The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-09-23

and the priests at least VIII not IalI ID
their performance. The Roman Catholic
laity in New York and Ohio have no
choice but obedience. That the Demo
cratic leaders can carry their party with
them is not so certain, and without the
aid of the Democratic vote the papal fac
! ton will sink into ruin and obscurlty.-
This, no doubt, will be the final termina-
ton of the school question every where.
In the conclusion of his fine defense OF
public education, Judge Taft says: The
Democrats must bear the responsibility
of encouraging this sectarlan war upon
the schools If it will court priesthood
by such means, let it bear the odium.-
| We may only hope that both parties to
this transaction may receive such les
son in October as will discourage any fur
ther traffic of the kind.
| Ohio, almost the central State of the
Union, surrounded by its swift rivers and
tranquil lakes, the home of an intelligent
and cultivated population, full OF the
promise of future progress and prosperi-
| ty, has beenfchosen by the Roman Cath
olic priesthood as the scene of their first
open attempt to enforce their supremacy
by political intrigue. Fortunate would
it be for the nation and the continent
should they receive so complete an over
throw as may show them and their allies
the real strength of American principle.
Within the last twenty years the rapid
growth of the papal power among US has
poisoned the sources of our civilization
with European barbarisms From the
union of the corrupt Democracy and the
papal priests has sprung up class OF pol
iticlans to whom the very maine OF Tree
dom is odious, because it was ever the
symbol of honesty and purity who have
willingly sold their integrity for the-prof-
its of Office, and sunk into servlle obe-
dience to the foreign Church. Where
ever the Democracy and the papal priests
have triumphed together in our elections,
they have placed in Office men odiously
vicious, thievish, brutal, and ignorant, or
else the companions and the allies. OF
thieves. The Democratic politicians who
have ruled in our ultramontane centres
have usually been traitors, or even the
leaders of rebellion; public robbers in
private vicious beyond example. The
Cincinnati Enqairer, a Democratic paper
admits that the last Ohio Legislature, or
at least that portion of it elected by the
Roman Catholics, and which obeyed the
commands of the priests, was the most
infamous Assembly the State had ever
known; that they sold their votes for
petty bribes, and covered up their crime
by hasty adjournment. The same class
of men. or worse, have ruled New York |
for twenty years by the aid of the foreign |
Church. 1t is needless, indeed, to repeat |
the story of our fate. Every year has |
produced new proof of Democratic cor
ruption and fraud, and of enormous rob-
berries committed under the shelter OF a
foreign Church, which has never denied
the right of asylum to its own assassins
and thieves Democratic leaders plum
dered the Sinking Fund of the State of
81, 100000, the canals of limitless sum,
the city of New York nearly of its credit
and good name, and the nation almost of
its existence. In every other State where
the foreign Democracy has gained tenn
porary control it has been equally dam
gerous and daring-in Ohio, Connecticut,
New Hampshire, Missouri. There is no.
where any difference in the product of
the conspiracy of the Democrats and the
priests, and every politician who sells his
honor and influence to Rome sinks into
moral languor and decay. There is, in
deed, no more curious subject of study
than the effect of the growth of the papal
influence upon our Democratic politicians,
and the swift rise among them, under the
of the foreign Church, of char
acters and practices that would do no dis
credit to the days of the Borgians. A
Fisk, or Tweed, is only the most no
torious of dangerous throng of inferior
politicians.
The note of reform has come from Ohio.
In all its tasteful cities and villages its
people rally against the growth of papal
oarbarism Admirable, pure, and !
thoughtful men lead on the ranks of the
1t is as if the honesty and
Intelligence of the State had arisen in de-
iense of knowledge and of education, of
American principles and social progress
The school question" has given to poll !
tics a nobler aim; and the Republican ]
,ictory in Ohio in the fall will be remem-
oered by countless and grateful genera
ions as the first impulse of reaction and Is
'eform against that tide of foreign cor !
upton which for twenty years has been {
lowly sapping American institutions. s