New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-16

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Why not turn over heaven and earth
and all contained therein to .his pre-.
cocious youth or god of N Mortified, and
be done with it?
It is no wonder that the people tire
of the Holden case, for it is one of the
worst instances Of trifling with justice
known to the northwest The state.
ment Of Redwood man, that the PEG
pie of his county were enraged at the
action of the courts and feel like taking
the law into their own hands, is moi
far from popular sentiment.
The governor of Louisiana refused to
sign the lottery bill, by which the state
gets 81, 100000 q year for twenty-five
years as the price of the franchise, de-
nouncing it as the forerunner of corrup-
ton and dire profigacy. The bill will
pass, however, over his veto, and the
state, for twenty-five years to come
and perhaps forever, will be clouded
by blot that will deprive it of its hon
or, and tarnish its name with disgrace.
And all for the filthy lucre. Minnesota
can be thankful that she has never been
compelled to test the strength of these
southern gamblers.
On Thursday Archbishop Ireland adj
dressed the Educational Convention at
st. Paul on the possibility of union be-
tween the state and parish schools.
The Archbishop is one of the highest
Catholic authorities in the country, and
the subject with which he had to deal
is one that is growing IN interest.
Naturally, therefore, his views are
worthy of consideration. AS church
man, his stand was just what might
have been expected. He believed. of
course, in state schools, as necessary to
make good citizens; he believed also in
compulsory education, holding that the
state should always occupy the position
OF the parent; but with still greater
force and ferVor, he argued in favor of
the instruction of religion in these same
schools. Morality, he said, without re-
ligion could not exist. There must be
the principles of the latter to give i6
root and sap. He wanted Catholic
children to have Catholic teaching. If
the Protestants wanted like prive-
ledge, he believed in granting 1t to
them, but hold that each denomination
must be left to care for it's own. When
he came to say how this could be done,
however, he was not very explicit He
believed in compromise, but only made
two suggestions as to how it should be
brought about. One of these provides
for the giving of a share of the public
money to denominational schools, the
state having first satisfied itself of the
competency OF the teacher. The plan
of distribution suggested is that of the
English schools, where public money is
paid upon the basis of the examinations
passed by the children. The other plan
was after that which he said was in
vogue in Poughkeepsie. There the
Catholic parish school has been turned
into public school, the Catholic teach
ers remaining but passing the ordinary
teachers examination and giving no re-
Ggious instruction in the regular school
hours. Neither of these plans are prac-
ticable, nor are they desirable. Each
would hurt the schools, which to-day
are free and unobstructed by denomin-
ational differences, and each would
tend to destroy that idea of unity, which
has for it's one object, in a republic like
our own, the bringing up of all our
children alike in their ideas of true citi-
zenship, and the fitting of them alike for
the performance of duties, which as
children of free country will devolve
upon them in later years. It has been
this compactness and adherence to one
idea in our free schools that has made
them in every way superior to the
parish and parochial schools of this and
every other time, and, as long as the
state keeps that principle as the foun-
dation work of our institutions of learn
ing, they will prosper and bear good
fruit. To say that they cannot without
the Introduction of religious instruction,
is to say that we have been going back
instead Of forward. This is not true,
and the majority Of people will never
come to believe that religion, even if it
were free from UNCONVENTIONAL creeis,
has any place in the public schools. In
stead of that they will still cling to the
idea that the school, as it was estab-