It is beginning to be noticed that more than others the Jewish population of New York is taking advantage of the educational facilities of the city. Of the 3,245 students of New York Free College, sixty-two per cent. are Jews, though the Jews number only about one-fifth of the population. In the public schools the Jews furnish proportionately more pupils than any other race, and they also form an important part of the staff of teachers. They are numbered by thousands in the Normal College, Columbia, and the University of the City of New York. Most noteworthy is it that of recent applicants for admission to the New York Bar those who best stood the test were eight Jewish women.

Carnegie's gift of $10,000,000, in 5 per cent. mortgage bonds of the United States Steel Corporation, excludes from participation in it all sectarian institutions, all State colleges, and all mere instructors and assistants in any institution. Of course, it shuts out all Catholic colleges, for Mr. Carnegie regards them as sectarian, which they are not. Sectarians are those who are cut off from the parent stock. Catholicity is the parent stock. Ninety-three institutions will benefit by the gift. As in Yale there is a certain number of Congregationalist trustees, and in Chicago a certain number of Baptists, the question arises can those colleges enter the list of the favored ones? Who can doubt it? Columbia, too, has a pension system. Will she be excluded? The annuity of no beneficiary will exceed $2,400.

Those who know how bitterly anti-Catholic Harper's Weekly was a few years ago will be encouraged and gratified by the change of heart manifested in the following extract from an editorial in the edition of March 18, 1905. "The apparent, if not actual lawlessness, the prevalence of graft, the confessed materialism of many of the graduates of public schools as now conducted, are making many so-called secularists ask whether quite all is being done that may be done in the schools to train the children and youth in right conduct; and so acute is the feeling that many who for themselves dissociate ethics and religion are now willing to have the two associate for others, if haply good may thereby come to the community as a whole. Consequently the times are more propitious than they have been for a long time for some movement toward increasing the State's provision for religion and ethics in Statesupported schools. Contemporaneous with this is, of course, the steady pressure of the Roman Catholic Church here as elsewhere for State-support of parochial schools, or for some modus vivendi by which religious instruction may be given to Roman Catholic children in State-supported schools-a compromise that has been accepted in some countries, and may have to be in this country as the Roman Catholic voting strength increases and as the American Federation of Catholic organization increases its persuasive power. There can be no immediate coöperation between Roman Catholics and Protestants in education, but there may come a time when a common enemy may become so portentous that they will unite, for it is conceivable that here as in Europe the magnifying of the conception of the State's authority as against the authority of the Church and the home may force long-time enemies to unite, as they have already done in Holland and as they still may do in France."

SOCIOLOGY.

The population of Rome is 442,783. It has doubled in the last thirty years. One-tenth are foreigners. The Catholics are 95.5 per cent. The Jews 1.5 per cent.; Protestants 1.1 per cent., that is to say about 6,000, the greater

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"strikers," hungry for place, who are quite alive to the advantage of being backed by these American evangelists, and are availing themselves of it to the fullest extent. It supplies them with funds from the gullible old ladies, male and female, of America. Thus, we have the Friar troubles all over again. Only the friars are the pale-faced parsons and not the swarthy old padres. But it must not be forgotten that the Filipinos, at least those whom the ministers patronize, hated the friars not because they were friars but because they were foreigners. How will our semi-ready Anglo Saxon friars fare if ever the natives achieve power. The war cry of "The Friars must go" may later on ring in their ears.

There is considerable imitation of the old friars by these new evangelists and one cannot help asking the meaning of this masquerade. Bishop Brent volunteers the information:

Among the great masses of the people there is not enough intelligence to distinguish between a higher and a lower form of Christianity." Is it to help this inability to distinguish that he assumes the garb of the lower form?" Is he following the tactics of his friend Bishop James H. Van Buren in the "Cloud Lands of Porto Rico," who informs us in the Spirit of the Missions for April, 1905, that "the people who have settled in the vicinity have brought Roman traditions with them. They have been accustomed to the ways of Rome, but they are ready to accept the Catholic doctrine which we bring them?" In consequence he actually had the audacity to hear the confessions of these poor people who were evidently under the impression they were dealing with a genuine Catholic priest, and he smugly adds: "We gave them in the Saviour's name absolution and remission of their sins which God hath commanded His ministers to declare and pronounce to His people being penitent."

If these fiery apostles are really actuated by the desire to preach Christianity, why do they not address themselves to the reformation of their fellowcountrymen who are on the Islands, and who are apparently very much in need of being "saved?" On page 345, we read: "Protestants in Manila do not have the church-going habit. With thousands of Americans, not Roman Catholics, the three small Protestant Churches are never full. At the second service on a Sunday afternoon, fifteen persons were in the audience, including eight who were in some way connected with the Church and its official work. "Never full" is a euphemism for such a vacuity: "In the Provinces there is practically no church attendance by Americans," and the writer adds, A mission to the Americans is quite as necessary as to the Filipinos." One is tempted to say more necessary, especially as Governor Taft declares: "One of the great obstacles that this Government has to contend with is the presence in a large majority of the towns of the archipelago of dissolute, drunken and lawless Americans who are willing to associate with low Filipino women, and live on the proceeds of their labor. They are truculent and dishonest. They borrow, beg, and steal from the natives. Their conduct and mode of life are not calculated to impress the native with the advantage of American civilization. When opportunity offers, however, they are loudest in denunciation of the Filipinos as an inferior, lying race." Would it not be a praiseworthy work for the parsons to look after these derelicts before exploiting the Filipinos, who probably cannot make head or tail out of their discordant presentations of Protestantism, or if they grasp anything, laugh at it? In any case, the concluding phrase of Governor Taft's philippic furnishes a very valuable criterion for estimating the correctness of the constant diatribes we are getting about Philippine morality.