New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-27

The attitude OF the Roman Catholic
Church toward our public school system Is
one Of aggression. It desires to ge: con-
troll of the education of the young with
view to priestly instruction. Our common
school system is the offspring OF q free peo-
pie, and could only exist in country OF
tree institutions. Indeed, it is unsuited to
the habit of priestly tyranny, which could
only alter its character and destroy its
virtue. The Romish Church breads the
public school because the youth instructed
there know nothing of priestly intolerance.
Bishop McQuald at Cincinnati denounced
the public schools of that State as God
less schools" as there was no religious
teaching. The outrage perpetrated by
the bishop. and OF which he ought
to be ashamed. consisted in the
fact that the reading of the Bible
in the public schools OF Cincinnati was
dispensed with through Roman Catho-
lie influence. A State does not undertake
TO teach religion; but among Christian ma
tions, in the education OF children, the Bible
is not an unknown book. A religious sect
in this country like the Roman Catholic
Church, which banishes the Bible from the
public schools in locality where the ig-
norapce Of its church members abOHnds,
can not stigmatize those schools as"Godless"
on that account without deserving and re-
ceiving severe rebuke. What 1t gains in
Cincinnati in this respect, it will lose with
contempt in States where the Roman sect
has less power.
Il it not strange that in Rome, where the
Pope dwells and the whole machinery OF
the Catholic Church is at work, the Roman
people neither love the Pope nor the church!
They desire to break away from all priestly
instruction and have their children edu.
Gated to become good citizens. They find
that schools under the supervision of priests
how HaaI IN a
Even the Romish ''Parochial Schools" now
clamored for by the Catholic priesthood Of
New York, the Romans hate and will not
have. There are, therefore, Goddess
schools" in Rome which send out pupils
better trained for the duties Of life than
those taught by the priests.
Moreover, the political power OF the
mi. sthood is curtailed in Rome, and the
Romans are not to be hood winked as to the
nolitical character of the Catholic Church.
In the Goddess schools in Rome the Bible
i, read, and the boys and girls are Taught
to love their country and be loyal to their
sovereign, while the pupils in clerical
schools are net, but taught that their tidel.
i,y is due first of all to the Pope.
The difference is great. The elements OF
patriotism and obedience TO law are want.
ing as subjects of instruction IN clerical
schools, which exist in the public schools OF
this country. The founders OF public schools
and those who support them desire that they
shall be made available for the instruction
of children in the best and noblest precepts
OF citizenship. Where the Roman Catholic
Church is powerless for political evil. the
children read the word OF God with profit.
The Republx IN party is the party of educa-
ton: and ha Zone more to extend the pub
lie school sy I'm during the last decade than
the Democr| JIG party during its whole e1-
istence. ThV Democratic party, tor po-
Utica, reasons Is in league with the Roman
Catholic Church. That party will aid the
church in its designs for the sake OF the
Catholic vote. which is cast at the bidding
of the priesthood Free public education is
one of the cardinal doctrines of the Repub-
lican party; and it expects the support OF
every right thinking man for its principles
are those which alone can preserve the tree
dom of the country. and keep it in the true
path of progress.-2He Republic.