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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jul 25, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 30.

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Dividing the School Funds

It is an open secret that the Roman Catholic hierarchy have determinedly set themselves to secure the division of the public-school funds in this country, and they lose no opportunity to impress the public with the idea that this is the only fair method of handling the public funds. The following paragraph is taken from the Catholic Citizen of Milwaukee, Wis. (July 6, 1912), and is, of course, intended to convey the idea that the same system ought to prevail in this country:—
“The fight for Catholic schools in Newfoundland has resulted in what Archbishop Howley, the venerable metropolitan of the island, calls ‘the most ideal educational system in the world.’ There is really no such thing as a public school, and the denominational education is everywhere the rule. The people, for educational purposes, are divided into three groups, Catholic, Anglican, and Methodist, and the educational fund is divided among them on a per capita basis.”
Even if this plan were acceptable to Catholics, Anglicans, and Methodists, what about the other denominations and those who are not connected with any church? But Roman Catholics, as well as some others, rarely concede religious liberty to the secularist.