The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-10-01
THE COMMON SCHOOLS.

In n short speech at Turner Hail."
Cincinnati, Thursday evening, Sept, %,
Ex-Gov. Noyes made some telling points
on the School Question. We make the
following extract:
''Now, gentlemen, we are jealous of
everybody and everything which threat
ems To interfere either with the useful
ness or the prosperity of our common
schools. We love these common schools.
Our earliest and most sacred recollec-
tions are associated with them. They
have made us all that we are; they
promise to us all we have to hope for in
the future. Applause. They have
made it possible for the poorest child of
the obscurest labOrer in this land trudS-
ng Off to school in his honespun clothes,
beside the pampered child of the rich to
say to him: MY little companion, you
have the better OF me to-day, riding your
pony {" school, clothed in your broad
cloth and fine linen, but in the years to
come, as my brain grows clearer and my
will gro stronger, and my muscles
harden, | will reach out ahead OF You
FOR this worlds honors, and graSping
them with II full hand will bring them
home and lay them down as trophies at
the feet of my honest old father, toiling
in the mill, or breaking stones on the
highway" Applause. All this has
been rendered possible by orr magnif-
icent system Of common schools.
don't believe, have never believed,
that the great body of the Catholic
Chmch desire to break down these
schools. | have never believed but that
if left alone they would prefer to send
their children to schools where they can
be educated without expense to them
selves, relying upon the Church and up
on home institution for all their religious
training. [Applausel But that old man
who calls himself II prisoner in the Vati-
can beyond the sea issues his orders to
the Cardinals, and they to the Archbish-
ops, and they to THE Bishops, and they
to the priests, and the priests to the laity
all looking in one direction and de-
mauding one thing, and that is the des-
truction or our common schools. IAp-
pIause.
Our Catholic Telegraph here, you will
remember, said it will be n glorious day
in Ohio when the common school sys-
TEN is shattered to atoms. And the Cath
Ollie Recieir, Of Toledo, said the solid
vote of the Catholic party in Ohio should
this fall be east for the Democracy, for
that is our only hope of breaking down
the common school system.
Bismarck, in the German Empire, old
Vitor Emmanuel, in Italy, are making
great battles against the temporal pre-
tensions of the Pore. They are saying
to linn, 'I,i ail -!,iri. uaI affairs you may
be supreme j? yUu sill; the priests may
minister TO tIc people, and the people
accept the mimistration of the priests,
but you Will Lot l.. permitted either to
dictate our laws or to interfere with their
enforcement" iAPplause.l
So, driven from station to station,
from hope to hope, in the Old World,
they east their longing eyes across the
sea to this free land Of onrs, and hope
here to accomplish what is now iInpossi-
BILE of accomplishment in the Old World.
These schools are tile foundation not
only OF the intelligence, but of the vir-
tue, the happiness, anG the prosperity
of our people. We love them, we cher
ish them, we have received them I'M
tainted from the fathers, and we pro-
pose, God helping us, to transmit them
pure and unsuIlied to our children, come
what may. [Applause.l
Early in the campaign Democratic or
| ators dismissed the whole subject cav
| alierly with two or three short sentences.
We now observe that it takes the talent
| of Thurman for an hour and half to
| dispose Of the question. They have
| found that the people of Ohio are alive
to it, that they are net likely TO be de-
eeived, that they recognize the fact that
| If the threat of 80, coo votes may dictate
law which is distasteful to the Legisla
ture which passes it, the threat of that
50, 600 votes may also, by and by, change
your Constitution, break down youI
common schools. the bulwark OF youI
liberty, the safeguard OF your happines.
and prosperity. LApplause.I Recogniz
ing this they propose to meet these pre-
tensions upon the threshold. They rec
ognize that they have already divided
the school money in Canada; that theJ
have practically done it in the State o
New York, for they take out Of the Ex
else Fund every year from one to thre,