The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-21
EDUCATION SHOULD
 REST WITH CHURCH
ArcebiShop QuigIey Says liber-
 aIiSm Should Prevail
CATHOLICS HAVE PROTEST
Says Through the Present School Sys- tenn Non-Cathoics Are Undertake ing to Prevent Catholic Children
 Being Cemented to Church

Chicago, December 20. O."-The New World was discovered by Catholics, and the cross was planted in the name of the church. We can not get 1t out of our heads that Catholics will yet claim the new world again." This hope was ex- pressed by Archbishop James Quigley, in an address before the Roman Catholic Womens League.
 The archbishop declared that the SC" curity of the national constitution in- creases approximately with the increase in the number of Catholics. He urged the establishment of a subsidiary system of the public schools for the benefit of the Roman Catholics. This system, flor the benefit of the minority" said the speak CT, should be paid for by the state but controlled by the church."
 Finally, he characterized the rule re- quiring candidates for public school teachers to have normal training, to be nothing more or less than tyranny" and oppression" "The supreme and funda- mental error of the age is liberalism" urged the archbishop "Liberalism dele gates to the state all rights, and this is when the state and church conflict"
 Should Rest With Church.
 The education of the child. he added, should rest with the church, and not with the state. The archbishop declared that the United States constitution stood for individualism. He asserted that today the state is encroaching on the rights of the church. and that God Is not recog- nlzed in any of the modern constitutions.
 'Protestants and non-Catholics, the archbishop continued, ''are undertaking through the present public school system to prevent the Catholic children from be- coming firmly cemented to their church. and to keep the holy church from getting a stronger foothold. The purpose of the non-Catholics is to prevent the growth of the church. They will scruple at no violation of justice to gain their ends.
 Tn adopting the rule that candidate for teacher must attend the normal school for a time, the board of education has taken action against which we must all ways protest.
 Tyranny and Oppression.
 The rule which prevents candidates from entering the schools without normal school training, is tyranny and oppres- sion. There is no reason why board of examiners cannot be appointed to ex- anime into the fitness of all candidates to become teachers without regard to the source of their preparation
 "The state" he urged, must provide schools for the minority as well as for the majority. The state should divide the public school system and maintain a separate system for the minority-sep- arate in the sense of religious teaching. The two systems could be under one con trol but in the Catholic division Catho- lie principles should be taught This would give the minority an equal chance with the majority. This would be just as equitable but not satisfactory to the Protestants.
 "rhe cry all over. is for non-sectarian education. The Catholic schools are rec ognized by the state, but they are not supported by the state because non Catholics believe lnat 1t would be dan gerous for the state to support them"