Protestantism, nearly 60,000,000 people in the United States are not baptized.  A nice system (for the devil), that produces such results—­results as fatal to the heathen as to the Christian.  Protestantism found the Sandwich islands with 400,000 people.  Where are they now?  Gone.  A million Macris in New Zealand.  Where are they?  Gone.  Seven million Indians in the United States.  Where are they?  Gone.

“On the other hand, the friars found 300,000 natives in the Philippines 400 years ago, and there are 9,000,000 now; 12,000,000 Indians south of the Rio Grande, and there are 50,000,000 now.  ‘By their fruits you shall know them.’  In view of such facts, we think Protestants should leave ‘Boonioboola Gha’ alone and confine their proselytizing to unfortunates nearer home.  An American is just as well worth saving as a Cuban or a Chinaman any day.”

“The American Citizen,” a journal published in Boston, Mass., made the following comment on this article, which appeared in this Roman Catholic journal: 

    “The above is as good a specimen of papal logic as we have
    ever seen—­and it is the real thing.

“‘It has never converted a single nation!’ Christianity is not supposed to convert nations—­it converts individuals.  Mohammedanism converted (?) many nations by the sword, and popery attempted to do it by the inquisition, but failed—­except in the case of the Jews and Moors in Spain, which it ‘converted’ into beggars and refugees.

“Rome ‘converted’ the Albigenses from being peaceful and industrious citizens into the best mountain warriors in Europe—­and the handful defied and defeated the best papal armies of Europe.

“But how about England, and Scotland, and Scandinavia, and the Netherlands, and many other nations—­were they not all papal at one time, but converted through reformation?  How about the Huguenots—­the very flower of France; the Protestant Irish, the very salvation of the Emerald Isle—­were not these all at one time Romanists—­converted to Protestantism?

“Read the record of Rome’s ‘conversions’ in Mexico, in Central America, in South America, as told by Prescott and other historians—­the introduction of slavery by the papal church, and the unspeakable cruelties perpetrated upon the Indians, or aborigines, of the countries mentioned.  Read, in United States senate document 190, the record of Rome’s ‘conversions’ in the Philippines—­a work which has made every Filipino a bitter hater of the priests.

“‘The Indians of the United States!’ Have they ever been Protestants?  Have not the priests had control of them since this land was discovered?  Are not the vices which have killed them—­apart from war—­the peculiar vices of popery, especially drunkenness?  What good have the priests wrought among them?  Take California as an example, where these priests enslaved tens of thousands of the Indians for the