Show At the tho noman Catholic Educational conference In Chicago the speakers ut uttered Uttered t loud oud complaints against the American school system They stated that Catholics were compelled to pay taxes g for tor schools of oC which their chil children children dren IIren had no benefit benent and tin suggested that ho Iho to should recognize recognise Catholic schools on the tho same annie basis as ns 15 other edu educational Institutions that receive cele r financial aid aidOne nl aidOne One of or time the speakers Mgr Conaty Conat put It rather strongly In this harangue Vo Wo are tiro not hero by sufferance but wo we tire are here ns its American citizens de do demanding manding our right We are ara not asking for Cor favor all nil we 0 want Is justice Wo We want recognition as citizens and tax taxpayers payers In school affairs We believe bellevo that no true education n Is possible pO with without wIthout out religious Instruction and antl we have a n aright right Ight to Insist upon our demands There Theres Is s no doubt that nearly all the educational educational laws enacted by 11 the states are timed nimet nt at the Catholic school system It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is our duty both to ourselves and our people to protest pro lest and continue protest protestIng protesting Ing ng until our objections are heeded The position of the Catholics In 11 this country on the Important school ques question lion tion should be noticed It may be true truo that tha t nil Catholics do not take the view expressed by b Mgr Conaty but It IH Is also true that his church sees secil In the secular school system n a menace to morality and Ant the state elate and that If It she sho had tho the rower power the tho citizens ns would bo be taxed for tot forthe forthe the benefit of oC schools In which Roman Itoman Ism is taught Catholics are not alone In their t position toward secular schools hut html In this country there are aro presumably presumably ably few outside that church who would not consider It nn Injustice to maintain from rom public funds one ono denom denomination In preference to another The secular system has hall come caine Into existence because the inconsistency ency of at taxing all for the tho benefit of ot some 1 ic 10 o they tho Catholics Jews Jew or Protestants Is generally acknowledged That religious us In Instruction instruction should go hand In hand haid with will secular n Is true tru hut But as ns long longas as perfect religious liberty demands noninterference by the state the re religious reo training must be left to the various denominations denomination themselves This Is the right Mr Conaty has hilS In iii common with wit all nil American citizens That Is the only ani right In the tho th matter he can t n demand the tIme right EIght to use usa tho the common schools for Catholic children and to establish h has as many private schools as ns may be bc needed As All long IonS as ns that right Is not nol violated there thero Is III no ground round for Cor pro NO protests ro tests or for Cor Impassioned oratory orator Fear Is expressed sometimes that the American school will bring forth Corth fortha Cortha a nation of heists atheists lit but we believe so sotar far tar this country compares favorably both In faith and morals with wit the European countries where religion classes are aro taught the name Rame ns nil mathe mathematics matics or geography ant and history Im un Immorality morality flourishes nourishes In Europe as ns here hero Infidelity delity Is not less frequent there thero than here The Tha religious life lire of at those who are sincere Is as Intense on this side elde of ot tho the ocean as on that The trouble In InI European I schools Is that the teaching of religion Is very often otten entrusted to tomen tomen tomen men who have no religion themselves who vio contradict In their dally daily lives the teachings they give as a matter of at rou routine routine routine tine The Tho result Is a n great grent deal of ot Pupils are more prone Irone to imitate Imitate examples than to follow tallow pre lIre precepts Religion cannot strictly speak speaking ing lug be taught It must be bo experienced and only those who are arc themselves permeated by b the thu life liCe of at religion can calm Inspire It In others Between a 11 school retinal system that tines does not meddle meddie with re religion reo ligion at nt all nil and ant one ono that gives a term form of ot It without Its substance the shell heli and not the kernel the former Is pre gre preferable |