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which the organic people should return i s : “This is a Chris tian State; the public school system is its agency for build ing up a Christian citizenship; morals and religion, so far as they are essential for discharging the functions of Christian citizenship, shall be taught in our public schools; and the school funds shall not be divided.” While Cardinal Gibbons can have President Taft and his cabinet, the Judges of the Supreme Court, Senators and Representatives attending mass in the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Washington, the great political parties bidding for the solid Roman vote in national elections, and our national policy in the Philippines dictated by the Vatican, Rome may reasonably expect to capture our pub lic schools through the Philippine educational policy. But our blessed Lord is upon the throne and His cause shall prevail.
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