Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-10
TIE CATHOLICS AND THE PUE-
Lie SCHOOL SYSTEM.

VIC wv iaitA thC Sl
;icacy and frmness of the popular
faith in, and attachment to, the pub
lie school system of the country to
believe il TO be IN any immediate
danger from whatever cause
whether it be Catholic or other re-
ligious f..naticism and over-zeal but
that it has been assailed here and
there by the Papists, and that there
are, continually at work, strong in
tluences whose object is inimical to
that precious system, nobody can
doubt. We are tempted to refer to
this very interesting subject by see
ing it stated in the San Francisco
Chronicle that in the late election in
that city . majority of School Direc
tors were elected who will resist any
attempted efforts on the part of the
Catholics to gain control of or in
any manner divert from its better
course, the school management of
that city and if one needed q text |
for discourse upon this subject it
Is furnished by the telegraph as fol-
lows:
At mass meeting in Saint Peters
Church Father O'Farrell. abiding to the
dedication of his parochial school in the
afternoon, pronounced the public school
system a failure, and said he believed
that eventually the State must either
make all education voluntary and with
ont taxation, each denomination sup
porting its own school, or else If tax
were raised for educational purposes
each party must receive q fair share.
At the dedicatory services in the after /
noon the same clergyman saidh wished
it understood that in this matter the :
priests and the people went together.
It had been charged that they had en- {
tered into q conspiracy; it was true that G
they had entered into conspiracy, every
man, woman and child of them, and
they made no secret of it. They did not
deny that they protested against supply v
ing schools to which Catholic children 7
could not go just as they would protest
against being forced to attend o State
church. They claimed as American cit
liens the privilege OF educating Their e
children as they pleased l
This priest is not altogether wrong.
He keeps enough of right upon his \
side to screen his fallacies and give \
q seeming reason for his general at !,
titude of hostility to the Public "
School System. If, as he claims, it I
is insisted by the educational author
tiles of New York that q certain re- a
ligious tone, obnoxious to Catholi- :,
rism, shall be observed in the schools i,
under their charge, then has he an /
basis upon which to :
found his opposition to that system. l.
It is the grain of error-such as the
intrusion of the Protestant Bible i,
into the public schools-which gives d
This Popish teacher the foundation :
Of his argument. Protestant school a
directors must refrain from all efforts p
1t q vindication of their peculiar $
through the indicated o
misuse of authority if they would y
break the force of these Catholic on i,
,laughts. It is no more fair that a b
should pay taxes for the a
support of a school system which L
another religious faith a
han his own than that o Protestant n
hould be taxed to support monas- n
cry. A few fanatics are fighting Is H1
or, and all wisely patriotic men are !"
lighting against God in the Consti- W
ution." The fathers wisely agreed in
nth one another that this should be
purely human and political gov
rnment and not at all q spiritual or re-
eligious one. Their inspired WIS., va
ON is illustrated and enjoyed day !"
y day. Unfortunately this freedom an
ON sectarian influences has not Of
in all the States. Massa- % 1n
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