Excerpt from Speech on the School Question
In presenting myself before you this evening, to address you on the school question, it is but proper for me to state that I am not here as the representative of any creed, party, or class of men or women. I am here upon my individual responsibility, the volunteer advocate of the dearest rights, and the highest, and deepest, and broadest interests of every man, woman, and child in this country. I stand here to plead the cause of tens of thousands of people, who, misled by a false-tongued Press, look upon me almost in the light of a public enemy, seeking, by a division of the public school moneys on a sectarian basis, to appropriate to the Catholic Church the funds which of right belong to themselves, and ought to go toward the education of their own children. Sometimes, too, the timidity of friends does almost as much to deepen this false impression as does the open slander of enemies. My record for the last eighteen years on the school question is before the country, and I defy any man, friend or foe, to point his finger to the sentence, the word, or the syllable I have ever uttered in advocacy of dividing the school fund on a sectarian basis, or any other than a parental basis, without distinction of creeds, parties, or factions The views I come here to express are simply my own.
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