The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-09-24
oury IS ap Enemy to Public Schools.
MINERAL PARK, Sept. 19, 1880

MINERAL PARK, Sept. 10, 1880.
 EDITOR MINER This being Sunday. and AS we have DO ''preacher," thought l -.-....la si.. .a -AizheE- christian act than to write up the Democratic Congressional nominees record on Public Schools. ] hold this truth to be selt-eyident that be who l. An opponent 10 our public school system, IS ID friend to the common masses, aad is r1olly uufi fo 5eyTeset dsn H ,hs baLs q CoHgreS.
 arraigu Hsn. C. II. Oury up2a his rec ord as q Legisia,or, as being opposed to our public school system.
 On page 25, Acts of 1873, wIll be found .n Act entitled An Act 10 appropriate money for Educational purpose-.'
 h will be seen by that Act, that si,50O was appropriated ou; of the Territorial Treasury y-in equal parts to the then five different counties of the Territory--;o the counties of Yavapai, Marioopa. Mohaye Yuma, aud Pima, for ihe aid of Public Schools.
 But the public schools of Pima were less fortunate. < seciariau school was being taught there. under the auspices of the Catholic Church, known as the Academy of the Sisters of st Joseph IL had, and has its votaries, good institution, am most willing to admit; bat not good enough to ihnve at the expense Of our public schools.
 The friends and patrons of that instjtu- ton were opposed ;o our pubhc school system. MT. Oury vas one Of them as not only his vote on this bllI, but his sub sequeut legislative record abundantiy proves-as will show
 Section 1 of thIs Act instead Of giving the money due Pima county to the Public Schools, directs that "so soon as the County .Treasurer of Pima county receives the "money. he shall at once notify the Super .intendeut of Public Schools for the County "ot Pima thereof And upon receiving "such notice. ;he said County Superintend ..ent Gt must have been a .pleasant duty for tue gentleman shall "drsx his Warrant on the County 1reasu- "rer of Pima County, in favor oi Sister "MAry Emerentia, Superioress of the AcSd- "emy of St Joseph. And that upon pre- "senis,ion of said Warrant 10 the sad "Treasurer, he shall forthwith pay to the "said Sister the said sum of "t300," etc.
 Page l2s, Journals of the House of 1873, records Mr. Orry's vote, Aye, on that in- famous law. say jEfaaots, and leave il 10 every man, woman and child who be- lieves in our noble free puJhc school sys- tem, II ii IS not so.
 Here was the condition of things: The pubIic school system in this Territory was ju,, struggling into existence. l. needed succor and ,id, and hence the appropria lion. Will it bc said that the public school, ,f Pima did not need the helping hand ! Is,x ,here. surrounded by opposition. II needed I, more than anywhere else. But .bs aid was ru,hlessIy snatched away, ana given ,o a sectaTIau school. One, too. that ever has. and will be an enemy to free pub Aic education.
 repeat. il is m infamous law. and the members oi that Legislature, "ho voted Bar i,, if they had political aspfa'ions. 1ni-h< oetter have helped the Academy of Ehe Sister. CT Sr. Io,eph, from iueir private purse, than by taking from the Public SChool.-
 make no issue with the Catholic schools,