The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-05-12
Tn. Vow c.,uo,ic Movement.

From the Springfield 90 hepuDiic-
1t is not only important but abso-
lutely necessary that we should use
discrimination in forming cur judg-
ments of social or political features.
Much wrong was done to good men
and women engaged in a good cause,
last Winter, because people who We're
no doubt honest were IndiscIiminate
in their criticisms and denunciations.
A careful scrutiny would have shown
many very useful and wholesome
things In the crusade movement
which greatly overbalanced whatever
might have occurred that was neither
useful nor wholesome. No movement
is ever wholly unmixed with evil.
Even great revivals of religion at GER
tain times and in certain clrcumstan
ces carry with them features that it
would be we'll to avoid, if it were pos
sible that they could be avoided.
Honest, well-meaning men rant about
hell fire and preach the funeral SER
mons of the sinners who are to die
thereafter, when they ought to con-
fine themselves to the presentation of
the plan of salvation, III manner so
direct and plain and foraible that no
man, however ignorant or even wilful,
could mistake is provisions.
Just now we need to understand
that there are two elements in the
Roman Catholic Church in America,
each Of which should be judgAd on
its own merits or dement's. There
are Roman Catholics who ale so in
sentiment and spirit-truly religious
and devotional-who use their efforts
to make men purer, better, happ,er-
and such persons must have the So
pathies and well wishes of all truly
religious people. They do not use
their church as 4 means for acquiring
political promotion or power, and
thereby prostitute that which should
be pure and holy to base uses. Those
composing this portion of the mass of
loyal to the United States Govern
civil power in the Universe. Further
more they are at once with those en-
gagged in genuine and wholesome re-
form movements, and they not only
favor but foster and assist in main
tanning our public schools-the
schools of the people, and of the
whole people
There are, however, Roman Cath
power and to cripple or overthrow
our most valued Tree and popular in
situations. These persons act In a
purely partisan manner, and the
Twcedism of New York was the APP
propriate fruit of such action. What
New York was under the Boss Thief
of the Century the whole country will
be when the Roman Catholic partisan
politicians get the reins of govern
ment liz their hands They made an
important point in the Cincinnati
municipal elections, a few weeks
since, when the Roman Catholic or-
gan formally accepted the fatherly
and fostering management and con-
troll of the Democratic party and urged
all Roman Catholics to vote the
Democratic ticket.
This important service was most
readily and slavishly accepted, and
the result is we'll known throughout
the land. Cincinnati is under the
control OF the Roman Catholic poll
ticians, and those who do not ac-
knowledge the authority OF the Pope
of Rome are helpless.
There now exists a formal and ac-
tual alliance between these partisan
and scheming politicians of the Ro-
man Catholic church and the mana
gers of the Democratic party of Ohio.
When you hit the aspiring, intriguing
political Romanists you hit the Ohio
Democracy, and when you hit the
Ohio Democracy you hit the political
pretensions of the Pope of Rome.
This opens TO the Republicans of
Ohio and to the masses of honest
voters of the State fair, open field,
and an honest, substantial grievance.
This unholy, unwholesome alliance
must be broken. The Democratic
party has burdened its already strain
ed back with another load, too heavy
and too disgusting to be borne. 1t
was bad enough before, with its I'M
patriotic and even disloyal war record,
and with its mountain of corruption,
but now that it has voluntarily ac
cepted Political Romanism as the
apex Of its pyramid of intamy. the
people should arise in their might
and utterly destroy it