p. 7 | Waiting for Justice(?)

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 25, 1908

Waiting for Justice(?)

It is the unalterable purpose of the Roman Catholic Church to secure a division of the public funds for educational purposes. Their hope of success in this matter is expressed in a recent editorial utterance in one of their papers:—

That Catholics suffer one great injustice in the United States we frankly admit. The burden of a double school tax is clearly unjust. We have been so declaring for years, and now at least some fair-minded non-Catholics are beginning to see that the Catholic position is warranted by discoverable facts. This gives us hope of a final settlement of the school question which shall be based on justice.

We see no injustice in refusing to tax all the people in order to aid a religious denomination in the support of its schools. The double tax idea is not based upon facts. No denomination is compelled to maintain a school system of its own, but if it chooses to do so, it would be un-American and unchristian to compel others to furnish the whole or a part of the funds needed to carry it on. Seventh-day Adventists maintain many schools of their own, but they do not ask for a division of the public funds, nor complain of injustice because they do not have access to the public treasury. The Catholics have no just ground for complaint.