The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-03-17

and, In fact, was goinR all Sides not single
Dweiling on this fact The report puts the
supposition that wise government would
encourage and sustain such auxiariss, though
churches which had been built by Catholics
appropriated for Protestant worship, priests and
Catholic teachers tured out OF the schools or
dereu of the newly established Protestant rcserva-
lions and punished " they returned. The agency at
ST. Josephs. Kan, where the Jesuit Fathers mad been
established more than hfty years where eleven
oil them u college ana have civilized the Ind
ians, vas gwen 10 the Presbyterians, whose MINIS
trations the Indians refuse some cases travel
sixty miles to have their children baptized married
Referring TO the schools OF this State the report in.
ssts that Catholics still suffer injustice tho COM
school educational system established by law. IL
estimates that there Is gross total OF 100 000 chill
dren, iour.diths OF whom arc receiving gratutous
education At tho expense oil people who also taxed
to support public schools. Tho State school fund
Tor 1871 amounted So 207 TO this sum is to be
added equal amount TOR the puoltc schools New
York city, Catholics contribute ike other citizens 10
TINS fund from The benefits Of which, however, their
schools excluded. They are told that the
public schools open TO tnom and that they free
Gus Catholics who scientious about
separating the secular from tho Catholic religious
teaching 10 the education oil their children.
In considering the facilities afforded to Catholics
connned IN penal institutions to attend religious w0r
ship and participate 10 the sacraments according to
the rucs thor Church the report mentions the fact
that 1ty per cent OF the persons In Sing sing. forty
per cent in Auburn and sixty per cent IN Clinton are
reported be Catholics and for the boneh OF large
u proportion religious services are only gwen
once u month. Many OF the prisoners Know
nothing OF their religion or have nearly
forgotten all that they have learned. They
require constant caro- and attention, watchul
guidance and friendly sympathy and advice These
they enjoy or have under the monthly system.
Abiding 10 the New York Juvenc Asylum tho report
says that receives children between tho ages oil
i've and fourteen years, committed by their parents
or by magistrate Tor potty offences 1t Processes Ia
AFFORD these children the moral, intellectual
ana Industrial education, and It IL run on what 70
called the nOn-sectaran principle, SO much 80 that Il
has not even u chaplain among It's officers.
CAUSES COMPLAINT.
Referring to the House OF Refuge tho report est.
males that fifty per cont of It's inmates are the OLE
spring oil Catholic parents. These children, when 10
hoalth, deprived Of all Catholic instruction. SYM
pathy, guidance advice. No Catholic priest Is al
lowed Tree ingross to the prison or access "a
Methodist minister is paid salary from IL
NJ chaplain, whose ministry the Catholic children
arc obliged 10 attend Mucn feeling and Installation
stated to exist among the Catholics OF this city on
account OF this state OF affairs, because the Catholic
children are practically obliged TO attend on Sundays
religious services which strictly Protestant and
TO the faith which the children have been
baptized and because Catholic priests aud pious
Catholic women are denied access TO such children,
whereby the luter deprived OF proper religious
holy sacrifice OF tho mass and to participate
In the benefits conferred by the sacraments
OF the Church. The council OF the Catholic Union
represented all this communication addressed to
formation OF Juvenile Delinquents ana insisted that
these children possessed certain inaenable rights
guaranteed them by tho constitution. among thcm
being tho free exercise OF religion
They said In conclusion that they did not propose to
Interfere with the economy and discipline Of the
Catholic children that freedom Of relgion to which
they entitled.