Excerpt from The Past, Present and Future of the Roman Catholic Irish in New England

If Protestant emigration to America from European countries continues to increase in the same ratio in the next half century that it has during the past decade, in the year 1950 the Roman Catholic Irish will bear to peoples of that day and generation in America, about the same proportion as the China-man does to the peoples of to-day. But this state of things will depend almost wholly upon the energy and watchfulness of the Protestants of to-day, as the Jesuits of to-day are doing all in their power to restrict and retard Protestant emigration from Europe, by framing laws of every conceivable form and shape in order to accomplish this end, and having them presented to Congress to become laws of the land. They are fathers of the Chinese exclusion act, the contract labor law, and the bill to exclude paupers (a Jesuit pretence) which is before the present Congress. As a matter of fact, Roman Catholic Ireland has emigrated, the Jesuits are aware of it, and now their great aim is to head off Protestant emigration from Europe, and to this end they are working night and day, for no one knows better than they, that when in America Protestants are as ten to one of Roman Catholics, their death-knell is sounded.

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