The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-12-02

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terabe Civil md 81 doing
w1ro.aght ont the destiny IS 4 con inehf,
and ermore G. the front the ban-
nj 6 Tho freedom 81 mankind II
fter paying y conn imant to
the riicanism off ttlhe late John Boyle
OReilly, who conn i tine f,oem sin
tribute o the Puritan founders s the
commonwealth 81 N - hunsetts, and
referring q the ode of James Jeffrey
Roche on| the battle g ttssettYs burg, "a.
Roosevelt cont $50 Il there were.
any tendency to. try e CONTROL the public
schools ia q othing spirit, 70 try
to discriminate against Oatho lics,
whether as trustees or as teachers, be-
cause they we're Catholics, any desire not
to give them, whom it was deserved, the
came ample and cordial recognition that
good trustees and teachers ought to
have, then ! am sure that I can appeal
to every right thinking American, what
ever his religion, to stand up against SO
utterly un-American doctrine, and to do
his best to sec that full justice is done to
the Catholic, as much as to the Protes-
tant. = III I.5 y
He ended his address by saying that
the American people have 9 right to de-
mand that the voters, in settling about
the school question, should vote as
Americans merely, and should realize
that it is utterly abhorrent to and I'M
worthy Of real Americanism to discrim-
iuate for or against any American citizen
because Of his birthplace or because OF
his creed. The British American and
Knownothing bigots in the audience
had no applause for Mr.. RI ,sevelt, but
his manly uttersnces brought rounds OF
applause from the liberal minded oiti-
zens who invited him q the city ospeak
On the school question from the stand
point Of au American of Dutch descent.
The third address on the public school
question in their relation to Catholics
was delivered last Sunday by Father
Oleary Of this city at Labor Temple.
The lecturer was born under the shadow
Of Blu ker Hill and received his ea "
training IN the public schools. He hui
morously described the punishment in
flicted upon him when = boy because he
would not join in the reading of the
Protestant Bible at the behe.t Of his
teachers. n the. course OF his address
which is published elsewhere in these
columns, Father Cleary said that as the
public schools are generously maintained
by all classes Of our people for the bone
Fit OF all, they must not be used as an
nexes to Sunday schools nor turned into
polemical arenas where disputed qnes-
tons of religion are to be discussed. He
referred to the fact that in this city the
secretary OF the board of educate N was
q Protestant minister Of foreign birth
and that if Catholic priest, born and
bred in the United States, were men
toned To-; such q position, the self-con-
stituted defenders of 'sthe little red
school house on the. hill" would surely
proclaim that the Pope of Rome would
arrive on the first boat due in New York.
And yet one preacher had just as much
right to be secretary Of the board OF ed
ucation as the other. When Father
Oleary in q burst of eloquence cried out:
1--WE say to all bigots and fanatical sec
tarians, hands off our public schools"
the enthusiastic audience applaude d him
to the echo. He declared that Catholics
had no desire to destroy the public
schools but that they had right as citi-
.zens and taxpayers to point out their b II
defects and propose remedies, without
being assailed as the enemies Of popular
education by bigoted fanatics who would
impair their efficiency. (
SIR ANDREW CLARKE, Galdstone's ply
sician, is dead, and the Grand Old Man
must now get another to watch over
his health. NJ g4s
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