The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-08-26
GENERAL GARFIELD.
his Literary Hablts-fhe Catholic
school Question.

! his Literary HabIts-The Catholic
I School Question.
! Garfield lives in hOme-like, mod
est, unpretentiJUs house, opposite
Franklin Squars,-One Of the most
attractive lCeatinns in Washington
city In cheerful upper chamber,
whlch-hz b,-en stripped Of its flesh
and Was clothed only in its bones, a.
all Washington houses in summer
time are, he had been living fpr a
month and a hall. looking at the
Nightly summer-cumuli floating IN
the burning, brsZen sky. and listen
ing To the merry chirp of the summer
birds in the park below.
Garfield is : man nf infinite resoure-
es. He is one of the half dozen mel.
IN Congress who real backs. He is
one OF the few p-rsUn- in D pll;tieal life
here who, in the tremendous crush
and pressure of the wiut-r's business,
ind time t. follow I Course Of liynt
reading No man has hal n more
arduOus place in the last two Com
gresses than the Chairman OF the
Committee on Appropriations. And
no one ever charged him with neglect
OF duty. Yet Garfield finds time to
read nearly all the new books, and 10
keep up regular course of reading in
the old ones. Hs has 4 hungry brain,
and wonderful cinstitutiOn This
has been the method Of his busy life.
The last few weeks have warned him
that hV can not stand the racket.
Garfield reads everywhere. In the
I nnfnrr 70 II
ears, returning from his daily work,
aud in his com mmittee-rnon. he will
night Jim Beck about the necessity of
building Qualifications At distant
points, and contest with a Granger
from the MOdOc country about the
MOdOc claims, yet in the interim will
tind time to give ten minutes to "sil-
ly old BOzzy," or some of his charm
Ing Comrades. / should say that the
secret of Gariield's resources in de-
bate, the freshness of his illustrations,
his ready reference to literature i'm all
its branches, is due to his vOraciOus
literary appetite. 81 have read" he
said, "since | have been lying here,
struggling with this pain, eighteen
volumes and I have indexnd and
commonplace them all. Pretty fair
work, / take it, for six weeks Of mid
summer in Washington"
The sick-rOnm blre witness to this
cOnvalescent industry. The narrative
OF B0Zzy's journal lay beside him, and
an immense atlas. supported by an
elevated stool, stood near the bed,
opened at the map which showed the
course of BhZZY in the Journey tn the
Hebrides. A faithful wife was tracing
with u pencil the ins and outs which
the genial old philosopher took on his
trip to these northern Islands. It was
i'm this way that Garfield was turning
to profit the leisure that the surgeons
knife gave him.
Garfield's conversation was direct
ed mainly to the issues and political
outlook in Ohio. I will repest the
ideas as nearly as possible in his own
words. If his health permits, these
thoughts will soon be echoed from the
stump:
'I am sorry that the Catholic ques-
ton, as connected with the public
school system, is rapidly becoming an
important element in our politics. In
Ohio, the Catholic clergy are trying
to show that our public schools are
Goddess and worthless. The Demo- |
Gratis have practically indOrsed the
position, and are thus striking blow !
at the basis of our fundamental liber- /
ties. The issue, which sho1ld never |
have been made in this country, |
seems to have come. / have beeD |
looking over the literature of this
question while lying here, and it
seems to me that it is one of the
greatest Issues of the age. l shall try
to tell our people that the batteries
that are leveled st our school system
are planted on the Vatican. TIE his
tory OF the last fifteen years in Eu-
rope and this country shows this.
Look at the Syllabus OF 1868 Il is an
anathema-maranatha against all
modern civilization. 1t declares that
all men are not equal. 1t denies lib |
erty of conscience. 1t insists that
allegiance to a foreign religious, aud
wOuld-be temporal sovereign, is su-
perior TO fealty to our National life.
1t declares that the doctrine that all
men shall have the right to worship |
God according to the dictates Of their |
own conscience is pernieious and un-
christian. II makes proclamation |
that liberation Of non-Papists is un-
pleasing 10 the Most High. It is a 1
bull against modern thought 1t is q /
defiance of modern progress. The |
vicegerents OF the Pope seem every. |
where trying to do homage to the |
Encyclical. Living here FOR six
weeks, have traced the progress Of
that obedience to Plus TX through all /
the countries of modern Europe to our
own land, and I am surprised and /
alarmed to see how loud the PApaI 4
anathemas are sounding in the midst
of our American cOmmonWealths.
The contest which for seven years
has been waged in the Old World
has cOme to the New. The ground
that Papal authority has lost in Ed
rope it is seeking to regain here.
Austria has abolished the COneOrdat
but the Red Hat has been elevated in
America, aud the doctrines Of the
COncOrdat have been placed IN the
Democratic platform in Ohio. The
temporal power has been abolished in
Rome, but the Papists iu America are
reaching out after the school fund. In
Switzerland the same contest il 90
ing on. The only important thing
that our good friend CASTELAR, has nc.
cOmplished in Spain is to call atten-
tiOn to the inTOads of ecclesiastical do
minion. In France the Pope is gain
ing ground. In England Gladstone is
engaged in a contest similar to that of
Bismarck in Germany. In Germany,
the irOn-handed Bismarck Is fighting
against the power of tue Vatican with
the most relentless hand. He found
the emissaries Of the Pope trying to
obtain possession of University,
and State. He is proceeding
against them with that iron hand.
He could tolerate in the Empire of
the HOhenZOllerns no foreign power.
He denied the right Of contemporary
eOus sovereignty to the descendant of
the Pepins. He found that modern
thought demanded higher hOnors
than to have its banished name hung
on st. Peters door in the Index Ex-
purgatOrius. He saw that the Ency-
clical and the Nineteenth Century
made sorry brotherhood, and he has
made q successful war against it.
Driven from Europe, this power seems
to be coming here. IL is in our cam
paign In OHIO this fall. The batteries /
that are leveled at our school system
are indeed planted on the Vatican"
Something in this way ran on Gar
field. Sinea that day be has rapidly |
and it is expect,sd that be-
f0ce long he will enter the Ohio can.
vass. = Cincinnati CONNER cidl.
killing The Goose fhaI Lays the GOId-
en- Egg.