The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-08
sREyIEwn TIE VIZ. =. .


THE Morals OF THE DAY. The frsasssxr
of crime in its various grades has bluntsa q.
sensibilitieb.i livery shaiafof society i. q,
Gated in the delinquencies of the day.
those who make ouz laws and admits
those who control hundreds of thona,,,,,5s y
down, down to the butcher boy who doe. h..
best to take away the life of his paramon,. -
the decision of the magistrate ho aa
this last named case, we have am smsta,,aa 3
the impotency to which the administra,,n.. s.
law is reduced in this community. The scena
in court, as depicted by the papers, is pit,a.
BILE exhibition of maudlin sentiment; and con.
sideripg the gravamen of the case, alnost q
credible is it safe thus to palter with er;mav
Does it not find its warrant, Justification mi
encouragement in just such wretchefl Inv
lesqucs on judicial functions But while snoh
as these present us with some of the rear;,ts
the cause lies further back. IT is to be fonSS
in the almost total abandonment of morai
principles. Success is the test of u wellsnpSan.
Iife--the means, quite minor considerationS
Indulgence is pronounced the trnest pIfos,S
phy-the medium, though every barrier Of ;,Ss
tegrity be afnihilated, quite compatible wiz
the end sought. To 1.-Two we'll and live, fsst.
seems to be the motto OF universal sdStttt;;aa,
Dress, equipage--w viii not he barteredd ara M,
these .sFkat win stand in theway of r.ializ ;,
thems The young man visits piaces Of ansasss
ment, gamBf.ng salpons-r-hc tteads the ves NE
tzfleso houses whose, siren occupants aurss a.
destruction. but at whose expenses stTks
official to whose honor is contiasd ma ionaI aSd
corporate trusts, besrays them ito procure the
means Of Indulgence; and whens an e4fort,is
made to rsttieye losses and recover position d b
the perateieNpediento of the gslgbli q table
we find tile resuIt'in blastsd hopes, sufeas Isa
putation and heart-brokch Families. AS t.. that
aspect Of the subjectyw which relates to politics
and ofIice%hoIdiug, tho ease is hopeless infsea
It would really appear that she lnomsut q man
gets into office, he loses his censcious- peshat6
we should say OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and
is irresistibiy led to, appropriate, to his ossn
I1se that which the Innocent public believed %
be theirs, We need not say, of course, that
there arescxeeptioss; but. alas, they are so few
as to make the statesnentialm true that Gle
whole mass is leavcned. with corrsption; and
to make an honest msh--if there be such
ran. sseis in terra--blssb for, the deyrasity Of
his species, go -. l''si' - - ilo1s =
CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT SCHooIs,-1t is
obvious that eommendatiDR from opponents
carries more weight with the general p6biie
than il 1t came from those whose natural SYM
pathies might bias their judgments. With
these feelings we give the following from a
late nnlabep OF the New York Ford, With re-
gard to the eoaelnding Fsmarlss we would state
that laay~tShe attended one 81 the examine
tions which lately came off in sSrpe of onr city
schools--nen-C athOlie--reports a condition Of
/ things not more Hastering than that detailed
below :. - ~ ~
The vice president Of one OF onr public
schools was Formerly q trunk -naakeri and
whether fEom lack OF skfff or industry, finding
he did not make eat NerywelI, hegave 1t mp.
He then became q sebooLmaster by local po-
6tical influence, and ,isn0w, with has twosis-
teTs, drawing heavy pay, for Gye hours aFday,
with two holidays yins seven, and, rftEe general
holidays in the year, and n Summer vacation of
six. Weeks, new increased to SEVEN He new
keeps trIak Store Rp town, IN addition to ms
position as "a school -mssier. The [.cC, Is, we
have gone fpoms. one exteeme to another in the
matter OF school malAasseIEsept--trom thS severe
discipline and aTduons r utlies OF toEneE years
TO n total ilaNity and {eoplparatlye ldeaess
When. one compares the amount of labor pen
formed ia this reslscte blythe Christian broth
erhood anfl Sisters Erl5haTity, at y raanunera-
tiOn OF less than s;00 for eaah teacher, 1t mast
be Obvious that opE public school system. needs
a radical pefsrmntion. Htse GLASS books of, the
Christian RIotherhoafl-thes com uannitys vhich
anroilaa Gerald Griffin rs an assoclate7--aFe gu
writ ters or complied i rpfer to their geogra
ply mud resders- The history of 1raiand. and
the lie OF Gathe2tne AcApley, recently written
by it7eenSenbual Sister, show that these ladies
are not Jnere deyotees- t0lpFaying and fasting;
but that they also recognize the fact that labor
is prayer. In the Catholic, ParoeIaial schools in
thts eat tiIa Jewish Sablatlp observed
in addition ~ Ghristian Sunday The Ca
thoIic schools now teach the physics a scienees
mathematics, astronomy, batany, ete.T-to tho
Same degree as in the public, schools ;.and they
also, NOW give the school, books free OF expense
The writer, Of this would; if recommended Tor
his time, offer to go among the pablo schools,
and show that two-thirds of the school-teaeh-
ers will not parse correctly he,Lords prayer,
nor writefrom dictatiOp q dozen words With
out four errors in spellings nor pupetuate a
my jetsrrses-
man printer; nor answer correetly four times
ont of twelve, questions in geography and
arithmetic-the latter equal to. an ordinary &C
countant. Our teachers should rotate their
positions every four years, subject to renewal
of public competitive examination.
PRoTEsrANrIsM ny PRorEsTANT.-Quite
recently the Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., gave u
lecture, in the Church Oh the corner of Fifth