The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-25

and government of the church, has
made silence very difficult matter.
The Pope has placed himself in open
antagonism to some of the most popu'
lar ideas of the times. He has especi-
ally and with peculiar bitterness and
vehemence condemned the right of the
civil power to the direction OF the pub
he schools, and the whole theory of
popular schools open to the children Of
all classes, and freed from ecclesiastical
| authority, government and interference.
These are things to which the American
public have long been accustomed, and
are ardently attached. They will not
readily see them assailed from any
source without exacting from the as.
sailants some open and conclusive state
ment of the motives for the assault
BRIGHAM YOUNG WANTS To MOVE.
A correspondent from Tusor, U. r.,
informs the Citizen, of San Francisco,
that Brigham Young is anxious to es-
tablish colony in Sonora, Mexico his
great desire being to get away from the
public school system of the United
States, thinking with the assistance of
the Catholic priests, to crush the public
school system now being established in
Mexico.
The Detroit Tribune says: Nast's
cartoon, depicting Messrs. Beck, Wood,
Cox, ct "l., holding the Southern tiger
by the tail on the floor of Congress,
with its reference to the scenes that
would come in the next House, attracted
general attention II was based upon the
John Young Brown episode, but the
Kentucky Hotspur will probably be
compelled to yield precedence as a fire.
eater to "Ben." Hill, just elected from
Georgia. What that gentleman will do
is thus stated by the Atlanta News:
1--WE have an abiding faith that when
Mr.. Hill is heard in Congress it will not
be in explanation and apology that it
will not be in language designed to tick.
lie the Northern Radical ear, but that it
will be in vindcation of the South and
of her people; and in defense and ap-
prevail of her every act in her effort to
shake off the chain which the brutality
of Radicalism forged upon her,"
That is perfectly satisfactory, for
there is no equivocation, but blunt
avowal of what they mean to do when
they get the power.
GOOD SPOILERS ARE FOOLS.
Thomas *. Beecher, of Elmira, has
al article in the Advance to show that
the man who has fully mastered the or
biography of the Enlish language can't
be good for anything else. The follow
ing is sample extract of this Beech
erism:
GA man who spells within uniform ac.
curacy is presump:ively fool, and must
prove the contrary by exhibiting now
and then CLEAN of intelligence.
"Of two letters equally stupid and
meaningless, one ill.spelled and the other
well-spelled, we insist that the ill-spelled
lelter luulcdteS Tue IuOTe cSIluldulc VIII
ter ; because in his case we have rich
virgin soil and Ignorance to work upon.
In the other we have soil that has been
baked into sterile hardpan by the wretch
ed conceit Of correct spelling.
1--WE deplore the useless expenditure
of time devoted to photography in our
public schools, The body is more than
said our Master Fact and
truth are worth more than correct spell.
ing. The few people who come into life
highly endowed, as indicated above,
with faculties that make photography
inevitable, are sufficient to furninh our
printing offices with proof readers. Our
plea is that we do not condemn an entire
race to strive after righteousness quite
unattainable, and worthless when one
gets it. Any way of spelling a word,
so that the writer expresses his idea TO
the reader, is satisfactory. Anything
more than this is wretched device of
fashion and leads to laborious vanity.