sIrish BishOps''
In America will be prosecuted with
vigor. 1t will be no fault of Herr Ca
hensly if he fails. Here is the text of
the memorial: Most Eminent Lord
We come to humbly submit to your en-
inence some considerations upon the
subject of emigration to the United
States of North America. This great
question affects interests that are OF
very great importance, whether they be
4 f11 nv roll
iOus point of view. The current which
is carrying away to America populations
of different natiOnalities is already for
midable; in the future it is likely to
become irresistible. As is proven by
The table of statistics appended to this
memorial, 4S9, 400 Catholics left Europe
for the American continent during
the year 1889; of this number 49,,
900 went to the United States.
The same country received, moreover,
thousands of emigrants from Canada,
Mexico, Brazil and other countries of
Latin America. Calculations, based upon
the most authoritative statistics, go To
show that Catholic immigrants and
their children ought to constitute in the
United States a Catholic population of
10000. 600. But the fact is that the num-
Der of Catholics in that vast country
scarcely exceeds 100000. CathOlicity,
therefore, has, up to the present date,
sustained
A Loss of 100000
in the great American republic. The
following are the chief causes of this
deSeTtiOn on the part of the Catholic
forces: First, the lack of sufficient pro-
techOn for the emigrants at the time of
their departure from home, during
their voyage and on their arrival in
America. Second. the insufficiency of
priests and parishes of their own, for the
different natiOnalitieS of immigrants.
Third, the pecuniary sacrifices, often
eXOrbitant, that are eXacted of the
faithful. Fourth. the public schools.
Fifth, the insufficiency of societies,
Catholic and national associations of
mutual aid, protection, etc, for the
labOring classes. Sixth, the want of
representatives of the different nation
alitieS of immigrants in the epiScOpate.
When about to set out from the father
land emigrants stand ID need of infOr-
nation, direction, direction, advice and
assistance, so as 10 know what to do.
whom to apply to in preparation for
their distant journey, what routes to fol
low, etc. Before embarking and while
on the deep special care, both temporal
and spiritual, is needed. On their ar
rival in America, the poor immigrants
stand III need of aid and direction, of
information as to where they will find
their fellow cOuntTymen, work and the
comforts of religion, of which they
stand in such need in countries full of
dangers to their faith.
st. Raphael Societies
for the protection of emigrants have the
noble and beautiful mission of attend
ing to these different needs of the emf
grants. The high protection of the holy
see is Indispensable to the ST. Raphael
societies, in order that they may de-
velop. increase in number, extend to all
countries from which emigration takes
place and TO which immigration is di-
rected. and realize therein the full
measure OF good that is rightfully eX-
pected of them. The holy see would
Exercise this protection very effica-
eiOuSly by inviting the epiScOpateS of
the different countries 10 encourage
the faithful to organize St. Raphael So
cieties where they do not as yet exist,
to increase their number and to
strengthen them where they have
already made their appearance.
All natiOnalities which are ig-
guage are placed III the impOSSibiity
of pIacticing their religion if, on arrival
in America, they do lot find priests who
can speak their language and give them
religious instruction. Besides. emil
grants go to America in order to earn
their daily bread and not for the sake of
learning new languages. The United
States have become well aware of this
fact They also leave to every nation
ality the power Of retaining the use of
its own language. No doubt that in
the course of years the immigrants come
to speak English; but to wait till they
have learned that language before hav-
ing them practice their religion is to
disposed TO live after Christian fash
lon. The
Sad Experience Ofthe Past
proves unfortunately that such is al
most always the case. AS every ma
hOnality has its own characteristics.
its own habits and customs. it is i'm
portant also that the priests should not
only speak the language of the lmmi.
grants but that they should be of the
same nationality. Hence it is desira-
bic that every different national group
of immigrants should be organized into
a distinct parish with a priest of its
own nationality. Some are of the opin-
Ion that the language cannot be kept
beyond the second generation, and that
the grandchildren of the immigrants
will certainly speak nothing but Eng
hSh. The facts of experience offer
triumphant objections to this opinion.
Let US call to mind some of them. THE
memorial then cites the case of the
French in Carolina and Louisiana, the
Germans in other sections and the