The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-14

In scotland one Romanist in every G7 is p
criminal, while OF the remainder only one in
every 1872 belongs to this category. In the Do
mlnlon of Canada Romanists are less than
hail the population, or Al per cent, yet furnish
more than half the criminals or 50 DER cent
In Australia they supply more than twice their
number OF criminals, according to the ratio of
the population.
The Times liverpool Englanji), November
70, 1878. gives the following facts taken from
the report OF the Chief Constable of Liverpool:
The number OF prisoners who passed through
the Jail at Walton WAS 12,2S5, and the most an
pallng circumstance in connection with these fig-
ures is that there was an absolute preponderance
or femalesa state OF things without parallel in the
prisoners were: 6537 male adults, 424 male iuve-
niles; 69T6 female adults and 4S female Juveniles
Both the Protestant and the Roman Catholic
and the apparent difficulty of modifying It. But 1t
is among the Roman Catholics that the most ex-
majority OF the prisoners. male and female, belong
to that communion. OF the l2,295 prisoners dur
ing the year S453 were Roman Catholics 1880
men and 457l women).
Father Nugent the Roman Catholic chap
lain, in his report for 1877, states:
Drink and prostitution fill the female side of the
prison. OF the 1871 women, 1910 were committed
for drunken and riotous conduct and 1855 for dis
orderly behavior upon the streets. Not a week
passes without some one being brought to the
prison whom drink has maddened and robbed OF
all female decency, whose Language and actions
are so horrible that they seem no longer rational
beings, but fends.
This statement has been since fully con-
hrmed by Father Nugent. In his address at
Darlington on the 18th of October, 1886 re-
ported in the Catholic Times October %, 1886
he stated that CHS daily duty during the past
twenty two years had been within her
Maiesty's prison at Liverpool, and it had at
forded him daily opportunities of studying
mankind. Last year there were II, 324 prison.
erh committed 10 that prison. OF these Is 676
fell 10 his charge as Roman Catholic chap
lain"
Again. in his address at the League Hall.
Il pD1 pTlT fiRt- Nova har
reported in the Catholic Times November 9
1886, Father Nugent, abiding to the immoral
1ty prevailing IN Liverpool, said: mine out of
ten OF the girls TO be seen at night along Lon
don road or Lime street were Catholics-there
was no use hiding it, The Sisters of Notre
Dame had $4,000 girls under their charge
What became of them after they left school?
They went into places where they got work,
and instead of going home at night went OUT
with their companions"
Again, in his address at Liverpool, reported
in the Romish paper, the Catholic Times, Nav
%, 1894, the same Father Nugent now the
Right Rev. Monsignor Nugent stated: "For a
period of thirty years he had come into closer
contact with those poor creatures, on account
OF his Official connection with the prison, than
possibly any other Clergyman. Speaking gen
orally, there were about 5000 lRoman) Catholic
women sent to the prison every year. OF that
number at least 50 per cent, il not 20 per cent,
were poor girls on the streets In 1891, when
the Liverpool ponce began to prosecute the
keepers OF immoral houses, no less than S1S
persons were proceeded against for that offense
1t was estimated at one time that 1000 of these
poor girls were displaced
Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator from Massachu-
sets, in discussing the question of immigra-
ton in the North American Review, presents
the following startling figures in reference to
crime, as shown in the census of 1890 His
summaries OF white population are as follows:
Native parentage. 81, 1853, 34s. In per cent 60
Foreign parentage. i, 500, 675. In per cent u
Foreign born........ 9,121,s67. In per cent II
Criminals-"Of the conyicts in penltentia-
ries 4S per cent are of native parentage, 50 per
cent are of foreign birth or parentaRe or in
other words, while persons of foreign birth or
parentage furnish little more than one-third
of the total white population of the country,
they furnish more than half the criminals"
AS the majority OF the foreigners are Roman
lists; and the hoodlum Irish, of foreign parent
age, furnish large per cent of native crimi-
mails, it follows that the majority of the
law breakers IN our land are Romanists. Aud
this is the system that denounces our schools
H w BnwMAN