140 Wellington St. THE MOST IMPORTANT CANADIAN PUBLICATION OF THY DECADE THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF SIR WILFRED LAURIER BY OSCAR DOUGLAS SKELTON 700 pages. Illustrated. (BOXED), 2 Vols. PRICE $8.00. NET. Royal 8vo. BISHOP FALLON'S ADDRESS | i (Continued from Page 1.) possession of Great Britain. One of {the first things I want to say is that |there is a common mistake with re- {gard to denominational schools. Tae {majority of you are under the impres- |pfon that Catholics started denomi- | national schools in 'Canada, bu that idea is far away from the mark. | The first mention made of denomi- national--schools in the history of | British Canada is in a letter trom a member of the British government tn | Governor Murray in 1763, just three | years after Canada passed from pos- | session of the French to the British. In October of 1763, the colonial min- THR DAILY BRITISH |COULDN'T DO HOUSEWORK HEART WAS SO BAD Many women get weak and run down and unable to look after their household duties owing to the heart | action becoming impaired or the | nervous system unstrung. + Nature intended women to be strong, healthy and happy instead of | {sick and wretched. But how can a | woman be strong and healthy when day in and day out she has to gO | | throught the same routine of work, Sweeping, dusting, cooking, washing, | jete. Is it anf wonder that the heart | becomes affected and she gets irrit- {able and nervous, has hot flushes, | faint and dizzy spells, smothering and | sinking spells and can't sleep at he Best Gif are the useful kind--why not consider some of the follow- + ing good things: An Ideal Christmas gift. Now ready. AT R. Uglow & Co. ister, writing from London, England, notified Governor Murray that it was | the intention of the government to |estabilsh a series of denominational | schools in all the parishes of Canada in order that the inhabitants mig: be brought up in the Protes:- ant religion. It was the intention of the governmnet of Great Britain to establish these throughout Canada, which then meant mainly the pro- vince of Quebec, and would assure that the children of this province (which was then 95 per cent. Catho- [ 1c) would be brought up in the Pro- testant faith, Denominational Schools. "That is only a side remark, but is the answer to saying that Catho- lies started denominational schools in Canada. Before 1841, when Low- er and Upper Canada united in a 3 larger nation, the various non-Catho- lic bodies in both made frequent ap- peals to the home government and to the governor of the colony for re- ligious schools for their own denomi- nation. In 1841, by the Act of Unio, both, by process of legislation, be- E ", JS hy Baby sOwn {| came one political unit. At that time, D ON'T stop to worry an [ penple in Quebec were 90 per cent. / - Ee Instant if you _ break Catholic, and the people of Ontar:o your glasses. Bring the ! f wore nearly 90 per cent. non-Catho- broken pieces to us and wo Fie will make lenses for you The Protestants of Quebec were that will exactly fit the origi- > Wi W | not satisfied to Jeave their education- nal prescription. It is the arin e me (1) § lal interests to their Catholic fellow- proper thing for any eye that province. I don' glass wearer to consult us NICKEL PLATING Sitivene in Education is so sacrad in the case of an emergency AND BRASS FINISHING blame them. ! or any other person who is ow ested to do his ork. that I don't think it is a wise thing M facturin 'ire Fencing, ower lp it te troubled with defective vis- auutse "Border Gunrde, ote: for any minority, if it can Bel : : 29 ion, for we are thoroughly PHONE 380. | entrust its educational rights Sh competent to wait upon their future to a majority that is of anot = er religious faith or persuasion, and needs. HAMS I am the last man to utter anything 7 PILL: against the action of the Protestants Quebec in 1841, the dissent Sweeten the Stomach Dr. Po SakpLE Wond ient Protestant minority of Her Majesty in 1841, as it was SAMPLES ander 50.000 one dollar ($1.00) bottles Free to horsemen who give the 62 KING ST. Ww. - - Registered Optometrist Opp. Post Office r called, claimed the right to pro- tect themselves against the Catho- | lic majority, well, I say, that speak- | ing inthe name of my own people in | Ontario, 'ves, give the Protestants of | Quebec the fullest guarantees out Wonder a fair trial. Guaranteed for || give us the same,' and that the basis polle, ion of he Lungs. upon which all subsequent common clo Beng 356 for Maine Decmper | school legislation in the two prov- ote ol ECs Wanted. Write your |inces of Quebec and Ontario should Rainy KINGSTON, Ont. be, that the rights of the Queen's Protestant subjects in 1841 in the province of Quebec should be the lim- it, and the