Show A TIMMS the right rev mgr in the current number of tho the north american review makes a direct onslaught upon tho the tree free schools at 0 this country and insists that tho the school fund should bo be divided among the different denominations denomination and that it Is no nn and wrong to tax lax churchman to support schools contrary to their ralth faith we take it that thai the right reverend monsignor does not after all fully understand the genius of 0 our government ern orv ment agent arid corta certainly done does not understand the moving spring behind ane ie free school acho olt that they wore were organized and established with the single idea lila ahl p S system of schools should be b provida provided d where the jew and gentile catholic aud and protestant and d all other classes could moot on a 96 com common morg republican ground and obtain tho the elements of 0 an all education edrica ticia and that the property owners aro are taxed lor for the support of these schools precisely as they are taxed to support the government should a man who never dleo boys the laws complain that it was wai a shaine bhame to tax him to obtain tho the money to run down arrest convict and punish criminals tho the answer would bo be prompt that by that very act his property was made safer and that the little he bo paid wits was but a agall insurance against future losses la in the samo sam a way it 11 is proper to say to this prince of the catholic church Chur cli that the fro school la IS one of the necessities of our country and ald that tile tax to support it li 14 a partial insurance las urance to every man who pays his pro rats ala that the child thus edi educated will not become a public charge by and by b Y this prelate of courso course insists that the schools should carry on their rell clous teachings tho amo as in the home which with all respect to his eminence wo we bos bog to say Is a humbug hum bui because this Is a republic and it Is no not its province to undertake to give the men of this thia country religious training irk in any particular school but it 11 la Is both its it province lad its duty as far as possible to sea that no child shall grow ap la ignorance wo we are ara most moat glad to think thick that there ll it no echoing voice to this Pr Prelate elates 8 d demand a among the people of hl his own denomination except a few like him who attro found men whenever who berar learn bover forget anything and never vor make any advancement no matter how the abo world may move |