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Show ARE THERE MANY OF HIM? Sacramento, Cal. In a letter to the trustees of the state normal school at Chico, Governor Gillett has ordered the board to investigate the charges of immorality against the president of the institution, Dr. C. C. Van Liew. The governor specifies among other allegations that Van Liew's reputation reputa-tion for morality is bad; that he has taken improper liberties with young ladies who were students of the school. As the kind of education suited for boys, and for young men, is to teach them these things they will need to practice when they become full-grown men, so tne proper schooling for girls is to teach them what they will need to practice, as daughters and sisters, when they return to the home of their parents. It is in this proper schooling for girls, this "principal" part, that our Catholic Convent Schools have earned their proud pre-eminence over all pretentious "Female Colleges" presided over by a man, and over all the high schools in the land. Protestant preachers, so regularly as the year rolls round, sound the warning trumpet from their pulpits, and from the newspapers they control. Wise fathers say, each in substance, as many have said to us within twenty -five years: "I would rather my daughter would not become a Catholic. 1 Rev. Mr. ("Gammon," let us call him) says she will become a Catholic if I send her to a Catholic Convent Con-vent School. But I have seen a good deal of the world, of men and women, a good deal of female boarding schools, and I would much rather my daughter became a Catholic than that she should be exposed to the perils of 'female colleges,' superintended su-perintended by men, or of institutions favoring coeducation." co-education." When, a few years ago, a young girl, attending school at Brighton, England, was seduced by her teacher, it was publicly said by Mr. Chamberlain, that the instructor who was guilty of the seduction of a young girl, committed to his care, ought to get fifty lashes of the "cat-o'-nine tails" on his bare back, and that the whipping should be administered admin-istered in public. "Then," continued Mr. Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, "the man ought to be sentenced to life im prisonment or to death." After the meeting was over, a gentleman rallied Mr. Chamberlain on his threat. "Were you not unreasonably severe in your denunciation? de-nunciation? I have always been taught that the punishment should fit the crime, Do you really think that a teacher who seduces a girl should be publicly scourged and then hanged? Would you vote for such a statute?" "Yes, I would," answered Mr. Chamberlain, "if the ruined girl were my daughter." It is only when busy fathers, who have daugh-. ters to be educated, and, above all, safeguarded, read, from time to time, revolting items such as the above, they awaken to the dangers which confront their offspring. We have nothing to say of Van Liew's immorality; immor-ality; his infidelities and disloyalties will be attended at-tended to in time by his own people. But, God help us, what about the hosts of tender young girls who come under the direct and immediate infln- I ence of infidel male teachers, of unbelieving men, ' and, sometimes, of the Van Liews, ravenous for female flesh and a choice variety of it. Better a thousand times that a fair young girl grow up in blank ignorance than be exposed to ruin in the dawning .of her young womanhood. Better, even, that she go to her grave, clean and uncorrupted in the morning of life, than live to he ravished by o oxvunu - lor 1 - -.,.,, ... S.- UAIN . ST. r." 11 -" "' ,.! ' human wolves, "who follow their lusts, who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and bring upon themselves sure destruction." Thank God, with all our heart and intellect, that our immortal Church gives us consecrated nuns and sacred schools, where our daughters are safe, and because we know they are safe we can sleep easy o' nights. |