St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-02
JOE COOKS IDEAS.
Boston's Curious Preacher
Talks Of the Paroehial
Schools System.
He Gave Full Swing to His
Opinion of the JeS-
uits.
Eight Hours on City Work
Demanded by the 7. and
L. Assembly.
Peterson's Old Bookkeeper
Peterson's Old Bookkeeper
Heard Fpom--Distpict
Court News.


Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, lectured
at the Fifth Congreg ational church last
night, and in spite Of the inclemency of
the weather there was large audience.
Rev. Cook took for his subject 1.-The
Friends and Foes of Public Schools,
and handled it in thorough yet terSe
manner. He was troubled with severe
cold, and could scarcely be heard at the
extreme end of the church. The enc
mics of the public schools. he said, were
not the Roman Catholics themselves but
their Jesuit misleaders, the priests.
Jesuitism was not dead, but to all APP
pearances was gaining foothold even
in this Protestant country. The United
States. Rev. Cook said, should emulate
Chill, Argentine Republic and Mexico
in the manner of treating Jesuits and
parochlal schools. In the places re-
ferred to, parochial schools were for
hidden and Jesuts we're not allowed
to spread their evil influences, but
ofttimes driven out of the country.
Ecuador was the only country in all
America were affairs were completely
dominated over by the .Jesuits. There
the Roman Catholic church survives
Just as the Spaniards left it. The
deadly influence of the JeSuits was also
felt to a great extent in Quebec; they
even dictate dominion politics. There
was vast difference between patriotic
Roman Catholics and their Jesuit mis-
leaders, yet the former were under the
rule of the latter to certain extent.
In referring to parochial schools Rev.
Cook said that 1t was the aim OF Catholic
priests to prevent children seeing The
In nf ictn oil n
all educational indulgences. He told of
several instances where Catholic fami-
lies had been coerced into taxing their
children out of the public schools and
placing them in the parochial. In order
to remedy matters, and allow the Cath
oics to have their sectarian schools,
Rev. Cook said that they ought
to be placed under government
inspection. He did not ask
the adjustment of the parochial school
entirely, like in Mexico; but it should
he thoroughly inspected, to prevent
children being taught treason. The
Catholics themselves can assist in set
thing the yexed question by aiding in
the preservation of American liberty
for themselves. The people who needed
the watching. Rev. Cook said, were the
political Catholics and not so much
the religious Catholics. 1t is alb
s solutely 60, necessary tSn fra ne sn MAN.,
to be free from Romanism and all sect
arian teachings, however, it is not nee
essary to exclude everything pertain
ing to common morals and common
law. In some cases the audaucity of
Secularists outrivaled that of the
RomaniSts; the battle was both before
and behind. If the schools were turned
over to the secularists and agnostlcs,
they would he just as much seetarian-
ICED as if given to the Catholics.
Rev. Cook spoke strongly against ex-
Guiding the Bible from the public
schools, yet did not believe in fayoring
a child to participate in any exercise
objected to by its parents. The Bible
is a book of history, and should not be
hidden from the children; it would be
an injustice to youth, he said, to con
ceal the mighty truths found in that
book. 1t is essential to the welfare OF
the country to have consclentiouSness
and morality, yet IL would be DIFF.
cult to teach such things If
not through the school. The
seculiarists, he said, have something
on their side when they speak of bring
ing the state and church together, He
but not their union. 1t is necessary to
their perpetuation and progress that
they should cooperate. But the separa-
ton of the two does not mean the prohi-
bition of the teaching of common
Christianity, for Christianity is part of
the common law, However, Sectaran-
ism must be avoided, for that is against
the very fundament of freedom of edu-
cation,