France and the Jesuit Establishments
By Editor
The New York Independent maintains that while, from an American stand-point, France has not done right or wisely in suppressing the Jesuit establishments, yet, situated as France is, the step was just and fitting: "The act of the Government is consistent with the principle of State supervision in religious matters. . . . If it has the right to supervise the schools of the country and protect itself against such teaching as tends to the subversion of the Republic by the poisoning of the minds of the youth, in whose hands the future of the country must fall, it has acted consistently in suppressing the Jesuit establishments. . . . France, it seems to us, could release herself from a world of troubles by simply leaving all religions to their own support and control. There is no question but that the churches would be better off. Those which could not support themselves would deserve to die. State subventions never make live, aggressive churches."