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Show oo CHANGES PRODUCED BY IMMIGRATION Several stales In the American union un-ion were settled by Roman Catholics and started life as Catholic communities. commun-ities. That is true of Florida and Maryland, of New Mexico, Arizona and aCUfornia. il applies to ToxaB, Lou- J i mt ii 1 1 1 n maMaanmMaBaB,, isiana and, In a very narrow senso. to Missouri. On the other hand, there are sev-oral sev-oral statos, as every reader of American Am-erican history knows, which began Intensely In-tensely antl-Cathollc. For example. Massachusetts, ConneotlcuL Rhodo Island and Delaware. All of the other states on tho Atlantic seaboard wore founded by Protestants and for a long tlmo had few Catholic cltbons. Tho latoBt census of the Roman Catholio churoh In the United Statos showB how grently these oaih conditions con-ditions havo been altered. Rhode Island Isl-and has tho highest proportion of Roman Ro-man Catholics -nonrly ono-hnlf of all tho states in the union. Out of evoiy 1,000 of the population there aro more Catholics In Masoaohusotts than thoro aro in Maryland. Connecticut has twice as many In proportion to the total population as California Louisiana 1b still about 3G per cent Catholio, and In New Mexico tho proportion pro-portion is greater about 42 per oont but in Toxns and Missouri tho Catholic Cath-olic oloment Is not conspicuously large. It Is only about 13 per cent in Missouri and loss than 8 per cont in Texas Florida, also, has changod from a colony which was wholly Catholic Cath-olic at tho beginning to a otato with only a small fraction of lta people connected with tho Catholio ohuroh. Of course, tho explanation 1b found in tho immigration of tho kiBt half century. Where millions of men and women from Catholic countries havo j made their homes, the Catholic population pop-ulation is largo; where immigration has Leon chiefly Protestant or Jewish, the Catholic population Ib relatively smaller. Some of tho New England states have been muoh. affected by tho solidly Catholic Immigration from French Canada. The SwedeB and Norwegians In the northweBt are practically all Protestants. In evory part of tho country tho day has gone by whon religious differences dif-ferences could oauso bltternoBg and strife of the old evil kind. 8aner vlewa and moro oharitable feeling govern all classes and Influence all churcheb. Cloveland Leador oo |