Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-08-12

SENTINEL in San francisco. PERSONS IN tnut
city having business with this once are re-
quested to communicate with him
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
The SENTINEL is free to admit that
in its Judgment there is no religious
denomination in this country suffi-
GENTLY strong to revolutionize our free
school system, II such were really de-
sired, but it can not close its eyes to
the fact that there are several sects
which have shown an unmistakable
disposition to subvert the same. In
New Jersey, last year, when the ques-
ton of amending the constitution of
that State, SO as to permit the division
Of the public school moneys among
the several religious creeds, was SUBJ
united to q vote OF the PEOPLE, the
found advocates in every
known religious faith, including Meth
odist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Episcopa-
Ian, as well as Catholic. The result,
however, demonstrated beyond perad.
venture, that our free school system is
in no such danger from sectarian in
iiuen,es as some people would have
us believe, the proposition in that
small State having been defeated v
all opposition by a majority of up
wards of seventy thousand. In fact,
The combined advocates of the change
hardly made a respectable showing, in
point of numbers, at the polls. The
greatest fear seems to be ~apprehended
from the Catholics. 1t is but simple
justice to say, in connection with the
New Jersey vote, that in towns where
the members of that faith had a clear
majority, large odds were returned
against s~ectarian schools. The writer
has no religion, II he knows himself,
further than to do unto others as
he would wish to be done by, and per
consequence, he is free to say just
what the r history of the
case will justify and no MORE. But we
have depressed somewhat from the
subject in hand. We started u to
commend the proposed amendment to
the Federal Constitution, forever pro.
hibiting the use of school moneys for
sectarian purposes by any State OF
Territory of the Union. We know that
we run counter to a time-honored
Democratic principle when we say
this, to wit: that the State has exclus.
i've control in educational matters, but
we cannot help it If we do. 1t Is our
unbiased judgment that the Federal
Government should be supreme in
this, as in many other matters for
which the States have %contended. No
man can successfully deny that the
whole system has been literally fos.
tered by the United States Government
for nearly a century, long before there
was a Republican party in existence in
fact. There is scarcely a State in the
Union that has not had munificent
grants of land, to be devoted exclus-
lively to the promotion of popular edu-
cation. This being undeniably the
case, we Join with the vast majority OF
the American people in demanding
that it is the right of the Federal Gov
eminent 10 dictate just how and in ,Ohat
anne its generous gifts shall be ap-
p~ropriated. This Is no more than a
private individual endowing an in.
stitution of learning would claim,
and we insist that the Government
should be accorded the same
privilege. The issue has been square
ly submitted to the PEOPLE of the
United States, and whether the danger
be real or imaginary, the safe side OF
the question lies in the direction of the
amendment proposed by the Federal
Senate, and for our own part we say
let it by all BAR be ratified without
a dissenting voice. There Is nothing
70 lose and all to gain by permanently
disposing of the question In the man.
ner suggested. Our advice to the Dem
ocratio party Is, to let States rights 10
this matter 20 to the dogs and unite
with the friends of free, ~anti.sectarian
schools, in advocating the adoption of
the Senate amendment. Whether DEM
ocratic or not, this 10 the platform of
the SENTINEL, and by it we will stand
against all opposition, whether Jewish
or Mohammedan, Catholic or Pagan,
Methodist or Mormon.
GOOD REAsON.-The editor of the
Carson Tribune il opposed to Tilden,
firstly and principally, "'because he Is
an old bachelor" Had the Deacon
lived eighteen hundred and odd years
ago he would probably have assisted in
the crucihxion of our Savior for the
same cause.