The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-03-23

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shall he ssraratei-thas Is. that whera
there are Children gathered in raroclaial
schools the state shall ray out Of il
treasury $leo. GO into the hands OF teach
s.rs who are under the cuafrul ct tho
PRIESTS. II h . simple proposition 10 d.
vide the school fund for the purpose OF
establishing ard maintaining sectarian
schools when the people themselves have
refused TO maintain Them
Ii is the dnfg foeiay Of Catholic aud
nrofesfamf. IN 1te rerg beginning Of that
attempt 10 d,rsele the free school find IA
the interest Of secfdridHisa, 10 cratsh IL
I'm its s-eY-g birth and TO stamp up0a IL
Nth an emphasis, rrith n potner. fadt
sl,al not be misunderstood either trg the
friends or enemies Of the public schools
in america.
First-The effort made in that legisla-
ton to divide the school fund is a piece
of Jesuitical trickery and misrepresents
both the pope of Rome and the Catholic
people in America today. ] say that
that proposition is against the pope's ut
terances. He distinctly declared that
there should be entire freedom on this
question: that the people shall send their
children where they please. In the Prot
estant church we do the same. Ii man
does not want his children to mingle
with the mob. he has the right to send
him to private school. But if he says,
81 have taken my child from the public
school and will not contribute my share
of the school fund.-" that is n different
proposition altogether, and would be the
entering wedge of what would practical
ly be revolution.
Cardinal Gibbons, the highest Roman
ecclesiastic in America today, voices the
desire of the pope himself that there
shall be no subsidy between the state and
the Catholic church in America. He
knows, as a true born American citizen,
that the prosperity of the Catholic
church depends on keeping her hands
out of the treasury of the country and
keeping the hand Of the ofhceholder off
the throat of the ecclesiastic. So the
men who make those propositions mis-
represent the authority at Rome and the
highest representative of that authority
here in America.
| RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.
ANY man who attempts to divide the
| school fund after what has been said
| attempts to unsettle what has been al
/ ready settled What more right has a
| Catholic to do it than Baptist or Pres
byterian or Episcopalian? We send our
children where we please. If we want the
luxury of private school, we pay for it,
and if Catholics want private schools
let them pay for it themselves. want
to read to you from The Tablet, Catholic
newspaper published in the city of New
York, on this subject:
1.-The pretense of the enemies of our
public schools that the schoolroom is a
point of attack against the faith of Cath
Ole children is preposterous and is cal
culated to excite the indignation and re-
sentiment Of non-Catholics who know 1t
to be untrue Neither is it true, as pre-
tended. that there is any atte1nTst made
| in the public schools to lead the young
into indifference with regard to all reli-
| gion, which is sure to end in infdelity.
How, it may be asked, can the teaching
of reading, writing, arithmetic, drawing,
singing and kindred branches taught in
our public schools conduce to indiffer-
ence to religion or loss of faith? Is
there not quite as much danger incurred
in learning any ordinary branch of bust
ness or any of the mechanical trades?
"Children attending the public schools
have, besides, Saturdays and Sundays
| and the hours not spent in the school
room, which may be devoted to religious
| instructions if those whose duty it is to
| impart such instruction perform it.
THE separate education of the youth
of the country tends to destroy the prin-
ciple of homogeneity in our population,
creates suspicion and distrust in Its
ranks. which is often perpetuated after
the youth attains to manhood to the in
jury of the individual and the commu-
nifty.
'sNor should it be forgotten in relation
to this problem of education that in the
majority of localities parochial school;
are an impossibility. owing to the few.
ness or poverty of the Catholic popula.
ton, and that in no place are they equa,
to the public schools in efficiency. This
is natural, as the state can furnish better
equipments than can be secured by vol
untary effort. Hence children educated
in the public schools have an advantage
over their rivals in beginning their Life
work and can surmount its dificultie:
more readily"
DR.. DIXON HATES SECTARIANISM
That is the voice of representative
Catholic newspaper, which voices the
sentiment Of the patriotic Catholics il
America today.
Second-It would be simply nothing
less than the destruction of one of The
fundamentals Of our constitutional law
The constitution of the state provide.
that there shall be no appropriation of
moneys for sectarian purposes of any
sort. But 1t Is proposed to evade tina,
and establish sectarian schools that shall
be solely supported by the state, and
whose teachers shall be appointed by &
parish priest and run absolutely by Cath
olic power. We have in one sense al
absolute separation of church and state
believe in it. / believe the state itsel
Is divine; that 1t needs no interference,
from any sect as sect, or denomination
as denomination, to make its Offices an,
more high or holy. The state is par
OF the true church of the true God, AM
any effort on the part of priestcraft I,
unite the state with itself is simply a,
effort on the part of the priest to aug
ment the power of the priest as agains
this wider church God is bringing t
pass, incarnating it in the life of the pee
pie, In their commerce, society and gov
eminent.
Suppose You should bring about mex
J theory and subsidize your sects. hat
, sectarianism, be 1t in little Baptis
church or a big Catholic church. It al
i. ways disgraces itself with such power
, When the Puritans were driven fror
England and came over to the ney
, world, they were no better than thei
prosecutors after awhile. With all thei
boosted desire for liberty they whippe
) the Quakers numerically. Suppose yo
. gave the Baptists mower to teach on