The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

One would imagine that the prosperous Pro-
testants of the North would have at least
decent house accommodation, but the table
shows that their tastes run to those dwellings
which are but one remove from the hog pens.
The Catholics of Leinster and of Munster are
vastly better housed than their ''civilized"
brethren of the BLACK north.
Finally, to take up the question of morality,
the difference here is SO stupendous that it
will hardly be believed. The percentage of
illegitimacy in Ireland is the lowest in the
world. Scandinavia stands the highest in this
immoral record. OF 2714 children born in
one year in Stockholm 1137 were illegitimate.
In Ireland the percentage varies from 1.3 to
g. The 1.3 comes from Catholic Connaught,
while the 6.2 belongs to Protestant and moral
about Ulster he must not forget to mention
these instructive facts.
THE woRLD'R FAIR.
Ryan's mendacity is cosmopolitan. Every
country in the world contributes something to
his stock. Perhaps, however, the most auda-
cious of all is his description of the fag-rais-
ing at the Worlds Fair
1 was present at the Roman Expositi on at Chi
cago, commonly known as the Worlds Fair. l re-
member the day when the President of the
United States opened this exposition by one Of the
most patriotic speeches ever listened to.
believe this speech will be handed down for
generations to come as q classic OF American patri
Otic literature
Cleveland said in the course of this speech: 1.-THE
best of all is we educate people in America who
able TO govern themselves"
He then planted his thumb on the button that
ton. When this was done flags began climbing
the fagstaffs. but the first flag that rose was a
flag of no countryside papal flag; the second the
flag of spain; the third Old Glory.
II Ryan was present at the scene he describes
he must have beeu taking something to trouble
his eyesight The flags to which he refers
were the three flags OF the court OF honor and
the Papal flag was not. among them. l was
present at the opening OF the fair and saw the
flags 60 up. There was tall staff on which
smaller staffs bearing not flags but banners
the standard of Spain and the admiral's stand
ard of Colun Dus These two flags were first
hoisted simply because the poles were short.
The American flag had to be hoisted three
times as high and it required no Vaccinations
of the Jesuits to delay its ascent.
What humbugs Ryan and his audience must
be to swallow such stuff as that AS matter
of fact the man who had charge of the flags
was as big crank as Ryan on the subject of
flags. Every one remembers the row there
was about hofsting the green flag on Irish day.
WASHINGTON.
In his argument against immigratiOn-and
considering that he is the son of an immigrant
! am comiug to the belief that it is time to re-
strict it-Ryan produced an alleged order of
Washington, "Put none but Americans on
guard tonight" do not intend to examine
the authenticity of that document, but l re-
marx that Ryan suppresses the second part OF
it, 'I want the Irish to get their sleep for there
will be fighting tomorrow"
GERMANY
We learn from this meandering major that
"the German is the best educated man on the
face of the earth'
have no fault to find with this assertion,
but resent the suggestion that Germany is q
Protestant country or that the Catholics in
Germany are not among the foremost promot-
ers of education.
The population of Germany is made up of
%, $40, 600 Protestants and 1878, 900 Catho-
lies. The members Of the two religions are
unequally distributed geographically. The
following table gives the religion and school
attendance a tat