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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 26, 1 July 1909, Page 1009

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Catholics in the, United States

A frog's leg will twitch long after froggy's life-sparic has been extinguished. And a fallacious argument will likewise often show signs of life after it has been killed ' fatally dead.' In Australia recently the fallacy, '-this is a Protestant country,' was advanced once more as a reason why justice should not be done to Catholics in the mattar of education. It was tabled some weeks ago in the United States, in a similar connection. The San Francisco Monitor throws it into the dust-bin with the following brief comment : 'Is this a Protestant country ? Not exactly! Of the 80,000,0uv/ people- in the United States, more than 50,000,000 are outside of all church affiliations and profess no religion. Of the remaining 30,000,000, 15,000,000 are Catholics. Allowing for the 1,000,000 Jews who are in the United States to-day, there remain 14,000,000 to be divided among the various Protestant Churches.'