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Show 1 1 Effect of Vigorous Protest. A VIGOROUS' protest against some of the bigoted text books In use in the public schools, together with a review by a Baltimore priest of two schcol reference books that are particularly particu-larly objectionable, appears on the first page of this paper. The value of protest, if It is strong and unanimous, has been demonstrated over andover again. Only recently we have seen Its effective application in the apology of Harper Bros, for publishing pub-lishing a poem offensive to Catholic teaching and morality. Not later than last fall, through the efforts of a yide-awake yide-awake Nevada priest, Myers notorious pei version of history w-as thrown out of the public schools of that state in this summary manner: "Carson City, Nev., Oct. 31, 1901.. ''Tc the School Officers and Teachers of Nevada: "You are hereby notified that the state board of education, at a meeting held today, by a unanimous vote, decided de-cided to eliminate Myers' General History His-tory from the list of text books now in use in the schools of this state. "This action is taken upon the protest pro-test of Rev. Father Tubman, pastor of St. Mary's church, Virginia City, Nev., he making the argument and showing conclusively that the book is sectarian in its teachings, which is in direct conflict, con-flict, with article 11, sections 9 and 10, of the constitution, which are as follows: fol-lows: " 'Sec. 9. No eectarian instruction shall be imparted or tolerated in any school or university that may be established es-tablished under this constitution. " 'Sec. 10. No public funds of any kind or character whatever, state, county or municipal, shall be used for sectarian purposes.' "REINHOLD SADLER, "Governor. . "J. E. STUBBS, "President of the University. "ORVIS RING, ...... "Superintendent of Public Instruction." So long as our public libraries are supported through general taxation Catholics have a right to. insist that books of the character mentioned . . . should find no place on the shelves of the library: None but bigots entrusted with the selection of books for general public reading would, use the public money in- this manner. The trouble with most Catholics is a need of aggressiveness ag-gressiveness in a cause that concerns their citizenship as well as their faith. We have no knowledge that objectionable ob-jectionable books are handled by the patrons of the public libraries of Salt Lake. Denver, Eutte and other cities of this mountain country, but it is somebody's some-body's business to investigate. That Nevada priest set the example. |