St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-27
THE FARIBAULT PLAN.
Archbishop Ireland's Memorial to
the Pope Finally Made
Public.
The Plan Which Caused Pope
Leo to Indorse the
Scheme.

Scheme.
New YORK, Feb. 26.-Although re-
peatedly challenged to do so. Arch
bishop Ireland has never made public
the memorial he presented to Rome on
the Faribault plan, and on theAargu-
ments in which the decision "tolerari
potest' was given 10 him. This brief
has been printed in Rome in Italian,
in large pamphlet, making with an
appendix giving Cardinal Gibbons let
ter in behalf of the Faribult-Stillwate
scheme, some thirty odd pages. This
famous brochure seems to have been
jealousy guarded, even from most of
the elect above the vatican. A tranSla-
tion Of it is printed to-day by the
Herald. Archbishop Ireland begins
by stating the difficulties he had
met in maintaining the parochial school
in Faribault and Saltwater Oh account
Vi UliS pOfOLby VI UilC Clul Cls lAOh llS
stated his aim in establishing his sys-
tenn, by which the state aid was secured.
He then describes the arrangement
which he made with the school boards,
and the attacks made by the Protestants
and Germans. and comes finally to con-
slider and answer their objections to the
plan. He says:
"Fhe Objections
are of two different kinds. practical
and speculative. l could discard the
speculative ones by simply observing
that they are only deductions derived
from the imagination of these per-
sons, and are excluded by the prac-
tical conditions with which l have
surrounded my settlement with the
directors of the school committee. They
say, first, that the relation is only the
beginning of a system which l intend
eventually to make universal, and to
prove by alleging that my speech to the
public school teachers, the publication
of pamphlet by Dr.. Brocken, Mgr.
McGolrick, bishop of Duluth, which
was published in the Minneapolis
Times. They say, second. that this
system is contrary to the council OF
Baltimore, which decided its wish that
the children should be instructed in
church schools exclusively. They
say in the third place that the system
of parochial schools is growing
daily in the public esteem and
the recognition of the Faribault system
would eXtinguish the ardor OF Catholics
for the parocbial schools, and if the
Catholics perseyere there are signs in
the United States that the government
will shortly recognize
The EssligIous Schools
and will endow them with spart Of the
the objection, which is mere supposi-
ton, knowing perfectly what my own
Infections are. and in despite of all their
efforts to prove to the contrary, [
say that the Faribault councils
action is not part of any sys-
TEN, but that it constitutes simply
an hnest intention on my side to pro-
cure, with the aid of the state, Catho-
lie education to the children in the
aforesaid two towns, where, without
such help, such an education was i'm
possible"
The archbishop then dilates on the
poverty of the Catholic church in some
sections of the country, describes the
common school system of America, and
continues:
''What are my hopes for the future?
The practical question is how to provide
with religious education all those Cath
Olic children to which we cannot give
parochial schools, and it is approved by
our statistics that they are 60 per cent
the time far and uncertain,
our parochial schools or when Catholics
will be rich enough to do without any
endowment, shall we permit that 60 per
cent of our children to remain without
instruction, or shall we trust them I'M
conditionally VITA the public schools, or
shall we try to have at least part of
them educated, and the taxes prove that
We Must Pay
for the public schools, and now 1 would
like to ask my adversaries where are
the plans they suggest in the matter?
Some say that there is danger Of letting
church. l would like to observe
that this was the desire to
influence all persons who have
witnessed the disastrous consequences
Of such interference in Europe The
same objections are out OF place in
America. The tendency of the state is
in contrary sense, and this is so true
that it constitutes real danger. The
tendency to separate church from state
becomes every day more accentuated,
and the public opinion is that the gov
ernment must be non-Sectarian."
The prelate then sums up the objec-
tions to the Faribault plan and his
answers to the same thus:
From what | have said your enemies
will see that | was not the first to make
an agreement like that at Faribault, bu t
that, on the contrary, a similar agree
menthad been accepted by many bish-
ops of the United States and on
Less Favorable Conditions.
and it is part of an attempt to provide
in certain measure with good Cath
Ollie education that 60 per cent OF our
children who are now out of the
parochial schools and for whom
the council Of Baltimore has made
no provision. Your eminenee will
also see that l am attacked at
the same time and most violently by
the Protestant preachers and the fanatic
Protestants Of my state, and by great
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