The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-10-22

StltutlOnS none is so deSpiSed and
slandered by the church of Rome as
is that system. The words of Horace
Greedy in 1864 are more true fifty
years later in 1914. He wrote: ''In
New York we are now having a
struggle; the Old World hierarchs
are pressing us and attempting to de-
stroy our public school system, and
to substitute sectarian, theological
schools, contrary to the very spirit
Of our institutions. The time may
come when our children will separate
in the streets and go to sectarian
schools attached to their various
churches, but when it does come we
will have a nation different from
what our fathers intended. The
American character and the Ameri-
can principle will then be radically
changed; then will be the death of
our present institutions founded on
common schools and free Bible
These are our corner stones and, if
our nation stands at all, it must
stand upon these
That Greeley was not a victim Of
overdrawn imagination, but spoke
words of sober, solemn, facts can be
a
ment to listen to the echoes from
Catholic officials and the Catholic
press.
Archbishop Segher, in his lecture
of the Secular School System, says:
1T is a blot, a blemish and a dis
grace on this country, a living scan
dal and an approbrium which covers
its promoters with shame and in
fanny" Father Walker, in the ST.
Lawrence Catholic church of New
York said: "The public schools are
the nurseries of vice. They are god
less schools and they who send their
children to them can not expect the
mercy Of God. | would as soon ad-
minister the sacrament to a dog as to
such Catholics -
Father Phelan, of st. Louis, the
priest and editor who said in the
event Of war between the United
States and his church the church
would say, 'To hell with the Govern
ment of the United States" said Of
the public school system: "The child
rem of the public schools turn out to
be public horse thieves, scholastic
counterfeiters and we'll versed in
schemes of develtry. I frankly CON-
fess that the Catholics stand before
the country as the enemies of the
public schools. They are afraid that
the child that left home in the morn
ing would come back with something
in his heart as black as hell" Father
Mccarthy, in sermon said: "The
public school is a national fraud; it
must cease to exist and the day will
come when it will cease to exist
Archbishop Hughes says: "The pub
lie school system is a disgrace to the
civilization. of the Nineteenth Cen
tury." While Cardinal McCloskey
advises: eve must take part in the
elections, move in a solid mass in
every State against the party pledged
to sustain the integrity Of the pub
lie schools Cardinal Gibbons, the
American monarch of Roman despo-
tism, refers to our school system as
can imperfect and vicious system of
education which undermines the re-
ligion of youth" Mayor Conaty, the
Romish mayor of PawtucKet, r. l., is
quoted as having said recently, 81
hope the time is not far distant when
all the schools will be parochial and
the public schools will be dispensed
with" Pope Plus w. DEGREES that
Education outside of the Catholic
church is damnable heresy."
The Catholic Press is just as out
spoken in it's animosity towards our
school system. Says the Colorado
Catholic: "The hideOus fetch called