Show OF SCHOOL BOARDS One of the excellent features of the election of ICxrn or MATTHEW jr by the large majority of 13000 to be mayor of Boston is tho defeat of the sectarian school agitators who under the lead of the Rev O A MINER have been endeavoring for some years to foment illfeeling against tho I Roman Catholics of that city Dr MIXEU recently indulged in a grossly unfair attack at-tack on several of the members of tho school board who are Roman Catholics but who have served the public very faithfully This attack drew from the Hon MARTI BniMMEit a most telling open letter Mr BUIMMEH deals with the clergyman in the followingviperous words I It would 10 unjust to your knowledge ol public affairs of modern history and of human nature to suppose you ignorant of the fact that wide differences of opinion and practice exist and have long existed among Catholics in very country upon questions of public education educa-tion Such differences exist here But it is certain that among the Catholics in Boston there are thousands who are firm loyal and intelligent in-telligent supporters of the public scheols To aeny such men any representation upon the ichool committee is an unjustice which to all ippearance Is not redeemed by any touch of patriotism you commend to others The public schools ot Boston were established for he common instruction of all her children indcr the government of all her citizens And when you support a policy which denies to a hirdof our population any share whatever in he supervision of those schools you strike at > educational system the heaviest blow in i Tour power Thoie men are disloyal to oar I public schools who whatever their creed seek U ect1y or indirectly to seer by the sharp k Jdged tools of religious controversy that corn Don education which is of the very foundation if the state I In this territory under our former school I sw the division into small districts per nitted the election of trustees in each sec ion who represented the policy and princi les of the majority in each of these sec ions In many districts the Liberals I fleeted their trustees in cities which as a I ft 1 whole contained a majority of their oppon eats Under tho present law tho same principle of district rule is carried out though somewhat differently because the districts aro larger In this way the Peo pies party has a representation on tho school board of this city though the Lib orals carried the city as a whole Minority representation is especially desirable on school boards and our present law has aver very fair way of securing it |