The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-26
MANITOBA NAY REBEL
THE ORDER REGARDING SEPARATE
SCHOOLS NOT RELTsHED.
Premier Greenway Says "Nc Are N
Free People" and We Will Not BE
Made slaves

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Marchs 25.-The
remedial order of the Governors general in
Council, calling ON the government of Man
itoba to restore to the Roman Catholics
their parochial or separate schools, reached
the city this morning. 1t was addressed to
the Lieutenant Governor, and by him was
transmitted to the Legislature, which was
sitting in readiness to receive it. The
Legislature was crowded with an intensely
earnest gathering when the important doc
ument was delivered. It was volumnous,
and reviewed all the evidence taken before
the Privy Council of England, which body
declared that the Catholics of Manitoba had
a grievance, and that the Governor-general
in Council had the power and authority to
grant redress by remedial order. The
tenor and language of the order leaves no
opening for compromise. 1t is a command
to Manitoba TO submit, and plainly says
that If the Legislature does not obey the
Governor-ge the Dominion government
will enforce it's authority. No definite ac-
tion was taken tonight. After the order
had been read 1t was laid on the table for
future consideration. That the order will
be rejected may be taken for certain. OF
the forty members of the Legislature only
four or five will vote against the rejection,
these four or five being Catholics and rep
resenting purely Catholic constituencies.
Premier Greenway, being interviewed to-
night, said: 1--WE earnestly desire to act
with, the constitution, but we will let all
own making. We claim the right to make
our own laws, and this right we will not
generals order viii be rejected in in its en- en-
rirety-. A long step will tnen have been
made in the perilous journey upon which
The Dominion Parliament will then be
armed with jurisdiction 20 impose on NAM
toba law to which an overwhelming ma
jority of its people are opposed. II will
be wise for Parliament, as Mr. Gladstone
once said. to think once, think twice, think
abiding Community. 1i Few 10y IN IN anu numbers isT
though they may be, they will never sub
gle for our rights. We are a free people;
we will not be made slaves. We Will nor
liberately and with full knowledge Of our
own conditions destroyed by a body to
whom these conditions are unknown, act
ing without inquiry and without adequate
consideration
A sensational feature of the trouble to-
day was the announcement that the
Ueminion Cabinet which has just passed
the remedial order, had appointed one of it's
'aWn 1gefnners, fa,el, 4 Hon. y g Patterson. rs Mn
Greenway. This change is believed by the
Manitoba government TO be that the Domin-
more pliable to their wishes and who will
unhesitatingly carry out their mandate.
governor should be Manitoba citizen, and
this unlocked for action has only added fuel
to the flames.
Hugh Macdonald, son of the late Cana
dian Premier, Sir John Macdonald pub
fishes an appeal for moderation, pointing
out the dangers of the situation He pleads
that conflict be avoided and peace restored
by some form of compromise. 1t is the
first appeal of the dead Premier's son to
be unheeded The temper of the people of
Manitoba is now such that only a
courageous man would suggest compromise
The remedial order forwarded by the
Dominion government TO the Manitoba
Legislature. which was received here to-
day, requests that the Manitoba govern
ment re-enact the school law of 1890, abol-
ishing the Roman Catholic schools, and
that they give:
''First-Tne right to build. maintain,
equip, manage. conduct and support Ro-
man Catholic schools in the manner pro-
vided for by the statutes which were re-
pealed by the acts of 1890.
.sSecond-The right to share proportion
ately in any grant made out of the public
funds for the purposes of education.
"Third-The right of exemption of such
Roman Catholic schools from all payment
or contribution to the support of any other
Cohns Nic