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Show THE CATHOLIC AND THE SAXON. (Chicago Tribune.) The Indiana State Baptist association associ-ation is a bit under the Influence of the "champagne" atmosphere of this part of the world. "The immigrants from Roman Catholic countries would, if they could, reduce all Protestant churches to ashes." "The Anglo-Saxon race was born to rule the world." The first of these statements is hys-tercial. hys-tercial. The .second is worse. It is a vile mixture of self-consciousness and braggadocio. With regard to the Roman Catholic church, people who read the statistics of church attendance will not deny that the Roman Catholics are entitled by their numbers to respectful consideration con-sideration in the religious world. Catholic Cath-olic churches crowded to the doors, Protestant churches asking what is the matter with the workingmen that seems to be the situation. The daily newspaper cannot say whether Catholics Cath-olics or Protestants are better fitted to guide the workingman in the right direction. All it can do is to point out external facts. With the Catholic performing a large religious service, Is it well for Protestants to take them to task? With regard, next, to the Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon race it cannot but occur to the readep of current literature that there is a great deal of Anglo-Saxon talk wrhich lacks that quality of reserve on which Anglo-Saxons used to pride themselves. In the Stalky stories, when Mr. Kipling brings a cantinjr. rantine jingo down to a school where most of the boys expect to risk their lives for their country, the speech which the jingo makes' is received with cordial disapproval. "Jelly-bellied flag flapper" flap-per" is the Homeric epithet he gets. The boys are outraged to hear him bring their most secret patriotic ambitions am-bitions out' into a broad, ugly light of crude statement; Similarly, Mr. Hovey speaks in one of his poems about the Anglo-Saxons who do not chatter but who understand. Can such praise last now? On all sides we see the Anglo-Saxon doing a dithyrambic dance in a most Anglo-Saxon way and insisting that he is the future ruler of the human race. If he is he ought to keep a little quieter about it. There is no reason why he should give his purpose away. Besides, ths man who is forever talking about hl3 future is a bore; An occasional guess at the, part which the Anglo-Saxon race Is to play in the future history of the world is excusable. A constant bleating bleat-ing about it is intolerable. Is the Anglo-Saxon becoming Gallicized ' |