No paper read at the Catholic Congress in Chicago created a greater sensation than that of Miss M. T. Elder on "Our Twenty Million Loss." Miss Elder is the niece of Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati, a fact which added emphasis to her statement that the Roman Catholic Church has lost 20,000,000 followers in this country. Having undergone a severe fusillade from Roman Catholic critics, Miss Elder returned to the charge in an article in the Catholic Telegraph, of Cincinnati, remarkable for the array of eminent Catholics whom she cites in support of her position. Bishop Keane, of Washington, for example, says:— When we would offer Catholic truth to the Protestant masses, they reply, "Look at your drunkards!"—and that settles it. Canon Murane, of England, in an address at Birmingham, said:— How can you expect conversions when a Catholic prison chaplain can assert that of six or seven thousand women brought into prison yearly more than eighty per cent are Catholics? If the drunken neighborhood is the Catholic neighborhood; if the drunkard's names in the police reports are notoriously those of Catholics; if the saloon goers and saloonists are Catholics; if the "boodlers" who thrive by saloon politics are Catholics; if the saloon-made paupers and tramps are Catholics, then, as a moral force among men, Catholicity is done for in that community; whatever individual good it may do its members, its "public force" for morality is "nothing." Chrysostom and Bossuet, aye, or Paul and Patrick, could not convert men to such a Catholicity. Cardinal Vaughan, primate of all England, presents a sweeping indictment in another direction:— Whatever else you Catholics of the States have or have not done, when it comes to a missionary zeal, you have accomplished virtually nothing. Miss Elder repeats the assertion that the great men of the country, in politics and in literature, have, with but few exceptions, been Protestants. All this she ascribes to the fact that the greater part of the rural population is Protestant. Her condemnation of her own church could not have been more sweeping from Protestant lips:— We will indeed have, now and then, a grand Catholic. We will occasionally receive a brilliant, an extraordinary convert (converted by reading, not by example). We will have, here and there, an exceptional community of sober, exemplary Catholics. But that we will ever, as a whole, as a class, a people (present conditions remaining), stand on a social, an intellectual level with the Protestants of the country, never, I say, never!