A SUGGESTED FORWARD MOVEMENT ON THE EDUCATION QUESTION

New Zealand Tablet, 1 November 1906, Page 23

A SUGGESTED FORWARD MOVEMENT ON THE EDUCATION QUESTION

To the Editor. '-/— Sir,—ln your issue of October 18,- you very truly and appropriately say : « The bringing up of youth is a sacred trusty . Catholics will not fail of sacrifice f Qr it ?u f lt + nne ds Pining in its.political aspect. And this vitv <h2 b r b J lhe timi<l Si^ en6e andinactd?ifh nr \ n - able to be lnterPreted to mean loss of ;?•!«? + ho 5 c m, our causc ' or a sense of inability, to present it adequately before our fellow-countrymen or a ,]i trust in their sense of iustice, or a UmeVquiS,i? a n. a^ lonal wrong.' Whether one or SSS? n?- c J nterP«tations account for the timid silence and .inactivity' of recent years, the pushini of the Catholic claims: in the political aspect is" as M? W . ObSe 7c» m his letter» m ow 'moribund.'' He might have gone furthor. and said lhat it is dead, right o?t laSt elect? ons» heard not a word in the candidates' speeches' of our cause; not a candidate troubled about sounding-Catholics as to their claims m favor ot the Catholic clatas was m££Sw %?s£?

n, VI c ? ar -^ - " c aU«>lte --v^tcs are - to<r few to influence the Legislature, That the Catholic Voice -may be heard, in Parliament,^ converts to -our cause must be made in large numbers from -outside. Mr. Scott ?n m ,,nf rS fi. > n^: simple , enough, ..ye^hitherm»vS?i 5w herem -* sfcl0 5 s hopes m ay, be, entertained of making these converts, fco doubt, there is a vast, numshn° f r Pe ° ple - 1U the who are^not sort Ot a nristi a^ education: -of . some sort for their children, , who are as much alive as we • f?«m » ft lS'i molal - '^ißious; necessarily arising May not^fi , non .- Chris « a n sjrstfem/bf education 8 iviay not this vast mine of influence < be utilised ifuropcrly approached and prospected? ' nn b "«ea, upro oilJw s £ sg f tion , of Mr - Pott's seems excellent, contli Jf ' +if i ""^^ aPP^ach the official represenlawHh S« h - lar f^ T r ?^ st ant bodies who? in common with S;^ l^?™ l^'^"^^^*'^''^ 161 "*-' 1^!!! of claVm^S f Cle + at X, Ug . a mutual Soo-d -understanding J hft J al ™ s ' f a ndof c establishing a joint , committee -by \9 a, dead or moribund, agitation. --. Those.. venerable men m synod assembled, would for. ojice, at ail "vS?s hear out views put ' viv a vo<& ' before* them S to.. spread an acquaintance with Hfiese views- We' should pri°nli DD IOPrl OPr0 P rt VV ff C o/ alivc f f» d able Ito preslnt Ca&ic «mA P ii?m - r e - , OU^ fell ow-countrymeii,-. whilst, at /the same time displaying a" feeling of confidence in thP feriS\om - P u U s rP °W :^ d fc Ti 150 b " J^ticTof thbse^'S! renng fiom us We should show ourselves " not oDen iiSaTsfstem M I<lea - 1S an<l - I'^P'"' i"tp..our educadrilii M,m m naturalism and the worship of two deities. Mammon and. sensual pleasure . > These • aftmter Serefove^ ! r n( J, nse ; lse^ .them. : Immeasurably bet! Look 5t IS 18 . are r ,P lOVi »S tl»cmsclves^ a poor lot? uSed S^s Cm of A^c a r ; IO ° k '- al -' tbem «- It is a significant -Jaci^tha.t=of -the 'tens of thnnfe a; &f'K^ o ( ;-S HS «J=* '» ■« ing Poor Catholic >areXreS?ed ? ot m^ h« : proposal will afford food for S dfscSon with a t°wo' 7o7 or at vIS, °i SMnt *!?, at Hhe S - InvcrcargiH, October "39," 39 , woej 1 "; 1^ BURKE ' /