The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1895-03-29
REVOLUTIONARY.
A Serious State Of Affairs Develops In
Canada over the school Question.


to pass laws granting Manitoba catho-
lies separate schools reached here from
Ottawa Sunday, and will be taken up
in the legislature Tuesday. The pro
vince is overwhelmingly in favor OF
national schools as against separate,
and the order by the dominion gov.
crnment has created much indigna-
tion. The legislature will nndoubted-
ly reject the dominion governments
order.
Premier Greeuway and all his minis
ters defantly declare that they viii
resist to the bitter end the restoration
OF Catholic schools. The excitement
is intense. In the churches preachers
Sunday confined their remarks TO the
impending struggle, Protestant preach
ers urging Protestants to stand firm
against the remedial order, and the
Catholic clergy appealing TO their foclss
to never give up the fight
The orangemen, of course, are TAX
ing hand, Maj. Stewart MulyeyI
grand master Of the orangemen, said
in an interviews: 1T cost Canada S.
OOO. 900 to subdue the half breeds on
the banks Of the Saskatchewan In 1865.
How many millions will II take to
make slaves of the people Of Manitoba
by subjecting them to the Catholic
hierarchy2"
A few who foresee the consequences
are urging moderation, but the spirit
Of faction Is so fierce their counsels are
UNDECIDED. II seems now that If an at
tempt is made to enforce the governor
generals order revolution will be In
evitable.
Upon entering the confederation oi
Canadian provinces twenty-five year.
ago the population OF Manitoba con
sisted almost entirely Of French Ro
man Catholics. After the half-breet
rebellion had been suppressed thu
French Catholics finally consented Z
the union, Sir Donald A. Smith givint
pledge for the government that th9i
schools and language should not be ip
terfered with. Twenty years after, il
consequence of the immigration iron
England and other Canadian provinces
the Catholics found themselves YER
largely outnumbered by the Protest
ants,
In 1855 there was deadlock in tn
1 Manitoba legislature, The conserya
tives were in office, but circumstance
made II necessary for them to have
new minister elected in order to reta!
, power. The candidate for ministt
was Joseph Burke, Frenchman and
Catholic. The constituerc cy for whic
: he was nominated was overwheln
! ingly Catholic, The conservative
sought to elect him by declaring th'
should their government be beaten Il
liberals would abolish paroehi
} schools. The liberal leaders, Thomi
( Greenway and Joseph Martin, pror
r ised that If Burke was defeated and Il
:, liberals came into power the paroehi
i schools would not be interfered wit
Q Burke was defeated. Greenway
IS came premier and Martin attorne
IS general
Two years later Martin introduced
a the legislature a measure abolishi
Z, parochial schools, and establishil
y what is called national school 5!
Q TEN, but which Catholics contend Il
l. Protestant school system. Then
gan legal battle in the courts, t
70 Catholic majority Of Quebec coming
e the aid Of their coreligionists in MAJ
> toba, making it dominion fight
ID The supreme court of Canada, 5
d ting at Ottawa, declared that Rom
IL Catholics have constitutional rig
to their schools, The Manitoba g
g ernment carried an appeal TO
IS privy council Of England, the high
SO tribunal in the realm, which deciC
ar that Catholics, as such, have no con'
id tional rights.
The Catholics appealed for redress
the Dominion government, VIII
lodged dangerous political issue
=, saying il had no power to interfC
Back the Catholics went TO the pr
or council, which declared that the Ca
no olics of Manitoba have real gri
N. dOCt, anu Nnub II - NlNhAh wy po"Nl
1t the Dominion government to gr
in them remedial legislation. The Ca
ay olics thereupon again applied to
,re Dominion government
or There was bitter conflict in
ia cabinet. but finally the governor 6
nd eral, on the advice of the Domir
,ad ministers, issued a few days ago a r
all edial order calling upon the gov,
ON ment of Manitoba to restore the CT
eat ollie parochial schools. This is the
ere der which is likely TO precipitatea
at olution
Later-owing to formalities in c.
ing the order, it is probable the dis
sion ON separate schools will not
Il. up in the legislature until Wednes
den The remedial order makes den
ern upon the Manitoba government
an abolish the clauses of the educa
hat act doing away with separate sch