In short. the different races already In this country live beside each other. and all produce in time good citizens of the Republic. but they do not blend. The probability is that the twentieth century will exhibit the same methods and results in a population become somewhat more various racially. 6. Some religious people fear that the Catholic Church will become unduly powerful in the United States. if races which have long been Catholic continue to pour into the country. immigrants by the hundred thousand who are vigorous. industrious. frugal. and prolific. Whatever gains the Catholic Church may make In this way under a r6gime of religious toleration. that church Is fairly entitled to. Even the extreme Protestants who feel this apprehension shrink from declaring that their motive in advocating restrictions of immigration is fear of the Roman Church. and. indeed. for the United States to try to shut out Roman Catholics by restrictions not avowedly for that purpose would be an extraordinarily insincere and cowardly performance. at the very moment when in Europe the Catholic Church is being steadily dispossessed iI Catholic countries of the control it once exercised . and when in the United States the effects of democracy on the Catholic Church are plainly much wider and deeper than the effects of the Catholic Church on either American governments or American society. To restrict immigration because. for the time being. immigration is more Catholic than Protestant would be the public confession of lack of faith in the efficacy of religious toleration and the independence of church and state as bulwarks of political freedom. 7. Finally. it has been lately maintained by some persons of humane proclivities that America Is no longer needed as a refuge for people of other lands who think themselves politically or industrially unfortunate at home. If this were really the case. the present extraordinary migrations of the European races would come to a natural end.
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