the elections. Move in solid mass in
every state pledged to sustain the integrity of the public
schools."--_Cardinal McCloskey._

"The Roman Church alone is endowed with power to educate the
young."--_Cardinal McCloskey._

"Education outside of the control of the Roman Catholic
Church is a damnable heresy."--_Pius IX._

"Public schools open to all children for the education of the
young should be under the control of the Romish Church, and
should not be subject to civil power, nor made to conform to
the opinions of the ages."--_Pope Pius IX._

"When I see them drag from me the children, the poor little
children, and give them an infidel education, it breaks my
heart."--_Pope Pius IX._

"It is desirable, therefore, venerable brethren, that in
concert with your colleagues in the Episcopate, your efforts
and your zeal guard Catholic children from frequenting
schools in which their religious instruction is neglected and
open danger incurred of spiritual loss. Therefore we
vehemently desire, as has already been intimated to you by
the propaganda, that in approaching Episcopal meetings you
carefully discuss the measure that may best help to attain
this end. We wish you also to use earnest efforts that the
civil magistrates, who know full well that nothing is more
advantageous to the commonwealth than religion should
provide, by the enactment of wise laws, that the office of
teachings, which is carried on at the expense of the public,
including consequently the contributions of Catholics, should
contain nothing that stands in the way of their conscience or
runs foul of their religion."--_Pope Leo XIII._

We could go on and quote diabolical denunciations of our public
schools from hundreds and thousands of Catholic officials, as the
followers of Rome make no "bones" of declaring their animosity
towards the public schools of this country, and they are only waiting
for the time to arrive when they will be able to wipe from the face
of the earth every vestige of our public schools, and place in their
stead their parochial schools, which are nothing more nor less than
"mills of ignorance" and "institutions of superstition."

An institution of learning is something that is not desired by
Catholicism, for whenever you educate you destroy the doctrines of
Romanism, as the hosts of Catholicism cannot stand the