The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-09-17

tar associations. The school tax. il
itself, l. an unjust Imposition.
On the 20th nf November the sane
paper say:
''First-We will not subject our Cath
Olic children to your t-nchers, You ought
to know why, in a multitude Of cases.
Second-We will not expose our Cath
| Ollie children to association with all the
| children who have a rightio attend the
public schools. DO you not know why =
Again, or the 11th of December, this
paper says:
:.The Catholic solution Of this middle
about Bible or no Bibi. in schools, Is.
hands OFF, No State taxation or any
donation for anv schools You look to
your children and we look Ia ours. We
don't want you to be taxed for Catholic
schools. We do not want to be taxed
for Protestant, or Goddess schools Let
the public srhOOl system 20 where il
came from-the devil. We want Chris
tian schools, and the State cannot tell us
what Christianity is.
The New York IaJiet, another Catho-
lie paper, in its issue of December4, 1874.
says:
eve are not opposed 10 publi.: schools
supported by the State, if the State pro-
vides schools for us in which we can
teach cur own religion; but we are OPP
posed to inii'iri, Goddess, or purely secu-
lar schools"
The same paper, on the 25th of De-
cember; 1874, gave utterance to the fol-
lowing:
We demaud of the State, as our
right, either such schools as our Church
will accept, or exemption from the
school tax IL it will support schools by
a general tax, We demand that it pro-
vide or give us our portion of the public
funds, and leave us to provide schools
i'll our own religion, under the supervis-
ion of our own Church.
We hold education To be n function OF
the Church, not of the State; and in our
case we do not and will not accept the
State as an educator"
The CdtLolic TelcgIGy.h, n paper pub
llShrd in Cincinnati, o., of wide ciroula-
ton and great influence, in recert
number, said;
at will be "a glorious day for Catholics
in this country when, under the laws of
justice and morality, our school system
shall be shivered to pieces. Until then
modern pagauism will triumph"
The Catholic COiUmJidn, ''edited un-
der the immediate supervision of the
Right Rev. Bishop" at Columbus, Ohio,
says:
"Our Judgment of purely secular
schools is: They are unfit for Catholic
and that Catholic parents can
not be allowed the sacrament who choose |
to send their children to them, when |
they conld make use of Catholic schools.
The CathoIic Telegra9h, in long ar
ticIe on the public schools, said:
1.-The State has no inherent authority |
to exclude religion from public educa-
ton. When il does so it plays the ty- |
rant, clothing itself with Il commission |
of power for which it can show no war
rant. lr the State did not tax us TO
support institutions that deny us liberty
Of conscience, we would not complain, at
least, of Injustice. The ruin which see
ular education will inevitably bring up
on the State would, however, not be
lverted. But as long rs the present syS-
tenn prevails, the State not only questions
our faiths but denies to us its free and
exercise. Moreover, in this
ienial it gives n preference to n sect, the
10 Sect, the latest form of Professionalism.
It's creed is the denial oi all positive re-
realed religion, and this is the logical
of the full development Of
he protest which rebels raised against
he divine authority of ihe Church three
centuries ago. If there are thousands IN
his country protesting TO belong TO some
1ne of the many Protestant deuOmina-
ions, and who yet favor the elimination
lf religion from fhe training of youth,
heir seemingly illogical position can be
,aSily explained. They have unconscious
y accepted the final conclgsi0p ~ which
heir false religion ieads-they think aud
lct as inildeis befaHse intideilty is the
naturati fruits OF Professionalism. They
ayor the expulsion of God from the
;ehool room because they haze expelled (
Ill belief IN CIT.gt,anity as Il supernatur
II religion from their minds Ifany CathC-
ic desires to take the same side on TIE
school question, he virtually places him
'elf ih the catagLfy with those who bold
y deny that the Son Of God rom mission
sd tie Church to teach all EdtioES lie
admits that the State is the supreme
eacher, guide and law-giyer-a very |
popular religion, il il trlc, IN these anti
CHRISTIAN days. but those who embrace
L cease to be Catholics. No State has
l right to say to tie Catholic citizen that
ne must vioiata his conscience, and that
Iis child must drop his faith at the door
IF the school house; and any regime of
,ducation which requires this Is God
ess, pagan and anti American.
The present system of public schools
brands Catholic faith as Il crime, and the
American States Furnishes it yearly by
lines equal in amount TO tie sum whieh
Catholics arc compaiied 10 expend after
the payment of school tax upon the
education of their children. -
The American school law is penal en-.
lctment against the Catholic religion,
in and pcrpetuGting the same
spirit that has driven the educated or
iers Of the Church from the soil of Ger
many. IL does not Tighten the grievance,
t does not extenuate lis injustice. to ap-
peal to the denial of the right of Protes-
tants TO have their ahiiIiTen educated in
their faiin. The injury inflicted by the
hand of the State upOn one party is no
for n wrong can be no iusti-
ication of an injury done to another. If
Protestants are willing TO adopt the
teachings of iniidelity, ibis Willingness
does not confer upon any political or
yanization the authority TO compel the
Catholics to l:ursue the course Of apOs-
tasv. He who hath no care of his own
household has denied the faith, and Is
worse than an iniidel; and the Church,
with no uncertain sound, and no alnbig-
nous language, but in clear, explicit and
decisive phraseology, has declared to the
Catholic world that the religious educa-
tion of their children is an all-important
care. n paramount duty that cannot be
neglected without guilt. There could,
therefore, hardly he n more impudent
faIsehood than the assertion that pnb-
lie secular system OF education does not
interfere with the religion of Catholics.
It is an interference that amounts to a
most grevious and insulting outrage; it
illustrates most perfectly the brute rule
of a reckless majority in the domain of |
religion, from which the letter of Amer
lean law excludes ail interference. II |
also teaches truth which would be well |
for sneering, moeking enemies to ponder |
and remember, that in the field of poll
ties no American principles of civil liber-
ty can be violated without violating |
some Catholic doctrine, some principle |
of sunernatural truth. Civil liberty and |
Catholic faith always harrnoniZe: and |