The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-17
uo.1ma star AND CATHOLIC HEssxzaEa-
new ORLEANS. SUNDAY. JANUARY II. 1862

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public school system, as now organized, though
thew contribute largely to its support by their
taxes. They do not desire to interfere with
that system as it seems at present to meet the
wants, oriat least the views, of their Protestant
fellow-citizens; and they are, therefore, not
of which they have been represented to be.
They simply ask that they may be allowed TO
participate in the only way open to them, tnat
is, by the apportionmeDt to them OF q rataDIe
mart of the fund.- in aid of their existing schools
and of such others as their numbers; IN any
given locality, may properly enable them 10
establish, subject to the limited supervision OF
the State, as we have before explained. we
need 60 no further than Canada, to witness
this system operating harmoniously and to the
best advantage. The argument generally used
and efficiency of the whole. Why is it not
30 in Prussia, Austria, France, England, and
the British Colonies! Besides, the Catholic
in this
ton, New York, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, st. Louis,
Chicago, Milwaukee, and the large agricultural
settlements throughout the Northwestern
be no difficulty. 1t is contemplated by the
school law that all these are to be educated.
Then, why can they not be permitted to Or
ganize separate schools in the countries
referred to Such organization would be an
integral part of the whole system; and the
cost precisely the same. In fact, we learn from
the Reports of Assistant superintendents Jones
City Superintendent, and also from his Report
made to the Hon. Board Of Education, in De
cember, 1866, that the school room provided in
the city of New York Especially in the primary
Department. is altogether inadequate and yet,
we know that the tens of thousands OF Catholic
children tould easily be cared for, If the means
were afforded those, who, even now, with the
scantiest resources, are erecting parocnlai
schools all over the city.
1t would be impossible, in a brief article, to
enter into details Our purpose has been rather
to set this question before a liberal public In
its great leading aspect, as we are quite VIII
ling to trust to the wisdom and experience of
our legfslatOrs to devise the proper plan and
specifications They will be at no loss for pre-
cedents. The statute books of half dozen
countries may be consulted profitably. All We
ask is, that this momentous question may be
disposed Of We hope that the day has gone
nv when such question as this shall be met
with passionate defamation or the obsolete cry
of no popery." Disraeli has failed to stem
the tide of popular Reform in England by revi-
wing the insane clamor of Lord George Gordon.
The world has outgrown such narrow bigotry:
Vital questions, affecting the conscience and
the rights of multitudes of men, and deeply
involving the welfare of nations, must hence
forth be settled by calm and just decisions.
Cbristendem will tolerate nothing else now.
And surely, this free and wise Republic Will
not be the last to put into practice those prin-
ciples of equality before the law, justice, and
generous confidence in human nature which 1t
published to all the dowp-trodden nationalities
of the earth, almost a century ago, under the
signatures of Hancock, Livingston, and Carroll
of Carrolt0n. -