ten that cannot
read and write, but in the same countries, where Catholicism has
absolute sway, there is but one out of every 125 that can read and
write.

"In six leading Protestant countries of Europe there are 315
inhabitants to every newspaper or magazine, while in six Roman
Catholic countries in Europe there is but one newspaper to every
2,715 people.

"It is estimated that at least seven-eighths of the twenty million
inhabitants in Spanish-America, which consists of the countries of
Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the north and west parts of South
America, are unable to read, and in Mexico alone 90 per cent of the
inhabitants cannot read nor write, neither do they know their
alphabet;" thus you can see what Roman Catholicism does for the
countries which she controls.

We are writing this book, believing that an intelligent class of
people will read it, and if such is true, we believe that it is
useless for us to try to demonstrate further why the countries which
are completely controlled by Catholicism are countries of
illegitimacy, for an intelligent reader knows full well that
ignorance is the greatest brooder of immorality known to man, and, of
course, immorality means illegitimacy, and we believe that we have
thoroughly demonstrated to the mind of the reader that Catholicism
spreads a cloak of ignorance and superstition wherever she is allowed
to rule supreme, and if this is the case, then the natural
consequences of such a state of affairs is illegitimacy.

[Illustration: "FREE IN NAME ONLY."
"Take their chains off, UNCLE SAM, or you will
always have trouble with them."]

Chapter VII.

The Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands.

It makes my heart sick when I realize that the Government of the
United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars upon the
Islands of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, and, after
all, these Islands are still in the grasp and the filthy embrace of
the Vatican at Rome.

Not only fabulous amounts of money have been spent by the United
States upon these Islands, but hundreds of our noble boys in blue
have given up their lives in battle and by the scourge of disease,
and still Catholicism has absolute sway in these far-away countries.

These islands have been under the immediate control of Popery for
hundreds of years, but when the Government of the United States took
charge of them, their inhabitants had advanced no fur