The San Francisco call., 1896-01-09
HUBBELL ON SCHOOLS.
he Assails the Roman Catholic Church in
Regard TO Them.

submits the following letter in reply TO
Father Yorke:
AMERICAN PARTIoT OFFICE
SO Market street. !
Tending the Jesuit, Peter c. Yorke found that
he had a very bad job. a Jesuit can't be sue
cessfully defended in any country.
Peter c. Norke, the foreigner, now wants TO
go of into strictly religious region and show
by divine authority that, according to the
ninth celebrated sentence OF Pope Gregory
VII "An princes must kiss the feet of the Pope
only" Now, this is Peter c. Yorke's religion.
The A. P. A. does not care if he does kiss the
Pope'S toe, nor whether that toe is clean or
not. That is his religion. He is welcome TO it.
The A P. A. does not concern itself about such
mauters-cares nothing about it. It is politi-
cal organization. The province of the Ameri-
Protective Association is to defend the
political institutions OF the United States
against Jesuitism.
what Jesuitism thinks of our most cherished
institution, the public school, and the opinion
OF Brownson's Quarterly Review OF Roman
schools, hereby respectfully submit the fol-
lowing:
Thus. the Catholic World for January, 1870,
having spoken in defense of "the public grants
10 certain Catholic schools in New York, says;
GIVE us either schools TO which we can send our
children, or divide the schools equitably between
Catholics and Protestans, and we will solicit no
special grants OF the sort. We opposed 10 the
common schools they are, because our church
condemns them; but ii Protestants want them for
themselves they can have them. We do not ap-
prove the system even for them. any more than we
do heresy and schism which account Ideally
sins; but if they insist on having goddess schools
for their children they can have them; cannot
hinder them. The system might be modified so
that we could accept il: but 1t depends on them SO
10 modify it or not, for they have the power
The same, in the number for April 1870.
speaks thus:
The difference between Catholics and Protest
ants is not a difference in details or particnIars
only, but difference in principle. Cathocity
must be taught a whole, in its unity and its in
tegrity. not taught at all. 1t must everywhere
be all or nothing.
The same, in opposing the plan of National
education advocated by United States Senator
Henry Wilson oi Mass achusetts, and others,
says, april, 1871:
AS there is for Us Catholics only one church
there is and can be no proper education for us not
given by or under the direction and control of the
Catholic church.
The New York Tablet of November 90 1859
speaking cf the vote of the School Board of
Cincinnati "to exclude the Bible and all re-
ligious instruction from the public schools of
the city" says:
If this has been done with a view of reconciIing
Catholics 10 the common school system, its pur-
pose will not be realized. 1t does not meet nor in
any degree lessen objection the public school
system. and only proves the Impracticability OF
that system in a mixed community OF Catholics and
Protestants for il proves that the schools must
be sustained become thoroughly goddess But
to goddess schools still less acceptable than
the sectarian schools. and we object less TO the
reading of King James Bible, even in the schools
than we do 10 the exclusion OF all religious in
dox stamp is a far less evil than German infideIity
The same newspaper under date of Noyem-
Der 27, 1869, proposes that the prevalent sys-
tenn of public schools for all the children at
the public expense be thus modified in respect
10 the Roman Catholics:
Appropriate to the support of Catholic schools
the proportion of the public money according IN
the number OF children they educate and leave the
selection OF teachers the studes the discipline,
the whole internal management, to the Catholic
edncationsi authorities and you may, in all other
respects, in all pruG Gential matters let them remain
now, under public control and management and
public boards, regents commissioners and trustees
If you will.
1t says also Decem Der %, 1863:
We hold education to be function of the church,
OF the state, and in case we do not and will
not accept the state as educator
Says the Freeman's Journal November 90.
1869:
If the Catholic translation OF the books of Hoiv
Writ. which Is TO be found in the homes of all our
better educated Catholics were TO be dissected nv
the abest Catholic theoogians of the land and
lie mothers read TO their children, and with all the
notes and comments in the popular edition and
ment; and If these admirable Bible lessons and
these alone be ruled as to be read in ali
substantial degree the objection we Catholics have
10 letting "Catholic children attend the public
schools
The same, under date of December IL. 1869
says:
The Catholic solution Of this muddIe abort
Bible no Bible in schools is Hands or No
state taxation or donation Tor any schools. You
look TO your children and we will look 10 ours
We don't you to be taxed for Catholic schools
We do not want to be taxed for Protestant or for
goddess schools. Let the public school system go
10 where it came from-tha devil. We want Chris
tian schools and the state cannot tell what Chris
Iianity is.
Cardinal Cullen, who is Archbishop of Dub
lin, Ireland, issued a pastoral letter to his
clergy before the meeting of the Vatican Coun-
Gil, a synopsis of which is published in The
Pilot of Boston, June 4, 1870. In this letter
he opposes common, united and unsectarian
instructions in schools as "a goddess system
OF education" and continues:
1t is evidently duty, without interfering
with others, TO insist obtaining Catholic schools.
lower and middle, for Catholic children. and also
Catholic colleges and universities for the ad-
vanced stages of youth. While Protestants have
schools and colleges and universities, richly en-.
dowed by the public, for themselves, we cannot be