The Irish standard., 1902-05-10
The Head of the Entire School System is
a Bigoted Preacher by the
Name of Atkinson.
Selects Only Protestants as Assistants
and Discriminates in Favor
of Missionaries.

1 suits me and will continue to do SO as
long as 1 remain in this CITY. Every
student that has attended the Normal
school thus far has left the Catholic
Church, and all of them are now en-
ployed as Protestant Sunday school
teachers in order to gain and maintain
favor with the American superintcn-
dents, who are running the education
al affairs, directly with view towards
proselytizing the natives in spite of
the 100000 American Catholics in
the United States. who do not seem
| to care whether these conditions exist
or not
"God will hold us responsible for the
souls of these millions and the children
vet unborn that will be lost to the true
faith through the Indifference of
American Catholics. some Of whom
have sufficient power if used to pre-
| vent this outrage against our beloved
Mother Church
"When visiting one of the Manila
public schools three weeks ago, one of
the American teachers thinking. per-
haps, that I. too. was Il bigot and that
| it would please me to learn of the
| progress she was making in 'educat-
ing these natives. told me that nearly
all her pupils had been induced to
| Join her Sunday school classes and
We're regular in attendance thereat.
| She was about to tell me more when
! the Rev. Supt. Stone. city superintcn-
| dent, fearing that she was whispering
| to me such secrets that would be far
/ him only. called me away to visit an
other school. I have been unable to
| locate the woman since. or I would
have secured her name for more posi-
tive proof. The big0ted principal of
the head school in the walled city "a
Mr.. oliver said the other day that the
sight of any Catholic priest makes
him crazy and he always feels like
wringing their necks when he meets
them on the streets. This man was
fired from mess at which he took
his meals because at every meal he
became frantic flcnouncing the Cath
Ollie Church and telling stories about
the immortality of the frars.
'"This is fair sample of the Amer
lean teachers the United States gov
ernment has sent over here to 'civilize
and educate those whom we have
adopted as our foster children under
our free flag and under a government
for which the blood of thousands of
Catholics has been she'd Catholic
teachers are sent out into the distant
provinces away from cities. so that
their influence with the natives of
| prominence will not be hurtful to the
plans of proselytizing by the depart
ment. Seven out of the ten division
| superintendent on the islands are
| Protestant clergymen who have never
taught school in any place before COM
ing here. vet. when through the ap-
| peals of the Catholic hierarchy. num-
| ber of Catholics of excellent educa-
tion were recommended to Supt. Atkin-
! son. he refused to accept them on the
ground that they had not sufficient ex-
perience as teachers. All this in the
face Of the fact that not one-third of
the Protestant teachers who have been
engaged have ever taught one day be-
fore coming here. 1t seems to be a
question solely ofSwhether a candidate
is Catholic OF. Protestant.
"a recommendation from a Y. NJ. C.
A. secretary. minister. Protestant
| college or Free Mason lodge is al
ways sufficient to entitle a candidate
| without experience to get a 81 200 or
S1.5OO, or even a $4,000 position here,
while graduates from Notre Dame or
Washington University, D. c., Gath
olic) must have years of experience
to entitle them to get 5000 or 81 900
position. And it often happens that
at this lowest salary they are refused
on the preteXt of not sufficient expert
ence
"In the face of all this bigotry. these
bigots wonder why the Catholic priests