The Irish standard., 1890-08-09
A.ROTHER SHOT AT BIZ RRElI,
n. " Meagher Rakes Him Over the Ooala
and Boasts Him Brown ID Fine Style.


Il. ". Meagher Fakes Him Over the Ooala.
and BOASTS Him Brown il Fine Style.
The following commune tion from ".
w. Meagher, Esq, in criticism Of DR..
Burrelrs reply to Archbishop Ireland on
the school question was unavoid ably,
crowded ont last week
DR. Burrell, in his fancled defense Of
liberty, enacts comedy Of errors. He
lashes the Catholic church for its alleged
defiant utterances. and he castigates
Arch bishop Ireland for his conciliatory
language in presenting his views on the
public school question. Had Archbishop
Ireland been frebrand, regardless of
the welfare OF the nation, and the peace
Of the community OF which he is dis
/ tinguished member, he might have thus
addressed the Teachers Convention !:
"We discovered this country ere Protest
antism was born. We settled it while
Professionalism was still in its swaddling
clothes. We built cities herein two hun
dred years before Methodism was form
ulated by John Wesley" Had he been
bombastic boor, he might have con-
tinued eve will grant to you religious
liberty, provided you do not attempt to
exercise the privilege thus graciously by
us accorded you. But warn you that
if you do not choose to submit we will
permit you to return to the countries OF
ignorance and superstition whence you,
or your ancestors, came IT'S no farther
to gn than it was to come" But Arch
bishop Ireland being gentleman, and
thoroughly imbued with the spirit OF
true Americanism, INDUCED in no such
irritating, arrogant, supercilious deola-
nation. Not having done SO, DR.. Bur
rell scornfully charges him with having
used s'honey and treacle." He kindly
informs us that Separation between
church and state is part of the consti-
tuition" No form of union between the
state and any church or sect could be
tolerated for moment under our con-
stitution. But if the public schools were
to be attached in any way to any sect, it
would mean some kind of union between
church and one Of the most important Of
our national institutions. That was
foreign to our government, and was out
of the question with any one who pro-
posed to Loyalty support the constitution.
|. emo church possessed of a
decent amount of ecclesiastical self re-
spect will ask the public to pay for the
instruction it wishes to give in it's own
peculiar doctrines. .. The state
must provide for the education of its
citizens And distinct feature OF the
public schools and essential element of
their power and usefulness to the state
is that they be non sectarian." Having
thus delivered him elf, the doctor makes
haste to inform us that the foregoing is
not to be taken literally; that when he
uses the term "non-sectarian'' he does
not really mean non-sectarian, but any
thing, not Roman Catholic; as is clearly
evinoed in the. following astounding
statement: "But this attack on the pub
lie schools is no new affair. The first
complaint was that they we're sectariap.
The Bible was read in them, and this
Bible-loving church objected. Then the
Bible was taken out in difference to-
Catholic wishes" The Bible was read
| in the public schools. What does it
teach? II nothing "peculiar," the plac-
ing 1t in public schools was the act of
idiots; but if it's teachings are peculiar
doctrines" there was the reading of it
in the public schools, 10 quote the patri-
otto doctor, foreign TO our government,
and was out Of the question with any
one VIII proposed to loyalty support the
constitution " And, observe, that it
was not owing to 4 yalty, but ':in defer
ance to G tho,ic wishes" that they
ceased to b.. vi lators of the constitution
and traitors to their country
DR.. Burrel tell. us that the Catholic
church is ri reign in priests and foreign
| in it's people, who are recruited, not like
the new members OF other churches
from the ranks of the unconverted
mainly from the influx of population In
| Catholic LELAND and other Catholic
lcountries IF the doctors statement is
true it follows, of course, that the Ger
| man LutherAns OF Wisconsin and the
Scandinavian Lltherans of Minnesota
were pagans or heathens, or infidels
when they landed on our shores, and
were converted by the unselfsh labors
and self-sacrifcing devotion to the cause
Of Christianity by DR.. Burrell and his
| jealous brother divines. While this view
| is eminently soothing to the amiable
doctor, it can hardly be expected that it
should be complacently held by the g. Cd
Lutherans named
DR.. Burrell SAYS 1.-The Roman Catholic
church is opposed to that fundamental
principle Of our government-the equal
itv IF man, Surely he cannot have