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ATTACK ON T1KE CHICAGO RE


SATURDAY. JUNE 4. 1859
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ATTACK ON TIFE CHICAGO RE-
FORM SCHOOL,.
ihs Hsst:rE Ban:h7, i new Catholic paper
published III this city, s;gnalises i,s entrance
Into The field Of journalism by an attack on
lie management Of the Chicago Reform School
Its complaint is:
lst- That Catholic children lit tho school
are denied Catholic instruction by tue priests
Of the Cl.uzoh-
I'd. Tint the religious teachings Of the su-
perlnteadent, under the authority ofthe Board
Of Guardlans, being conGued to the fandamcn.
tai principles Of Christianity, arc essentially
infidol. 4
Netook occasion not long since, when Dr..
McMnllcn, priest Of tl.is city, nssailed tic
school because lle WAS not permitted to en-
largo upon points Of doctrinal theology, before
the boys therein confined; to demonstrate that
tho religious instruction in that institution
must be non.scctarian; else, instead Of a pure
y charitable and re!ornaatory home for vicious
and misguided boys, it would become thoo-
logical til.ing ground upon which ambitious
doctors Of al1 sccts-tlc Catholic gect included
would excite themselves and move the COLI
tempt o. thu pupils, by breaking theological
lanccs over each others heads. We supposed
that we made it clear that if Catholics were
allowed 10 teach tue 1nfallibilitv Of tho Pope,
tho Immaculate Conception aud the doctr.uc
Of Transubstautiaton, that Prcstytcgians
might in turn teach Calviuism; the Episcopa-
Iians, Epscopacy or the NXX1N Articles;
baFilsts, the sole efficacy of Immersion; Spir~
ituallsts, the novel tencts to which they hold;
1nhdels, 1ufldelity; aud Mormons, the abom-
nations Of the Latter Day Saints We supposed
tuat au1ons all reasonable men, claiming for
themselves nothing but the rights which they
are willing to accord to others, tic detnonstra-
1ion would be sufficient, and that tic war upon
the Reform School, commenced in moment
OF irritation, would bc discouuten.nced by
Catholics themselves. But since they hive
returned 10 tic Charge, with the determination
10 make tue school miniature monastery, or
destroy its usefulness rs rcformatory agan,,
we arc constrained 10 take another method:
Are the children 0: the Reform School
Catholics Have tho influence Of CATH
ole example, tho tendency Of Catholic
teaching the education hy Catholic "a
rents. brought then, to the condition in
which they arc loupd-that of criminals im-
pri*onod for Offences against the moral Inv?
Tile answer must be Yes; or tllc claim Of the
priests upon their youthful conscienccs, and
hence upon the management Of tue School, falls
to the ground. II, then, Catholicism is claimed
for them, l,y what Inv Of right will the Board
Of Guardians permit, among the boys under
their control, the propagation Of faith the
non-ctticiency Of which the priests, By claim
ing thesc youthful prisoners as IL part Of its
fruits. clearly admit? Will the Banncr t.on-
code that the inmates Of the School arc not
Catholics and abandon tllc attempt TO Nuke
them 50; or will it insist that tcy arc child.
rcn o. the Church, and assume for that Church
the responsibility Of having made them What
1llcy are?
Our new contemporary will do neither the
one thing 1.or tllc other; but with that arro-
.al'eo and intolerance that is Il part of Cath
olit.>'a i'll i'll its reatin,ls to the State, will ill.,
sst that its eccesiastics SHALL under the law.
llas' privileges which The ministers of no .,tler
Sec syc 1r: lar,iihtud to claim. And with
1h' vi! ;r. t.ntti: only until s,c!l time.
tia: u i':> Liza; IL part: as sl' ,s,Sr7: then
III ".n.ditms. III Catholic instincts and policy,
lin: '-:G,ru, Ss'1'ou will 1'ass iulo exclusively
Ca'::'tlic hands
We apie:l to the tax-lHt:ers Of Chicago-to
the charitable wlio are content to sec Il good
work 60 IN, cvcn though it has no theological
purpose-to friends Of religious tolc:ation-to
mak'' common canse nsainst tic flnatlcs and
d'st1lrbers nj the peace. who would su1,jcc, one
OF the noblest institutions If wliyl. Chicago can
boast to the control Of Il sect In this NC :lsk
The ;lI Of The Chicago Timer.