standard and the measure of rights of the Queen's Roman Ca- tholic subjects in the province of | Ontario. YOUR PROTECTION! BURGLARY INSURANCE Cy S. KIRKEPATRICK 36 Clarence St. Telephone 58Sw. Separate School Act, [ "In 1863, a Separate School Act | whe passed, fo the Catholics of the declaration of the leading states- men of the day and of the superin- tendent of education was to give to the Roman Catholics of Ontario pre- cisely the same privileges and rights in education as were in the pos- session of the Protestant minori'y in Quebet, and the Hon. Egerton Ryerson, then superintendent of public school education, declared in a letter to Sir John Macdomald that he had gone carefully through ths act of 1863, comparing it with the document that gave educational privileges to the Prtoestant minority in Quebec and declared that the act of 1863 gave to the Roman = Cath- olics of Ontario the same things as the preceding legislation had given to the Protestants of Quebec. And that is all that we are asking. If any- body should ask you, 'what do you want?' All that we ask is the same honorable strajghtforward treatment in education for the Roman Catholic minority in Ontario as is given to the Protestant minority in Quebec. Tha: | all, but that is a great deal. But I would be ashamed ¢f having been born and educated in Ontario and >t having lived for four-fifth of my life here if I had to believe that the Roman Catholics of Quebec would deal more honorably and generously in a matter of such supreme impor:- ance than the Protestants of my own, native province. If I believed that, I would be ashamed. We are offering Twenty-five Only-- Special 15 Jewel Gold-Filled Ladies' Bracelet Watches for . . . . $20.00 each Out-of-town Mail Orders filled promptly. R. J. RODGER Jeweler - . . 132 Princess St. * Question of Rights. "I am perfectly lonest when I say that #f we can only reach with our case the ears of our non-Catholic fellow-citizens in this province, the vast majority will say: 'you must have the full rights guaranteed io you under the Constitution." Now, what were these rights? There would have been no Canada in 1867 or suh- sequently, if there had not been a mutual agreement about the educa- tional rights of religious minorities. The province of Quebec would not Christmas Suggestions IN FOOTWEAR Why not give gobd, cal gifts that give lasting joy. sensible gifts of Footwear? Practi- Here are splendid suggestions: --SKATING BOOTS --BOUDOIR SLIPPERS ~--OVERGAITERS ~--RUBBER BOOTS ~--EVENING SLIPPERS : rer SLIPPERS ~~LEATHER HOUSE SHOES ~--MOCASSINS ~--QVERSHOES ~--DRESS SHOES SHOP EARLY Allan M. Reid SHOE STORE LESS RUSH BETTER CHOICE world to physic your liver and bowels when you ha {a8 the best remedy to tone up tho | organs. night. 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In the pre-| face of that section and in the four! clauses which constitute it, one thing | is made clear: the Protestant minor-| ity in the province of Quebec and the | Catholic 'minority in the province of| Ontario should be on a footing of | SHOP EARLY AND GET BEST CHOICE ~ Abernethy's Shoe Store SLIPPER TREES For Ladies equality and their educational rights are guaranteed by that document, the { constitution of this country. What did the British North America Act give us? It gave us a complete com-| mon school system, by which I mean! a school system that takes th child | from the alphabet and brings him | to the entrance of the university, | or, gives him his qualification as a| school teacher in the province. | That was the common school system | from 1863 to 1867, and from 1867 to 1871. The constitution Baye us a complete common school system. | but. it gave us no university rights. 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This, common school system from alpha-| which brought considerable advan- bet to entrance of university and the [tage to the public common school Separate common school system from | system had 'absolutely no - bearing alphabet to entrance to university). | upon the separate common school The difference is this: While the system and could not have any bear- province of Ontario has power to ing upon it. Constitutionally, it was legislate concerning the public com-| meant that the Act of 1871 should mon school system, it had no power | have no bearing whatsoever, should ay that would'in-| limit in no sense the separate com- y with the sep-/mon school system and in fact when That is a fact.| John Sandfield McDonald, at It is beyond the power of the pro-itime Prime Minister of this Prov- vince of Ontario to legisiate in any ince, introduced this Act, Hon, Ed- harmful way against the separate | ward Blake, then a member, asked: common school system. 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