For Public School Moneys.
By Editor
A recent number of The Western Watchman tells us that the Pittsburg section of the American Federation of Catholic Societies held in that city May 22 urged a division of the school tax, and urged measures suggested to make that solution of the school question acceptable to the American people. The contention is that there are nearly a million and a half of children throughout the entire United States attending parochial schools, and that $36,000,000 is in that way saved to the nation. But that can hardly be said. It is not saved to the nation in any way, but to different localities. It will certainly be a wrong principle for the United States to adopt any plan by which any portion of its public funds shall be used for sectarian purposes. While we say that, we believe in parochial schools; we believe in religious education; but we do not believe that the state is prepared to give that religious education, nor do we believe that the state should divide its public money for that purpose. However, the matter will be agitated and agitated again and again. It will be brought into politics, and will be there urged as the report in the Watchman intimates.