The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-14
THEY VOTE AS ONE MAN
Hostility to State System Voiced by
Seventy Colleges
THEY PROTEST AGAINST ''ILLlBERALlTf"
They Pledge Themselves 10 Use Every Effort
to Perfect Still More Their Collegiate Sys-
lem Of Which Religious Instruc-
lion is the Soul.
(By the Associated presa.l

10y the Associated 1T6SS.l
Chicago, Ills, April IA declara-
ton of the Catholic position on educa-
tion in the United States was adopted
today at the closing session of the
National conference of the Association
of Catholic Colleges. The resolutions
comprising the declaration received the
unanimous assent Of the representatives
of seventy different colleges ractically
the entire collegiate system of the
Catholic Church in America. The dele
gates on adjourning were enthusiastic
over the results of their labors, feeling
confident that the conference has been
a marked success.
The declaration adopted was as fol-
lows
First-That this Association of Cath
Ollie Colleges request it's President, Rt.
Rev. Thomas j. Conaty respectfully to
call the attention of the Bishops of the
United States, at their annual meet
ing, TO the work of this conference in
regard to our collegiate conditions and
especially to the Importance of the high
school movement.
Second-That the tendency of eduea-
tlOiidl lC5lSldl4OI IOiS Co I'D " N0l n OtAA
Catholic people of the systematic and
we'll defined effort in certain quarters
toward absolute State control in educa-
ton, thereby threatening and crippling
all private effort, thus depriving large
class of citizens of the liberty of main
tanning schools in which their religion
shall be made an essential element.
Third-That we remind the legisla-
tors Of the rights of conscience guaran-
teed to us by our American citizen
ship and call their attention to the
system of schools which our people
have maintained at great expense and
sacrifice.
FOurth-That we protest against the
unfair and unjust determinations re-
sulting from much of the educational
legislation, and we appeal to the far
mindedness and sense of pustice of the
American people to protect US from
such illiberality.
Fifth-That this conference of Catho-
ges convinces us that We are
In asserting that our college
deserves the generous co-opera-
II interested in higher Catholic
a; and we pledge ourselves 80
effort to perfect still more
giate conditions.
That we call upon all Catholics
lize the imperative need of
feet organization of our educa-
stem and We assure them that
Her development of the Catholic
nIgn school we shall have a complete
system with it's headship in the Uni
vcrsity, and thus we shall continue to
maintain high collegiate standard
Words of cheer from across the sea
we're received in a cablegram of eongrat-
ulation from Pope Leo XIII at Rome, The
message read as follows:
Rome April 18th. 1901
Mgr Thomas j. Conaty President of
the Conference of Catholic Colleges:
The Holy Father thanks you for the
good wishes expressed by you in the name
of the conference of Catholic Colleges
and bestows most heartily the apostolic
benediction.
CARDINAL RAMPOLLA"
The cablegram was in answer TO a
message which the convention sent to the
Pope when it convened.
The following officers were chosen to
serve during the ensuing year:
President-Rt Rev. Thomas j. Conaty,
d. d., Rector of the Catholic Univer-
sity Washington ID. c.
Secretary and Treasurer-Rev. John
Conway. S. j., Gonzago College, WashinA-
ton ID. G.
Great interest attached to the closing
address of the President of the confer
ence. Mgr. Conaty of Washington, d. G.
With vigor and polished eloquence that
held his auditors till the last word, he
spoke as follows:
THE study afforded to us OF the plan
and nurpose of educational legislation
. al 80 heA ano ARC.
which threaten our liberty of conscience
by the tendency toward absolute state
control over all agencies in education thus
crushing all individual effort and Grip
pling all attempts at private schools in
which our religion is made an essential
factor. We are citizens as well as Chris
tians and we refuse to bend the knee to
the fetch of State paternalism and claim
bv virtue Of our citizenship the right to
educate our people in schools when our
conscience approves. We appeal IN the
name of the spirit of common citizenship
to the spirit of justice and fair play and
we stand ready to defend our claims In
the name of true education. We warn
q Christian people that Christianity is
in danger from the arrogance and tyranny
of legislation which not only drives posi-
tive religion from State schools, but also
aims to crush the private. scnools IN
which religion dwells as its very soul.
BY showing the trend OF legislation we
place before our people the dangers to
which our system of schools is exposed
LET our watchword be, the Catholic
system of education for our people-no
link missing in the golden chain which
binds mind and heart to the great truth
OF God. Our schools. our colleges our.
university, the safeguard of our con-.
science, the protection CT our liberties.
the guardian of our knowledge, the en-.
nobling of our citizenship"
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