The Irish standard., 1890-07-26
BISTl)N SCHOl OILS.
The Text Books Contain Infamouf
Charges Against Catholic isnn.


They Are SO Extrenas That Even Prot
3 ~sIants Arc a rouse e schools Must II
\ gssctarIan- There y No shirking ths
Issue. Us SEsSS 2s # 81
u "a consi derable a sturbance has been
raised by the Catholics Of Boston in
regard TO the text books used in the
public schools there The general con-
duct Of the public schools in ,Massa-
chussetts has hitherto been SO free from
bigotry, SO negatively fair to Catho-
licity, that the building up Of the
parochial school sy stem has been tardy
and almost resultless. Soothed by the
Syren voices of t.unsec tarianism, .
Catholics of those regions have handed
over their children to the colorless
schools. The advances Of Indifference,
which is the hallway of infdelity, are
smooth and plausible, and the results
only are destructive. The Professionals
have determined to make the public
schools too actively odious for Catholic
children to attend them. The shock
may make the Catholics there aware of
the necessity of opening schools of
their own.
It seems that the textbooks now be-
ing used in Boston and O Their Massachu-
setts towns are filled with the most
diabolical falls ehoods against the Cath
Ollie Church. They are so extreme that
they have reused even Professionals
themselves to protest. The secularizing
element among them recognize that
they are losing their grip on the pro-
geny Of Catholics because Of the repnl-
sive bait. They desire to angle for our
children with heavily gilded and deeply
sugsr-coated hooks, and they are
alarmed because the Boston fanatics
propose to fish with naked and bloody
steels They think Catholic gudgeon
will shy at such hooks.
II is to be hoped that they will. We
sincerely desire to behold the public
school system, as it exists, made
thorough instrument Of Protestant
propagandism. They are right in in
sisting upon religion, "sectarian" re-
ligion, in the schools. t'Unsectarian-
ism" is mere moonshine. II means
infdelity. It means that the State,
in this Christian Nation, shall
set up such 3 system of educa-
tion which virtually makes athe-
ism the established religion of the
country. There is no Sinking the
issue. God said: "Whoever is not for
Me is against Me-" Consequently, if
the system of public schools decides
not to be for God, then it is against
Him. When it is for Him it is bound
to be sectarian in the present unfortu.
nate Christian divisions Of the people.
What is needed is that Catholics and
Protestants should come together and
decide this matter like reasonable men.
They can have their schools as they
want theirs why should they not let
Catholics have them! If Catholics are
compelled to do SO, they shall go on
building up the parochial system, out
of pockets already depleted by the
taxes levied to maintain their schools.
Cannot Catholics perceive that this is
a most infamous outrage upon one-ffth
Of the citizens of this country And do
they not realize that, in setting up
their pretence of "a stnon-sectarian" pub
lie school system they are merely send
ing their own children wrong, while
Catholics, patiently bearing the double
burden, are seeing that their children
shall have sound religion in their
schoOls