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Show Few Paupers in Catholic Belgium. It is the fashion of the present time, says the London -Monitor and Xew Era, for enemies of the Catholic church lo-eudeavnr to revive the exploded hctioii that where the Catholic church is there also is povrly. indolence, ignorance and, consequently, consequent-ly, lack of enterprise. They forget that almost half the population of the O'erman empire is Catholic; that the Auslro-II Auslro-II i.;i.garian empire is a Catholic state, and that if Jlaly and Spain are too distraught to use their nutui.l advantages to the best purpose, it is those forces lhat have always been antagonistic to the Church ot. the continent that cause the unsett lenient le-nient which lenders steady industry next to impossible. im-possible. And never do these people trouble to learn the ot nditious of life within the borders of their Catholic Cath-olic neighbor. Uelgiiun. a nation whieh has done no great things in the field of war, nor in ocean trading! trad-ing! hit; which, withal, can show a population whose intehjge uct industry and comparative comfort and wealth -rank them as foremost among the industrial indus-trial communities of the world. And this. is a Cath-o.'i'.- -tale. ' Little more than seventy years ago Belgium was -i poor, struggling subject of Protestant. Holland. Yet. vhen she had thrown off the alien yoke and set her&rlf to the management of her own affairs, pro-peri (y was not long in coming, and the 4,000,-000 4,000,-000 of those day's is 7,000,000 'today. The nation whose -4.00O.0tJO found the struggle, for existence under the Protestant rule of Holland a difficult one is today able to' boast, that she has but one pauper to every eighteen hundred of her population, popula-tion, while England and Wales, the exemplar of Protestant progress, has a pauper for every thirty-eight thirty-eight of her inhabitants. Low taxation and equitable laws are the secret of .success under th-: Catholic government, which has already solved those economic problems with which the 'greatest minds' of England are wrestling today. |