The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-03-26

Catholic School Question Reaches
an Acute Phase,
WILL IGNORE THE PRIvY COUNCIL

Anti-Catholics Declare That They VIII Not
Obey the Order OF the Governor General
TO Restore the Parochial sChools-Pre-
mier Greenway Talks Overwhelmingly.
WINNIPEG Man, March 96.-The rem.
edtal order of the governor general in
council, calling upon the government of
Manitoba TO restore to the Roman Cath
olics their parochial or separate schools,
reached this city yesterday. 1t was adj
dressed TO the lieutenant governor, and
by him transmitted to the legislature,
which was sitting in readiness to recGve
1t. The legislature was crowded with an
intensely earnest gathering when the inn
portant document was delivered. 1t was
voluminous, and reviewed all the evil
dence taken 3efore the privy council of
England, which body declared that the
Catholics of Manitoba had grievance,
and that the governor general in council
had the power and authority TO grant re-
dress 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 general, or more ac-
curately speaking, the Dominion govern
ment, will enforce its authority. No def
mite action was taken last night. After
the order had been read it was laid on the
table for fur ier 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
live being Catholics and representing
purely Catholic constituencies.
Premier Greenway, being interviewed
last night, said: 1--WE earnestly desire to
act with the constitution, but let all people
know this trouble is not Of our own max
ing. We claim the right to make our own
laws, and this right we will not give up
without struggle. The governor gen
erals order will be rejected in its entirety.
A long step viii then have to be made in
the perilous journey upon which the gov
ernment at Ottawa has set out. The Do
minion parliament will then be armed
with jurisdiction to impose upon Mani
toba law to which an overwhelming ma
jority of its people are opposed.
''It will be wise for parliament, as Mr.
Gladstone once said, to think once, think
twice, think thrice before coercing loyal
and law abiding community Few in
numbers though they may be, they will
never submit to this unjust coercion. This
is a struggle for our rights. We are a free
people, and we will not be slaves. We will
not have the laws which we have passed
deliberately, and willful 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 was
the announcement that the Dominion cab
| met, which has just passed the remedial
| order, had appointed one of it's own mem
| bers, Hon. j. G. Patterson, minister OF
militia, to take the place of Premier Green
way. This change is believed by the Man.
itoba government to mean that the Do
minian authorities want man as Cover.
nor more pliable to their wishes and who
will unhesitatingly carry out their man
date
Manitoba has always contended that its
governor should be Manitoba citizen
and this unlocked for action has only
added fury to the flames. Hugh Macdonald
son of the late distinguished Canadian pre-
mier, publishes an appeal for moderation
He pleads that conflict be avoided and
peace restored by some form of compro
mise 1t is the first appeal of the dead
premier's son to be unheeded. The temper
of the people of Manitoba is now such thai
| only a courageous man would suggest
compromise.