The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 49
An American's Right to Agitate
An American's Right to Agitate.
A false statement, and one daily heard, is that to ask for a calm talk on the merits and demerits of the existing page 25 system of schools, means no less than an attempt to favor ignorance, impede education, and break down all schools. It is an American's right to argue, find fault, discuss, agitate. Agitation is healthful; in this particular instance, it quickens the building of Catholic schoolhouses. A Catholic is the last one to be taunted with want of love for education. He has only to point to his schools dotting the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific. All other classes put together do not equal him in the number and efficiency of Christian Free Schools. Yet he is only at the beginning of his work.