Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-05-10

dren in whatever manner he pleases, and
also on the injustice of compelling any
man to pay taxes for the support of q
school from which he derives no material
advantage. Is it not a well known fact,
that many good and worthy men, even in
Knoxville, will never consent to send
their children to the common school,
and is it not an outrage upon these TO take
their money, and eXpend it in building
and maintaining schools they cannot pa
tronize Taxation without representa-
ton is also one of the causes of revolution.
DIRECTIONS.
They say the question, as raised by
Catholics would lead to the establishment
of State church, that Catholics demand
these separate schools merely for the pur-
pose of propagating the Catholic religion
in America. We must indeed confess that
we are very anxious to perpetuate our re-
ligion by all honorable means; the relig-
ion that does not work to propagate itself
may be a religion in name, but not in fact.
We ask for no subsidy, we demand no
grants, we merely seek for our own money
that we have paid into the treasury, in or
der to eXpend it as we deem best for the
education of our children.
sECTAR1ANIsM.
The writer also protests against my
claim, because it would lead to the estab-
lshment of sectarian schools. Now, is the
common school system at present in oper-
alton nOR-soctdridn? / most emphatically
answer, no. First 1t is impossible to i'm
part knowledge of history, poetry, philos-
ophv, art or sciences without bias. The
teacher must have opinions, and cannot
fail to tingc his teachings with them, and
according to my distinguished opponent
even the teaching of "silent influence is
sufficient to impart or uproOt belief. Sec
mo rnI
are sectarian because of the text books
which are used, and which very often con-
tain false statements with regard to the
Catholic Church and Catholic history.
Thirdly: there is the Bible question /; is it
not sectarian to introduce a version of the
Bible which some do not believe to be a
true version?
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
1t is argued we can teach our children
their peculiar form of religion on Sunday.
We are not satisfied with this arrange
ment. We believe that certain things are
necessary for the souls salvation. These
things are very numerous and require con-
slant and careful incubation, and no
school can be satisfactory, except where
the teaching of these things go hand and
hand with secular education.
STATISTICS.
This is a question, as the writer has,
very judiciously observed, of great diff
Guilty, and when l appeal to statistics, L
merely accept the weapons used by my OPP
In the communication of yester-
day, a table was given showing the rela-
tive number of illegitimate births in Cath
Ollie and Protestant cities. The only thing
the table proved was that in Prussia, the
two Catholic cities of Cologne and AK la
are better than any of the Pro-
testant ones. They show eXcellently
well on the Protestant column, but
then the observant reader will
that, although in Protestant Prus-
sia they are known to all as Catholic cities.
might also remark that my quotations
were all taken from Protestant authorities,
while presume that the statistics of zone
IF Very Many" were found in "Nights
lmOng the ROmanists,o written by the
Rev. NJ. Hobart Seymour of the church
Of England. The following is complete
table of the percentage of illegitimacy, in
all the chief countries of Europe, both
Protestant and Catholic.