ore the courts it is an evident sign
that the legislation governing that issue has been either defective in
its basic principle or deficient in its proper application. Such has
been the case of the "Company-School-taxes" in the Provinces of
Saskatchewan and Alberta. Every court in the land has had to deal with
this problem, and if legislation is not changed and placed upon a more
just and solid basis, it will ever be a source of trouble for the
community.

Before dealing with the merit of this school question, we beg to state
that the time for co-operation in educational matters has come. The
day of wrangling and narrow conceptions has passed, we hope. If there
is a sacred liberty ever protected by the British flag it is surely
that of education.--The recognition and protection of ethical and
religious ideals are the most potent factors of the British Empire. He
is a true lover of British ideals who places himself upon that higher
level to judge the rights of minorities and the duties of majorities.
If our Province of Saskatchewan has not known the sterile struggles of
a sister Province it is because this principle has been respected and
protected by our legislation. In suggesting a remedy to our laws
governing Company-school-taxes, I appeal to that broad and fair minded
spirit which seems to characterize our banner Province of the West.
The solution we propose would give more satisfaction to the interested
parties and relieve the problem of its acrimony.

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In the Provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta the separate schools are
an integral part of the public primary educational system. They are
not parochial nor private schools, but public separate schools. Their
existence is not a favour conceded to the Protestant or Catholic
minority, but rather, the acknowledgement of a natural and
constitutional right. Therefore the separate schools come under the
common law. With the purely public schools, our separate public
schools share equal obligations and equal rights. The same official
inspection, the same qualifications for teachers, the same curriculum
of studies, the same school text-books are required in both cases by
the Department of Education. Equal right to public money is recognized
in the indiscriminate distribution of Government-grants. So both
schools stand side by side with equal duties and equal rights. If this
point of law had been kept in view no painf