St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-26
IN AN OPEN REVOLT
Manitoba All Stirred Up Over
the Action Of the Domin-
ion Government.
DEFIANCE ITO THE DECREE
Ordering a Restoration OF
Separate Schools in the
Province.
TO BURN CABINET IN EFFlGY
The Winnipeggers Threaten
if the Decree Is Not Re-
Scinded.
TO BURN CABINET IN EFFIGY

WINNIPEG, Man, March 25.-The
remedial order forwarded by the
dominion government to the Man
itoba legislature, which was received
here today, requests that the Man
itoba government re-enact the school
law of 1890, abolshing the Roman
Catholic schools, and that they give:
F'irst-The right to build, maintain,
equip, manage, conduct and sup
port Roman Catholic schools in the
manner provided for in the statutes
which were repealed by the acts OF
1890. Second-The right to share
proportionately in any grant made
out of the public funds for the pur-
poses of education. Third = The
right of exemption of such Roman
Catholic schools from all payment or
contribution to the support of any
other schools.
The debate on the order will prob
ably not begin in the legislature
until Wednesday. There is no ques-
ton but that it
WILL BE REJECTED
and returned to Ottawa. Public
feeling is waxing very warm over
the action of the dominion govern
ment.
A movement is on foot to get up
monster demonstration, at which the
remedial order and the members Of
the dominion cabinet will be burned
in effigy.
This is unprecedented. 1t means
open conflict between Manitoba and
the dominion. The storm which has
been lowering over the country so
long is likely to break forth in fury
very soon. 1t is a war SO bitter that
it may wreck the confederation of
the dominion, if calm counsel, now
unheeded, does not prevail. The
Catholics are fighting for their pa
rochial schools, while the Protestant
majority, with equal resoluteness,
declares that the parochial schools
recently abolished by act of the
Manitoba legislature shall never be
re-established.
Twenty-Five years ago Manitoba
entered the confederation of Cana
dian provinces, it's population con-
sisting almost entirely of French
and Roman Catholics. Twenty years
rolled by, and the stream Of immi-
grafton put the Roman Catholics in
the minority. In 1888 there came
deadlock in the Manitoba legislature
between Conservatives and Liberals.
The latter won, and for the first time
the Protestants were in power.
Thomas Greenway- became premier.
Two years later the Catholic sep
arate schools were abolished.
Then began long battle in the
courts. The Roman Catholic major
ity of Quebec came to the aid of
their co-religioniStS in Manitoba, and
the fight thus became a dominion in
stead of merely a provincial one.
The supreme court of Canada de-
clared that Roman Catholics had
constitutional rights to their schools
which could not be taken away. The
Manitoba government carried an ap-
peal to the privy council of England,
and this, the highest tribunal in the
but declared they had a real griev-
ance, and that it was within the
power of the dominion government
to grant remedy. They then ap-
pealed to the dominion government.
There was bitter diSsension in the
cabinet, but finally, few days ago,
the governor general issued a rem
edial order calling upon the govern
ment of Manitoba to restore Catho-
lie parochial schools.
Refusal to follow the crowns or
der, as promulgated by the governor
general, means revolution. Indeed,
there will be revolution if the order
is enforced. Men 90 not hesitate to
declare SO. Premier Greenway and
all his ministers defiantly declare,
in and out of the legislature, that
they will resist TO the bitter end the
restoration of Catholic schools. The
matter will come up tonight or to-
morrow. A few men who foresee the
awful consequences are urging mod
GRAFTON, but the spirit of the factions
is now so fiery and bitter that their
counsels are unheeded. The fires of
race and religion are built, and.
should the revolutionary torch be ap-
piled, no one can tell how far the
flames will spread.