The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-06
After condemnlng Taft for Wilson
Matter, Now Commend Him For
Not Sending Troops In
to Mexico.
IMMIGRATION DISCUSSED
America Is Full Of Foreigners Who
Need the Fatherly Care Of the
Church, 1t is De.
clared.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. !
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. May o.
Though definite report will not be /
Forthcoming from the Methodist gen.
eral conference on the episcopacy I'M
til the first of next week, it is known
that five new Episcopal benches have
been agreed upon. This means that
at least five new bishops will have to
be elected. This number will be
swelled by at least that number of
bishops who will be retired on ac-
count of age.
Evangelistic work is the special
topic before the conference this week,
todays feature being report of the
work of the board of home missions
and church extension founded in 1919.
This board has spent S613,76S in the
lquadrenium just ended in evangelistic
work among thirteen foreign national
tiles represented in this country and
Hawaii and among the negroes of this
country. immigration was the big
problem presented by the representa-
tive. who said:
I'VE must Americanize and chris
tianize the millions who are coming to
is fact that is fast involving all ma
tional problems. immigration spells
obligation.
i "One-half of the people of the Unit
ed States are foreign born or of for
4 eign parentage. Last year million
= Came. his yesr may bring 1. .4o0,BD0.
The numbers stagger us.
Most of these multitudes press In
to few overcrowded cities; only one
lin twenty-five gets west or south. The
thirty-three largest cities of the
union are more foreign than Ameri-
can. A single factory becomes a
babel of eighteen languages and one
public school enrolls twenty six ma
tionalities. Four-ffths of the people in
New York City are of foreign parent
age There are two Italian men to
every Irishman in that city. More
Jews land in New York every five
. years and stay there than all the
2 members of all it's protestant churches
New York is type of what other
+ cities are becoming.
!. Even now, while twenty million are
t ir our churches, twenty-five million In
$ the United States are absolutely un
] churched.
Il x,f i,,,,, ,trry.r Ia, hoe
grown until 1t includes most of oul
, other problems. 1t means tenement!
> where people are huddled like cattle
:, and in surroundings more unsanitary
= New York has more roolhs withou
windows than any city of the world
!. $50. .0oo-largely peopled by foreign
e ers This means disease; veritabl'
:, plague spots of consumption, 1t means
d the sweatshops where helpless thous
T. ands are ground between the uppe
e and neither milestone of rapaciou
n landlords and heartless slave drivers
S 1t means the slum; the scum on thi
n caldron of seething humanity"
g The general conference today ur
animcusly adopted resolution con
Il mending President Taft for his re
n fusal to intervene In Mexico and ash
e ing that he continue to avoid inter
x vention. The resolution was intrt
duced by ]. w. Butler of the Mexica
D accounts of disorders in Mexico gross
ly exaggerated the seriousness of tn
e. situation there.
n The conference engaged in an e;
j. cited debate today over a sresolutio
offered by w. r. Rice of Chilli d
claring that representatives of Meth
dist churches in Catholic countris
should rank as missionaries of til
church rather than as pastors Tt
y resolution recited various charge
II against the Catholic church, condem
ing the influence of Catholicism
countries where it dominated.
In presenting the resolution, Nj
Rice explained that it was designe
to permit Methodist workers in fo
ar eign field to proselyte among Cathol
ar churches, as we'll as among the fc
ar lowers of other faiths. He charge
Y. that in Chill priests had led NOV
y. ments to take bibles away from Il
y people and burn them.
Y. The general discussion of the res
luton was somewhat enlivened by
r. letter from Archbishop Ireland pu
ly lished in the Sunday papers, in whi
he alluded to the Methodist church
SO an organization SO militant that
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