CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6, 8 February 1900, Page 10

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

The prizes given by his Eminence Cardinal Moran to the successful candidates at the interprimary schools examinations of the archdiocese of Sydney were presented recently at the Cardinal's Hall . In the course of his address on the occasion his Eminence said :—: —

The great principle which underlay all their exertions to promote their religious schools was their desire to see that the children of Australia entrusted to their care would be trained in the paths of enlightenment and of morality, and their people had made wonderful sacrifices to secure those principles during the past year. In the first year in which the present legislation came into force, excluding religious schools from any benefit from the State (1882) he had seen it reported that the whole number of children attending their schools was 16,000. For the year that had just closed it was reported that the number was 40,000. That showed that their people had been faithful to the principles for which they had contended, and for which they had made such great sacrifices. If those 40,000 children had attended the State schools they would have merited at least a sum of £200,000 ; that was taking an average of £5 for each child educated. These 40,000 children were able to hold their own in the various branches of secular learning, and were able to compete with those in the public schools, and they had borne away the highest prizes. Even in the musical examinations they had shown great superiority in their training. They showed that the debt of the State to then was £200,000, and they were entitled in all justice to receive honourable compensation for the sum expended on the children's secular education — that very education which the Government demanded should be given.

THE EIGHTS OF THE MINORITY

At present this warfare in South Africa was attracting their attention as citizens. The only reasons advanced by the home Government to justify that warfare was that an in'elligent and considerable minority had just claims to have its rights attended to. Because those principles and rights were not attended to, they had the British Government intervening, and claiming that they were justified in intervenicg by the principles of justice and of freedom. These were the words of the Prime Mininter of England when justifying the intervention of England in South Africa. He (the Cardinal) claimed that the Catholics of Australia were an intelligent and considerable minority, and, in the words of the Prime Minister, their just rights should not Vie iguortd. Well, having said so much, he supposed th^y must only wait their time. The minority had its rights and its duties, and no one could say that they had not been faithful to their duties. In spite of every difficulty, they had carried on religious education not only in the interests of their children, but in the interests of Australia. He looked to the future that those who were now in the majority would recognise their fidelity to their duty, and would also recognise their juet rights. The future of a couutiy rested upon the education of its children in the paths of enlightenment and morality. These were the principles worked upon in the pa«t, and and he trusted that his people would go on every year iv the same way.

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