How Protestants Are Regarded.
By Editor
The Western Watchman of June 2 declares that the Protestant "preachers of the North are careful not to say anything in their sermons lest their people come to regard them as behind the time. Catholicism needs no defense in the Northern States. And in the majority of the states of the South the people are sufficiently enlightened to see in the Catholic Church the strongest bulwark of law and order and the most successful exponent of Christianity among the masses of the people. But the preachers of the South have not been educated on these broad and liberal lines." The editor then refers to a sermon by a Presbyterian who declares that Roman Catholicism and Roman Catholic immigrants are a menace to the country. On this the Western Watchman remarks: "Foreign immigration is a menace, because the vast majority of the people who land on our shores are Catholics. As well complain that all the waters that lave our thousands of miles of coast are salt. All the seas and oceans are salt. All the peoples of the world are Catholic except the few millions who dwell in the neighborhood of the North Sea. All the immigrants are Catholic because there are no other kind to come to us. Protestantism is more dead in Europe than it is in this country; and the good Protestants are the dead Protestants." It might be remarked that Rome claims her own kinship when she declares that the idolatrous of the world are Catholics. But it would seem that she might respond in a better compliment to the Northern preachers.