The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-10

they know, which might be to the injury
OF their brsAdcloth, the announcement Of
the suit, creates quitss -eommotioH among
that circle Of distinguished gentry D.
W. Ingersoll Esq. has been reappoinssd
President of othe board of managers for
the State Reform School, for the ensuing
four years. The Roman Catholics made
an effort to have the Office filed by .
member Of their church, they have claim
ed the privilege TO intrude themselves
into tbs School once . week to the
hindrance fthe regular routine Of duties,
and school, to teach the children Of Cath
Ollie parents, the do0mGs of their church,
not much, tbs true, but straws show the
wayt the wind blows, and tho persevering
spirit Of the Catholic Church, seeking to
CONTROL the religious and educated inter
csts of the whole country, is worthy the
attention. of the protestant community
and oil those, that are not sdesirsus to
have our civil and religious. and edu-
cational privileges under the dominant
power of the Pope The movement to
have sectarian Catholic schools support
ed by appropriations Of the public money,
and shus gradually get, CONTROL OF the
public schools of our country, is not a
new thing, though not long unmasked as
to. the real object in view. gr,g s.. !:
+ The details of history are 50 plain on
this subject, that the way=faring man,
though fool, need not err in his con-
clusious. If they taught that, to be use
full, they must have q general education.
in order to fit them to understand the
tscience ofisgovernment, and to qualify
themselves to appreciate and enjoy the
detective franchise, and the liberties &C
corded all. men in this country. If they
taught that their first duty was to God,
their country, their felloWmen and to
themselves it would berWell But when
theyteach that their first duly is TO MOTHER
| CHURCH, and. that Mother church is an
ltalli6le and cannot err, though, despotic
In her government, and claiming to be
the head of,GlL eiga and ecclesiastical gov
ernmeut, denying the right to educate
the masses only in the dogmas OF the
church, not fitting them in the least for
self government, but in their ignorance,
entirely under the CONTROL OF the priests,
and in many instances the jesuites, the
secret police of the Pope, and the sworn
enemies of all that do not bow to the
scepter of the vicar of God, we can see
| that it only requires time, as things are,
to transfer the temporal power of the
Pope from Rome, to Washington.
The rebellion in Spain furnishes some
examples of the educational standing of
a catholic country The Ignorance of the
people there + is something incredible.
1t is estimated that less than one fifth of
the entire population can read and write.
The Schools were entirely under the con-
troll of the catholic clergy. The curricu-
lam consisted almost entirely of the cat
echism. There man was taught that
inquiry was sinful, that intellect must be
repressed and that credulity and sub
mission were the first of human attributes.
So it is in Ireland, in Mexico and in some
of the South American States. So it was
in Italy and Austria until the temporal
power of the Pope was shaken off and
set at defiance, for which the king Of
Italy stands communicates day So
it will be in time In the United States,
unless the American people anticipate
the matter, and q1nited in political mat
tiers turn the tide, and thus thwart the
design of the traitorous church to free
dom, and free government, and free in
situations. New York city is entirely
under catholic rule, and with some ex-
captions, the entire State, but as the city
often CONTROLS the politics of the State,
it may truly be said, that the whole State
is subject to papal authority. In eighteen
hundred sixty eight, the following offices
were filed by catholice, or by those re-
presenting that body in the city of New
York. Sheriff, Register, Comptroller,
City Chamberlain, Corporation Council,
Police Commissioners, President of the
Croton Board, Acting Mayor and Presi-
dent of the Board of Aldermen, President
of the Board of Councilmen, Clerk of the
Common Council, Clerk of the Board of
Councilmen, President of the Board of
Supervisors, five justices of the Courts of
Record, all the Civil justices, all but two
of the Police Justices, all the Police Court
Clerks, three out of four coroners, two
Members of Congress, three out of fivel
State Senators, eighteen OUT of twenty |
one members of Assembly, fourteen nine
teenths of the common council, and eight !
tenths of the supervlsors. In no Europe |
an country has the clergy of catholic
esta adjustment its hands more nearly |
closed upon the whole system of public
education than in New York. Nowhere |
in Europe is the hierarchy Of an establish |
ment appointed by the Papal See III such
absolute independence of the civil gov
eminent as there. And what they have
done there, they are trying to do in
every city and town of the United States.
I see its finger marks plainly in st. Paul,
which is largely catholic. | have heard
them teach their classes, and watched
the impress they wish to make
npon their minds, and considered its
result. The religious teachings of their
hostility to Professionalism is set forth In
the New York Tablet, the organ OF the