The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-10-01
THE OFFICIAL FIGURES GIVEN.
Third of Religious Communicates
Profess the Faith.
NOT IN POLITICS, AS ALLEGED
Some Interesting Facts Derived
From Census Reports.


even amongst Catholics. as to the num-
bers of tie followers of the Church in
the United States and in the several
states, says Patrick O'Farrell, of WASH
ington, d. c., i'll the New York Free
mans Journal.
1t has been claimed by the enemies of
the church that the Catholics, under the
leadership Of the priests, are united "for
political purposes.
TO prove the falsity of this assertion
1t is only necessary to state a few facts
taken from the census tables for 1900.
In that year the total population of the
United States was g. $50, and the
communicates In all the churches num-
bered 20,422,097, that is within a small
fraction of one-third of the entire popu-
lation was united to one or the other Of
the Christian churches.
or these 2O,42oO97 communicates, six
thousand, eight hundred and scvcnty-o ono
(G,257 SID, are recorded as Catholics, so
that nearly onc-thrd of all the popula-
ton classcd MS Christian is Catholic
Turning to page 2GO of the abstract
of the Eleventh Census We find stated
the number of communicates in the vari-
GUS Christian churches given by states.
Compiled from that page two tables
are presented. Table number one gives
the stutcs where the Catholic communi-
ties outnumber all the others, namely,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts Connecti-
cut, New York, Minnesota. California,
Idaho. Colorado, Montana, Wyoming
Nevada and Louisiana.
Table number two gives ;h" names Of
the states, namely, New Jersey, Mary
land, Oregon. North Dakota, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Vermont, in which the
number of Catholic communicates ranges
from 10 to 40 per cont of the whole num-
Der.
Without putting the figures into the
form OF II table, we give the percentage
of Catholic communicates to the whole
number, in the following states: Ncbrns-
ka 81 per cent. Iowa 3l, South Dakota
33:3, Maine SO, Ohio 81. New Hampshire 81,
Michigan 81, and Washington 30
AS Il religious Organizntiun the Cath
Ollie church is the most perfect in the
world. The leaders who carry tho church
banners and the soldiers who follow
them, all obey orders i'll church matters.
1t is charged that the organization is
being used for political purposes.
Let us sec
The states in table number unc. where
Il majority of the communicates are
Catholics, send "a senators and 70 repre-
scntativcs to congress. OF these. two
senators and two representatives are
Catholics.
From the states in table number two,
there are II senators and II rcprcsen-
tatvcs of whom one senator and one
representative are Catholics.
From the states having not less than
one-thlrd of the communicates Catholics,
there are 1G scnaiori and IS rcprcscn-
tativcs, and there is not one Catholic
among them.
What folly it is. in III, face of these
Ggurcs, to assert tha. the Catholic
church is in politics.
In addition to tho abstract from which
the figures are taken, printed in 1896,
there is now being issued by the govern
mcnt Il substantial atlas of the United
States, prepared by Prof. Gannett, gcog-
rnphcr Of the census, from tll2 figures OF
the census. r'hi; atlas, among much
other valuable and Interesting matter,
contains maps, in the form Of colored
disks of each of :he states, showing at 4
glance the religiou.; population.
Each religion is represented by COL
orcd segment of the slisk; The Catholic
pale pink, the Methodist light blue, the
for each state shows by the cclors the
proportion of the commandments Of each
religion.
rhus, take Massachusetts, the original
home of the Puritln, the figures snow
Gl, ,l3S Mcthodsts, 62 JG5 Bap:isIs, 27,1G
Episcopalians and 101 $40 Congregation.
alists, with few each of several othe1
denominations, making total Of 27S,139
Professionals, while there are Gl5,O72
Catholics, making Il total of SSS,211
Christian communicates. or whom over
two-thli'tis are Catholics, thus making
the pale pink of the Catholics cover over
two-thi1ds OF the l!ass,ct ltuset:s disk.
the yellow Of the Consrcgat!onalists
coming next, ana the others in due pro-
portion.
In Rhode island, Is which Roger Will
liams fed from persecution in Massa-