The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-21

Uncle Sans alien populaton ousn
to be well cared for spiritually, ac-
cording to statistics included In a re-
port issued the other day by the CEN
sus bureau.
Figures for 1906 show that while
there were 1898 religious organ
| izations, with a membership of 3d.
| 64S,2G7, who worshipped in English
there were likewise 1906 organiza-
tions, attended by 3,371,62S members
| who heard religious services in Eng
lish and foreign tongues mixed, and
I16,6SS organizations, with n mem
bership of 5,O22,601, who worshipped
at services entirely in foreign tongues
OF the church reporting the use OF
| foreign tongue exclusively the Luth.
eran bodies lead, with 7,242 churches
with 1,227,9S1 members. The Roman
| Catholic is next, with 2,176 organiza'
tions attended by 3,o64,436 commun'
| icants.
The number of known languages
reported is A. The list includes
Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Esthon-
ian, Gaelic, Modern Syriac, Lettish
Monenegrin, Wendish and Yiddish, In
addition to the better known Euro
pean languages
| Stranges of all, however, are the
lingual combinations reported Some
churches conduct services in such
Heterogeneous mixtures as German
Italian, Scandinavian and English, OF
| Chinese Greek Magyar Polish Slo
yak English, or Armenian-C Chinese
Hebrew Italian English.
In respect to foreign membership.
| Germany leads the list with by fal
the most church members. German
speaking people have II denomina'
tions. attended by 3,601,943 people
Next In number of denominations
comes the rs organizations conducted
i'm the tongue of American Indians
then, Norwegian Swedish, Dahlsh
French and Italian. The list Is diff
ferent when It comes to classification
by the number of communicates
France coming next after Germany
then Italian and Polish.
| II used TO be the Ananias club Now
II is the Association of Unwelcome
| Guests that has been called into be-
ing by the White House.
Nobody really realized how tht
Unwelcome Guest club had been
quietly growing until the late un
pleasantness suffered by Representa-
tive Francis Burton Harrison, Since
that time statesmen with thoughtfuI
turn of mind have been cataloguing
several citizens who came In as char
ter members, so to speak.
First OF all, of course, there Is Gif-
ford Pinchot. He used to be the
most welcome of the welcome visi-.
tors back in tho Roosevelt regime
but times have changed since the for.
mer forester lined up against Secre-
tary Ballinger and the White House
now sees him no more.'
Representative John A. Martin,
Democrat, of Colorado, feels that he
is persona non grata therd too. Mar
tin hasn't been on pleasant terms with
the administration since he began
Illuminating against Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham on the sale of the
Philippine friar lands.
Representative Henry Il. Rainey,
Democrat, of Illinois, Is particularly
under the presidential ban for his ut
terances along the same lines against
not only Attorney General Wicker
sham, but Henry w. Taft the presi'
dents brother, as we'll.
Delegate Wickersham, of Alaska
charged that the Guggenheims con
trolled the removal and appointment
of federal officials in Alaska. Result:
his relations with the White House
are strained. II
And. now comes Francis Burton
Harrison, Democrat. of New York
who drew a full filedged membership
through his charge II, connection with
the predating of the summary by the
attorney general of the CLAWS charges