THE EDUCATION STRUGGLE IN ENGLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 14285, 1 February 1907, Page 9

THE EDUCATION STRUGGLE IN ENGLAND.

TO THIS JIDITOK. _ Sir,—-Let an Englishman and a political Nonconformist correct one of your correspondent’s numerous mistakes. More than fifty yeans ago I was expelled from school merely for absence from the parish church on Sunday and attending divine service elsewhere; Then I became a “political Nonconformist.” never attending an Anglican service afterwards in England. Thus tor half a century 1 have watched and worked in the struggle and never heard one of our party unjust ®Kum to want to “ confiscate schools ” or other things belonging to Anglicans. The charge is unjust, made, no doubt, in ignorance. But 1 have known many cases where Nonconformists have had their money, animals or other tilings “confiscated” for the benefit of the small minority of people which calk itself the national church. Innocent, children have been expelled from State-support-ed schools for attendance at dissenting E lares of worship. To chers also have een cruelly persecuted. The tyrannical Tories, hereditary and Episcopal, must be expelled from the House of Lords to make room for be' ter men.— I am, etc., , MELIORA.