The San Francisco call., 1896-01-18
Total. 4,lS4, 800 14s, 7O2, $50 $3.50 882 225
Average. 8 countries. I7s7s 41b6

The conditions Of the statistics are not alike in
all cases. but they are sufficiently give an ap-
proNmatelv correct result. These eight Roman
Catholic countries which I have contrasted with
eight Protestant countries form two groups each
covering an area of over 900 600 square miles and
they each contain about 10000, 900 people. In
the one group the Romanisis show an average per
centaGe OF 9l3. In the other group the Protestans
show an average percentage OF 1878 Each re-
l1glon Is respectively dominant in its own grOuD
But right here similarity ceases While the aver
age percentage Of tliteracy in the Roman Catholic
group is 1851. or over half the population, the
average percen age OF illiteracy in the Protestant
group IS only 4.l56 In other words, illi5eracy in
the Roman Catholic group is 14.343 times greater
than in the Protestant group
religious system which turns out, or toierates
as you please, an average OF sixty ilIterates out Of
every hundred inhabitants OF The countries il CON
trolls we wish to have no hand or roice in onr nnh
lie education. We must reject any interference
from a system which produces on the average
nearly fifteen times many ignorant adults as
are found in Protestant countries.
This class of facts meets us at every point where
we find the Roman Catholic church in control.
The New York Evening Post taking its fgnres
from an Argentina paper, the Buenos Ayres Stand
tween Protestant Australia and Roman Catholic
The two countries are alike in having about the
same area and population, and may be said TO
have started upon their course in modern civtiza-
tion at nearly the same time. But in other re-
spects there Is marked dissimilarity Australia
has public revenue Of $l46000.000 against
S22,000000 for Argentina, and foreign com
merce amounting to S66l 600 600 against Sill
100000 Most striking of all is the comparison
which relates TO educational statistics:
so.oo,. Argentina ina, Australia;
Teachers. 1854 1908
Pupils. ZOO 745' 500
81. 100000 81, 100000
Her attitude toward the public school system
veterate foe of N entail liberty and the friend of
mental sloth on the part of the masses. Hence
TO RonanlZe means-cease to intellcctualize
II. w. BOWMAN.
Postscriptum.-Mr. Editor: In a recent COM
munlcatlon TO your paper Priest Yorke re-
marks: Bowman is such an eXhaustible cess
pool that decent men prefer TO hold their noses
as they pass him by" In a certain sense this
NAV be true For a number of years | have
been studying Roman, Catholic publications
and thus filled my mind with the moral filth
OF Papal writer's. l admit that it was a dis
gusting and nauseating task and only per
formed in the interests of humanity II the
contents of the "cesspool" cause decent men
to hold their noses, II only goes to prove that
the stencil OF Rome's morals and doctrines
produces an unpleasant sensation upon the
ethical olfactory nerve of decent people Ii a
student of Romanism thus becomes cesspooI
of Roman filth, what must be the condition of
the priest who year in and out makes himsel :
the cesspool of all the filth OF his parish? In
spite of all the deodorizing effects of holy
water they can dlseounta a polecat at forty rods.
In his attempt TO convict me of dishonesty
he requotes my quotation from Rev F.
Schouppe, and places the whole sentence in a
psrallelism. 1t so happens that in writing l
onLy pIaceu quolatlon MARKS at the beginning
of the sentence 10 show that all the exact
words were not given. The printer supplied
these at the close of the quotation, or else it
was done by the transcriber. l quoted it to
show that they claimed ''human laws were
susceptible OF dispensation." This l quoted in
the exact language of the writer. In the sec
ond place showed that the power of dispens-
ing with them belonged to the Pope. l submit
to the candid readers of The CALL that did
not alter the sense OF the writer because did
not give the list of laws and oaths from which
Cnuld QhcnlVn hat
oaths are included in the definition is plain
from the context H. w BoWNAN