The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-05
rhs C.henslv Movement.

The movement started Dy Mr. C6nensI4,
| OF the Prussian Diet, to establish alien com
| munities in this country is not meeting with
/ encouragement Tbs pope has shown that
! he is by no means lacking IN political
| sagacity by refusing to couutenance II. Mr..
/ Cahensly would Ike , send Catholic priests
/ to this country Of the same nationality as
/ the immigrants, with the view Of establishing
Catholic congregations in which only the
language Of the immigrants should be
spoken. What Mr.. CaneusIy wants Is that
the French Immigrants shall have q french
priest and church Of their own, and the
Irish, Italians, Austrisns, a-d others shall
be similarly provided for.
II the scheme Of this Pruss.su propagand-
ist were carried ouc there would soon be
alien communities in all parts Of the coun-
try And the demand for allen schools
would soon follow t1e establishment Of alien
churches. II these schools respect for the
institutions OF foreign country, instead Of
for those Of this country would be taught
Taus generation after generation would be
kept from becoming Americauized.
The pope, IN his communication to Cardi-
nal Gibbons, very emphatically condemned
this scheme. He saw very clearly that
nothing but harm could come from it. 1t
is so un-Americsn in all respects that 1t
would meet with the strongest Kind Of op-
position in this country.
The aim Of American institutions is to
assimilate all the immigrants who come 20
these shores. Even if the immigrants do
not become genuine Americans their chill
| dren do Among the best citizens are those
whose parents were Germans or French or
Irish. The Cahensly scheme would substi-
tute alien institutions for American. 1t
would bring about confusion by introducing
a half dozen or more languages into every
day affairs, where there is now virtually only
one, and it would stunt the growth of the
national feeling and thus weaken the
| republic.
But notwithstan ding the fact that the
pope refuses to encourage the scheme Mr..
Cahensly continues TO urge it. He has re-
Gently issued what he calls memorial, in
which he argues that the constitution sane
tions the alien communities he proposes to
establish. Clearly be has not given that
| instrument a very careful reading. If he
were to do so and also to study our insttu-
lions and the temper Of the American
people BIO would become satisfied quickly.
if be is a reasonable man, that his scheme is
hopeless one. One Of the strongest rea
sons for the exclusion Of the Chinese is that
they cannot be assimilated, and if an effort,
which promised to be successful, were made
TO establish alien communities in different
| parts Of the country congress would not be
| long in reaching the conclusion that it
would be wise TO close our doors al
together TO immigrants. Indeed, there is al
ready pretty strong feeling that we are
admitting too many immigrants.
Mr.. Cahensly's assertion that the immi-
grants do not come TO this country to be-
come citizens, but to earn money, is non
sense Nearly all come to stay. If it were
not so they would not be permitted 70
come We should have no more use for
them than we have for the Chinese, and we
would deal with them just as we dealt with
the Chinese.
But the Cahensley movement will amount
to nothing 1t could amount to nothing
unless it received the approval Of the pope,
and that it will rot get. All the satisfao-
ton Mr., Cahensly will get out Of it is a
little notorIetY. Perhaps he is the sort Of
man who will be satisfied with that