The menace., 1914-07-18
Ronish Autk0ntJ % tie Public
Sckool

toward the public schools Of thil
country, the usual shout Of "liar
liar" is the only answer from N,
papes; and the ultra-oonssryativ,
pres, Protestant and secular, ven.
tures the opinion that IL is not quit,
20 bad as we state II.
Nov, let US give you a few words
from their own lips, statements on
the subject Of education from one
Of their own whose authority %
write and speak for Rome is un-
questioned. The source Of all the
quoted matter which follows is a
booklet entitled "The Rights Of Our
LATHE Ones" BY Rev. james Conway,
5. j., Of Canisious College, Buffalo,
n. Y. ! quote from the third edi-
ton published by BenIiger Brothers,
Printers to the Holy Apostolic See.
Hero is the pure and unadulterated
doctrine. Read for yourself.
Education is a parental right 10
the exclusion Of all interference on
the par: Of civil authority.
'"The schoolmaster, like the private
teacher, derives all his authority
from the ehildren's parents, as be-
ing employed by them in q work
that is peculiarly theirs.
Education does not lie within
the scope Of civil authority. Where
fore the State cannot, without vio-
lating higher and holier rights, usurp
the right and discharge the duty Of
educating the young.
"This modern policy Of state
education, that has recently grown
into favor, had its origin in those
countries where the ecclesiastical in
stitutions were robbed Of their tenn
.poralities by Protestant governments.
Such a decadence Of education fol-
lowed this wholesale plunder Of the
Church that the governments grad
ually found il necessary TO erect
schools at the public expense; which
institutions they considered them
selves justified in exclusively con-
trolling.
"This system Of State or public
education naturally results in the
most serious moral, social, and re-
ligious evils.
"The introduction OF State ed
ucation has been everywhere attended
by an enormous increase in crime,
which cannot BE- attributed to any
other cause. . The leaders OF
anarchists, communists, socialists.
nihilists, and, in short, all Of those
who endanger the social order and
disturb the peace Of nations, are for
the most part the outgrowth Of state
or public school education.
"While State education removes
illiteracy and puts limited amount
OF knowledge within the reach of
all, It cannot be said to have a bene-
fetal influence on civilization in
general.
THE State cannot justly enforce
compulsory education, even in case
of utter illiteracy, as long as the
essential physical and moral edu-
cation are sufficiently provided for.
mo government, whether State
or municipal, can Justly tax the
people at large for the support of
any institution, whether high-school,
academy, or college, which pretends
to give a higher than a merely ele-
mentary education, /. e., a tolerably
correct use Of the vernacnlar in
writing and speech, a facility in do
ing ordinary sums, and such other
useful elementary knowledge as can
be conveniently engrafted on these
branches.
"The Church claims the right Of
supervising the secular teaching in
schools, because she has the duty
and corresponding right Of not only
teaching Christs doctrine and direct
ing her children on the path of SAL
yation, but also of counteracting
and, as far as in her lies. removing
whatever threatens to frustrste this
end.
"The Church claims the right of
freely and fully experimenting the
education Of her children in pri-
mary schools, without let or him
drance from any other power.
"These propositions are no ( form
ally defined by the Church; but they
may be easily gathered from various
pronouncements Of the Holy See
which have been 50 unanimously
accepted and inculcatsd by the bish-
ops, scattered over the whole world,
that they form q consensus of the
teaching Church that amounts 10
the certitude Of q defined truth.
Catholic parents cannot, in con-
science, send their children to Amer
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