The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-09-09
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
Shall We have an Established
Church?

They have an established church in
New York. Shall we have one in Ohio I
If you do establish church in Ohio,
you may depend it will be "diseStab-
lished" at a very early date. When alI
of Europe is disbanding the Catholic
Church politically, are we in Ohio to
establish iti Are we Republicans Of
America to accept what Europe has
rejected with lOathing, sick at the StOm-
ach, with the load Of its atrocities?
What is the proposition to amalga-
mate the public schools, but simply to
teach Romanism in the public schools :
Is it anything elssi Can you make
anything else Of iti Our public school 8
are founded on two ideas /. That the
children of the Republic shall be eda-
Gated ia the common branches of learn
ing; and 2. That the whole system,
tax, schools, instruction, teachers, and
all shall be equal and uniform to all classes
Of people.
Will this principle be maintained
when you give the public buildings aud
the public teachers to teach Romanism?
What else does it mean, when you give
the public school houses, after school
hours and on school days, for the Ro-
man Catholic priests to teach what they
please7 What is their idea in it?
What is your idea? Now answer me
fairly (for the thing is OF Importance in
the future), do you, who assent to this
proposition, mean to set apart one Of
the public school buildings to the Epis-
copaliaSs, another to the Baptists, an
other to the Methodists, and 80 on, to
teach their particular dOgmasi And, if
it be not, what do you mean to answer
to the public mind3 That you have
given to the Roman Catholics privi-
leges which you do not mean to give
to Methodists and Presbyteriansi Re-
member that when the Roman Catho-
lie school buildings are ceded to the
Education Board, they are public build
ings, and that whatever you give to
the Roman Catholics you must give to
all others. Are you prepared for that?
And what is to bO the result of it if
you do?
Why do the Roman Catholics want a
part of the public money? And ,Ohy are
they willing to assent to this new
scheme, devised, no doubt, by some
Jesuit mind? First, because they want
no religious ideas taught but those of
Romanism second, because, therefore,
they are unwilling to let their children
go into the public schools where ,Ro-
manism is not specifically taught
thirdly, because to keep up tiIsir see
tartan schools is expensive and burden
some on a people-most of whom are
poor; fourthly, hence they want the
PrOtestants to help pay for Roman
schools!
There is no use in Disgusting the
truth on this subject. 1t is plain as a
nose on mans face. Father A. said
the other day to a gentleman that
"they would fight the public schools to
the end; that they were conscientious;
that they believed that religion should
be taught specifically" So do be-
lieve that it should be taught By the parents
and the church. These are the God
ordained means of teaching, and why
are not Roman Catholics willing to
abide by them? Every conscientious
Presbyterian mother'in the land teaches
her children to read their Bible, to say
the Cathecism, and their Command
ments, and to be GOd-fearing and law.
abiding. Wouldn'tit be better if some
of the people who have come from the
Roman Catholic countries Of Europe
to e1lighten us dark minded Ameri.
cans, had been brought up in some such
system? Father A., when asked why
he did not depend on the parents and
the church, said, ooh, you know Oul
people are ignorant, and the parents
can not teach them!" Exactly, and, il
the name of common sense, why dom
you try to snlighten their parents ant
get them out of this state Of darkness
If the Roman Catholic priests wanted
religion taught specifically lin which
think they were right, and neither pa.
rents nor public schools could teaCE
Romanism, they were strictly right in
setting up their parochial schools, under
their own management. But, if so, fol-
what earthly purpose do they want to
give them up to the public schools
The covering. is too thin, the pretex
too fimsy to deceive any human being
with bis eyes open. They want to tescl
Romanism at the public expense! Tha
is the breadth and length Of it. The
Jesuit mind is very acute, and yer,
we'll educated, but it will have to ge
up very early in the morning to doCeiv,
a genuine American.
No restriction-no difficulty Of am
kind-no obstruction, or opposition i
put in the way of Roman Catholics
which is not put in the way of all othe
scots. What do they complain of
The doors of the public schools ar
wide open, night and day to ever,
child Of the Republic. Do they asl
that their children shall have peculia
privileges? Well, that modest reques
will not be granted, and if the CounCi
Of Cincinnati shall undertake to gran
il the State of Ohio will take the matte