Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-02
Prints Long StatementInWhich
He Alleges Government Is
Aiding Catholic Schools
OTHER SCHOOLS SUFFERING
Adjustment of Contract System of
Government Aid to sectarian
Schools Causes Embarrassment
Among Missions in South Dakota
eservations-Hare's Statement.

New York, Feb. 2. The Evening
Post today prints a statement from
Right Rev. William Fl. Hare. Protest
ant Episcopal missionary bishop Of
South Dakota, in which he charges the
law prohibiting government aid to
ed. and that money has been paid out
to the Catholic mission school. Hare's
statement is dated Sioux Falls, S. ID.
Jan. s. He describes the pecunlary
embarrassment and anxiety on the part
of schools following the abolishment
of the contract system of government
aid and recites his efforts to secure
some measure of relief from its rigid
application. 1T was urged says
Bishop Hare that when rations ana
annuities had reached the Indian coun-
try and parent who had child In
mission boarding school consented that
that the childs fair share of ratlons
for his family should be turned over to
said mission scool compliance with his
wish could not be fairly be held to be
an appropriation to a sectarian school.
! ventured to present this view of the
case to the commissioner of Indian
affairs He rejected it. Then carried the
case to secretary of the Interior. He
upheld the decision of the commission
er. l then took the matter up to the
president who referred the matter TO
Attorney General Knox The state
ment quotes KnoN's reply, upholding
position of Indian commissioner and
declaring that official has no author
ity to grant Hares application This
opinion" continues the statement,
was sent me by the president as his
answer TO my appeal. This of course,
finally settled the case. What it's ef-
feet upon the school work of other
missionary societies was can only be
imagined. In regard to my own board
ing school work 1t made it necessary to
give up entirely two of the mission
boarding schools, namely, St Paufs
Yankton agency. st. Johns Cheyenne
River Reserve, and aggregates upon
the two remaining boarding schools,
all the boarding school funds, which
could command. ! was ultimately
driven to sell St Paul's school for
about half its value and st. Johns for
comfort lay in the fact that the high
est executive officers Of the govern
ment seemed to have been driven to
the seemingly pitiless act by high
and imperative sense of public duty.
that public duty being not to use
funds in the hands of the government
for denomnational schools. l have
gone into some detail In making the
statement in order that the fact may
definitely appear that the government
officials, Honorable w. A. Jones,
commissioner; Hon. r. A. Hitchcock,
secretary of the interior; Hon. Theo
Roosevelt, president, under the advice
of Attorney General Knox, reached and
avowed the opinion. after much dis
cussion and despite the great hard
ships that this conclusion brought up
on missinary effort, that 1t was the
settled policy of the government not to
use the money entrusted to 1t in aid
of any denominational school, not
even a fraction Of the ratons In
charge of the Indian agent could lat
the request of the head of a family, be
set apart for use of his child, If that
child was in denominational school.
Bishop Hare appends the list of con-
tracts made by the United. States In
dian office with various sectaran or
ganZations for education of the Indian
children for the fiscal year, ending
June 80, next, as follows: ST. Joseph
school, Roman Catholic, total for year.
$1S,S60; st. Louis school, Roman Cath
olic, $9,375: st. Johns school, Roman
Catholic. $S.125; Immaculate Concep-
ton school, Roman Catholic, $1,000;
Holy Rosary school Roman Catholic.
$21,60O; ST. Francis school. Roman
Catholic. $4,000; st. Labres' school
Roman Catholic, s6,4sO; ST. Mary's
school, Roman Catholic, $500; Foss
board school, Lutheran, s4,320. Total
$102,7S0.