The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-08-04

the sleepless eye of eternal vigilance
this safeguard of our power, and strike.
if need be, with sword or fagot, for its
defense.
Andrew jackson said, 1.-The Book,
sir, the Book, is the rock upon which
the Republic stands" In the main
America has been loyal to the Bible.
Our Constitution and Declaration of In
dependence get their principles from
it. And when it is ignored in our
schools and kept from our children. in
a few brief decades, we will sink to the
level of Spain, Mexico, Italy and
South America, in which countries the
Bible has been kept from the people
and even today when it is distributed
by the missionary the priests will follow
him up, seize and burn all the copies
they can lay hold of. That same spirit
would, if it only could, make gigantic
bonfire of the many copies Of this bless
ed old Book in our own land. But
thank God that day will never come.
The Bible is here to stay. Then why
deny our children the right to hear it
read in our public schools?
Each house of our national govern
ment has a chaplain. The army and
navy are supplied with chaplains who
receive pay as commissioned officers.
States provide chaplains for our peni-
tentiaries. Shall we wait until our
children become convicts before we pro-
vide for them this blessing?
The state protects the sanctity Of the
Sabbath and the place of public wor-
ship. VIII anything help more to safe
guard these than a knowledge Of the
Holy Bible?
The relation of the state to religion IS
vital. Blackstone said: christianity
is part of the common law of Eng
land" Webster said. "A republican
government must have some religion. "
The Catholic position says: THE
state has nothing to do with religious
education That the Bible is a sec
taman book. Please tell US to what
sect it belongs. In fact with Rome it
is not so much question of taking the
Bible out of the schools as 1t is ques-
ton of the destruction of the public
schools.
In the Pope's bull of June %, 1868, he
denounces the laws of free schools and
free speech as ''damnable heresies" in
fragrant contradiction with the doc
trines of the Catholic religion.
A trial in Ireland brought out the tes
timony of priest that he held positive
orders from Archbishop McHale to re-
fuse all the sacraments, even at the
hour OF death, to those who sent their
children to the free schools.
/ A Catholic paper says: 1--WE hold ed
ucaticn to be a function of the church,
not Of the state; and in our case we do
not, and will not, accept the state as an
educator. Again we read: "Then by
proper combination and cooperation
Catholic boards might be secured in
many schools, and they, to all intents
and purposes, be turned into Catholic
schools"
Here we have it. If the public schools
can't be destroyed and if we can have
portion of the public funds to carry on
our own schools, then we will get the
OlllCCS, SuCl do SupeIlHLSIlueIlIS prlnCl-
palships, etc, and cripple the public
school as far as possible.
Conclusion:-Th Catholic, who in the
light of these quotations, holds posi-
ton as officer or teacher in the public
school, will be from the very nature of
the case, either false to his church and
true to the school, or false to the school
and true to the church. The two do
not and cannot go together. History
tells which has had the allegiance.
stop here and will continue in fu-
ture article.
want by repetition to say that |
stand by my former articles. Not sin
gle proposition in them has been touched
or argued away.
The action of the school board was so
ineXcusable, and their insult to the citi-
ship of Oakland so great that the ques-
ton will not down. 1t shall not down
No question is ever settled until it is
! settled right.
G. r. WILLIAMSON.
Oakland, Md, Aug. ?, 1910.