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BIGGAR. RYKKRt. HARCOURT. SIR JOHN ROSE. MoKELLAR. CARLING. Ju" TASCHKRHKU. and ottaerB. And yet they have the Impudence to say the leformora are responeible for scpArace schools. ♦ THK AUENDBIENTS. Fii'st amendment, 1877, provided that the aBBeBHor jibould put on roll whether enp- porter of public and Kcparate eehoolH and provided for appeal to court of rovlBlon instead of the clerk having to do it, and no appeal from any miatakes he might make. Was that not a fair and proper amend- ment? How did It help Catbolicb? Was it not right to have appeals provided fort The second amendment, 1879, provided that the aBseseor should accept the; state* ment that a ratepayer was a Romga Catholic as prima facie evidence tbat^e was a separate school supporter. Thlsjpld l^^:bo)aCi?-^^c?l..MT| / tm \ > not and was not tDtended to relieve them from Rlyloff the statutory notice that they wtshed to bd separate ecbool supporters, and the court bo decided after full argu- ment by counsel on both sides and not on a one-f>lded statement of the case, like the tories at Ottawa submitted to the iavr offi- cers in EuKland on the Jesuit question. Read the court'd answer to third question: Is or Is not the assessor boand to aocept the statement of, or made on behalf of, any rate- payer under section IZO (2) of the public schools act, in case he is made aware or ascertains be- fore completing his roll that sach ratepayer is not a Boiflbn Catholic or has not given the notice required by section 40 of the separate schools act, or is for any reason not entitled to exemption from public school rates. And this court in answer to third question doth declare that— The assessor is not bound to accept this state- ment of, or made on behalf of, any ratepayer under section 120 (2) of the public schools act, in case he is made aware or ascertains before com- pleting his roll that such ratepayer is not a Ro- man Catholic or has not given the notice requir- ed by section 40 of the separate schools act, or is for any reaiion not entitled to exemption from public school rates Now, what were Meredith and his friends doing at that tim« ? The tory member for £aBt Peterboro moved an amendment to. the bill proyidiDK that every Roman Catholic sbonld be deemed ipso facto a separate school supporter, and tbat notice in writing shohtd be rf quired to be k'^^Q by a Roman Catholic ratepayer before school taxes levied upon his property should be applied la aid of the public Bobools. This was opposed by Hon. C. F. Fraser, the Liberal Catholic member of the sovern- ment, on the ground that it would moke separate schools compulsory, and he would not vote for or support anything, even if it would benefit his co-religionists, if it was not right. He said: "He desired that nothing should appear in the act which might be claimed nnconstitu- tional. The fundamental principle of the sep- arate school was that it was permissive." Mr. White, onr of Meredith's chief lieu- tenants, replied to Mr. Fraser and pitched Into him for not supporting the member for East Peterboro. "Mr. Crooks (who was the minister of educa- tion at the time) said this would elevate the separate school system into a rival of the public schools. The British North America act pro- vided that existing privileges of separate school supporters should be continued, but this amend- ment would make the separate school compul- sory. The principle of separate schools." Mr. Crooks continued, "whether Protestant or Catholic, was simply permissive, and he was not prepared to go so far as to guarantee any support to them. His (Dr.Sullivan'B) contention was that not only should every Roman Catholic be regarded as a separate school supporter, but be should not be regarded as a public school sup- porter unless he gave notice. He (Mr. Crooks) was only in favor of an alteration of the law so far as the change was reqniied by pubUc neoea- dty. All he (Mr. Crooks) assumed to do was to provide tbat the assessor should do his duty." And yet this la the amendment which ydfta hear so much about, which even were it ^rong the toriea tried to make it worse. Third amendment, 1881. This is known as the landlord and tenant amendment and was passed for the following reasons: Some'loies there was a Catholic landlord and Protestant tenant and vice versa, and there was nothing in thi act to say which shoul ddecide who should pay the taxes. Now, in Lindsay the separate school taxes were muob less than public school t»xes, and it was found that Mr. Keenan and other large Catholic landlords were having their properties assessed to them instead of the tenants, so that separate schools should get the taxes. Mr. Grace, chairman of the public school board, objected to this and represented the matter to the govern- ment, who at once passed this amendment, declaring tbat as It was the tenant's child- ren who were educated and the tenant who leallv paid the taxes, because if the land- lord paid the titxes tbe tenant simply paid so much more rent— that the tenant should decide which school he should support and Protestant tenanta were thereby prevented from paying their taxes to separate schools because they were less. There were twenty cases of this kind in Lindsay and the separate school lost the taxes on over $80,(XX) worth of property by this amendment. Was this not right and fair, and the public schools were benefitted. Yet this is what Meredith would have you go back to. Fourth amendment, 1885. This is known as high school trustee amendment. Al- though there are separate public sohoils tbere are no separate high schools, and Catholics as well as Protestants have to support them. Now, this act simply pro- vides that separate school boards can ap- point one trustee out of seven. Is that not fail? But they say let the town councils or county councils appoint one, but they did not do it and for a very good reason. Where there are high schools, as in Lind- say, there is a union board of high rnd public schools, and they Jointly manage both. Now, If a Catholic was appointed by town or county councils he could vote upon public school matters. Electors, do you approve of it? The act passed by Mr. Mowat expressly provides that the hiah school trustee appointed by separate school trustees shall not vote on public school questions. Is that not right? INS7BCTOBS. The conservative platform is that public school inspectors should inspect separate schools. If you admit this, and are willing to give fair play, there