The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-09-30

part may be applied to seetarian purposes, is the
next note OF alarm sounded by Rev Goshen
Perhaps the preacher knows no better, and there
may besothers III the same situation. For them let
1t be known that Catholics uphold popular edu-
! cation everywhere and they do not object to the
methods of teaching secular knowledge in public
schools In fact such methods are adopted in the
parochlal schools, all the time striving to enlarge
and perfect those methods The only objection
raised by Catholics is the fact that God and reli-
gion are banished from the public schools by law
therefore Catholics tax themselves to build and
support schools where God and religion are taught
and honored. Can any Christian minister con-
sistently condemn the parochal schools on that
account! Ii so, then he is one who would rather
have child raised agnostic, an infdel, anything
but Catholic.
Preachers like Rev. Goshen may say there is,
but there is not in this city nor in this country
organized Catholic propaganda to divide the pub
lie school fund. Such movement, if it is ever
begun, must first proceed from the council of car
dinal and archbishops of the Catholic hierarchy.
At the last Council of Baltimore the faithful were
admonished to send their children to parochial
schools where such existed and conditions were fa-
vorablc; but no encouragement was given to ag-
tation for sectarian legislation. In the Catholic
press, for the sake of discussion, tentative sub
stitue for the division of the public school moneys
IS submitted and argued 1t is a proposition for
legislation to pay for the secular education of the
child in the parochia schools within the hours de-
voted exclusively to teaching secular knowledge,
and asking no pay for the time employed in teachv
rnlio ado do1,,
charge that public money is diverted to sectarian
purposes. Any well balanced, judicial mind could
be reconciled to such an equitable conclusion But
this is asfar as the matter has gone.
So far from Catholics exhibiting hostility to
the public schools, it is from Protestant educators
and ministers that the severest blows are delivered
Catholics are satisfied that American opipion is
not ready for any change in the present system Of
public education, so they cheerfuly take their
Medicine and keep right Oh building parochial /
schools Ia the meantime such men as Bishop |
jries Of the Protestant Episcopal church. DIR. Coke
smith, Methodist bishop of South Carolina, Presi-
lent Eliot of Harvard and Rev. A. A. Hodge, pro-
essor of Princeton theological seminary, are do
ng the fighting for Catholics and all others who
eplore the absence of God and religion from the
ducaton of youth.
intellectual culture b. itself is the means of
he Development of rascality," says the Methodist
ishop of South Carolina "Who breaks your
anks Who are the leaders of anarchistc move
lents Are they the ignorant men of the country?
o, they are the intellectual rascals, and the edu-
ated criminal is the most dangerous of ALL No
ducation deserves the unless it has the moral
de- The most powerful force about the training
the child is the influence of the teacher. God
ave this country from Goddess teachers, and God
I've the country from apurely secular education"
The Catholics of Salt Lake are peaceable and
esirc to live in peace with their neighbors. They
AXE no war upon the public schools and, p6pula-
on considered, Catholics pay more in taxes for
eir support than the members of any other sect