New-York tribune., 1875-12-09
ever rne only key which Will explain it is papObe and
sru,)l, ahipR dishOneSty.
STATE SCHOOLS A MISTAKE.
LITTER FROM THE REV. JOHN Mill

A REVIEW Mr.. BLAINF's LETTER-No EDUCA-
rloS BY THE srATE-TBE TRUE SOLUTION OF
rIIE SCHOOL QUESTION
70 fhs EdifOr OF The TribHne.
SIR | have long held belief which have
looked upon with great suspicion and which have
been half 4ahamed 10 publish. II that State schools
are mistake and that Government is police, and has
nothing do with education. Prudence often keeps
such things from bong avowed Tie star OF certain
faitl may be unmistakaby not risen that who
have caught glimpse OF It's truth viii rarely say so and
VIII prefer W husband their influence rather than throw
u away ia offending the belief OF ninetyn hundred;As
OF their COuntrymen.
Ex-r-aker Blaine's letter. however which you pub
sh in his mornings paper tempts me more than can
well resist w'sh the ability that have learned 70 ex-
poct from that particular quarter he tells MS Of that
bittor-s most deporabc Of al national difficulties
says very reasonably II seems 70 me that this
question ought % DE settled in definite and comrre
hensVc way" Aud then, a. the res Which ne iS sure
will ne demanded w tho American people he states the
great remedy: The only settlement that can ho ma ls
the Commute victory for non--ectarian schools"
Now the oe in all th- solution Of the great national
difficulty lice mistake ~ 20 what constitutes proper
nou-seCtar;n school The Catholics arr right when they
labor t0 show that the Bible destroys such school
Undoubtedly does II j. not their Bible. and more
over It Is not their plan to teach the Bible at an aud
when cry against their heresy, recOil from
may ce an very well conviction Of truth. but as none
the Cs- that very account secaran We Cypress the
Catholic and higher degree the Jew, and 80 to
si higher degree the Intdel when cocrce him with
Ajax and forue him with his labor. that we
may Introduce pupils the most I'M defended age
what o doctrines Of imposturc IN, Bhle IN pub
~ scioois. therefore tyranny and we have but TO
s,tute for the Koran what IL TAR more probable
nnder our Ois-Auanuc democracy, tine " Lives Of the
sant- a. learn how no would cel and hoN 0W reason
Uouia oe hrighteucd under Ike taxation.
Bu. chen. The other hand. no Bible! EXspcaker
Blaine may imagine that he would exclude an that Is w
urioes tie may just as We do that the Bible Us
creed ,nd Ike tho vcds- and the slasters We have no
right n free America impose 10 the children OF
tbe p-s,pe And this may be his very hope. that ad-
ysncis to tho logic OF the We VIII cast cd all
faiths tnd ach TIE entireness Of his settle ment al
soompte victory for nousectarau schools But aas'
though this looks peaceful. no Bible is Just as tuy
s4ct.raD A the Bible itself Religion ID thing where
what - negative positive, and may become 80 to the
ronsf ssapratio d.gree viii not suffer my child where
there H. no Bible II Is tyranny, a- much so a. my
oatechlsn 70 Turk 90 Jew There IS no negative IN
tbe-e Lngs, but great MerOeivpmc teaching that rs
writing irsslf upon these ohidrn and no labor m my
house " in the cburoh altogether nd the chd OF
the inHdeI tat that derived where there j. no re-
ug'on.
speaFsr 3siae therefore has disposed Of the diff
entity Tho Catholic "a III n-uestionahy NIGHT that the
Bible h coercion when the state enlorceS
Il and gives t by 20 his child hut am equally right
.hsn complain Of he opposite. There l. no middle
ground The state touche, religion when it SAYS nothing
out r-1On. Building system out Of he taxes OF tNe
people 4nd driving Out OF the religion oi the people is
it.ef sous tyranny The solution i>-no education
Nv IN. 5.a II the cdUcats. 70 DEGREES an eternal
orarre The Catholic win oppose tue Bible. The Prot
s.nt viii oppose s absence. Both logical and fair
No eon,prouse s possible. And conscience. - n many
religious war. il really right on either side That is'
granting freedom I'm our creed. We cannon consist
eD;iy 4ers without the Bible for ANA NO Bible for
ny neighh0ran Indulgence OF bOth, OF course 'h'H'i
bio uDdar . government system
With * Speaker Blaine. therefore, wa hold that he
question ought Ne settled ia some definite and com
rchen.i way :" bat instead OF that settlement being
he complete victory for ncnsecttran schools we
hold tha t should he the abandonment cI school, ao-
etAer. ths diset ibii.n4 the system cf the IIi-h
Church: the abandonment OF al interference, whether
Federal or 5tato the RETURN within the lines OF law
making and police. the confession that 10 educate ir
n-oeS.r-Y 10 impart creed; that % say nothing Is 10
sv something and that n tnc matter of religion oi the
p,.t effective kind and that book like bread and meat
,hod be brought aud served up. not by Congress ahd
the states. buj each for himself uniting win ni-
nsiehborhood or his church in he way most 20 hs mh
ard u = way that viii entirely extract a!l venom from
tbe CONSIDERATIONS diTiicultg
I. vou viii allow me another letter Wouid IKE 10
.o that tina is but Of dozen reasons against Gov
ernoenL ciuoauon that ~ is ephenera IN the history
OF republics that ~ carrie. IL destruction IN lis very
germ. mat IL might do under E7asau-in aS h PRUSSIA
or t, British Isles or n Old colonial Plymouth bat hat
II m not do uuder the blaze Of liberty ana hat t""sh
ia ni- necessity ~ Of Intelligence at the polls
yct lp very .ame argument was used n England anu
"a -fiu used ~ a means " uph0ldug the Iafhrs OF
The C.rr,4 aud enforcing The tthes against majority
OF the people.
Il In. not De IN our day: hut after immense outay-
Ater fotarrninaie broi-; AFTER skepticisms that "
r.in the ,nnscencr OF the state; after political mteTNrn
t.n- fr tae schools that VIII dead,n their Work ahA
destroy their efficiency for me very object OF the cre"
ton. after rligo-Poiitcai schemes ana Si'tr Precs
a tho Bible d., being introduced THAT viii Justify
hereafter Nariolatry or the catrchsm oi lrent-We pro
dict .e of two rcsu.-tther the gloomy resn asaih oi
str,, rn-c,,ed by i1t state. tuo abandonment un
der In. very bttere-t defeat. 0i the whole government
sbeur tate ami di-"our'sn2 return 10 .l'' 'i'
,..t....,.,. ,,s,eDo JOHN MILLER.
ft7nceg,,,, Doe. 4. 1873.