Bishop Moran on the Education Question.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 44, 16 January 1883, Page 2

Bishop Moran on the Education Question.

[by tklegraph I (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedis, Jan. 13. In his address last night, Bishop Moran said his reason for coming for* ward and asking the aid of the Peninsula electors was that he might be enabled to demand justice for 70,000 fellow-colonists. He admi'ted that this was a free and glorious country, and that m the main its laws were equal and good, bat he maintained, with respect to the question of education, the law m many of its provisions was neither e;ood, wise, nor just. The case stood thus— There had been spent by the Government of the country on education somewhere abouc two millions of public money, contributed by all citizens of the coutry equally. Each man coDtribu ing according to his ability was entitled to his fair share m the expenditure of that money for the purpose for which it had been voted, but 70,000 of their fellow-citizens had no sh*re whatever. It was no answer to his position f o say it was their own 'ault, and that if they wished, the Catholics could participate m the ex* penditure equally with others. As regarded the Catholics, he contended that the law of education m New Zealand assailed their pockets and consciences, and that the effect it produced on Catholics was precisely the same as would be produced if Parliament enacted a law exeludiag from them the schoolrooms, tor what was the difference between a law, so far as its effects were concerned, which directly excluded them from a schoolroom, and a law which m its administration enacted such conditions that it was impossible tor them, as honest and sincere Catholics, to comply with these conditions. Later.

Bishop Moran to-day, during his speech at the nomination, m referring to strictures passed upon him by the local paper that morning that he had been went by the Pope under instructions. He (the Bishop) -did not want to say anything disrespectful, but would give them his advice — try and not let old women be trm editors of newspapers.