The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-16
CATHOLICS TO ACCEPT
ALL CONCESSIONS IN MANITOBA
SCHOOL QUESTION,
TO ATTAIN THE DESIRED END.
but TO USE EVERY MEANS TO Sc
CURE RESTORATION OF SEPA-
RATE SCHOOLS.
ENcYcL1cAL TO BE READ TO-DAY.
Mrs. Tromer Testffies Against Will
ers-GeneraI News of the
Northwest.

WINNIPEG, Man., Jan. 15.-Tomor-
row Pope Leo's encyclical on the
school question will be read in all the
Roman Catholic churches
The pope begins by abiding to the
mutual kindness existing between
Rome and Canadians, speaks of the
early missionary efforts of Catholics in
Canada, and says that the best hopes
of religious and civil society rest upon
the education of youth. He depre-
Gates the unhappy events which have
recently marked the history of Catholic
education in Manitoba, and says:
The question agitated is Of great and
exceptional Importance. The act of confed-
GRAFTON had secured to Catholic children the
right OF education in public schools in keep
ing with their conscientious convictions. The
parliament of Manitoba abolished this right
by law. By this latter law a grave injury
was inflicted. for it is not lawful for our
| children to seek the benefits of education in
schools in which the Catholic religion is ig-
noIed or actively combated; all schools of
this kind have been condemned by the
church because there can be nothing more
pernicious or more fitted to injure the in
tegrity of faith and turn away the tender
minds of youth from the truth.
The pope then enlarges upon the ne
cessity of religious teaching and the
right inherent in parental authority to
decide who shall teach their children
morality and when they shall be
taught Wherefore" he continues,
when the new law in Manitoba struck
blow at Catholic education, it was
our duty to protest and the bishops
have our appreciation.
1.-THE difficulties created by the law
of which We speak, by their very ma
ture, showed that relief was to be
sought for in united effort For So
nrth NV &c. fhn 10
good and upright citizens, without dis
t1ncton of party, should have banded
themselves together in close union to
uphold it, Unfortunately for the sue
cess of this cause the contrary took
place. We are not unaware that some
thing has been done to amend that
law. The men who are the head Of
the federal government and of the
province of Manitoba have already
taken certain measures with view to
decreasing the difficulties of which the
Catholics OF Manitoba complain. We
have no reason to doubt that these
measures were taken from love of JUS
tice and from a 1audable motive The
law which they have passed to repair
the injury is defective, unsuitable, in
sufficient.
Moreover, In the relief measures
that have been proposed, there is this
defect, that In changes of local circum-
stances they may easily be valueless.
We have every confidence that with
Gods help the Manitoba Catholics will
succeed in obtaining full satisfaction.
In the meantime let them not refuse
partial satisfaction. If, therefore,
anything is granted by law, or custom.
or the good will of men which will
render the evil more tolerable and the
dangers more remote, it is eXpedient
and useful to make use of such con-
cessions and to derive therefrom as
much benefit and advantage as pos
sible.''
His holiness concludes by word to
journalists, and exhorts "the Catholic
writer's on the daily press to uphold sa-
credly and courageously what is true,
right and useful to religion and the
state Let them do it, however, in a
decorous manner. The greater the diff
ficulties of the time and the more i'm
minent the danger of dissension the
more studiously should they endeavor
to promote unity of thought and ac-
ton, without which there is little or
no hope that that which we all desire
will be obtained