, 1880-03-14
THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.

ton hns no infallibility, who value American
institutions and the rights Of their children a
American citizens, and who look with parenta
care to their fitting instruction.
Let the Jesuits once become to tho State, as
regards education, an Emporium in fmpcrio,-let
them, Independently Of the civil power, dc.
'termine the character Of tho studies and the
selection and approval Of the teachers, taking
care, as the Syllabus directs, that the schools
shall not be in conformity to the will Of the
rulers or the prevailing opinion Of the age, but
shnll be joined to the Roman Catholic faith anc
power of the Roman Catholic Church,-a or
the principle that he who controls the education
OF the country controls its future, they may
with reason regard their hoped-for control o1
the schools as the capture Of the outworks anG
bulwarks Of the Republic, whose guns shal
be turned against all that shalt remain Of it,
political and religious freedom.
But the antagonism between tho Christian
teaching given in our public schools in regart
to chastity, truth, and Justice, ETC., and that
authorized by the Pope on these points, IS, u
will presently appear, very striking; and the
views Of the Roman Court as to the intellectual
education which they approve for their subjects
are equally opposed to those Of the American
people for what they demand for their children
as the future sovereigns Of the Republic.
ucatdonal Committee, given In their report OF
1870, frankly stated his opinion that education
should be The rs%a1s
Too much education would make the poor dis
contented with their lot, and uns lit them for
following the plow, using the spade, hammerins
4 view similar 10 that Of Cardinal Cullen was
expressed to Mr. Dexter i. Hawkins. Of the New
who said "that be thought it better that the
children should grow up in ignorance than be
educnted in such Il system of schools as the State
part Of education was the catcchism; and while
arithmetic, and geography, and other similar
studies might be useful, they were not essen
tial.''
Without referring to similar statistics abroad
of reformatories and industrial schools, we find
at home census and police returns all telling the
same story,-that Roman Catholic schools, as
compared with our own, are propaganda Of ig,
norance, superstition, raErancy, pauperlsm, ana
crime; that they cndauger society by recruiting
with a load Of taxation, and TINT they endanger
the stability Of our institutions by debasnE our
civilization. We shall ask presently how far
those influences are accounted for by the char
Mr. Hawkins has shown from the United States
Census Of 1870 tho comparative number Of H.
inhabitants. produced respectively BY the Roman
Catholic parochial schools the public-schools in
sea aga b d9 9e o m
more easy comparison it is easy to appreciate
the objections Of Aid. Reardon and his friends,
Of Ca,nbridgeport, to transfer their cir children s
~ T 70 EVERY 10000 INHABITANTS.
1utte- Pau Grim
rates. pcrs. tyldls.
Public schools Fl States. $50 l50 IS
rublio schools, Massachusetts. Il 40 IL
He also showed that in tho State Of New York
turned out three and one-half times as many
paupors as the public school system.
TO an American who hns ,,d not + marked f tn9
their plans as recently developed. the idea OF
the Jesuits confronting the Republic as it enters
its second century with an 1ntlmatlon that they
reculls the eyentful history of that order, which
has won, in turn, the detestatlon Of all nations
and the condemnation OF tho Church OF Rome
hcnd OF the Church OF. Rome: The dogma or m
fallibility is pronounced the logical result of its
existence Dr. Manning represents the Jcsuits
ns leading the mission to England to subdue the
will OF that imperial rnce 49,. t.--
In America VIC are told that they have capt
urcd our grsat ha5 d es aner nseaS M
that they have revised for tho American Ency-
clopctia the history Of their intrigues and per-
secutions; that they hnyc driven the Bible from
the public schools, arranged terms with party
leaders, secured grants Of lands and moneys,
and annual subsidies in the shape OF charities;
the Church over the State, and are preparing for
. That there i to be q struggle; and hard one,
for the control in our Republic between the pco-
pie constituting the State and the ecclesiastles
man who understands the situation can for a
moment doubt. In the light Of history and rca-
son it seems equally clear. either that the strug.
tle is now to be decided by maintaining against
the opposition tho supremacy of the State in its
right Of education, intellectual and moral in
Its administration Of justice, in the safety OF
other Legitimate exercise of sovereignty. or
that. if these be yielded through trcachery or
indifference, the struggle will sooner or later pc
transferred to the battlefield, and decided In
the most terrible Of conficts,-n religious war