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 — FROM THK — 
 
 RKVEREND MR. ROUSSELOT 
 
 FTHE, S. S. 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS 
 
 OF THK 
 
 OITT OE' li^OITTHE-A-Lj 
 
 IN ANSWER TO THK 
 
 ATTACKS MADE BY THE EVENING h'OST. 
 
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 iniblication 
 
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 inissioners, 
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 To the Kililor o/lhn Evkmsc. Poht : 
 
 Sii:, — I am ii"'tructed hy tlie Bduril of Konian Catliolio Sclioitl Ooin- 
 inissioners of tliis city, to rcqucMt tlio ptiblication in your paper of tlw 
 following roKolution. paKKod nnanimoiiKly at tlit'ir firKt meeting, after the 
 iniMiration in your columns of certain strictures upon itsadminstration. 
 
 A. D. DeCki,i,es, 
 
 See. C. S. C. 
 Montreal, DeccmbtT 10, 187t>. 
 
 At a meeting of the Roman Oatholit- School Commissioners, held 
 Dn the 9th day of December instant, Reverend V Rousselot, President 
 of the Commission, in the diair, the following resolution was placed 
 before the Board and unanimous!} carried : — 
 
 " Inasmuch as certain unfounded accusations have been brought 
 gainst the administration of the Board of Roman Catholic School Com- 
 issioners, l)y individuals whose motives the Commission is not now 
 ailed upon to appreciate ; 
 
 '• Inasmuch as these accusations were embodied under twelve dift'er- 
 nt heads in a petition presented by certain citizens to the City Council 
 year or .s<t ago ; 
 
 " Inasmuch as upon the presentation of this petition the Board of 
 
 Roman Catholic School Commissioners, through the mediitm of the press, 
 
 f expressed to the public generally its willingness to court an enquiry from 
 
 the only authority to which it is responsible, viz. the Department of 
 
 Public Instruction ; 
 
 " Inasmuch as such oftcr has never been acted upon by the petition- 
 ers to the City Council ; and 
 
 " Inasmuch as similar charges have recently been reiterated in one 
 of the evening newspapers of this city ; " be it 
 
 Resolved — " That this Board having ever V)een willing and desirous 
 that those interested in the upright and judicious administration of its 
 trust should have every opportunity given them to formulate any charges 
 f mismanagement alleged against this commission, publicity be once 
 ore given of its willingness and desire that an enquHe into its admin- 
 stratiou be demanded by those who, for motives of public or private 
 nterest, are preimred to substantiate their accusations." 
 
 1^0 the Editor of I he Evknincj Post. 
 
 I notice with regret that in yoTir edition of yesterday you persist in 
 ^our accusations against the gentlemen of the Roman Catholic School 
 )ommis8ion of this city, supplemented by an assertion that, as matters 
 .'Stand at present, the " onus " is upon us to establish the good adminis- 
 'trction of the Commission. 
 
 * This pretension is sul)versive of the most elementary principles of 
 ^justice which, presume every man innocent until proved guilty. You 
 
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 ptiblisJi nitfainst myself, as against thf other inembcrK »»f the Commissior 
 chari^cH of the most Herious nature, of wliiih I feel {^iiiltlcKs, and yoi ^ 
 request an enqttete. ^^ "V J 
 
 I cheerfully accept your proposal. Let responsible men clearl}r" ., j 
 formulate their charges before the Government, and demand an investiga , mj^^, ^i 
 tion. I assure you that I court it as much as you do. .. j^^ 
 
 Before closing, allow me to say, that I sincerely regret that V>efor(| , -ni-Xn 
 Attacking us publicly as you have done, yon did not obtain from us exac |j» . 
 information ; we would have given it, and you would have thus avoided^* idize^ 
 serious error, as you may judge yourself by referring to the answer>,, missi 
 appended to this letter, and you would not have written articles, as ;i' , y^^a 
 Catholic and a man of honor, yon must now regret, _ ^^^^ 
 
 V. RoussELOT, Ptke., ( y^.^,\\ knl 
 
 President, Catholic School Commission(,'rs. i exclude 
 
 December 12, 1879. Suffit 
 
 guar's r(! 
 
 1. Editorial of November 12th, 1879. ^^"^ ""^ , 
 " The Provincial Government appoints seven Commissioners, aml^ " 
 
 •' the City Council appoints two, so that not one of them is appointed by"^"*"*'' 
 •• the people who pay the taxes." ^ 7. E 
 
 The Commission numbers only six members — two clergymen and " Wl 
 
 four laymen. Three only are named by the Local Government, and the " ^^'*^^^^J^ 
 three otl\er8 are ele(;ted by the people's rei)resentatives in the City 
 
 Council. 
 
