The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1895-01-19
sAT0LLI ON SCHOOLS.

SAT'OLLI ON SCHOOLS.
We suppose that everybody is at one
with Ablegate Satolli in acceptance OF
the aphorism-"the true purpose of
education is to 6t men for employment
of freedom," says the Inter Ocean,
We suppose also that nearly every
body agrees with him in believing that
development and cultivation of the
moral sense is q prerequisite of free
dom. All manner of trulsms have
been uttered concerning this belief;
one of them runs thus:
He is freeman whom the truth makes free.
And all are slaves beside.
But the FIRST and most comprehen-
sive enunciation of the principle comes
from the founder of that "Church
Universal" of one sect or denomlna-
tion of which the ablegate is repre-
sentatiye-"Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free"
This essential verify, properly was
sculptured on the main arch of the
peristyle of the Wold's Columbian Ex-
position, which showed the progress Of
man from barbarism and tyranny to
civilization and freedom. So that be-
tween Ablegate Satolli, who is the ad
vocate and champion of parochial and
sectarian schools, and the most ardent
defender of the public and non sectar-
ian schools there is no difference as to
first principles.
But. and 1t is fact that the follow
ers of Mr.. Satolli cannot avoid, the
one cause, the only cause, of the alb
sence of religious, or of purely ethical
teaching. in our public schools comes
from a strange alliance between GER
tain prelates of the Roman Catholic
Church and certain extremely virulent
atheists But for these strangely al
lied forces the Bible, or those parts of |
it that are not controversial or h:stor-
ical, would be text book in our pub
lie schools. All churches use the |
Lords Prayer; it is not used in the
public schools simply because of the
objection that Catholics and atheist is
have made to its use. All churches
the Golden Rule of
Christ as an epltome of ethical and
moral philosophy, and even secularists
who deny the divinity of its origin
admire its brevity and Its excellence.
This rule would be taught in the pub
lie schools were it not that certain
Catholics and certain atheists object.
1t is so with the Tenn Commandments.
They certain the germ of all moral and
religious philosophy, tho essence OF
hat truth which s'shall make you
free." They are not taught in the
public schools simply because of the
opposition of strange alliance be-
tween the most conservative and the
most revolutionary, if not the most an
arehistic, of organisations.
This leads to notice Of themost sub
lie Of passages of Mr.. Satolh's speech
vt the De La Sale Institute of New
York:
"If the Catholic schools Of this
,ountry differ from the public schools
imply in that, besides what is taught
n the latter they give the youth a
'ound moral training and instruct
hem in the Catholic religion. who will
lare to complain of that or call it q
lefectp
"Who will dare to complaint" No
Catholic, certainly. Nor can any one
,ave reason "to complain" if IN
Methodist school Methodist doctrine
,e taught. But criticism, If not COM
,laint, is in order if Methodist, Bsp
lst, Presby terian. or Catholic first al
les himself with extreme secularists {
n with atheists to expunge the Bible
ven its non-dootrinal parts-from the :
'ublic schools, and then disparages ,
hem because they do not teach those
thical truths that are more plainly, e
nd in more condensed form, set forth
n the Bible than in any other book.