The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1869-07-29
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BY THE EDITOR.

Quite number of young men--school teach
ers, who are Democrats, are taking the Standard
With such desire To have little talk. Areyou
in favor of the present free school system in
Ohio am. now have no children to attend
these schools; yet most willingly do pay nay
taxes for their support. The beauty of this sys-
TEN is, that the property of the State is made to
educate all the children of the State, The rich
man is compelled to educate the children of the
poor day laborer who tolls for him. Then the
rich cities are compelled to help educate the
children In the poor counties. Jackson county
receives from the State several thousand dollars
each year, of school funds, more than she pays
into the treasury. This comes from the rich
counties, such as Hamilton.
You, the school teachers Of jackson county,
do not receive as good wages as you should, and
have been working to secure you better wages;
yet, in the year 1868, Jackson county paid her
common school teachers the sum of $50, ,O64, 65.
A right neat little sum you got. The number of
ch ildren in jackson county who attended these
schools, and received the benefits arising from
the payment Of this money, was 1874. These
schools were in session in our county more than
half the year, or 70. so weeks. The whole num-
Der of teachers employed in our county last
year 1iG.
might continue these statistics, from the Re-
port of the Commissioner of Common Schools
but this is sufficient for my purpose. In these
schools nothing of a seetarlan or partisan char
acter is ever taught and never should be.
Now, deny 1t who will, an effort is being mado
to destroy our common schools. Read this,
taken from the Cincinnati Chronicle, a paper not
given to sensation articles. Read the extract in
it, taken from tho Catholic Telegraph:
THE COMMON SCHOOLS OF OHIO.
There is no subject in which every man and
woman is more deeply Interested than in that of
common schools. The common school system
| has been the pride and boast of the free North
| for years, while the want of such system has
been the great drawback to the South. In the
education and Intelligence Of the masses we have
| hope for the future of the Republic. In the
| present system the children of the poor have
! equal opportunities with those Of the rich. Ger
tainly, of all Others the aboring men and men
! of small means are those most deeply interested
In keeping our common schools as they arc, un
trammeled by sect or creed, free to all, and open
to all, from the highest to the lowest II we
! yield to the clamOrs of any one church for d.
vision of the school fund, there will be no end
to the demands until the whole system of COM
mon schools Is In ruins,
The rich man now pays his taxes willingly,
heavy as they are, for the support of the schools
because he knows that free schools are the bull
| warks OF free institutions and prosperity Of the
nation, But just as soon as the Church puts In
a claim and demands his money TO spend In
! preaching this or that dogma, prejudice will
arise which will result most dlsastrOusly to the
interests OF education.
We regret that this question is being pushed
before the people but, ignore 1t as We will, it
! has been done, and II must be met and answered
by the people politically.
We cut the following from the Catholic Tele-
! graph, Published in this city July IA. After emu
meratng the evils resulting to the souls of
Catholic children from the Common School sys-
TEN, the editor saysI
1.-THE only remedy for these and many other
evils is the one which natural justice and d ivine
! law suggest, either divide the school fund or
! cease taxing for school purposes. A hundred
thousand Catholics of this city do not beg but de-
mand It. Six millions OF Catholics throughout
the country have but one voice In this matter
They must be heard
We are inclined to the belief that the editor
will be understood as to his meaning, And as
the VERY Rev. f. PURCELL Is the editor, IL can
be taken as authority. And We must say that
while we dislike the sentiments, we like the
! plain and fair expression of the Views OF the
| Catholic Church on this question. There Is no
concealment, no whipping around. n hundred
thousand Catholics in is city do mol beg but demand
H." Six million Catholics throughout the coun.
try hare but one roice in This matter" VIII there
be any oppositlon1
Gen. Rosecrans is Catholic, and although
the Governor of Ohio has little power, yet 1t Is
one step forward in leading the Democratic party
into the plan of destroying our school system.
VIII you contribute, by your votes, to this work2
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