The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-11-14

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On the one side are their religion!
ceremonies, their social customs, theil
aversion 70 the Gentile-all is inflex
IDLE as fate; on the other, a racial ant
religious antipathy, unrelenting ant
unabating since the cross of Calvary
This should not be; it is.
Would you have your daughter
marry a Jew? We were willing, that
could not solve the problem of assimi.
lation, because the Jew would stanc
out against it. A merging through
intermarriage can never be brought
about. Were the melting pot to burr
hundreds and hundreds Of years, Jew
and Gentle would each emerge as he
is today, only the Gentle would have
been affected by many other elements
and the Jew would not.
AS a race the Jewish are law abid.
ing. They are of physically whole.
some stock, for the most part untaint.
ed by immoralities among themselves
They are mentally alert. They are 8
family people, reverently and eugen.
icly responsive to Gods laws in the
home. But their homes are not Amer
lean but Jewish homes, into which we
cannot go and from which they will
never emerge for real intermingling
with America.
Not only because of the forbidden
intermarriage, but also in anational
sense, is the Jew manageable. By
every patriotic test, he is alien and
unassimilable. Not in a thousand
years of continuous residence would
he form basic attachments comparable
to those the older type of immigrant
would form within year. The evil
influence of persecution is upon him
It is as though he was here today and
might be forced to flee tomorrow. He
does not tie himself to the land. Jew
owning farmers are almost negligible;
and it is largely only the Hebrew
bankers and long established mer-
chants that have their own homes
Rarely do you find him engaged even
in the binding ties of constructive la
Dor. Although charitable with each
other, as a class the Jews are mercen-
airy minded-money mad. To get, Ito
have and to hold" is their material
istic motto, and always-always-do
you find them seeking some tangible,
quickly convertible, easily movable,
kind of wealth which is in no vital
way related to and dependent upon
social and national values.
I must speak now Of third ele-
ment among our people whose assim-
ilation is impossible without the grav-
est danger to our institutions.
No nation can long endure that per-
mits higher temporal allegiance
than to it's own government. Through
out all history, medieval and modern
every church encroachment upon
school and state, every attempt at
temporal power by religious organ
ization, has been attended by sinister
results both to church and state. A
divided allegiance is the deadliest,
most menacing, of national dangers.
The hierarchies of Roman and
Greek Catholicism violate that prin-
ciple. They demand, and increasingly
seek to exercise, dominion outside the
spiritual. To them the presidency at
Washington is subordinate to the
priesthood in Rome. The parochial
school alone is sufficient proof Of a
divided allegiance, separatist in
stinct. They demand that our future
citizens be trained, not in public
schools, but under the control and in
fluence of priesthood that teaches
supreme loyalty to a religious oil
garchy that is not even of American
domicile.
I make no attempt to show cause
and effect in this connection-you
may make your own deductions-but
do you realize, my friends, that the
illiteracy of Europe is practically con-
fined to Catholic countries?
In Italy, 81 per cent of the popula-
ton over ten years of age are without
education, and 1877 per cent of all
marriages are by illiterates. Spair
has 5S.7 per cent of illiterates; Portu.
gal, $50 per cent.
Consider the Greek Catholic coun.
tries and the comparison with GU,
own standards is ever more alarm.
ing. Greek illiteracy is 57.2 per cent;
that of Serbia, 1879; while in Bulgaria
and Roqmania more than 60 in every
hundred are illiterate. It is unfair tt
suggest that Catholicism, If not &C.
tually desiring that condition, thrives
upon ignorance
Since 1900, millions of Catholics
from such sources have poured int
America. They are coming now, un.