The sun., 1894-10-22
ADDRESS OF THE ". p. A.
Urgi.g the Adoption ofthe Educational and
Charities Amendments


The National League for the Protection Of
American Institutions. which has been the prime
mover in the efforts to have the amendment
against the appropriation OF public moneys for
the advantage OF sectarian schools. asylums.
&C., embodied in the state Constitution. has Just
issued an address to the people, asking them to
vote for the amendments as they were passed
by the late Constitutional Convention. In its
address to the people of the State OF New York.
the League says;
The amendments adopted by the Constitution
al Convention as TO education and charities.
when compared with the provisions Of the pres
ent Constitution on these subjects, must be con
sidered n very substantial and gratifying ad-
vance. These amendments, separated from
those relating TO the apportionment and the
canals. are submitted with the great body OF the
amendments adopted for the approval Of the
voted for for the following reasons. They con-
tain:
principle Of the separation 81 the functions q Church
~ This principle is applied without qualification to
the FIRE public sshosl system X ,hs sdopon q
the sodn sshoS sund fT from ~ vson nousny
sectaran ,p and private charitable institutions
hoard possessing absolute powers, limited only by
T. The state legislature is not required, but per.
mitted under restrictions. to make appropriations TO
prsons Il maas Se nos BY special
but by the enactment OF general laws.
Inc NatlOnal League, ny PURSUING JudlC1OuS,
rational. and yet aggressive methods, has en-
deavored to deserve the confidence and respect
of all classes OF citizens II has been undeterred
by misrepresentation or abuse. Its managers
realize that the only way to secure the elimina-
ton of religious issues from politics Is to effect,
soon as possible, the entire stoppage of grants
OF public money to any sectarian or private cor
poration. In securing that end the managers
expect to be strongly opposed by all who hereto
fore have profited. politically or otherwise, by
such appropriations.
The only sure and just way to remove offence
Is to remove the occasion of offence by the use
OF public money exclusively for those public
purposes for which IL was collected from the
people. The managers OF the National League
realize that In advocating the advance measures
included in the proposed amendments to the
Constitution OF the State OF New York that
their work Is not complete. II will require ac-
tive, vigorous. aggressive work on the part of
the league to secure their adoption by the peo-
ple, as every device will be rcsorted to by their
All that has heretofore been done is largely
preparatory and preliminary for the chief strug.
gle yet to come in adding 10 the. Constitution OF
the United States the proposed sixteenth
amendment.
We ask all those who favor these principles "a
aid the National League, by their money and
votes, in securing the adoption OF these two
amendments into the Constitution of the state
of New York, and In pressing forward for their
complete expression and establishment in the
organic law OF this and other States, and in the
Constitution Of the United States.