 2. Editorial under same date : 
 
 <' As regards the former, '(the Commercial Academy on St. Cathe'"ine 
 " street)' we cannot precisely state, but may put it d«)wn at the princely 
 •' sum of half a million of dollars " 
 
 The nine large school buildings erected by the Commissioners, cost 
 
 in all $318,000, The cost of the Plateau Academy, included in this sum, 
 
 amounts to $84,279, comprising the principal's residence. 
 
 3. Editorial November 19th, 1879 : 
 
 " Then again, after a diligent search, we can only obtain three annual 
 '< reports furnished by the Commissioners, during their reign of ten years. 
 '< to the City Council," 
 
 According to law, the annual reports since 1871, have been regularly 
 
 published yearly, in French and English newspapers in this city. This 
 
 report of all the receipts and expenses of the Commission has been 
 
 regularly sent every twelvemonth to the Minister of Public Instruction, 
 
 to be published in the Journal of Education. Although not obligatory, 
 
 copies of these reports have been transmitted to the City Council, 
 
 4. Editorial, November 22nd, 1879 :— 
 
 " A school in Roy street, at an enormous expense — a school entirely 
 " unnecessary, and which is now mostly attended by the children of St, 
 << Jean Baptiste Village," 
 
 There are in Roy street school, as shown by the last returns, 315 
 
 pupils, only 13 of which number are residents beyond the city limits, 
 
 and the latter pay double fees. 
 
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 audited ti 
 
 receipts i 
 
 The 
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 ipositi 
 Toce 
 
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 ''e Coinmissior 5. Editorial, Nov.nalter '.".Uli. 1879 : 
 
 iitl('8s. and ytii s • • « The Catholic School ComiiiiHKiorxTK conld not pet alonp with 
 
 t|he naillion of money or ko they have received np to thin, not to men- 
 
 '♦' men clcarl\1^**" ^^*^ three or four hundred thousand dollars annually paid by the 
 
 nr? un .-^ X. ■ pupils in ft'es." 
 •lu an investiCH 
 
 The total amount of fees i>aid for the last fiscal year hy all the 
 
 et thai I f «^P'1« in «''very scliool or academy under the Commission was $15, 7:{7.;{(), 
 
 n from • > '*^ included in this sum are $7,408.61 paid l»y students who attend the 
 
 e thus r -J C^'^^^''^? which, though under the control of the Commission and 
 
 ,, ^1,, c^bsidized by it, collect their own fees for their maintenance. The 
 
 o me answer^ 
 
 Jdmrnission, therefore, only receive $8,328.75. 
 
 ■' (!. Editorial, November 29th, 1879. 
 
 '' But, nevertheless, the children had to pay large fees, and it is a 
 ' well known fact that those who could riot afiord to pay them were 
 ' excluded from the schools." 
 
 Suffice it to say that of 7,113 scholars frequenting (as shown by last 
 
 IJPfiar's report) all the schools under the control of the Commission, 
 
 2J263 or 32 per cent., wore admitted free of charge, and received their 
 
 lissioners „«,]t^ucation gratuitously. The aveiage annual fee per head upon the 
 
 appointed byntember who pay fees at all, viz., 4,850 scholars, is only $3 22 per annum. 
 
 V 7. Editorial, December 9th, 1879 : 
 
 l«rgymen and - What has happened the three or four hundred thousand dollars 
 
 ment, and the '• <l''*'-'''<^P''ncy l^*^tween the receipts and exjienditures «is shown by their 
 
 Jn the City "'»n«nsre returns." 
 
 A gratuitous and false assertion. The accounts have been regularly 
 audited and balanced every year. No discrepancy whatever between the 
 St. Cathenne receipts and expenditures exists or is shown by the returns, 
 the princelv 
 
 1 articles, as 
 
 nmissioners. 
 
 isioners, cost 
 ■ in this sum, 
 
 three annual 
 of ten ycarK. 
 
 ^n regularly 
 <^'ity. This 
 n has been 
 nstruction, 
 obligatory, 
 ncil, 
 
 ol entirely 
 '»en of St. 
 
 turns, 315 
 ity limits, 
 
 The Evening Pont having refused to publish the following letter, it 
 riav, inserted in the Montreal Gazette and Evening Star. 
 
 Montreal, 3()th December, 1879. 
 To the Editor Evknino Post : 
 
 Sir, — I had trusted in sending y«)U my letter of the 12th instant, 
 that you would either have accepted my explanations or taken immedi- 
 iltely the step you had yourself suggested of demanding an investiga- 
 tion by Government. . I informed you of our desire equal to your own, 
 that it should be granted, and expressed ev«n our happiness at your 
 obtaining it, and yet you have taken no measures in that direction, but 
 Jontinue to launch against us accusations that I cannot but characterize 
 |p8 unworthy. In your editorial of the 15th inst., in the adjoining 
 |oIumn to the one containing my letter in the same issue, you have cast 
 y slur upon my position of President of the Board of (Jatholic School 
 I^Jommissioners of this city, by confirming what you had already stated 
 In allusion to me in your article of the 12th. 
 
