The Irish standard., 1893-08-26

1ple69 l8la down Dy our cUAt0InlOI6AySuO
ihe public schools Of any particular town
IF locality, the only thing left for the
school authorities would be to refuse to
employ Roman Catholics as teachers IN
discriminatory"
The editor OF The North knows very
we'll that it's Contemporary has no au-
thority to speak for the Catholic Church
on educat or anything else, but the
and erroneous statements
made afford him chance to display his
venom toward the Catholic Church and
the members thereof. The editor OF The
North is in position to know that there
are but few Catholic teachers in the pub
lie schools of this city, and that these
teachers have never been known to OBJ
trude their religious views upon the
children committed to their charge.
They teach in accordance with the rules
and regulations of the board. The text
books used in the schools contain moth
ing favorable to the Catholic religion but
are essentially Protestant in their tend
encies. There is not a sentence nor
line from Catholic writer to be found
in the whole series, and whenever re-
lipion is alluded to the Catholic Church
is misrepresented. How then can Catho-
lie teachers in the city schools propagate
their religion? In the 100 district schools
of Hennepin county there are not more
than twenty Catholic teachers, and they
are usually employed 10 Catholic districts
for the reason that few Protestant dis
tricts will engage them if their creed be-
comes known. The young man or woman
bearing the Celtic names of Murphy,
O'Brien and similar patrony mics will not
be hired to teach school in the average
Protestant district in this county. The
county of Hennepin is the most puritan
ical county in the entire state, and in
two-thirds OF the school districts none
but Protestant teachers will be employed.
We know whereof we speak. The teacher
when applying for school is frequently
asked at the outset where he was born,
and the next question is about teaching
Sunday school and reading the Bible.
The editor of ThezzNe nth should visit the
county schools sometime and see for him
self. The EProtestant districts prefer
teachers who will impart religious in
struction on Sundays and read chapters
from the Scriptures on school days.
Sometimes the public school is converted
into meeting house or Sunday school
by permission of the trustees in Protest
ant districts. In the Catholic districts
the teachers frequently give instruction
in the Christian doctrine after the hours
of secular instruction: ARE over, and any
Protestant childrens attending them can
go home. On Sunday afternoons in the
summer season Catholic children often
receive religious instruction in their
schools the same as Protestant children
receive it in theirs. What is wrong about
that? There is considerable fault found
by The North and other journals of its
kind with the Faribault plan of educa-
ton, but the same plan is carried out in
this and other icounties by Professionals
and Catholics without invoking any ad-
verse criticiem.R Had the Faribault plan
been inaugurated by less distinguished
man than Archbishop: ireland, who hap
pens to be one of the leading prelates of
the Catholic Church, it would not have
attracted half the attention bestowed on
it. According to- that plan,s which has
been practically tested with satisfaction
to all concerned at Poughkeepsie, N. T.,
the Catholic schools we're placed under
the sole jurisdiction of the public school
authorities, and during the hours of
secular instruction no mention OF religion
was made to the pupils. a. It was after he
dismissal of the school in the evening,
and before school was: opened in the
that the Catholic pupils alone
we're taught the:Christian doctrine, and
therefore the state or district was at no
pecuniary loss.
The editor of The North is a Lutheran
If the most inveterate type and Know
nothing of foreign birth who endorses
Apaism, Orangeism and every other un-
American organization opposed to the
Catholic Church in this country. AS a
member of the school board he is Ger
,ainly opposed to the employment of
Catholic teachers in this Getty, as men of
ais ilk are opposed to them in Toledo
md other places where sKnow-nothing
oigots are in the ascendant, but we notify
The gentleman that his actions will be
closely watched by The IRISH STANDARD
Until his term expires. He was elected
oy the Democratic party to the position
1e occupies, and renegade as he is, he
changed his politics after his election
md opposed the Democratic candidate
or governor of this state because he was
, Catholic and his ODpOnent was a coun-