The Hartford herald., 1880-01-28

graphy beyond the Papal States, a terri
tory of 3 100000 inhabitants, and about
three times the size of the State of Con-
necticut. The mass of the people could
neither read nor write.n Mr.. Hawkins
further continues: "A primary school,
in log schoOlhouse in the back settle
ments of our country, i'm itsinstruction,
course of study and proficiency of its
pupils, was far superior to the I)drOchidi
schools in the city of Rome"
- He further continues: III described to
Cardinal Antoneli the free public schools
and the state of public education in the
State of Massachusetts, giving that as
the model of the American system.
His reply was he "1hOught better that
the children shOutd grOU up nignOrance
than to be educated in such q system Of
schools as Massachusetts supported;
that the essential part Of the education
Of The people 'ods the cdteciiism.
Now, | am aware that Catholic schools
IN this country are of much higher grade
than those described by Mr.. H., but
here they have the free public schools
TO compete with, and hence are COM
PEELED to have better schools, but just let
them have II all Their own way; let the
public school system get under their
control which may God forbid, and
we would soon ma the catechlsm the
principal science taught. The counting
OF BEADS, repeating prayers, recltlng the
catechism, WIN sprinkllng OF holy
water, would soon take the place OF
grammar arithmetic, geography, ETC.,
ana tnen instead OF the chiiren OF poor
men being aDle 10 compete with the
SONS Oh the rich ior positlohs Oh honor,
usefulness ana pront, as Is now the case,
they would become what the vassils of
the priesthood are IN all Catholic cOun-
tries -"Hewers OF wood and drawers of
water ann that sthecondltion to-day
with the mass OF the Catholic popula-
tion IN our large cities, whlle they nave
school houses AT every street corner
almost, YET they are taught little but
SUBMISSION 10 the frlest ana Pope, and
hence are qualined Tor little else than
dray.drivers, h0dcarlers, brakesmenand
deckhands. 49,
But let US take little farther glance
at history" Go, for instance, to Spain
bloody, cruel Spaln-where the Cath
ole Cnufch mas nad almost no rival, at
least since the inquisition crushed out
all opposition to her authority: The
Catholic Church Is the state Church,
ana all the popullation OF Spain are
Cathoiics except about sixty thousand,
ana these nave but few rights, according
10 article II, OF the spanish CONSTITUTION
OF 1916; all announcement publicly OF
Protestant services are forbidden, so that
II you wish to attend Protestant wor-
ship III Spain, you have to do so private
ly. by the last general census OF Spain
II was FOUND that out OF the I6,OOO,OOO
p0pllatlOn, there were only 2,4l4,Ol5
men, 'l2,Sio women able to read and
write. There was 3l6,oo men and 3S9,
III women able to read but not to write,
all the rest, upward OF 5,OOO,OO0 men,
6,SOO,OOO women, co'ad neither read nor
UrHe. At the preceding census the
total number OF both sexes able to write
was found to be no more than 81 ,OOl
The total number able to read was only
l,S9o, 20, or considerably less than one
NTH OF the population (see Statesman's
year book p. 4OI also Boston Monday
lecture" Dec. 3, 1879, and the same
might be said OF Portugal, those icoun-
tries, ,once the leading nations OF Europe,
but now not ranking scarcely as third
rate powers. Wen might Edmund
Burke say Spain and Portugal were
stranded whales ON the coast of Eu-
rope" for once they were great, but now
only the ruins of their former greatness
remain, and what can be the cause.
Simply this: the papacy, like the old
wan of the sea, has fastened itself upon
them, and they have been unable to
shake it OFT till 1T has ridden them to
death. And thus it would fasten itself
upon all the free, noble, and glorious in
stitutions of this country, and when
once it has been able to fasten itself it
will be hard to shake OIL, and if not
shaken of, will continue to tighten its
grip upon the throat of both civil and
religious liberty, until we shall be like
Spain, or Portugal, or Italy, under the
temporal sovereignty Ofthe Pope. Yes,
this Is what "These bachelor Priestsand
Popes have done for civilization and ed
ucation," and what they would do for
us If they only were able, but our reply
is, our civilization needs none of your
help, wants none of it, and will have
none of it.
"a Catholic" says again i'm his article
"Now, since 'P. b. p is ignorant of the
fact, it will do him no harm to be in
formed that Catholics are bound to obey
their pastors and Pope i'm spiritual mat
tiers, and all that pertains thereunto
only" To which we wish to reply that
we were i'm profound ignorance of that
fact, if it be a fact, and that "a Catho-
lies" statement of it as fact only serves
to convince us that he is either profound
ly ignorant of the dogmas of his own
Church, or wants to deceive the public
with regard to those dogmas, and he
can choose which ever horn of the di-
lemma he likes. 1t was either ignor-
ance or deception that instigated the
above statement by "a Catholic"
1t will be remembered that the Pope
arrogates to himself the attribute of in
| fallibility, and u council of the whole
Catholic Church so declared him in 1870,
and of this infallibility Cardinal Man
ming, of England, says: "Unity with
the Roman faith is absolutely necessary,
and therefore the DrerOgatiye of absolute