New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-11
THE PARooH1AL scHooJ QUESTION
JUDGE oARTER's DECISION AT HAvERHrLb
sr1ns UP DISCUSSION IN MAssAoHUsErTs'

yunep oAHrER's DECISION At HAvERHILI
srIRs UP DISCUSSION IN MAssAoHUsErTs'
poston. Feb 10 tspeciaD-The decision By Judge
Carter. of HaverhiI, Saturday, In regard 70 Nc
parohia school question is attracting much attention
Pai0On,a- ~ ,s..ana, and legal circles sThe
ourna to- day obtained the views Of several prominent
LAWYERS on the subject Albert Pinsbury, who ior
go ro.r. nresded over the Massachusetts, Senate,
smoke Of Judge Carter as being good lawyer and as
henp sometines said TO have some Of tho Lincoln
cbaracerstics AS 10 the ITSELF he remarked tha
under the law II was clearly not punishable onehce
not TO send child TO public school, or 10 sonoOi
approved by the School Committee. provided uhe
Child was furnished with the means OF educauon-
A similar view was taken by Henry H. sprague inc
chairman OF the Joint judiciary Committee OF Tho
Legislature this year But T. o. Teele, a member OF
the Massachusetts, Legislature Of recent year. ana
a gentleman who looked up the parocbla sohOoi
question for a recent speech, went more lnto ucli'
He could not understand the logic OF thc oecson' say
ing that II the case in question hsd oeen ONO VI
poverty one Of homo instruction or one OF any oor
exceptional character outside that OF
parocbial school, the parent or guardian
might very properly have been excused He raised
the point that Judges Of different municipa courts
might rule differently in such cases upon sniiar Sta'e
ments Of fact, each Judge defining the means oi eu
ucatlon7 might be said to affect the "hoie qu'ouo
OF the approval of private schools by sohool coln
mttees and the standard of public education anu '0n
tinuing, said ,,- A.. ..hoo,
Last fan was called upon 70 sdyse sne scaSo caSss
committee Of suburban city as TO their auy N IsSs %
Of this character parochal school had been a,o1 D
up which had drawn from the public sehoos ano,r la
the entire number OF Irish Catholic children hany
OF the larger boys. finding themselves under 700
tied restraint had become truants, ana ~ ma Tbe
exceedingly annoying to the nelghporhood ttsd ta9
priest, finding that neither he nor me paFens % na
any control over them, called upon the school Com
mttee 10 order the truant omceI,s rhe
COMMITTEES desired TO know what their duty WA WAY
In the premises / advised that she IaS dar
officer was a public officer appointed by them unaor %
their control, whose services was paid for WIN c NV
public money, and that they had no more right " ri
Quro him to return the truans to the parochl sonoo
than they had to return them 10 the schooI OF
town, until they were prepared 10 approve ~ the
parochal school In accordance with the statute No to
should say that If the exception as 70 cbllaren %
have been otherwise furnished with the means oL ve
cation, Is entitled TO apply 70 cases OF ma M .,antS
ter so that those boys could not be said 70 De @
then the provision OF the statute as 20 tne en-
private schools by the school ccmIniisee ~ %
tirely negatory. The decision OF Judge Csrer PT Ps
10 mischief which may have 20 reHeuS S9, ~ ia IN
lation Otherwise our whole school system VIII " ~
a state Of confusion