 " It is not improbable the reverend gentleman was placed in that 
 jpoHition in order that an air of respectability might be thrown over the 
 iprocoedingB, for it is almost unnecessary to say that he knows very little 
 
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 luftv l)(! tiTin (I tlu^ iiintT . ir.lc." offered t<> 
 
 Now, Hit, tliis assertion on yonr part iniii itself a jK-iKonal accusati*!*'! vvouK 
 against ui\'«elf an siirioiiK aw it is gratiiiton>4. autl fiiitiioinioir' intulpati* t^"''*"*''^*' 
 the other guiitlenieu of tlie UonimiHsion. Jt anioiiuts Miniply tochargiA^^'^ _ 
 mo with having a •ceptod and oc> n[)icd as a siucuiire a powition of puM^Md t*"" ' 
 trust and rosponsiliility. with liaving iK-gKctcd my clnty and tioHed liJfsf'"'^' '^' 
 eyes to tin- administration of a hoard over wliosi; important deiihiratio*""''"^' 
 I have the lionor to preside. It charges also tlie geiith-men eomposiiO"****'' ^ 
 the Commission with having doteived and Idinded nie in their opt*Pl""^% 
 ations. If you shriuli from an enquete tiial would disclose (li«; trutli, Wi«h \>i<M 
 least I ehallcnge you to prove these accusations. v^" 
 
 I tind also in your editorial <.f tin- l.'ith instant : **"^!py)^.\'! 
 
 " Tlio (rovernment Blue Books for l87fJ and 1877 show for monthi '* 
 
 pies, $:{:U.88(). and for the following year nearly $4()(),0i)()." ilbsi<ly «d 
 
 You must know that the statements in tlie returns you refer to. an 1" "" 
 
 the figures they contain, reiiresent the montlily revenue derived duriiiicb<><d on 
 
 the year from nil the Catliolio schools in the city of Montreal, eomprisiiicasons, In, 
 
 thi; fees received from all those Catludic institutions, such as the Mon^t. Nelsoi 
 
 real College, the Ht. Mary's C(dlege, the Ohhits and Friars' Schools, tli'Jftin»b' 
 
 various convents and academies of the Sisters of the Congregatioitlpn. 
 
 Sacred Heart, Bon Pasteur, St. Laureait, &c., and yet you would rendi 
 
 us responsilde for all this revenue! How can the Commissioners li" 
 
 called upon to answer or to he accountable for fees received by institii' . 
 
 tions over which they exercise no control whatever'.' Yon impose upoiP" 
 
 n«'> For 
 the good faith of your readers. 
 
 Further on in the same editorial you continue : " Granted that th( ^^ ^^ 
 school alone cost $84,000. what about the 200,000 feet of land surround- «» enquel 
 iug it, the filling of it up, the marble posts, the grand St. Catherint d*"^''"'^'-' 
 street entrance and other expensive et ccteras. which must be taken inte*!* **'^ "' 
 account as well as the building pure and simple." il|lt!h niei 
 
 Y(m at first pretended that tlie Plateau Academy building had cost Oatholic 
 $500,000. It is pleasing to see you rectify your error: $41C,000 is ^'^^' 
 
 certainly not a trifling discrepancy. Sff*" 
 
 As to the land, the Commissioners acquired it at an average of 38.J ^^ ^""^^ 
 cents a foot, but this, I am informed by the accountant and those wlie W'^ 
 have familiarized themselves with details, includes grading, and tracing fprvice 
 oif avenues, filling, planting of trees and other improvements. This ;; 
 land is far more valuable to-day. A portion of this property which was 
 not considered necessary by the Board was disposed of five or six years 
 after its purchase at the rate of $1 a foot. The speculation, as I view it. 
 was not such an unfortunate one. You will, moreover, learn with 
 satisfaction that all the material out of which are erected the marbl<' 
 posts at the St. Catherine street entrance of the Academy was the 
 generous gift of an ex-alderman of this city. The lamps and other 
 " expensive etceteras " were donations from practical friends of Catholic 
 'institutions. 
 
