| Show THE government AND THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN 1880 the united states government appropriated about 1365 for educating the indiana A large por lion if not dot all ail of that sum has been given to catholic mission schools that have been established on and about the several agencies harpers weekly does not think this to in the proper thin gand enters a solemn protest against its continuance it does dot understand upon what theory of the constitution the methodist and presbyterians Presbyterian rians and sand baptists baptista etc of the united states should be taxed to make converts to the catholic church it joes does not think the government can consistently go into any such partnership with catholicism or any other sectarian order for the education of its dependents that the arranger arrangement is not only a violation of the spirit of the constitution but is highly repugnant to the large majority rity of citizens is in a fact that should need no proofs the question of the merits or demerits of the roman catholic church to is not a consideration in the promises premises As a rule people who are not dot of that church tire are against it with all ther their might the fact la is the majority ot of protestant churchmen would oppose the subsidizing sid si izing of even their own church by the government in the remotest remo teet fashion anything that suggests a mingling of church matters with the affairs of state to is offensive and this manifest inclination of the catholics to trespass 71 aarow the lines even in the 1 of alms is and should be re repelled p belled on the spot if the amount appropriated for the education of the indiana indian is not adequate the government could far better afford to double or quadruple the sum aum than to do what it Is doing the catholics themselves ought to agree with this the slight advantage it gives them over other denominations is more than counter balanced baban ced by the hostility it creates among non be lievers li evere |
