IN 1872 Germany undertook to expel the Jesuits from her domain. That ban has been lifted. The German Center in the Reichstag has been too strong, and it is reasonable to believe that support to the government means compensation. Anyway, the Jesuits are returning. Here are five items taken from a Catholic paper, the Western Watchman, of St. Louis, of March 27, 1913. They show how Roman Catholics feel about it: “Three hundred and fifty-one priests were driven out of Germany in 1872. They were obscure men whose absence would under ordinary circumstances cause no ripple on the religious surface of the nation. But the Catholics of the fatherland said, Those priests must come back. Windhorst said, They must come back. The Center has for forty years repeated, They must come back. Now the German emperor takes off his helmet and says, ‘Gentlemen, you may come back.’” “The Israelites roamed in exile for forty years. It is just forty years since the Jesuits were exiled from Germany. Now the Wacht am Rhein presents arms to them, and Catholic Germany has a gaudeamus.” “The Jesuits have begun their triumphal march back to Germany after an exile of over forty years. They have won a splendid victory without striking a blow. The Catholics of the world fight the battles of their persecuted clergy.” “The Bundesrath has capitulated. The Jesuits are back in Germany. ‘We are coming, Kaiser Wilhelm, not a hundred, but a thousand strong—and no thanks to your majesty.’ Laws against Catholics, if not repealed, eventually rot away.” “William understands Protestants thoroly. He knows that they are a mild set of lunatics, and any kind of an argument goes down with them. He now tells them that the reason he recalls the Jesuits is they have a German head; as if it were the head that was coming back.”