The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-07-01

The Catholic UnjUerse, published
in Cleveland, has the following in
relation to the charge that the Cath
olics intend to attempt to destroy
the common school system, to which
we invite the prayerful attention of
the editor of the Eaton Register,
who has ':jim jamed' himself and
terribly bored his readers, oy
savage diatribes upon this question,
and heart-rending appeals to vote
the Republican ticket, keep him in
office and thus save the country from
being completely "chawed" up by
the Pope:
Cline and again have Catholics
repudiated all intention of destroy
ing the public schools. Time and
again have they denied all utilization
with the Democratic party for this
or any other purpose. Yet u Rad
ical contemporaries, and %conspicu-
ously among them the Cleveland
Herald, insist OF fastening on them
that intention and this utilization.
But our journalistic friends have
overshot the mark. We call them
friends, for though their daily at
tacks upon us seem otherwise, yet
are some of them friendly to u.s.
The people whom they would infu-
ence are beginning to see their OBJ
Iject and despise its dishonesty. Po-
litical capital is their aim. Truth,
honesty, good-fellowship must be
sacrificed if the party that for fifteen
years has ruled the country, and
grown arrogant in the possession of
the spoils of office, can only retain
power and patronage"
The UnicerSe, in further remark
ing on the alleged alliance of Cath
olics with Democrats, says:
"But whence this bugbear of a
Democratic alliance? The sayings
of individual Democrats and journal
lists are cited to sustain it. What
right have individuals to speak for
the great body of Catholics? But
was not the Geghan bill passed by a
Democratic Legislature? True; but
there were Republicans pledged to
vote for it, if their Votes were need
ed. And now that the excitement
of the moment has passed away, that
preachers and journalists have shout
ed themselves hoarse about Romish
aggression in connection with it, and
that men have come to find that it
gives Catholics no exclusive rights
that the Constitution had not already
secured them, it is strange that it
should continue to be made a matter
of reproach to the Legislature for
having passed it. Minnesota pass
ed a bill of the same tenor, and the
Northwest is still secure; Massa-
chusetts passed a bill of the same
tenor, and the home of Puritans did
not disgrace itself before the world
by howlings about Romanish aggres-
sions, and encouraging a resuscita-
ton of dead and damned Knownoth-
ingism. But Ohio must be an ex-
ception.
That the majority of Catholics are
Democrats is true. But they are sc
because the Know Nothing tendency
and the Puritanic spirit of Republi.
canism have made them SO. We
speak not in the interest of any par
ty. but we cannot help saying that
Republicanism lives by aggressive
hobbies. 1t first hobby was hatred
of foreigners. Its second hobby was
abolition of slavery. In this we be
lieved, but not in the means of &C
complishing it. It's third hobby
was a crusade against all kinds o
Intoxicating beverages. In this too
we belive, but not the false doctrin,
that those beverages are bad in them
selves, or that men should not be Ii
censed for the sale Of them. 1t
present hobby is prescription o
Catholics. But like the temperate
hobby it will find that this will nc
work. If Catholics join, and hav,
in the past joined the Democrat
l ranks, it is and vas because of th
, meddling, encroaching spirit of Pu
ritanism.