The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1915-09-25

UHtl ne iAss fs- uusiAs tAs dsuuseia-
ton 81 ne public rshcol hy Caiholics has
been bitter and unrca-unihg. The shooii
wsrs Codes; hot beds of Treason;
schools of aaArchy, and every other uursa
sonAhle chArgs that oould b huTlr
against them.
This vas kspt up until he public b.
cane aroused and fcprisals heezn 10 h.
made, e,pcciAlly In = politicAl uay, an,
the end l. not 10 sight yet
This wouldn't DO a. u Vas liable 10
uptct the plAht Of the schcmors ~ uoy
Nc have The grotcsquc spectacle % n
Catholic church profcssing 10 love and De
fend the public school system.
Men and papers Who a year ago we're
vchemcutly denouncing the public school,
~ dangerous and vile, ROW profess 20 -
great things in them, and, zee ar, they
are Tor the schools nov, always were, anu
always win Be (untii they set further
OnicrAl
Their sudden conversion ~ Of itself.
suspicious. The leopard might change
his spots and the Ethiopian his skin, bu
the change would ho gradual, not sud
den.
The Catholic church 10 today a. great
an enemy 10 free and popular education
~ it ever waA There's only a change
in tactics, that's all
Bitter, ouispoken opposition and an
open hght on the schools reacted upon
them, and now We are 20 be treated b.
the purr Of the tiger and the velvet paw
Of the kitten, but under the soft paw o.
the kitten the cruel claw IL hidden and
the tiger only waits for his victim.
There are two reasons for the existence
Of the Catholic parochial school One Of
them is that the church knows by eIperi.
cnee that Il cannot allow It's young
people 10 associate with the other yoOnl
people without their becoming modefniEcu
and Ameriosni1ed, % IL proceeds to herd
them In schools OF its own where Il
can teach them religious bigotry an,
class hatred, 10 It's hearts content.
The priests know by experience tina,
their only way Of fully controlling their
followers is 10 make them bigoted an,
fanatical 20 the limit, 20 they insure tn,
by carrying on the work from the cradle
up.
Every full.hedged parochiRl school is q
nursery where the children are taught
that because they are Catholics they or,
q superior race and everybody outside IN,
church, heretics, inferior 10 them, and un
worthy Of consideration.
The religion taught in the parochia
schools is ths catcchism, and not morality
or humanity. They could get the teach
ing Of these in the public schools II IN,
Catholic church had been allowed the priv,
ilege Of teaching itE catechism and prac
ticing is religious rites in the public
schools, there never would have been a
parochid school.
When Il eouldn Z -1ilc tho school system
il divided It, to its own injury and cost
and now Il whines about the expense OF
its own voluntary movement.
The other great reason for the exist
ence Of the Catholic parochial schools /,
that the leaders expected, and do yet, q
use them to destroy the public school sys
TEN.
IL proposes 10 supplant the American
system with system Of denominations
schools, with the IDEA Of using them (,
destroy free education, or else unloat
them on the public. IL has gone tC
the expense, 20 II claims, Of over 500,
100000 in putting up school buildings IL
the United States. More or less Of thi,
money was given IL by Protestants anc
non Catholics
Its constant cry is, We are made tC
pay q double tax, first 10 support tn,
public schools. then (by the priests) Z,
support our own schools. It's not fair
and we ought to have our tar money bach
10 support our own schools.
A very plausible idea surely, and a very