St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-22
MORRILL, ON WASHINGTON.
incidentally He Touches Up the
ParochiaI School Question.

At Calvary Baptist church yesterday
morning Rev. G. L. Morrill, preached on
George Washington. In the beginning
he eulogized Washington as a man aud
as citizen. Then he turned his atten-
ton to Washington's ideas in relation to
some of the questions now agitating the
Minneapolis public, and said:
Politically considered, he was a man
on whose heart the nation could rely.
His example is commended to those pol
iticians who are stabbing to death the
heart Of liberty, purity and truth in our
beautiful Minneapolis, and to the whole
swarm of crawling, wriggling. Shiny,
intriguing political keel worms which
in Washington and elsewhere are trying
to bore through the sheathing of our
glorious ship of state. OF too many
JOhnsOn's and Walpole's remarks are
true, Patriotism is the last refuge of a
scoundrel, Every man has his price,
Popular education was Washington's
pet principle. If living today he would
eulogiZe and uphold by pen, and sword
if need be, the public school system OF
America. Foreign education he called
evil. Let the portrait of the father of
our country in the parochial school at
Faribault repeat to the portrait Of the
holy father of Roman Catholicism
which hangs insultingly near by. what
he said years ago: 1T is TO me a mat
ter of serious regret that American
youth should go abroad and learn prin-
ciples unfriendly to republican govern
ment and to the true and genuine liber-
ties of mankind The Jesuit school
master from abroad is in our land and
in some of our public schools. The
parOchial-public school at Faribault and
Saltwater are chargeabie with the pros
titutlon of all the virtues which go to
make and grace the public school sys-
tenn. In spite of the shifts and changes
and evasiye replies by which the sup
pOrters of the transfers have sought to
vindicate themselves, the Hip schools
are sectarian schools, and the school
board is guilty of the folly and uncon-
stitutional act of Incorporating pub
lie funds for their support. Conditions
and concessions were made and in
volved in these transfers openly and
tacitly to priests of a hierarchy which
has declared and proved its hostility to
our American education, and which In
the person OF John Ireland said before a
class of graduating students in Rome,
We can have the United States in ten
years, and | want to give you three
points for your consideration-the In
dians, the negroes, and the public
schools
washington says reason and expe-
rience both forbid US to expect that
national morality can prevail in exclu-
sion of religious principles But, while
church and state are separate in Amer
lea, recognition of common morals is
not out of place in the public schools.
The distinction, however, must ever be
kept in mind that morals and ethics are
one thing, and religion and sectarianism
another. These nuns and sisters in
their peculiar garb are living epistles,
bound with clerical binding, printed in
Roman type, and dedicated to the pope
at Rome. If. as we are told by some,
the dress of the sisters makes no
difference so long as decent we
reply. What is to prevent a Father
COnroy or Corrigan from wearing his
teacher?' Moreover. are cross and
! rosary niece ssary requirements of
'decercy and propriety" With or with
out their peculiar garb these nuns, 1
contend, are disqualified though they
pass the necessary examination, in that
they are sworn papal proselyters, whose
country is their ORDER whose home is
the church, whose names are those of
the saints, whose every tie to what is
natural and dear to American hearts has
been cut aSunder. AS against teachers
who are nuns, though of Roman Catho-
| lie faith, l have no objection if they are
competent and clad in their usual un-
] den0minatiOnal dress.
"Washington did not, and we will not
| allow rival in an American citizens
| allegiance. Europe has sensibly repu-
| dated the temporal power of the pope
| America knows enough of him in the
| late rebellion to declare that she will
| never lend her influence to his rehabil-
itation there or here. [ gladly accord
the Roman Catholics the same civil and
| religious rights and privileges in Amer
| lea that other churches have, but nc
more. Whenever and wherever in
| America a church governed by an old
world potentate takes advantage OF
| these privileges to subvert our pub
| lie institutions to gain political ascend
ency and to encroach upon the public
fund for the payment of private bills,
| she is unfair in her acts, unconstitu-
tional and un-American, and it is the
sacred duty of every loyal citizen to de,
| nounce and resist her encroachments.
| The future destiny of the nation de-
ponds upon the discharge of present
duties. If perfdious political leeches
| subject American citizens to foreign
| rule and mutilate and mismanage ouI
| law courts, schools and public institu-
| lions, it is our own fault and folly, and
| we shall suffer as we deserve. If poll.
| tics is the science of good government
then politics and piety are synonymous
| washington is reported to have once
| ordered, Put none but Americans OH
| guard He should be living at this