The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-16

a hOmoiy prOVerD, the PROOF "a thS
pudding is in the eating. Then judge
iof the schools efficiency by the sue
Icessful careers of st. Peters gradu-
ates, her finished products. Undeni-
Iably. because OF an undesirable stag
nation of this city. with its new pos
sibilities and potency for progress.
we occasionally find graduates
f"hewers of wood and drawers OF wa
ter" wasting their sweetness on
some desert air, but trace this anon
ally to its source and it will not reflect
upon their training. The supply is
standard" the demand is below nor.
| NAL.
Catholic and State Schools.
/ But here an old riddle, hack
neyed old query cries for answer
| Why parochial school? Why SO
many Catholic schools studdlng thls
| country, when the state furnishes
seats of learning to enable every clti-
zen to earn his bread and butter. you
Catholics must, willy nilly, contribute
your pro rata share to the pubic
school You actually pay approx
mately, eighty of the four hundred
million dollars required for state edu-
cation, and you add to this a new
yoke of upwards of forty million, to
educate your own, one and a half
million children: to erect and main
tain schools, and pay $4,000 teachers.
Why this waste of the precious ONT
ment? Catholics freely, without a
murmur or demur, bear the YOKE OF
q double taxation, precisely because
they are Catholics. 1t is a conscience
tax and they dole it out because they
have Catholic consciences. Wnen
will the state decide to do tardy JUS
ttice and redress the grievance, is best
answered as the learned Quincy Ca
tholic journalist answered the query:
Will Catholic ever be president OF
the United States?' Have patience!
But the Catholic school for the ga
tholic conscience, let the conse-
quences bring material veal or woe.
!! No Catholic opposes the state school.
Our system does not run counter 10
| it. But because we have manufactur-
| ed better brand of goods, reason die
tates that we should benefit ourselves
by using them. The state school wor-
ships the pupil as the paragon OF ami
mails: the Catholic school as made
| to Gods image and likeness
Calls Standard False.
"The standard of the state is the
false one Of dollars and cents; It's
ideal is terrestrial happiness; the Ca
tholic schools take cognizance or all
this, but only as secondary and aux.
iliary to her primary objective-the
pupils eternal happiness. The state
trains the head and the hand; the pa
rochial school, the head. the hand
and the heart. Upon the basis OF
secular training, only comparison
between these systems is possible
and in their sphere we make moo
| est conservative claim to a strict
| equality; when one comes to consider
with the inspired writer that where
there is no knowledge OF the soul,
there is no good then the Catholc
| system of education transcends all
tothers. The leading men of the non
Catholic profession, cordially endorse
our system. Intellectual and influen-
tial statesmen such as President Will
son, Ex-President Roosevelt, Bryan
and in .fine the brains of the country,
declare for the Catholic system, that
morality must find its place on the
school curriculum. Christianity must
be made the guide of our citizenry II
the state is to endure. Some stability
requires character and character re-
quires religion The Catholic school
| fulfills the desired object of the
state. She seeks first the kingdom
| of God and His glory that is her
raison-de tire, to make fitting citi-
! zens for Paradise. and then 1t must
! follow as the night the day, she can
not but make befitting citizens of this
hemisphere.
| 1.-The public school has positive
| ~ baneful influence on religion; not
merely negative one. Her non-re-
| ligious stand produces as an imme-
date result, Indifference; and the
transition from indifference to athe-
ism being along the line of least re-
sistance to flesh and blood, millions
christianity at all. We call our
selves a christian nation says
great prelate recently, and well may
the other nations laugh at our pre-
tensions Out of population OF
| 100000. 900, scare forty million pro-
| TESS christianity, and of these, we
! Catholics make very conservative
claim to at least sixteen million. SO
we face the appalling fact in this cen
fury of so-called enlightenment, that
eighty of our hundred million souls,
care not for God and heaven. To re-
turn then, if the proof of the pudding
is, in the eating, the public school
must be listed as bad pudding.
Some Domestic Counsel.
| And now a little domestic counsel.
| 1t is not accurate enough to be a
Catholic. God wants each of you, in
dividualIy, to fill definite place
within His fold, to be definite cog
in the wheel of his universal economy.
In general then, are you going 10 en-
ter on the religious career or the
worldly one, invariably, the married
state. That you must seek Gods will
in the matter, is imperative. Every
one has his gift from God, one after
this manner and another after that
AS it hath been appointed to every
one, as God hath called everyone, so