Women’s Associations and Sectarian School Funding
The question as to what attitude the women's associations of this country take in the matter of the appropriation of government funds for the support of sectarian schools, was answered, in part at least, at a recent session of the National Council of Women in Toledo, Ohio. A press dispatch states that a resolution protesting against such appropriations, presented by Mrs. I. C. Manchester, a delegate of the National Association of Loyal Women of American Liberty, was unanimously rejected, following which Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood made an impassioned eulogy of the Catholic Church, and offered a resolution “to prevent any report being made in public if it contained anything inimical to any creed or political belief.” This was unanimously approved. Mrs. Elizabeth McGowan, it is further stated, thanked Mrs. Sherwood in behalf of one hundred thousand Catholic women, and Mrs. Clarissa Williams did the same in behalf of fifty thousand women of the Mormon Church.