Catholic chlltlicn may lie sent thete, without endnngciing
theii moinl chaiactets." In New Yoik, Massachusetts, and
other slates the Catholics have such complete contiol of the
legislattues that this most unreasonable leanest lias been
Hiautod. The teal attitude of the ehuieh of Rome, towaid
our public school system, is well shown by an tntiele in n
leading Roman oigan, the Cincinnati Ctitholic Tekgniph, in
which they decline, "It will be a glorious day for the Catho
lics of this countiy, when, undei the blows of justice and moi
alily, oui fiee school system is sniveled to pieces." Sajs
Hishop Toebbe ot Covington; "The public schools aie infi
del .and godless, nnt' must theiefoie be avoided." The
bishop of Denvci icceiitly voiced the genet nl scntiinent of the
Catholic chinch, when he said: "Taxing of Catholics to sup
poit the public schools is oppiessinu "
Hut what is this fiee school to which Catholics aie so hos
tile? Review the e.nly histoiy of oui ovui imiuiit, fioin the
lauding of the pilgiinis to the adoption of the constitution,
and evidence of its inestimable woith won It may be found on
eveiy page. My leading and guiding out foiefatheis, well
did it cam its light to the title "(iuaidian Angel of the In
fant state." TJnough out whole national existence oui
gieatest statesmen, ablest politicians, biightest theologians,
our woithiest citiens, owe theii poweisto eaily tiaining ic
eeived in the public school. Such is the institution, which
the Catholics attack. This, it is, that accouling to thcii own
uttetanccs, they only undine because they lack, a-, jut, the
power to destiny.
Does anyone imagine that the ical nttitudu of Route is fa
voiable to education? (Jo to Catholic counttius, wltute she is
not compelled, in self defense, to piovide foi the education
of the masses. In Italy, the seat of the Papal powei, seventy
tlnce per cent, ot the inhabitants cannot lead or wiite. In
Catholic Spain, eighty per cent., and in Mexico, ninety-thiee
percent, belong to this class,
Thete aie in the United States neatly ten thousand Catho
lic piiests nil of whom, with i.ue exceptions, ate by bit th,
nnd by education, foreign to Aineiican institutions. All ate
swot n to obey the mandates of the Pope at Rome. I I.ue
Amuticans cause to feat their attempts to unite chinch and
state? Look to New Voik, wheie the continued victotius of
"Tnmntaiy" tell to all the stoty of theit stteugth. In Sena
tor Hill's convention, of Kebiuaiy 22, two delegates at-latge,
thitty-nine of the sixty-eight distiict delegates, and foity-two
of the sixty-eight alternates appointed, and a inajotit)
of the thiitj-six electors nominated, were Roman Catho
lies. So complete is theit contiol of the municipal govern
ment of Chicago, that they ate enabled to compel all police
men 1'iotestant as well as Catholic to pay a monthly tiib
ute to the Roman nuns. In San Francisco, the only 1'iotest
ants, who can obtain important municipal offices, aie of the
kind that give their sons away to the Jesuits, 01 their dattgli
tets to the nuns.
"The boy is fpther to the man." The childten of to-day
are the yoteis of to-niotiow, and upon t!e eaily tiaining of
the American youth depends our nation's future. Knowing
this, the church of Rome seeks to direct the instruction of the
tising generation. Not content with establishing and main
taining a patochial school system, nairov and un-American in
its aims and ends; not content with attacking and vilhfying the
Aineiican schools; not content with obtaining, in pattsof Mis
souti and Wisconsin, a division of the public school tax, it
even seeks to obtain contiol of the public school itself. So
effectual have its efforts been that, in Boston, Romish piiests
books the Protestant childten, attending the
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bidden by Roman pt elates to send thcii chihiien to the Aiuei
icatt schools, and no less authorities than Aiehbishop Kcene,
and Caidiual Cibbons justify ex-coinnuinicaticn as a punish
incut for this offense. In many parts of Iowa, the Roman cnt
achisnt is legulaily taught in the public schools. In Ttoy,
N. V., at the bidding of Catholic piiests, twenty-one e
pt'iienced l'loleslant tcacheis of unquestioned efficiency, weie
iccently icplaccd by Romanists. Over sevcnty"per""eentrof
the tenchcis in the Chicago public schools ate Romanists.
The patochial schools of Chicago, alone claim an attend
ancc of ovei fifty thousand. '1 hese childten aie ttained to
become loyal subjects to the l'ope tiaitois to their native
land, and all of the bo)s, ovei twenty-foui thousand in iiiint
bet, aie gien a most thoioiigh tnilitaiy tiaining, in oidci that,
as a Milwaukee ptiest declined, "when the time shall come
the l'ope of Rome will have but to stamp his foot, and thete
will atise, ft om Aineiican soil, an tu my of Romans." A few
ntoie llennett laws defeated; a few tnoie (lovcinot Pecks, and
Si'iutot Hills; a few tnoie tiiuniphs of the Catholic vote, and
the fate of oui countiy is sealed.
Let the paiochial school be banished, l.ct the political
powct of the chinch be biokctt. Allow to no one the poweis
and blessings of citienship, while he submits himself to the
dictates of a foieign powei. Let Ainuiican childten be
teaied in the fiee iitinospheie of Aineiican institution',, whetc
they may leant to sing "Hail Columbia," and not "Hail
Maty." Then may we icst seciue, that our countiy is safe
tiomthe ravages, which always attend a union of chinch and
state.
'lloro WorHhl."
In every age in which man has existed there have lived
pcisons who, ftom some supciiouty of physical, of mental
01 of motal woith, have been legatdcd by thcii fellows as
living upon a highct plane wheie no common foot (hue
tread with impunity. Among the ancients whose knowledge
ot the natuial laws was vety limited this homage paid to
supeiiot beings is easily muletsto.d. That the untutoied
savage should woiship .1 btave chieftain dining his life nnd
deify him aftei his death, is not stt.tnge to one who has wit
nessed the adotation bestowed upon gteat modem geneials
but that civilized people should bow down befote some idol'
be it c.lhei man, woman, 01 poodle dog and woiship it to the
utmost ol Uieu ability, just because fieedom of thought and
of action is allowable 111 the nineteenth centuiy, shows a
1nu11l.1l eondilion in those petsons that, in ninny tespects
little excels lite state of their tetnote ancestois.
The tuim "heio" is genetally used of peisons who by
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..... ,.w ... ...... v.. j . w. .n lUHn.t won universal aumit-
ation. The wotd nni), however, be used in another sense
an) piotninent 01 extraoidinaty pcison is a heio. Such a
heio is, lo a gieat degiee, the cieation of his woishippcis.
Hut since lite inajonty of wot shippets exetcisc little discte
lion as to whom they woiship, not all aie heioes in the true
sense of lite woid who teceive univeis&l admuation. One
neei' not possess inaivcllotts poweis to be woishiped. The
model 11 mind loves change and with that change excitement.
It little ntaltcis what the cause of the excitement may be.
Some divine causes an upt oat by his utterances; an authot
wutus a stattling book; a pugilist cleais the ting of his an
tagonist; and each finds thousands watting in anxious expec
tancy to bung a new hero to the fiont. People peteieving
this desne foi the sensational and pethaps as anxious for
then next meal as foi the notoiiety they will icceive, make a
good living oil the gnllabiltty of the public. They swim ihe
Ntagaia, they swallow swoids, st.ut tjew ,eJjglonh,nml,.KUlg.