should be some Catholic inspectors, as they would be in- spectors of public and separate schools. Now, how would you like to have a Catholic inspecting public scboolf? Re- formers say emphatichally "No." They have their separate schools, we can- not prevent that, but let them keep to themselves. We will not consent to their Interfering with public schools. Then they ■ay it is not fair that the separate school i\ O If t 1^ ^ •-4-, '■>»■ 0. o 3^ M ^ ^ ^ :5 ■J loHpeotors should be paid by the province out of general fundfi. Are not public school Inspectors paid out of general funds? There are two in Victoria appointed by county council and paid out of general funds contributed by Catholic and Pro- testants alike, and these inspect all the public schools In the county. Now there is only one separate school in the county, and the counties could not therefore appoint inspectors, and the province appoints an inspector to insoeot all stiparate schools in the province. Is not that fair ? BALIiOT ACr. In 1S82 when an Orange member moved to have ballot in both public and separate schools, Meredith epolce and this is his speech: "Mr. Meredith said at the time the Roman CatbolicB were askiog for separate sohools it was the coaservatlve party who supported them la their claim, and obtained from them, at the ri«k of loss of seats and inflaenoe. their now reoonrulaed rlKbts. It ill became the oommis- sloner to aocuse the hon. member of West To* ronto of bemg hostUa to the separate school sys- tem, and to attempt to make oat that this alleged feeling was shared by the oonservative Sarty. It was the leader of the government who ad been hostile to it, and had voted against the oonoesston of the right to have separate schools. While he reoogntzed the right of the Catholics to have separate schools, he did not see why no attempt should be made to improve the system. The oommissioner said that the bill mast be re- jected beoaase of the speech of the movar. Ac- cording to him, a bill was to be rejected, net on its merits, bat aooordlDg to. the speech delivered by the mover. He knew nothing of the state of separate sohools in Toronto, but so far as Lon- don was concerned he believed they were well oonduoted. He did not favor forcing the ballot system upon the separate school supporters if they did not want it, but he supported the pro- position to extend the ballot to the pablio school elections. ' This is his speech as reported in the Blail, which was then tLe tory organ. This wm the time he was irylag to catch the Catho- lic vote. Sir John Macdonald had just won the Dominion elections by pandering to Lower Canadian CatholicH, and Meredith thought he could do the same, to wit, see "Faces tor Irish electors," which Mr. Kerwin, who was paid for writing it, swears was approved of by Mr. Meredith, and his speech shews he agrees with it. Now there is not compulsory ballot in pub- lic schools, and why should it be forced on them if they don't want it. If they or some of them want it and can't get it, and think they have a grievance, let them resent their o«vn grievance)*; it does not concern ProteatantB. But do the peo*ple want it? The best answer to this is that the public HchooU in the tcwuHhips have not adopted it; and why, because it would be expensive and troubieoome for small school sections to go to the trouble of having ballots print- ed, with all the expense attendlnaa muni- cipal election. But if any Catholic elector has a grievance, and objects to the way the separate schools are rur, he has a very simply remedy by refusing to become a separate school supporter, or giving notice that he discontinues if he is one. TBK BUBBABOHY, The conservatives pretend to be right- eously indignant at the hierarchy as they say interfere with the management of the separate schools. The reformers object Just as much but there is no power to in- terfere, and Mr. Meredith does not pretend that he can prevent it. The matter is part of their religion, and the Ontario govem- ment cannot Interfere with it any more than they can with other doctrines of the Catholic church which they object to. Mr. fieredith said at Lindsay that the same thing occurred in New Jersey, and that they at once proposed to make it a highly penal offence to refuse sacraments or rites of the church to any person refusing to support separate schools. Now that Is a matter relating to crime, and criminal law is a matter within jurisdiction of the Do- minion government, and if the conserva- tives are sincere in the matter why don't they bring in and pass such an act where they have the power; but they are not sin- cere, and bring in buncombe resolutions to a house where they have no such power, simply to stir up religious cries. TjBACHKB'S. The conservatives say: "Make the teach- ers in separate schools pass the same ex- aminations as public school teachers." It cannot be done, and they know it. The original separate school act passed by them and guaranteed by the confederation aet, provides: "That persons qualified by law as " teachers in Upper or Lower Canada shall " be considered^ qualified teachers under "this act." This permits nuns to teach, and was so intended by the tories when they passed the act. All that could be done by Mr. Mowat has been doae. Ba^CK AND BBLIOIOUS CRIBS. The above completely answers the ,l>ase, cowardly religious cries, raised by the opposition. Bead what Principal Caven, the chairman of the Equal Rights Associa- tion, says In the Mail on 12th May, 1890:— "I must repeat what I said in a letter, "wblch you were kind enough to publish "on 30th April, that all attempts to make "party capital out of the separate school "quebtion are either ignorant or dishonest, "and will be diecountenanced by every fair "minded man who knows a little of Cana- "dian history. I desire therefore to say, I "apeak for myself, that the measures "adopted in regard to French schools ap- "pear to he satisfactory, as does the le^is- "latlon of last seRslon respecting separate "school supporters." Electors, what do you think of it! Can you trust Meredith and the conservatives with such a record. Look at the re- ^ cord of Mowat's honest government for the past 18 years, against which no charges jf' of corruption can be made. Look at bis v- management of the fioances and the surplus' he has, and then look at Quebec's debt of] $25,000,000 and theDomlnloadebt of nearly $250,000,000, and do not allow yourself to be inflaenced by false cries, but give the "grand old man" a rousing victory. ^4S \