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The following diagrams illustrate the method: L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grdce d la g6n6rosit6 de i'itablissement prAteur suivant : La bibliothdque des Archives publiques du Canada Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour Atre reproduites en un seui clichA sont filmAes d partir de Tangle supArieure gauche, de gauche d droite et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nAcessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la mAthode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 I I La ma ant . »v -. MR. JOHN CHlRLTOrS .■!\t\ OPEN LETTER TO II PIMCAE M, ■ » ♦ ,- « * ' * t Dated May 9th, 1890. Recent Modifications of the Separate School Law are in substance what our platform de- mands.— DR. O A VBN. All attempts to make party capital out of the Separate School Question are either ignor- ant or dishonest.— DR. CAVEN. >ir\ P jift. V JQPN/ap4y^TON'S OPEN X^^TTEB ADDRES3BD 10 Vafr. PRINOIPAL OAVEN, DATED MAY 9th, 1800. ^ iDmr PwirOJP4tL Ca^n.— I tlame given cftrefpl, con- nd^mtipii 4x> ihe jB^ckois decided npoa by Ahe ms^ority of the Oouncil of the Equal Bights Association, at a meeting held in Toronto on the afternoon of May 3rd, and issued yesterday by th# Committee on Address appointed by the Council I have felt the greater neces«iJ^ if or c|krQ>in«tstciuisideraAion.becauBeI,had not been consulted as to the various resolutions, which had evidently been thoroughly considered before they were submitted to the Council, ai^di. not having^ .^l^fiiu befj^e me I, ctpld, not,.4iwiijjg the ,4e$i^tQry d|(p^8f|i*n anav^s^d|CQ»si(ieratiQn-^ve;to tl^emiiUppn the nifment th^l df^ee ol«qqn9i(|eiyHMPii nep^s|£^yit(> |k.t^Qrpiiigh ^omp^^^fD^ion of their purport and chwactcr. I have aloo borre in inii«.d that the meeting of the Council was called without your knowledge, that your advice as to the resolutions presented bad no>-, been asked, and that you as w^l^fliaysejtf -fJliily |j|ijk#w whatitheyawere as they were presented to the Council. • « ♦ (The paragraph here omitted relates to Dominion affairs and is therefore left out.) I can hardly acquiesce in the assertion that the principle that •very person must l?e ooi^idered to be a ]^blio.^hool supporter, unl^, being a'^loman <5atholife, he had by proper notice declared ^ ynw^iP ia jMippprtaPtof .a¶te Schools, had, at least prior i;o the legislation of last session, been violated, by the Sql^ol Xiaw. In 1886 the Attorney-General of Ontario emphatically denied that fluch was the case. The question was subsequently referred to the Ohauoery Division of the High Court of Justice for Ontario, and the decision of the Oourt war held to sustain the opinion of th6 (^ttf>FP|fy-«iteWr»L V (4«t itof ^, js^t^mtut , p^de;i*i.t(,J>he |)^lliTe op^i^ipn a»^w)i^b©r^th© a^^ijd* 8 DRESSED MAY 9th, »ref]!il con- )rity of the ing held in irday by the have felt the tiad not been idently been the Council, he-id^siiltory the naff qt^nt mp^^cp^ion lind the.t the iwledge. that n asked, and as they were here omitted irinoiple that 3l supporter, )ioe declared saet prior to Sqi^ool X»*w. 7 denied that ferred to the Ontario, and pinion of the t(^«i0in it «x- fr^theai^Aai^d* nients of the school law made last Session are or are not sufficient to fttiaim the desired end, I cannot give my assent. The state- jcnent implies a doubt whiOH iu XUy MllOf, IlXl€[1llftl£fll6d appvoW is fally deadnred, aioid i am pvepaved to f^sjivem a pofiiitive opinion that the Act jjbo qdcmikI the J^ltbUo 9>nd Separate SohoQ^B Act, which received the royal aacwat on the 7th of April last, does remove all ambigfuity and doubt as to the question. The address states that Boman Catholic Separate Sphopli; are guaranteed by the British North America Act, and that thie pro- y^sictn has Ixjen deqlared agaiiist by the Council of th© Association. While I am, upon principle, opposed to Separate Denownatiooal Sp^iools receiving State aid, and while I consider the Separate Sichool system of Oijtario an evil, it would I think be proper, for the full ipformation of the Ontario elector, to state in any address upon the subject Uut tlie same gn^araxitee wUoii Mooses Oatliolios Separate Schools in Ontan^, seoures Tallied eduoational rights and Separate Fuhlio Schools to the Protestant minority of Queheo, and the oonstitutional guarantee and settlement if "^thdra-wn, tt^m the one is also withlra'wn from the other, as it applies jointly to bpth Prom;iii«oe9. This being the status of the case in both Ontario and Quet>ec, the question is a very delicate one, and it IS a matt§r woTtlij of serions oonsideration as to what extent action should he taken in the premises without the interests of the Protestants of Qneheo being considered, and their approval and co-operation scoured. * * • * (Paragraph omitted also rela,tes' to Dominian affairs.) I endorse most fully the sentiments of your letter of April 29th. Its statementa, its admonitions, and its warnings unmistakably evince the possession of rare prudence and foresight on the part of '' V the wntor. Itp position as regards tho Separate School law, and the Moont apiendinents to that law, is true and impartial. kOUI wwii&g tball&o'T^ry easiitenoe of the Asaooia- tioa MpcniUi tippA tlM sorupxilomB l»it»«rtfaaj.ty -with wMob all ttatteri that affeot ov i&TolTo tMoty shall DVtreatid wa» most ti33&el7« "''^ ^^"^ spirit of your communication will furnish as good a unide as can be desired for all who do not desire to make the Equal Rights Association subordinate to party purposes. While thankful for the great results that have already sprung from the Equal Rights movement, especially in Manitoba and the North-West Territories, and while in thorough accord wi|h 4he great principles upon which it was organized and upon the line of which it should prosecute its mission, I deprecate any atot which may beget the ouspioion that its influence is to be made in the most, remote degree »u±iliikry to mere party alms. I beg to acknowledge my high appreciation of the services which you, as President of the Associajtion, have so admiral]Jy performed, and to state my belief that its success has been lai^ely 4ue to yottr high character, yonr knowledge and your rare discre^on. It is tvith tUflSderice and Bome^'gree of misgiving that I venture tp criticize, in any r^peot, the work of the Committee on Adilress, of which I wa» Bippointed a member, and to withhold my signatui'e krom the address for the reason, as above stated, that I am unable % agr^ with some of its material statements. Faithfully yours, ^^^gJH|p JOHN CHARLTON. To Wm. Qavi^» UX)., * Pt0^i:imt Bqwd Rights Association, TorotU^ ''iMiiiii audthe Tour iTOlTe Euid the [ Rights / sprung and tlie nfjh, the le line of it whioh le in the es which irforn^ed, 9 to yottr m. I| Ia idress, of m uaable ON.