The Saint Paul globe., 1901-04-13
CONFERENCE OF EDUCATORS
ISSUES AN ADDRESS STATING THE
POSITION TAKEN BY THE
CHURCH
SQUARE DEAL Is DEMANDED
Claim Set Forth That Present Sys-
tenn OF Education is Unfair to
the Children of Cath
Ollie Parents.

CHICAGO, April IA declaration of
the Catholic position IN education 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 declaIa-
ton received the unanimous assent of the
representatives of seventy different col
eges-practically the entire collegiate
of the Catholic church in America. The
delegates on adjourning were enthusiast
tic over the results of their labors, feeling
confident that the conference has been a
marked success.
The declaration adopted was as fol-
lows:
"F'irst-That this association of Catho-
nc colleges request it's president, Rt.
Rev. Thomas ]. Conaty, respectfully to
call the attention Of the bishops of the
United States at their annual meeting
10 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 educa-
t!onal legislation forces us to warn our
Catholic people of the systematic and
well defined effort in certain quarters to-
ward absolute state control in education,
thereby threatening and Gripping all pri-
vate educational efforts, thus depriving
large class of the citizens of the liberty
of maintaining schools in which their re-
hglon shall be made an essential Gle
ment.
''Third-That we remind legislators of
the rights of conscience guaranteed us
by our American citizenship 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 discrimination result
ing from much CT ,the educational leg
islation, and we appeal to the fair-mind-
edness and sense of justice of the Amer
lcall people to protect US from such IL
liberality..
''Fifth-That this conference of Cath
ol1c colleges conVinceS us that we arc
justified in asserting thar our college
system deserves the generous co-opera-
ton of all interested in higher Catholic
educatioE; and we pledge ourselves to
use every effort to perfect still more our
collegiate conditions.
'SiXth-That we call upon all Catholics
to recognize the imperative need of a
more perfect organization of our educa-
uonal system, and we assure them that
high school, we shall have n complete
system, with it's headShip in the Iniver-
sity, and thus we shall continue to main
tain high collegiate standard
MESSAGE FROM LEO XIII.
Words of cheer from across the sea
were received in cablegram of congrat-
ulation from Pope Leo XIII. at Rome.
The message read as follows:
Rome, April Il. 1991.-Mgr. Thomas J.
Conaty, President of the Conference of
Catholic Colleges: The. holy father
thanks you for the good wishes express
ed by you in the name of the conference
of Catholic colleges, and bestows most
heartily the apostolic benedict
cardinal Rampoli''
The cablegram was in answer to a mes
sage which the convention sent 10 the
pope when it convened. These officers
were chosen to serve during the ensuing
year: