The record-union., 1893-07-22

tory for our splendid system of public
education. We would not, however, adj
wise the friends of this system to be less
vigilant in their defense of ii. We can
consent TO 10 sort of compromise or al
lance with the Church OF Rome. Our
public school system must be entirely
uuSectarian. 1t is the proud boast OF the
Catholic Church that II is oeDIper fsteu 70
Ubtqae, but anyone who is capable Of
drawing comparisons knows that the
Catholic Church in Spain, or Italy, or
Austria, or Mexico is not the same as the
Catholic Church in England or the United
States. In England the church has put
itself in intellectual sympathy, to some
degree, with the people. That is what it
is now doing in the United States. This
only proves that it is ruled with great
sagacity."
There are some" says the Christian
Register a. nit.) OF Boston, "who will see
in Mgr. SatollPs mission and the Pope's
Endorsement only cunning change Of
hostile tactics, and not a candid negotia-
ton for honorable conditions of peace.
They will read between the lines the de-
Hberate and elaborate planning of cam
paign to capture by slow strategy the
schoolhouses of the country, and run up
the Papal flag over these fortresses Of lib
erty. But the common veal can receive
no detrlment from justice; and it may be
deeply harmed by ungenerous suspicious
and needless antagonisms. Protestants
will get no dishonOr from giving due re-
spect to the rights and consciences OF
their Catholic countrymen; and there are
many noteworthy indications that both
the priesthood and laity Of the Roman
Church in the United States are coming
to regard loyalty to free institutions as a
part of their religion, and are sincerely
DESTROYS to find way OF living with their
PTntnGfnnt Crh nm re
and in the spirit of good will without
crowdlng and without being crowded.
There is the more need to cherish this
spirit OF Cancellation, and to meet it half
way with a white flag, because nothing
can contribute so powerfully TO the solu-
ton of our Immigration problem and to
the Americanization Of our toreign-born
population, OF whom only a small frac-
ton seem likely to be reached by any
agency ut the command Of Professionalism.
At the Baltimore Council of 1854 it was
noted that among the seventy American
bishops present, thirteen natioualities tby
blrth) were represented. If the Pope,
whose word is their law, is wise and lust.
and large-minded enough to direct them
and all their brethren to fall in rank and
march to the music Of our Constitution,
what power can do so much TO promote
the assimilation and incorporation of
these new come people into the body Of
the republic?'
A different tone, of course, Is to be
found in the evangelical press. For
instance, the EUdHgciicdL MESSENGER Of
Cleveland, o., says: Let us not deceive
ourselves. Rome is only making an
other desperate effort 10 hide her clovea
foot in order to a more determined and
Insidious attack upon our public schools.
She has not changed. She holds steadily
to her purpose; she is the inveterate and
Interchangeable foe or our schools. Having
failed to destroy them by deuunciatiou,
she is now planning the tactics Of the
tiger crouching cat-like in the Jungle.
The present Pope is praised as liberal,
but his liberalism is only a cloak to con-
ceal his real purpose. The country must
not forget that the leading organs of that
church IL the United States have said:
We are opposed TO the common schools
as they are, because our church con-
dennis them (CUthOfc JTOyiD. Tho
secular school is q social cancer presaging
the death Of natural morality (CuhOHc
IejeqTQph. Let the pubiic-school sys-
tenn go to where it came trom-the devil
(treemuH'S JOuHuO. The country can
not forget either that within the present
generation, as Mr.. Gladstone has said.
Rome, returnlshiug and parading anew
every rusty tool she was iOndly thought
to have disused,' has by Papal syllabus
condemned the propositions that any
method OF instruction which is only secu-
lar can be approved, or that education in
things philosophical and civil is atliberty
to decline ecclesiastical authority.