The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-11-06
Irish Catholic UnfOn-GppOsifion Il
the Public School System.

The Irish Catholic Benevolent Union
Of the United States closed session of
three days ut st. Louis on Oct l7th, and
some OF the talk and action on the last
day was of General importance and inter-
est. We condenss from the telegraph
reports as follows:
Father Pheian, chairman of the Com
mittee on Resolutions, submitted the fol-
lowing report
ReSolUed, That the present deplorable
attitude of the Government toward re-
ligion and religious institutions is the
result of the abandonment of the true,
necessary and saving principles condi-
toned of Gold and the expression of His
holy will
Resolred, That the conduct of govern
ments and rulers in permitting the deth-
ronement of the Pope and the absorption
of his dominions by the Kingdom of Italy
is fragrant injustice to Rome and the
whole Catholic world, a crime against
truth, social stability and legitimate au-
thority that it the presentim prisonment
of the sovereign pontiff, We behold tho
contamination of a heliish conspiracy,
whose offspring will some day return 10
torment their authors and that to the
venerable Pope in his ravished city of St.
Peter, we extend out profoundest SYM
pathy, joined with the wish and prayer
that he may live to see his crown and
kingdom once more wrested from the
grasp of the despoiier.
Resolued, That we hereby enter our
| solemn protest against the unjust prosec-
ution inaugurated against our mother
church by the Government of Prussia,
and offer to the German archbishop and
tn 70 hn-
| lie clergy the male and female religiouses
| the assistance of our best sympathy.
Resolued, That morality grounded on
| fixed and dogmatic principles, are the
just guide, and furnish the support of
man in all the circumstances and situa-
tions of this life that sobriety in conduct,
| honesty in intercourse, and truth III
everything will prove the greatest safeg
| uard against individual decentralization
and national degeneracy,
Resolred, That secret societies and
other dangerous associations of man
| untaught in the principles of religion,
and bent through tortuous ways on purely
| material ends, are subVersive Of social
order, and fatal to the faith as they are
destructive of the mortality of Cathol-
! les.
| Resolced, That Catholic cannot be
true to his country if he be false to his
church, or faithful In his duties to society
and his fellowman, if he be stranger
to the sacraments and recreant to his
God
ResolUeI, That the best interests of the
| Statet and society centre in the education
| of the young. and that eduction to be
effective of good and conductive of social
and national advantage, must be Chris
tian, begin with the eatechism, and end
with the knowledge that God is our God,
and heaven the reward of virtuous deeds
and holy lives.
Rcsolred That the present SYSTEM of
public schools. ignoring all supernatural
authority, and making God, the frat
knowledge, the last thing to be learned,
is q oours To our country, and a food gate
of atheism and cf sensuality, of civil,
social, and national corruption.
A spirited and somewhat acrimonious
debate ensued on the last resolution.
Mr. Rely of Virginia, thought the
resolution should be reesUmitted IL the
comnIittce, with iastrpelions to modify,
he MAS, hy Elrtpe Of his Office as MaYGr
OF Hichmand, president Of The board of
sGhooi- tie has been elected ~ ..r OF a
constituency OF TN atout 80 per cent
"". frotes;ants The Bible was not
read iii he schools at Iiicl,tn md, aud he
had assurances o. the 3 ard that DO
religious instruction we're ;aie lat 10 them
He was not in sympathy viti, the resnl
ution, Dor nould be yafe for it without
stuitiiying himself, which; Io did not i.ro-
| pose TO du.
Father Phean, OF St. Louis. defended
the resolution, and he said We have
nothing to do with Richmond or its
| schools. If religious instruction was ex-
eluded from them, as Mr.. Rely said,
then they were the most Objectionable of
all schools. The public man of America
| were educated in the public schools. and
were exhibitions of the system. and thew
were the most corrupt and dishonest
of any country in the world That tie
Children of the country 60 head over heels
to the devil must be attributed to the
! education they receive in the public
schools, which doez not ft them for the
temptations of the world. In these
schools men of science are honored and
| eulogized, but the name Of Jesus Christ
Is not allowed to be mentioned with
reverence. These childsra turn out to be
learned horse thieves, scholarly conn
tertel.SEs, and we'll posted 10 all the
schemes of deviltry.
Mr. Harley, ur Pennsylvania. denounced
'ne resolution. It Contemplated union
oiChurch e.1.id State. He said the Cath
oncs had gained great victory in driving
the Bible from the public school.
Father Graham. interruptineiy, said
'the Church did pot drive the Bible ou,
of the schools. The purpose was to put
| in the correct version, and the Catholic
lcatechism.
! Mr. Hsrley-Exactly. Now Task you
is it just or right that we should intro
! duce our catholic oatechism among Pro
testants, when .ge will not allow Protest
ants, who are greatly in the majority. to
use the Bible in the public schools?
Mr.. Chang of. Delaware. thought thi.
wasa fling in the wrong direction. They