ear the sympathies of
the companies. Before how many Boards of Directors is the matter
brought up? The local manager is the one who deals with the problem,
and he often is a stranger to the laws of the Province, with no
sympathy for separate schools. Facts, stubborn facts, are there to
prove our contention. In no city of the Province of Saskatchewan is
the Separate School Board getting its part of Company-taxes. This is
one of the reasons why our rate is often so high when compared with the
Public School rate, and why our Boards are crippled in their finances.

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This simple reasoning should appeal to every fair-minded man. This
change of legislation we advocate in the matter of Company-taxes, is
not a favour we beg--but the mere recognition of a principle of
distributive justice we ask.

NOTE. 1. The argument as presented herein is still stronger when
applied to Companies of public utilities such as tramways, express
companies, etc., for their nature and profits depend absolutely on the
public.

NOTE. 2. SCHOOL LAW OF QUEBEC PROVINCE IN THE MATTER. No. 2892.

"When immovable property of such corporations and companies is within a
territory, placed under the administration of two corporations of
school commissioners of different religious beliefs, established in
virtue of Article 2590, the corporation which comprises the greatest
number of rate-payers entered on the valuation roll, shall be bound to
levy the taxes affecting such property and to divide the same
proportionately to the number of children from five to sixteen years of
age residing in each municipality."--62 V. c. 28, s. 399.

[1] This memoir was presented to the Premier of Saskatchewan at a time
when this problem was widely discussed in the Press. As the
legislation, then enacted, did not bring a satisfactory solution we
thought that the argument as presented would be of service for a future
date.

CHAPTER XI.

DREAM OR REALITY[1]

_Higher Education in Western Canada--Duty of the Hour--University
Training Condition of Genuine Leadership--For Catholics Higher Education
means Higher Catholic Education--The Concerted Action of all Catholics in
Western Canada can make a Western Catholic University a Reality._

Never has the world manifested a keener and more general interest in
higher education. The facilities which Governments offer to place within
the reach of the mass of the people