New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-17
PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEFENDED.
WHEN THEY FALL THE REPUBLIC FALLS
WITH THEM.
THE REV. MADISON c. PETERS TALKS TO srArU
ISLANDERS ON A QUESTION or VITAL
IMPORTANCE TO THE NATION.

IMPORTANCE TO THE NATION.
The Rev. Madison c. Peters pastor Of the Bloom
,ngdaIe Reformed Church. Sixty eighth-st. and the
boulevard delivered an address at PROHIBITION
park s T.. Yesterday afternoon on The Public
Schools OF Staten Island Who Shall Control Them!
Their Friends or Their Enemies He said IN part;
Not long ago the newspapers informed US that
YOU had here slater island what Is BENG ytsuI
in ali parts Of our country-a nght on the scaoo
question and that a village scavenger. whose cam
paign personally conducted py you, 'grs p,es
was trumphantly elected school director Inat eec
ton the conduct Of the campaign servra noss
upon the people OF staten Island tns' sgn in earn
eat she is 4 bitter blsoed. relentless ana united
bone i n ana no 'ns use to our:
selves with the cry OF Peace. peace. "he'e 'he'
The security OF our Nation depends wholly on the
pepenty Of our guSG sc S attack hs By qD e Rom
as 70 the irreconcllabe hostility OF the Roman nan
S Be dspss sy iH%a! HH
vs. Goddess schools Adaresssd to catho ,If,m PA,
soDy ~ Which n n! !Ssr MeTRnH
hi. book we" we h ;Ssr the sans ae to
The Is recommended in an autog ns5sem sseet
Cardinal Gibbons and other dgnitarsss Of ., 'aas
The naI ;ss Sasss ssss9fsa
western chronicle," san Franeisco Moni .a:.
western Home
nal" The Month" and THE New York Frsemans
Journal pappeal TO the authority OF the teaching
church" .. ,,,,. .rba hook con.
,,.ns he concar or single rulings OF no less tnan
80 OF the high and highest Church dgn,Ias ani
nrov,ncial councils six or seven diocesan synods:
i~ T'R Roman Pontis two sacred eonsregaons .,
arnhbshops and forty primates and metropolltans
and nearly sixty bishops and archbshoPs deceased
Of authors is against our public schools On page
the author says We bring 10 the Gonsesners ~
All mere secular schools and building schools OF
their until public opinion tse Wq9sFm and
We be relieved OF all unjus; taxes . .,. ,oor
show their anmus toward our cherished Institution
by such foul and frequent epithe,s as the Sns
ni"gne ':srandalous." presidential" "hthy." vi.
cious" places OF unrestrained immoral,y, ,ris
things are done IT,, nsr recital OF ""'" "O'''
"a" In 't the August number OF The North American
are openly AMI without starvation p sysr Of re:
schools and consequently Of school tax Rls ,
so,nr prononnres orr Common school system
goddess" and on page Jos ne speaks Of ne ne nsbc
rant masses who have been educated III the p'o"S
On page l22 of this book Cardinal Gibbons In ma
pastoral letter says: 1T may safey De 1880
Thai the future status OF Catholicy in he nl,,a
states is 10 be determined by the success or au,
of our iay schools. II provision Is made Il .s,S
be- feared that twenty years hence il Will oe nun r
easier to find churches than CONGREGATION toF nv
Rome hates the public schoois-she cannot ednca,a.
and retain What shall we say OF system or 81 rem M
gion that acknowledges that il must oulil VS., -
on the ruins Of ''ihe little red schoohouse =, ne
nal Gibbons practically says: we cannot ios' W.
pie Il they have Their public schools We lax .sKe
the freemans stand without me DIG. ro, 40 Il
'' In n" July number OF The Forum Freisr,c
ca USi school system 'goiess The american people
expected better things II this alleged patto
1 ~ NJ Avn, IL
priests our common schools are MOI Soa,esss Cod
cause the scholar does not say Coz u S, are
all ss time SSfr nS 'S oa pubs S as.
and immoral is brutal calumny upon ~. sS GODDESS
AMI rorrup, that Roman Catholic children oush. FOR FOR
to attend them then they ought 70 oe =, NV teach in
ihsn The paries who desire TO the tral.
wrecked should not control the throttevave OF NH nj
locomotive. orr schools were never sec'a''"" NV
Rome COMMENCED to Romanize them Wi. ,s arc
In 1883 Horace Greeley said IN New ,U, rshy are
having a struggle. The Old World hlerhtun!,
pressing u.s. and attempting TO destroy on, ,,ppsSai
school system and substitute sectariah p1.s,u.
schools contrary to the free s spr o OF children WV
separate in the streets and 60 10 sectsr arr, Sen
6es home 70 we men sh, ha~e Nation different from
what our fathers intended The american .nna,Srgay
changed: then will be the death OF present ,
siitutons, founded common schools and La N Ns
lion stands az all II must stand on these; ,-,s
What Horace Greeley said IN 1863 Is doupy , t
everywhere when say that the security or tns mn
struction Of American institutions depends "p'"
The struggle in behalf OF the free schools Is upy
and when the people are aroused thsy VIII nsr,er-
ence OF any foreign delegate. apostolic or daooi,y
There time when large number o. o., our u, he
Union but we neither surrendered nor conpto.,ss,,Ic
and now determined by all that IS s"t 90 onr
affairs ana resides tina; the banner OF our PUBIC
schools shall float as high and as long as TIC ''A