Download or read book The Manitoba School Question written by James Emile Pierre Prendergast and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Manitoba School Question: Speech Delivered in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, on the 10th and 12th Days of March, A. D. 1890 Some are, comparatively speaking, of minor importance but were the greater number accepted as proven, then Roman Catholics are not to be relied upon, they are not to be trusted, in fact they are not even fit to be ordinary citizens. Yes, for months past, the worst abuse, the most stinging insults, have been catered to us as our daily bread. Gentlemen who have toiled and suffered for twenty. Thirty and forty years in this country, who have devoted their whole lives to this sacred cause of education, whose names command a universal feeling of veneration through the length and breadth of this Dominion, have come to be charged with being nothing more than vulgar embezzlers. These, perhaps, were not the exact words, but I will show in a moment whether this is not the clearest inference possible. To begin with, Catholic schools are said to be secret. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.