New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-08
The New York World on the school
Question.

The following editorial in the New York
| H'orid is at this time peculiarly significant
The school question is settled in Buffalo
| on the only footing on which it will be pos
sible to settle it finally anywhere. The
| account OF the settlement Is well worth
| reading. No tair man can study the subject
without coming to the same conclusion as
the Buffalo common council il he desires to
preserve the common school system. II he
does not that IS another matter. But an
open attack upon the school system is as
foolish an enterprise as any man or any set
of men could undertake. 1t would he the
death of any politician who advocated it,
Nine voters out OF every ten at least feel
themselves under direct personal obliga-
ton to the common school system which
they would be glad OF an opportunity 10
acknowledge and partly repay at the ballot
box. We assume that this feeling is shared
with Protestants by Roman Catholics.
Roman CathOllCs who are native here and
to the manner born are quite as fully alive
to tho benefits they have received from the
common school as their Protestant neigh
bors. Such Roman Catholics may be IN
clined at first 70 approve the proposition
that the parcchial schools of their own
church shall be made public schools with
out ceasing to be parOchial schools: but it
only needs that they should be shown. what
10 NuiiC NSihO~otA SUN d CCUiUIIlc-
ton would weaken and endanger the public
school system itself. to make them quite as
hearty in their opposition to it as any Prot
estants. Every sect even the smallest has
the right to insist that q religion in which
they disbelleve shall not be taught at the
expense of its members. No sect, not even
the largest, has the right to demand that
its forms or any form of religion shall be
taught at the public expense in the public
schools
Tho following is portion of the speech
of Hon. James G. Blaine. made at New
Haven on the second instant. which the
Associated Press agent did not sent us:
Look at the course of the Democratic
members OF the House of Representatives.
in the settlement OF the Louisiana question.
The final recommendation of the Louisiana
committeeman it was certainly very
able committee. not rash, or partisan, or
prejudiced-was to do two things, viz:
Correct the errors of tine Republican enrell:
ing board, and give the Legislature. in its
popular branch, to the Democrats: second.
to recognize Governor Kellogg as the de
l0cto executive of tho State. as President
Grant had wisely and necessarily done.
This seemed to be not only fair adjust
ment. but it was really the only adjustment
practicable. Any other would have in
volved wrong on the one hand or anarchy
on the other. And yet every Democrat in
the House, save alone Mr. Stephens, of
Georgia, voted against permitting the sub
Ject to be even introduced; voted against
allowing the committee to report the aG.
Justment; voted against0Gen giving Con
gress an opportunity to bring peace to that
distracted State; voted to continue disorder:
voted to invite repetition OF the audacious
revolution of September Ii; voted that dis
cord might hold high carnival in that riot.
ridden State, if only thereby the prospect
of Democratic victory could be enhanced.
And if today law and order have supremacy
in Louisiana; if today revolution and
anarchy are kept out, you owe the result
wholly to the fact that the Republicans
were enabled to outvote the Democrats in
the House of Representatives.