The Arizona sentinel., 1875-10-09
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND
 THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Gross Insult to the Wives and Daughters of America by a
 Priest in Yuma.

SuuICn lOWdIuS IIC puUlIc ScnOOIS is exciting a good deal of atten- tiOn all over the country, in conse- Quence of the determined and persistent hostility of the priest hood to that most benefcent in. stitution. The emissaries and satellites ofPopery are everywhere endeavoring, not only by persua. tion, but by vile:denunciation, to uprOOt our public school system, and establish in its place their own miserable sectarian abortion.
 We read accounts from all parts Of the country of the: priests in their pulpits, speaking of the pub- lie schools as "vile institutions. |" Goddess schools" =" schools of hell," nurseries of prostitution" etc. etc. These addle-headed bigots, from the Pope down, claim that sghetr church alone, hasgthe right to teach, and that any edu- cation outside or without the sanction and supervision of the priesthood, is the work of the Devil, makes bad men and Wo- men here, ahdilts them. .fors eter. nal torments hereafter.
 So far have they carried this foul onslaught against our public schools, that they have disgusted many of the best and most intel ligent adherents of their own faith who know that thousands of the best women and men of our land received their education in the public schools. Women who ad- orn every station Of life, mothers, wives and daughters, with all the purity that pertains to the high est type of the sex-yes, as pure as the Virgin Mary. at whose shrine those miserable bigots offer up their prayers. And men with all the excellence that belongs to a noble manhood, always in the van in everything that pertains to human ssssprogress, patriotic, just, merciful and true, training up their sons and daughters to walk in the paths of purity, in- nOcence and honor; these, thous- ands and tens of thousands of them, received their education at these public schools, which these alien priests denominate "GodlesS and schools of he'll"
 And here, in Yuma, we have a specimen of this soulIess bigotry. A building has been for some time in progress of erection by the Ca thOlIc Church, to be used as a se- Tninary, by the Sisters of St. Jo. seph. As this building approach ed completion, an alien chuckIe- headed priest named Rev. Father J. M. ChaucOtt, in charge Of the Catholic Church here, commenced preaching against the public schools.
 On Sunday, September 26th, this priest, in his sermon, notified his congregation of the near ad- vent of the Sisters" and that they would open their school on October 4th, 0he same day pub- iiciy announced for the opening of the regular session of the pub- lie schoolS,) This priest then took occasion to warn his congregation against the public schools. He characterized these schools with all the foul expressions peculiar to his class, and said that the pub. lie school system originated with impure 0Onaen, and then asked what could be expected from girls educated in such schools? His sermon was in Spanish, and as reported and translated for us, the points he made were these: That C mother achO sent her daughters to the public school lcdS no better Mnn q prostitute, GJld that the girlS 61 these schools 0eye educated f0r pros HtuteS. This translation we have