The Portland daily press., 1893-12-07
HANDS OFF The SCHOOL.
Strong Address to the American
Public Issued.

The. League for the Protection of Amer
Against Threatened sectarian En-
croachment Upon Popular Education.
IN. Y. Tribune.l
The National League for the Protec-
ton of American Institutions, which was
Incorporated under the laws of the State
of New York ON Dec.24, 1889, has issued
san address to the public in defence of
the American Free Common School Sys-
tenn" The officers of the League are:
President William H. Parsons; Vice
President, William Strong; Secretary,
James NJ. King; and Treasurer, William
Fellowes Morgan. The mem bers of the
Board of Managers are George S. Baker,
George T. Balch, Henry K. Carroll,
Churchill H. Cutting, Peter Donald,
Dorman B. Eaton W. W. Hoppin, John
Jay, James M. King, James McKen
George D. Mackay, Thomas j. Morgan,
William. Fellowes Morgan, William H.
Parsons, John Sinclair, John D. Slayback,
Josiah Strong and Peter A. WEIGH.
Among the honorary vice presidents are
Charles Kendall Adams, Sherman W.
Adams Bishop E. G.. Andrews, of New
York city; Hubert IL. Bancroft, Bishop
Thomas Bowman, of St. Louis; Judge
Addison brown, DR.. Horace Bumstead
Bishop Arthur C.Cox, of Western New
York Henry A. Cram, DE. M. Cravath,
IL. NJ Curry, ex-Judge Charles P. Daily,
ex-Judge Noah Davis, Bishop William
Cosswell Doane, of Albany; William
E. Dodge, A. Diaper, d.. R. Fiske, Bish-
op Fitzgerald, of New Orleans; Bishop
Fowler, OF Minneapolis; Bishop George
D. Gillespie, of Grand Rapids Mich; Dr..
DanielsC. Gilman, sGustave Gottheil, GEN
eral A. W. Greeley, DR.. Teunis S. Hamlin,
Henry Hitchcock, Gardiner G. Hubbard,
the Rev. DR.. W. II Huntington, Morris K.
Jessup, DR.. David Starr Jordan, Bishop
Isaac - v JeyGe' of Of H chattasnooga;
q qua d. joseph a MediiI. Dr.. Edward G.
Mitchell, DR.. James D.. Moifat, Bishop
John p, Newman, Omaha; Bishop
William.s=s.X. Ninde, Detroit: Bishop
William Paret, Baltimore, Bishop Henry
G. Potter, New York; John Harsen
Rhoades, DR.. D. B. st. John Rosa. Bish-
op John. SCARBOROUGH, Trenton; j. Ed
ward Simmons, DR.. Homer B. Sprague,
DR.. Augustus II. Strong, DR.. James N.
Taylor, Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson,
Jackson, Miss; Jonathan Trumbull,
Bishop John H. Vincent, Buffalo; Bishop
JOHN M. Walden, Cincinnati; Bishop
Henry W. Warren, University Park, Col. !;
Herbert Welsh, Bishop Henry B. Whipple,
Faribault, MINI; William G.. Whipple,
Bishop 0. W. Whitaker, Philadelphia;
DR.. George T. Winston, DR.. James Wood
row, and Bishop Daniel S. futile, St.
Louis.
Some Prominent Members of the League.
Other prominent members of the
League are DE-. Appleton, William II.
Arnaux, M. Ashley, DR.. G. Ballentine,
DR.. j. ". Bashford, Birdseye Blakeman,
Cornelius N. Bliss, the Rev. DR.. Robert
Russell Booth, Cephas Brainerd jr., Isaac
V.Brokaw, the Rev. DR.. Arthur Brooks,
DR.. W. Leroy Brown, Charles Butler, DR..
Horatio Butterfeld, DR.. James III. Carlisle,
DIR. Franklin Carter, L.. E. Chritenden,
John Claff1in, A. L. Clearwater, Chas. L.
Colby, James B. Colgate, Rev. DR.. Robert
Collyer, Washington E. Conner, James M.
Constable, Austin bin, Rear-A dmiral
Pierce Crosby, r. Fulton Cutting, j. G.
Bancroft Davis, Theodore L.De Winnie,
Professor Henry Drisler, Bishop I U.
Dudley, Louisville; Sherman Evarts,
co; Frederick D. Grant, the Rev. DR..
David H. Greer, Matthew Hale, the Rev.
DIR. John Hall, j. Hooker Hamersley,
William T. Harris, DR.. Thomas S. Hast
ings, Rowland Hazard, Welcome G..
Hitch cock, Henry H. Holt. Bishop
Howe Charles, &C.; the Rev. DR.. East.
man johnson, the Rev. DR.. Herrick John
Charles Lanier, Henry C. Lea, Daniel
Lord, Jr., John j. McCook, Chance llor
| William F. Mcdowell, Rev. DIR. r. S.
Macarthur, H. Pereira Mendes, J. Pier
pont Morgan, Levi p. Morton, John D.
Parsons, Charles A. Peabody, Bishop
George ". Peterkin Parkersburg W. Va. !;
John D; Rockefeller Henry Wade
Sage, Charles Scribner, l.. Clark Seelye,
James Shearer, Edmund G. Stedman,
| Lispenard Stewart, the Rev. DR.. Richard
S. Storrs, Professor Moses Colt Tyler,
| Cornelius Vanderbilt, Kiliean Van
Rensselaer,. Henry Willard, Francis A.
Walker, S.. White and OF. Zollikoffer.
Object of the League.
The objects of the League are to secure
constitutional and legislative safeguards
| for the protection of the common school
system and other American institutions,
and to promote public instruction in
harmony with such institutions, and
to prevent all sectairan or denomination
al appropriations of public funds. The
National League is absolutely unsec-
tartan and non-partisan in character. It
is proposed to secure an amendment to
the United States Constitution prohibit
ing sectarian legislation by the States.
The amendment in form as submitted
by the Law committee, has been adopted
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