The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1920-10-30
THIRTY REASONS AGAINST THE
UN-cHRlSTiAN AND UN-AMERi-
CAN BILL BEFORE THE VOTERS
OF CHiGAN-REASONS HOLD
GOOD IN EVERY STATE UNDER
SIMILAR CONDITIONS.

OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. HOLD
GOOD IN EVERY STATE UNDER
SIMILAR CONDITIONS.
The Liberty Educational League Of
Detroit is circulating an interesting
leafiet which we reproduce here. The
reasons advanced for opposition to the
school amendment to abolish private
schools are valid in any state or com
munity where an attack is made upon
religious schools.
THIRTY REASONS WHY YOU
SHOULD VOTE NO.
The School Amendment Is
Contrary to Reason because it is
founded on the absurdity that schools
teaching the Golden Rule, the Ten
Commandments, Morality and Chris
tianity, along with history, geography,
grammar and mathematics, are men
ace to the welfare of the people.
Hostile to Religious Freedom be-
cause it denies the right Of citizens to
exercise what they consider a religious
obligation to send their children to re-
lligious schools.
Impractical because abolition of pa
rochial schools would swamp the pub
lie schools and cause hopeless confu-
sion which would handicap the educa-
ton of children for years to come.
Certain to Increase Taxes because
supporters of religious and private
schools would stop paying for the edu-
cation of hundreds of thousands of
children in addition to paying regular
school taxes.
UnAmerican because we have al
| ways recognized the right of religious
schools to exist
Unconstitutional in that it denies
| the right of the citizen to give his
child religious and moral training even
though his conscience makes him re-
gard it as duty to God.
| An Aid to BoIshevism because it
would hamper religious training which
stands as a bulwark against Bolshe-
vism, and it is in line with one of the
first steps taken by the Russian Soviet
government, which was to abolish re-
ligious training.
| Dangerous to the Home as it would
encourage race suicide such as fol-
| lowed the assault on religion in
France, for without religion men and
women are slow to assume the bur
den of families.
Tyrannical because it robs the par
ents of the right to direct the educa-
| ton of their own children and author
| ICES hostile strangers to take other
peoples children and give them non
of the father and mother who have
paramount right.
Destructive of the special schools for
the blind, deaf and weak minded, be-
cause it compels all children without
exception to attend the public school
in their respective districts, which
means that every district must provide
special teachers for it's blind, deaf and
defective children.
/ MonopoIistic in that it would de-
stroy all competition in education,
which is the spur of progress, and it
is obsolete like the old Spartan and
Prussian systems that assumed the
child to belong to the state. This is
contrary to the American principle
that the state derives it's just powers
from the people, not the people from
the state.
| A Reputation of Washington, JEFF
ferson and other founders of the Re-
public who abolished the laws restrict
ing the freedom of education and es-
tablished the present system which
prevails in every state of the Union.
! HypocriticaI because the promoters
pretend to be defending the public
schools, which are not attacked, when
in reality they are the aggressors and
are trying to destroy religious and pri-
vate schools to further their own ia
natical ends.
Antagonistic to God, for it would
Danish Him from all schools in the
state, even from those where He is
taught to be known and loved
Inimica to Christianity because lack
of religious schooling has caused
Protestant Christianity to steadily
lose ground, now having some 100000
900 adherents instead of the 100000
600 she would have had could she
have maintained the same proportion
as three generations ago.
A Joke on American Liberty because
it would degrade the flag below that
of the British flag, as they have free,
dom of education in Canada which we
would not have in Michigan, where the
grand old Banner of the Stars would
: be forced to wave over tyranny and
persecution for conscience sake in the
J field of education.
, A Blow in the Face Of World States.
} manship, for the supreme council in
, Paris compelled Turkey and Bulgaria
i to adopt as the fundamental law of the
} land articles providing that religious
minorities should have their own
schools where their own religion could
be taught. Christians would be bet
ter off in Turkey than in Michigan
under this unjust amendment.
An Attempt to Turn Backward the
Dial of Progress, for while all the
world would be accepting the Ameri
! can principle Of freedom of education
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