The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-12

cry out that these are Goddess, inf
del schools" and must not be touch
ed by the faithful. After the actor
f of the Cincinnati School Board, by
which reading the Scriptures ant
singing were ruled out, mainly
through papaI influence, the "West
ern Watchman"-CathOIic organ-o
St. Louis, said:
ono vestige of religious truth car
be allowed to disgrace the hallowet
precincts of the schooI-room. If The
name of the author OF Christianity is
mentioned at all, he must be spoker
of as we would mention the name O
Mohammed, Julius Cesar, or NapO
Leon"
It is well known that in the city oi
New York Proteslants offered to read
the Douay Bible, bat the Romaniste
refused to do that, showing conclu'
sively, that on this question there can
be no compromise with Rome. She
seeks either to control the schools, or
to destroy them, in proof of which
give you another extract from the ST.
Louis Western Waterman:
"All we have to do is to break
down the irresponsible oIigarcby OIL
general School Boards, and substitute
local boards with power to select
teachers, text books, and course Of
instruction. Then by proper combi
nation and cooperation Catholic
boards might be secured in many
schools, and they, to all intents and
purposes, be turned into Catholic
schools ~
have already cited a passage from
Archbishop Hughes organ, the
"Freeman's Journal" to show that
the Romanists can never be appeased
by the exclusion of the Bible from
the schools. l now invite your at
tention to another extract from tha
same Journal to show how the pa
Ipists propose to settle this controver
Isy. On the 11th day of December
1860, the Freeman's Journal said:
"The Catholic solution of all thii
EmuddIe about the Bible-or-no Bible
School is, 'hands off, No State do
nation or tarution for any schools
You look to your children, and WI
will look to ours. We do not want t.
be taxed for Catholic schools. We d,
not want to be taxed for Protestant
or goddess schools. Let the Publ
School System go to 1ehere IL came from
the DerH."
But if be objected that this New
York Romish organ does not expires,
the feelings of the priesthood in tht
West, let the organ of Archbishop
Purcell speak. The Cincinnati Cath.
oIc Telegraph says:
"The secular school system is a so
ctaL cancer ) the sooner it is destroyed
the better" And again.. "It will bt
a glorious day for Catholics in thi:
country, when, under the blows Of
Justice and morality, our school sys
tenn 1ctU be shirered to pieces. Until
then, modern Paganism will tri
umph."
To further show, and put beyond
controversy, the fact that there is an
irrepressible conflict between Roman.
ism and Public Schools, l invite at
tontion to a paragraph from "The
Tablet, ~ a Catholic organ ofhigh stand,
ing, published in New York:
''We demand of the State, as our
right, such schools as our church will
accept, or exemption from the school
tax. Ifit will support schools by the
general tax, we demand that it pro
vide or give US our portion Of the pub
lie funds, and leave US to provide
schools in which we can educate our
children in our own religion
1 believe 1 have now sufficiently
shown that all the clamor about the
Bible in the schools, is, on the part oI
the priests of Rome, a hypocritical
pretence. These men, mostly for
eigners by birth, and all of them
monarchists by their ecclesiastical
training, cannot sympathize with
American ideas. They see that Pope
ry must ultimately dissolve under the
influence of our institutions, and
hence they seek to undermine the Re
public, by destroying one of its in
dispensable supports.
/ l do by no means charge that the
Roman Catholic peOple, generally,
are in full sympathy with their spir-
itual guides, on this question. On
the contrary, 1 think that if they
we're let alone, they would willingly
send their children to the schools, and
would make little Or no opposition to
the Bible reading.
There are creduIOus people among US
who imagine that the venerable old
organization which, for twelve centu-
ries, has stood out before the world as
the personification of greed and cruel
/ ty, has become greatly Iiberalized IN
der the influence of our institutions.
L propose now to disabuse the minds
Of such, and show them that as soon
as Rome can grasp power here, she
will use it precisely as she does in It
ally. In consequence of its immense
foreign population, New York city is