Massachusetts and Illiteracy
MASSACHUSETTS is the most illiterate State of the Union. Cardinal Manning, in his article on public schools in America, refers to this; but, as the Churchman says:— “It is mainly owing to the cardinal’s own brethren, who have taken possession of it to an overwhelming extent, that the State has changed from having the smallest number of illiterates of any State in the Union, compared with its population, to the one which has the greatest number. It is the immigration from the French parts of Canada and from the south and west of Ireland, which has filled the cities and manufacturing towns of Massachusetts, and of the adjoining States, with their present illiterate population. The number of native illiterates, leaving out the foreign element entirely, would not be one-hundredth per cent. of the population. A large proportion of the newcomers from Canada and Ireland can neither read nor write.” Education or enlightenment of the people has never been a part of Rome’s mission. Her mission is to enslave and blind.