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Show ably have been more moderate in his speech, but his limited residence here should have restrained him from denouncing de-nouncing at wholesale an institution which many regard as a bulwark of freedom. Si-cii intemperate utterances as that of a brash young priest in Dubuque, la., who in a sermon last Sunday railed against the public schools of this country, coun-try, can do the cause of denominational education no good because it overshoots the mark hnd brands the author as an ignoramus, to say the least. Kev. Father Ryan, the priest in view, is reported re-ported to have said: "Who 'are the graduates of your free schools? Show me the graduate of a free school and I will show you an educated blackguard, fair on tho outside but rotten to the core." if Father Ryan had lived in the United States long enough to become acuuaiuted with the facts lie would prob- |