Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-02-14

felow-citizens? Perhaps "Justice" has reflect
ed so little on tax paying that he imagines that
Catholics do not pay tax proportional to their
numbers, because they are generally poor, and
not possessed oil nr1ch property. Let me inform
him that it is the poor who pay most tax. The
consumers the aborers, the artisans, are the real
tax payers. 1t Is the consumer, the wearer, that
enables the butcher the baker, the grocer, the
shoemaker, the manufacturer, &C., to become
rich, to build houses, &C., and to pay the tax.
The renter, and not the landlord, is the real tax
payer.
Without claiming to be one-third of the popu-
lation, the Catholics can show good evidence that
they are about seven thousand, the number stated
on the petition circulated for signatures lfyour
correspondent consult the U. s. Census for 1860,
and examine the population of Delaware, Penn
syvania, &C., he will find that the children one
year old are one thirty-tlird of the population,
or one for every thirty-thrce of the population.
Now the records of baptisms in the two Catholic
churches OF this city, and the record of nterments
for 1866 show that thirty-threc are not required
for every child one year old to make up seven
thousand.
Mcssrs. Editors, is your correspondent fairly
entitled to assume the name "Justice, when he
does not call those of whom he writes by their
right names, but calls them by nick-name-Ro-
manists FAIR PLAY.
DIVISION OF THE SCHOOL FUND.
Messrs. Editors IL wish to enter my solemn
protest against the measure proposed by the
Catholics for n division of the funds which are
annually raised by taxation to support public
schools.
-FOUR correspondent, fair rhy, picaus IKE
lawyer VINO mas nara case On MS MINUS, "hu
wouiu iihe 10 ihahe 'hc jury pclcVe ION aiu no'
hit BILL aithough hve Witnesses swore positNey
that he did. f. +. says they (the Catholics) DO
not ask any OF the funds contributed by Protes-
tants. They only ask that the schools winch
they have erected out OF their own limited means
for the education OF their children, be adopted
as public schools by the Board Of Education, and
governed In all respects like the public schools,
with the exception OF the appointment oil teach
ers and special religious session. The whole
scope of the above special pleading amounts to
this We have built fine school house and we
want the Board OF Education to recognize 1t as a
public school house, give us the necessary funds
to carry IL on and we will appoint teachers to suit
our special religious notions. Mark-with the
exceptions of teachers and a Especial religious
session." Now in such school the Board Of
Education would have no power. It would be
simply private religious school supported by the
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so UNJUST, unfe'soiaoie' ahu-chrisuah anu HID
eini distribution Oh our schooi iuhu'
Remember the words of the illustrious jack
son. "The blessings of government, like the
dews of heaven, should descend alike upon the
rich and the poor And the blessing Of the
public schools should ever be kept inviolate from
the hands of sectaranism. No sect is sufficiently
near perfect to have any exclusive privileges over
such fund, but like the air and dew of heav-
en-, it should descend upon all, both rich and
poor We see recorded in history a sample of
thu sunerinr lihpr.,lifv md inlplliopnpe Of the