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 "nihsloij wi ,, " Tliat t)ie ComniisKioTU'rH have rcj-ctcd tlic liiidcrH nt" nit'ii who 
 
 flffered to do tlic work required at a i lieajiir rate tlian tlioHe aecpted, 
 "iial aeciiH,iti«ftd would havi' doiii' it after a lietler fasiiioti.' I tail to underntuiid 
 iiorc iii('ulpat(<i tenderH yon refer to. As a matter of fact, whenever an iniportiint 
 I'l.v to tJiHrgiftdertaking was to lie coninieneed. eoal pnnhaHed. Ac., tenders were 
 "^ition of pu Milled tor in the iiHuai way — and at onr lioard nieetinKw, it is to our 
 and closed lidWonal knowhdKe tliat we invariahly fjive tlie contraet to tlie h)W( st 
 "t dulihci'atioiliahle tenderer. As repirds the St. lirulgetH (Miristian UroUicrs' 
 'en conipoHJiOhool. you find nieauH to base a eliarfre tliut you i an certainly ix t 
 '" their op(Upp'>rt or ju«tify. Tiiis school does not helonff to the Coinniissiun. it is 
 >fe (h(! (nidi, arish property, ovir. which w<' cnn exercise aiisolutely no i-ontrol what- 
 ver. We liav'' no pow r or .inthority to effect any <hanf;e in the 
 onstruction of the huiidinir. 
 "■ f<'i" Uionthl riie Comniissionc rs give the Brothers who teach there an an)iunl 
 
 ul)sidy of $2. 000. In what tlien does our iruilt consist? 
 •II refer to, an In one of your colunins you. moreover, assert that tlio primary 
 lerived duriijichool on the Plateau was liuilt hy the Commissioners, and for olivi<u8 
 t'al, compririiii'Oftsons, by day lahor. But, my dear sir. if my memory serves me rigiit 
 1 'IS the MonOr. Nelson erected tliis building as a dwelling house f<»r himself and 
 ■«' ScJiools, tlifamiiy. The Commissioners only pure liascd it y<;arH after its (Dustruc- 
 Congregiitioition. 
 
 Would rend( ^ might continue my quotations from your columns, refuting as 
 imissioners Ii-^^^ily "^^ your acc'usntions, hut let me ask yoii hi'fore I dose, what h giti- 
 ed hv iiisfit,|Oiate motive have you. a Catholic and editor of the only Catholic daily 
 
 11 iui])ost- upoiP^^^i'^^^*^ '" t'''*^ '-■'*'>' '" t'"' K'lpl'sl' tongue, in waging this war against 
 
 ns? For my part I can conceive none, 
 nfed that th( If you arc really acting in good faith, I urge it once more, request 
 md smvuiwd-O'lX enquele. If we are found guilty, you will then be right in puldicly 
 St. (.'atherin( denouncing ns, and in attacking us as we should deserve. But if indeed 
 '>e taken inteWe are not guilty of all these charges you shower upon us, why resort to 
 
 HUch means to fanaticise the public mind? Is this comluct worthy of a 
 iiig had cost Oatholic Irishman? 
 : $4I(>,000 is Believe! nie, sir, it is with regret that I see myself forced to address 
 
 you this lengthy letter, but I felt it to be my duty both as priest, and as. 
 orago of 38.! ^^^ Cure of Notre Dame. This, however, cannot alt(!r my lasting Jijlec- 
 d those whc tfon for my Irish brethren and friends, and my desire to he ot every 
 and tracing •ervice to them in my power, 
 iients. This Your Inmible servant, 
 
 y which was V. Rousseuot, Pthk., 
 
 or six yearn President of the Catholic School Commission, 
 
 a« I view it. , , -_-r-_ • 
 
 'earn with ' "/: ' I: \ \ - TT^, \' ' *' "' 
 
 the marble :.•*;...•..;*•.': . t^P^l'wgJ^JjJiinary 2nd, 1880. 
 
 fiy was the Mditor EvESisc.^^pn: ,. .... . , . 
 
 and other 1 see by yo'u»- ^tisiitJ <>» ioMhi^'.tlwitlyiJ 
 
 of Catholic Wf.i^it, "a Statenient 
 
 i»- t*s«tJ o# io*(hij'.tlwitIy<til dei^Jwle^to publish, not as you 
 Aent ^^f th^ C*ommiV»uol«irs^'»J)ut*>M?iro'"« •letter sent you 
 
on the :tOth ult. TIUh rofiiHal, I TCKTv.t to Hay, in in keepiiiK with t 
 courae you Imve followed in your attackH upon the ConimiMftiont'rH. 
 a journaliHt, and I may go further, aH a Catholic, you were hound 
 equity and by your own conHciencM to give to my refutation tiie nni 
 publicity that had characterized your chargCH against the board. Y 
 have deemed it expedient to act otherwiHc, and I have now no other cour 
 left me but to appeal to th«! columns of another journal in order tli 
 your readerti may be diHabused aH regardit our respective poHitionn. 
 The bearer is instructed to request the return of ..y manuscript. 
 
 V. RouasKLOT, Ptri. 
 
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