THE EDUCATION BILL

Evening Star, Issue 11609, 20 June 1902, Page 3

THE EDUCATION BILL

Speaking at a meeting of the Hitehin Free Church Council on April 30, the Bev. Thomas Law, secretary cf the Free Church Council Federation, referred to the statement made by the Dean of St. Paul’s at Convocation that Board schools had lowered the morality and increased the vice and crime of thj country. Mr Law vigorously controverted it. He said that it was monstrous that any man occupying such an houorable and responsible position as that occupied by the Dean should have uttered words so shameful. Mr Law challenged the Dean from that platfrom, the first opportunity he had had of speaking in public since he had read the report, to produce a single illustration in support of his contention that the teaching of Board schools of that country had tended in any way to immorality. Mr Broadhnrst, M.P., was the principal speaker at a demonstration at Ipswich in opposition to the Education Bill. He never, in all his life, had read such a statement as that made by the Dean of St. Paul’s,

I who would probably be called upon by many I correspondent* to substantiate what he had J I uttered, without qualification or reservation, as a nutter of fact. i. ' 1