The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-11-16
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We ind religious ceremonies praqtiees Il
q certain extent, in our public seiioeI.
to-day, and t is this that prevents d.
from sending our children to the public
schools.
with reference to the declaration ST
theA Gernnan-AT american Central Organiza-
ton that Children who are educated to
love and respect their neighbofs become
better citizens than children whose minds
are trained i'll illiberai ways. we return
that no children are educated in a more
liberal manner than the Catholic child
ren, since the cardinal principle Of The
church, and the one promulgated III
Christ himself is inculcated in the hearts
Of the children from their infancy. name
y: Love thy neighbor as thyself."
Mr.. sarg's address was warmly re-
ceiyed. and the committee adopted these
resolutions:
I'VE are opposed to any State aid for
the teaching of religion or languages IN
public or private schools, inasinuch as
The State or nation recognizes no church,
and inasnuch as the English language
is the language of our country and should
be considered sufficient. just as much as
in Germany the German, in France the
French and in Spain the Spanish Ian
guage are considered to be sufficient to be
taught in the easpmon schools. If there
are American citizens who desire to have
their children taught the German OF any
osher language. outside of The English, let
them make arrangements accordingly
and pay for it. This is what the Gers
man Protestant and Catholic paroelial
schools ana some Of the German English
schools are doing in this country at the
present time"
But We as Catholics have the same
privilege to raise our children as Catho-
lies, to give them a religious education
in accordance with our belief in addition
to an elementary education According-
ly, we. are prepared to have our teachers
and pupils examined by the State and if
our schools accomplish the same results
as public schools, then it is the plain
duty of the State to pay for the elelnen-
tary education Of our children, whether
they attend the public schools or not.
''The various parochiaI schools have an
attendance at present of 233,000 in this
county and the German English schools
19,000. We, as German Catholics hold
simply this: Parents have right and
duty to educate their children, the State
has right and duty 10 see that the
children are educated. The State should
have the right to exaeine all teachers and
at a proper time all children of such
parochial schools. That the State should
pay for the education of all children,
whether they are taught in a public,
parochial or private school. This has
been done in England for the past six
years. We feel that in laying our views
before the fair-minded American public,
they will grant justice to all citizens of
whatever creed or nationality"
Aside from this, we as citizens Of
Newark oppose the teaching of the Ger
man language in the public schools for
various urgent reasons. 1t would be an
injustice to children who are not of Ger
man parentage, since if they are de-
prived of using German in conversation
outside of schoolhouses, the effort Of
learning it would be in vain. Further
more, to introduce the study of German
in the public schools would be a hard
ship to our present oyerhurdened school
children, and, lastly, to inaugurate the
teaching Of German in our public schools
would cause ar expense of about $4,000
per annum at the lowest calculation and
would be so much money thrown away
to please few at the expense of the
taxpayers at large"
A committee was appointed to consider
the proposition made by Frederick {.
yCrotois to incorporate life Insurance as
an object of the organization. as follows:
John 3. Oelkers, of Newark; Hugo Full
Ter. of Jersey City; Martin Steigner, Of
Paterson, and Mr.. Sarg.