Arizona weekly miner., 1875-07-02
RE1DJCsT.uENT OF THE MACHINE.

READyCST.NENT OF THE MACHINE
 "There are two classes of children receiving at home and on Sundays diametrically opposite in' e,ructioD on religious questions
 l. puts dead lock on the machinery Of the sys- tem so far az We are concerned. The machinery can be readjusied so as to enable us 10 use il with DO injusy 10 tke machine"
 The above quotation from Judge Dunne's lecture would seem to indicate that the Christian religion as taught in Catholic and Protestant families. and churches is carried un in a spirit of enmity and not of love, that insteadtof cutivating closer amenities and encouraging equality among the people, 1t is the policy of Judge Dunne and the Priests to,aiienrte .hein from each other as much as possible. The teachings of Chris tians of precepts founded on the same Bible are declared to be so d!ametrically opposite, as to render it impossible for their children to associate in the school-room during the week where no religion is even alluded to-. If the Savior while on earth had attempted to draw such distinctions in secular affairs and urged his decipIes to array themselves, exert their influence and attempt by class legislation to separate the people into fac tions, the chances are the Jews would not have endured his teachings as long as they did.
 If the Christian religion teaches enmity and exclusiyeness even down to childhood, would it not be better fo: the world to culti- vate some more liberal system of worship, one upon wbch all could meet on terms of equality, at, least n-sccular affairs, and the children of none be too good to associate with those of a different faith, provided that faith is not taught in the schools.
 Tine alusTon to read djusting the machinery is explained in the appendix to the Judges published lecture where the draft of law occurs upon which the Judge proposes to make au issue in coming elections. This proposed act provides for the establishment and maintenance of parochial or corporate schools at Territorial expense, in which a certain number holding to any peculiar faith d school and draw upon the public revenue for support in proportion to the number of chil- dren in attendance whose parents belong to that faith.
 The Judge'has quoted literally in his lec- ;ure from Bishop McQuad and others to show that the public school system is wrong and that parochial schools ought to prevail according to the readjustment of the machine he urges. Now, having quoted his authori- ty he will be liberal enough to not claim a monopoly of truth, but pardon us for bring ing Rev. G. A. Hubbell, of New York, to show that it would injure the machine.
 He says: "Parochial schools have proved insufficient for the education of the masses In the Papal States a census brough out the fact that only fourteen per cent. of the popu- iation could read or write. They were su- periicial in their teaching-pupils coming from them to our public schools are gener- ally found deficient in all practical studies. Their teaching, especially of history, is biased and untrue. Their teachers, being mere ecclcsiastics, and unacquainted with common life in the family and in business, are not qualified to give good secular edu- cation. They fail to create good con- science, as was confessed by John Hughes, and as Is constantly shown in courts. They are sectarian and clannish, and, hence. are adverse to the amalgamation and homogenity of the masses which are pc culiarly and essentially American; and they bring to us the strifes of Europe, which have begotten religious wars, and which endanger our peace. They are un-American. Some of them are prisons. All teach higher al- lcgiance to a foreign potentate than to their adopted country. Their moral teaching is defective, as is shown by the vast number of their graduates who are criminals. They are goddess in more emphatic sense than the public schools"