The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-16
IMPORTATION WANTED.

The FTeeRGn'S Journal, the acknowl-
edged head and front of the Catholic
Democratic Press of the United States,
says in a recent issue:
There is, nominally, within the Dem
ocrsttie party a secret organization, ram
flied, less or more, through most of the
States of the Union, and proposing to
come to a head next year, in the general
election, Federal and State.
This, from a Catholic standpoint, is
ominous. What does it mean? Has the
recent advertisement in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, calling for a meeting at Lafa-
yette Hall ''for the purpose of organ
izing a new Catholic Independent Mill
tia anythingto do with it? Or has the
Set recently made known that in Niles,
TrumbulI county, large Catholic mill
tary organization drills regularly behind
barred doors and darkened windows any
significance in connection with this ''se-
cret organization in the Democratic
party" which is to 'come to a head"
next year2 Where do these Catholic
military organizations get their arms,
and by what authority of law are they
allowed to organize and drill a large
military force in "A peaceful State, the
designs and objects of which are un-
known to the people and Government of
che Slater And again, is this ''secret
organization within the Democratic par
ty" and the 'Catholie Military Militia"
advertised to be organized at Lafayette
Hall, part of the same organization,
and is the Niles contingent, which Is
being secretly drilled, a part of the same
force2 All these are questions of alarm
ing moment to those who have but re-
Gently heard our free institutions de-
nouneed as "Godless," 3" "heretical, 4" in
quisitorial, " Outrageous, etc. Bishop
McQuaid, in his Cincinnati address said:
''The Spanish Inquisition punished
with torture; the Bismark Inauisition
punishes by throwing men into dun
geons: the american IRqUiSitiOn pun
iSheS 6y taxation"
Are these subjects of the religious
hierarchy, OF which Bishop McQuaid is a
high magnate, being organized and
drilled to oppose this American Inqui-
sition," viz: the system of general taxa
ton for school purposes2 That the whole
power of the Catolic Church is reaehing
out, seeking and forming alliances for
the overthrow of our free school system
cannot be denied The Bishop, in the
same address, above quoted, says:
81 stand here and say, that unless we
bring this thing of the school tdceS TO the
public ballot, zoe do not deSeTDe the name
Of Catholics. 1t may not be necessary
to bring it to the ballot box; we may, by
making demand, effect compromise;
we may obtain platform on which we
nay stand. Politicians mill come TO us.
As for who they expect to compromise
with, aid what politicians they expect
to come to them, we are not left in the
dark. We have the evidence of Bishop |
PurceII's organ, the Catholic Telegraph,
in the following language:
We have prior claim upon the Demo-
CTelJlC DIRTY. 11C
the Democratic party in Ohio to-day
fully two-tilirds of said party-are made |
up of Irish and German Catholics, and /
they have always been loyal and faithful
to the interests of the party. Hence the
pGrty is under obligations 10 as, and zoe
isdce a l1eEfect right to demand Of them,
as party, inasInnch as they are in con-
troll of the State Legislature and State
and We by both our means
and votes placed them where they are
today, that they should as z party re-
dress Our grievances.
And in this party, says the RreemGn'S
is the 'secret organization"
which is to "eOme to head" next year,
Of which the TrumbuIl county secretly
1rilIed battalion, and the Lafayette
aaH independent Catholic Militia"
nay be iustly regarded as component
PARTS Friends of free schools, how do
1ou like the outlook?