The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-09-14
PApAL TRAITORS TO
The PUBLIC SCHOOL
Enemies Of Free Institutions Must
Teach in But Always Fight
The Public Schools

Inc Public Schools
Never a week passes without
scores of editorial columns in the
Roman Catholic press of the
United States denouncing our pub
lie schools and forbidding Roman
lists to patronize them. In spite
of this violent and deep-seated en-
nifty of Rome to the institution
that lies nearest the heart Of every
American, Roman Catholic teach
ers draw hundreds of millions Of
dollars every year in salaries for
teaching in the public schools.
Here is one of the most fagrant
and far-reaching wrongs in our
whole social fabric. But any sug-
gestion that Roman Catholics who
hate our free schools should not
be employed as teachers therein,
brings from eighty Roman news
papers and twenty thousand priests
in this country, a hideous wall about
bigotry and intolerance. Our
children are entitled to teachers
who believe in the schools in which
they teach.
About 10000 Roman Catholics
are on the New York City school
pay roll drawing salaries that ag-
gregate, no doubt, more than $10,-
100000 a year. Boston has
fourth degree Knights Of Columbus
for assistant city superintendent Of
schools and has hundreds if not
thousands of Roman Catholic prin-
cipals and teachers. Yet Cardinal
0'Connell Of Boston never misses
an opportunity to rail against the
public schools. In his official Or
gan, The Pilot, of August "a, his
first and longest editorial is
headed, "What School~ and reads
in part as follows:
Many parents are now asking
themselves to what school they shall
send their children. =.
With some il will be very easy to
answer the question. There Is only
one way to answer it for them. There
is but one school in their district to
which they can send their children.
They have no parochial school, and
perforce MUST FALL BACK ON
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL. But if
there is a parochial school, then
again there is only one answer to
the question. That answer is that
NO OTHER SCHOOL SHOULD
FOR A MOMENT BE CONSID-
ERED BUT THE PARISH
SCHOOL.
Yet in a few weeks we shall have
the same experience as in past years.
We will find Catholics who will send
their children to the public school.
You may ask them the reason but
you will get none. It is
a pity that some Catholic children
ARE SACRIFICED TO THE IN
DIFFERENCE OF SUCH PAR
ENTS.
There you have the purpose Of
this Irish prince in the alien au-
tocracy of the pope. The official
diocesan newspapers of the other
cardinals breathe constantly the
same message to the great cities
whose schools are in the hands Of
Rome but are not attended by tho
children of Rome, A hundred
thousand children in Boston and
Baltimore each and half a million
in Greater New York sit daily at
the feet of teachers who never at
tended the public schools and who
now refuse to patronize them.
Is it bigotrv to state this afro
cious fact? The illiterate and de-
based millions in Mexico, in South
America, in Spain, in Austria
Hungary and in all other Roman
Catholic lands convict Roman Ca
tholicism Of enmity to every SEM
blance of true education. The rec
ord would not only justify expell-
ing every Roman Catholic teacher
from our schools, but it lays on
boards of education the imperative
duty to do so.
Why are millions Of Roman
Catholics permitted to teach in
schools that they denounce and will
not patronize? Why do American
parents permit their children to be
so sacrifced2 1t is high time for
school authorities to place the pub
; lie schools in the hands Of their
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