Jesuit Influence in the United States
The Jesuits, driven out of France and Germany, find a readier field in the United States than anywhere else. We drive out the Chinese, and it is proposed to legislate directly against them, but they are innocence and sweetness itself compared with the Jesuits. Superintendent Warren, of California, says:— “Their schools are everywhere, and number probably 2,000 in the State. Their new College of St. Ignatius is the largest, finest, best equipped of its kind in the United States. Three years ago the property of the Roman Catholic church in San Francisco out-valued the sum total of the Protestant churches, parsonages, asylums, schools, and Young Men’s Christian Association by $47,000. To-day the excess is probably more than three times as much. They blow no trumpets, are sparing with statistics, but are at work night and day to break down the institutions of the country, beginning with the public schools. As surely as we live so surely will the conflict come, and it will be a hard one.”