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.

commanding INC MtHlNouu lNkioAoNhiN
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,
aud the order by the dominion gov
ernment has created much indigna'
ton. The legislature will undoubted-
" reject the dominion governments
order.
Premier Greenway and all his minis
tiers defantly declare that they will
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 fiocks
10 never give up the fight
The 0rangemen, of course, are TAX.
ing a hand. Maj Stewart Mulvey,
grand master of the orangemen, said
in an interview: ut cost Canada S..
0OO, 900 10 subdue the half breeds on
the banks Of the Saskatchewan In 1865.
How many millions viii II take TO
make slaves Of the people Of Manitoba
by subjecting them to the Catholic
hierarchy
A few who ioresee the consequences
are urging moderation, but the spirit
| OF faction Is so fierce their counsels are
unheeded. 1t seems now that II an at
tempt Is made to enforce the governor
generals order revolution will be In
evitable.
Upon entering the confederation OF
Canadian provinces twenty-five years
ago the population OF Manitoba CON
sisted almost entirely Of French Ro-
/ man Catholics. After the half-breed
rebellion had been suppressed the
French Catholics finally consented tc
the union, Sir Donald A. Smith giving
a pledge for the government that theii
schools and language should not be ip
terfered with Twenty years after, II
consequence of the immigration from
England and other Canadian provinces
) the Catholics found themselves yer.
largely outnumbered by the Protest
ants.
: In 1855 there was deadlock in tn,
: Manitoba legislature. The conserva
: tives were in office, but circumstance
made il necessary for them to have
new minister elected in order to retail
. power. The candidate for ministe
I was Joseph burke, a Frenchman and
I Catholic. The constituency for which
: he was nominated was overwhelm
5 ingly Catholic. The conservative
| sought TO elect him by declaring tina
( should their government be beaten tn
liberals would abolish paroehip
n schools The liberal leaders, Thoma
( Greenway and Joseph Martin, prom
r ised that II Burke was defeated and tn
: liberals came into power the parochit
Il schools would not be interfered will
o Burke was defeated Greenway b,
IS came premier and Martin attorne.
IS general
Two years later Martin introduced
" Alt itE ANAhAhlt lAlNA0hAN akOAAohAh
Y, parochial schools, and establishin
Y what is called national school sy
Q TEN, but which Catholics contend is
J. Protestant school system. Then b
gan legal battle in the courts, II
% Catholic u)gjority Of Quebec coming
c the aid Of their coreligionists in Man
> toba, making II a dominion fight.
d The supreme court OF Canada, 81
d ting at Ottawa, declared that Roma
IL Catholics have constitutional rigl
TO their schools The Manitoba 60
g ernment carried an appeal to Il
IS privy council Of England, the highe
SO tribunal In the realm, which decid,
mr. that Catholics, as such, have no cons'
I'd tional rights.
The Catholics appealed for redress
the Dominion government, viii,
lodged dangerous political issue
a, saying II had no power to interior
Back the Catholics went to the pri
er council, which declared that the Cat
no olcs OF Manitoba have real griC
n. ance, and that ii is within the power
IT. | Tue loullulpu government w bio
tn them remedial legislation. The Cat
ay olics thereupon again applied to t
re Dominion government
,r. There was a bitter conflict in I
TO cabinet, hut finally the governor g
nd eral, on the advice of the Domini
nd ministers, issued few days ago re
all edial order calling upon the govel
,m ment OF Manitoba to restore the Ca
,nt Ollie parochial schools. This is the
,re der which is likely to preeipitatea r
al olution.
Later-owing to formalities in col
ing the order, it is probable the disc
sion on separate schools will not co
f. up in the legislature until Wednesd
len The remedial order makes n dema
,rn upon the Manitoba government
an abolish the clauses of the educat
hat act doing away with separa tie scho'