, 1872-05-01

there will be less necessity for free schools Those
parochial. schools could be subsidized without any
fearof public schism being created, and that system
would be productive of more good than compulsory
attendance, as the parents are under the control of
their Ministers, and that would be much moro eff
fective than any police. WlLemoes said that such
parochial schools would be exceedingly per-
nicious; wherever they have been esta-
blished, the complaint has been that they spoiled
the whole school business. He could agree with
Rosenstand that there would be no fear Of
schims here, but the p~arochial schools would be
n kind Of propaganda it is certainly good for
parents to have their children instructed in their
own church, but the school instruction is chiefly
intended to train the children 50 that they need
not always stand under the government of others
to speak and think for them, but be able to
think and act for themselves. If the parson in
charg9 of the parochial school be a liberal man,
the children will be literally instructed and
guided but if not they will be kept down, and
no sort Of free instruction will BE- given them,
50 that the purpose Of having schools where
children can get a quiet and ordinary instruc-
ION in those matters which it is necessary FOR
every man to know, would be lost. St. Thomas
gives, as Rosenstand said, subsidies to The demo
minational schools but whenever he has been
in St. Thomas he has always heard that the
schools are there in a deplorable state. He
would rather take the reverse Of R0senstand
and say, he should not vote for parochial schools
before we have a good public school. And as
regards the number being too large, he had read
Of a school in Christianshavn having 300 chill
dren-.. (Rosenstand but | saw that styled a
public scandal mo, tho school itself not, but
the existence ofonly one Inspector, and at all
events there is a great difference between 500
and 100 -Fa7eUy could not see why the pa
rochial schools should be pernicious. With
Rosenstand he agreed in thinking they contri-
butte to good order more than the Police. And
if there are funds FIR public instruction, why
should not those schools, which are also attend
ed by Danish b~urghers, be assisted ? The catho-
lie clergymen will oppose l school for all the
the children trusted that this Island
would never see the day whom p~arochial or de-
nominational schools are assisted. They have
been opposed and condemned every where, aud
Mr.. Lowe has very recently in an able speech
dealt with the subject. The Catholic school IN
Frederiksted is worthy of emulation and he for
one wonld gladly contribute to it privately, but
not one dollar of public money should be given
for denominations purposes W1UemOes said
that there was this great danger with parochial
schools in town and not in country, that almost
all the children from country run to town to be
instructed in those town schools, and such chill
drtn never go back to field labour, Sarauac
had vacated his thaifman-SedC ana Salu ne haQ
for the last 90 years greatly wished to have cs-
tahlished parochial schools here there is such
a near combination in the minds CT The people
between church and school, aud he could not see
how the children could be compelled to attend
schools which their parents d. not countenanco
He could not agree with the Majority's plan b.
cause Justice has not been doDe to tdc schools
for the poorer classes. The School commission
had forwarded a plan on those schools, which
the Government had eutcred into, but which
the Committee could not recommend for the
Burgher School instead Of leaving the plan for
The free school and proposing something else for
the Burgher School, the committee cut away
from the poor and gave to the rich. Therefore
he could not do otherwise than to propose that
the whole matter be postponed until We get q
School Inspector, who will know more about
schools than the 4 Commissions, the Govern
ment and Council together. He was happy to
say he had been informed that Government has
taken steps to get such an Inspector therefore
he withdrew that portion Of his proposal for an
address to the Governor about steps in that d.
rection.-The VacegoOermor The Government
never considered the proposed plan satisfying
all requirements, and it was a matter of congra-
t~ulati0n that we have here for the first time in
the Committees report a satisfactory treatment
of the school matter, The minority vote from