The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-06

any common book nl statistics. or even
any simple map of Europe and America.
The dark iin..- of iiiteracy are uniform
ly drawn over ih,. Roman Catholic
countries. ln America it * Protestant
and liberal New England :,Iii rlir North
that ar,. covered with The Hines Of light;
all over South America, Mexico and liD
man Catholic Cau:i.Is: the great mass OF
the men and woman are wholly without
Intelligence and only the few share in
the impulse oG progress. knowledge
ilirs from flIc rule Of the Church
Ultramonfanc Brlgium Iias thirty three
per cent. of its population who can
neither read nor write (src Report of the
Commissioners Of Education, 1871, p.
1866. Protestant Denmark has scarcely
any one: Norway ;Ini Swrcden are at
l,.:ist we'll educated as Denmark u
tr.tinonfana France ia it8 western d.
parimenis leaves Oiir half ITS population
wholly uninsirucfc,i During the war
of 1870 it was found that IL out of 130
French officers at KOnigsberg, prisoners
of var, could not write their names or
sign the pay rolls, and th" extraordinary
| proportion of ilitrr:tcs among the com
mon soldiers is thought to explain in
| part the easy triumph OF the Germans
''The common people of France seldom
see II book" SAYS General Hazen (THe |
SeIO0L ai4i the 1TH,g, p @7S); ''they |
have no magazines, and newspapers are |
scarcely known among them" 1t is |
| plain that with such "A system of cduca-
| lion Arizona would become barren field |
for the editor and the printer. I'VE have
no population" General IIazrn adds,
THAT AT all corresponds to the poorer
peaslntry of France Even the mount
ain inhabitants of East Tennessee. aud
Kentucky are vastly superior in imtclli-
gence and character, though not in NOR.
ais, to the French peaSantry. The old
men are vicious. etc.
Such is the result OF the nltramontane
rule in France. The education supplied
by the Church" lIas reduced the great
body of the propl. to a strange and al
most savage duilue :. '"Fhcy live and
die General Hazan tell us in his infer
esting survey, often with no more ami
nation, hope, or happiness than the
horse which was their only companion"
1t would be well if every ultramontane
would consult the School amt The army
before he applies himself to the consid-
eration of educational questions. In
General IIaZen's account Of the German
schools he would find the cause of the
difference between the two peoples. In
Germany the state rules the "Church;"
in France the state obeys the uItramon-
tanes In Germany education flourishes,
and nearly every one learns to read and
think; in France the nation peTishes un-
der the rule of the Roman priests, and
ignorance is the common lot of men. a
similar and even far worse condition
of things prevails in Italy and Spain,
where for centuries the Church" has
controlled the education cf the people
{scc Report. 1871, p. I73D; and Of Rome,
the chosen city of the Church, for so
many years, we are told 10y the latest re-
ports that one half the people can neith-
er read nor WRITE They crowd to the
common schools established by the Ital-
ian government with singular aviiity.
The ''Chirf Justice" assures us that
under the rule Of til? Pore l.on:e had Il
bitter ystsm of EDUCATION and was bet
ter instructed than any part OF the Uni
ted States. Until 1870 ihe report of the
Italian government shows ti,e papal city
was covered with th.. grossosC ignorance.
NJ. DE i.aveleye, distinguished Bel
gian writer, has just printed at the re-
quest of Mr.. Gladstone apamphlet upon
the effect of religion on races. He in
dicates that uItramontanism is every
where the source of the decay Of the
Latin kingdoms and states. IL is not
because they are atins, lac thinks, that
the Spaniards and it;rlia;rs have fallen
behind the Germans and the Goths. For
he shows that Spain was 4 free land
when England was daspotisIn, and
Italy was the centre OF medieval repub-
licanisin and progress four centuries be-
fcre Cromwell. But The Latin king
doms remained subject To Rome, ard
periShed: the German became Protest
ant, and rose to uneXampled prosperity.
That it is religion and not race that con
trolls the f;'te of nations ha indicates 10y
a clear e-ainpin. Yaa (,eneyese are
I.a:fins, yet l;"nega is the most cult
waited, progressive, and prosperous ofthe
Swiss cantuns. fhe ticriIan oantons of
tiri AMI l.ueerun are Catholic, and lag
behind their fellows; aud lie carries OH
his theory TO the town, village, and fam
lis. He shows that the Catholic popu-
lation is every where ignorant and poor,
the Protestant industrious and advanc-
ing. The nations subject "a the Pope |
a.s ayS.y where dead or dying, torn by
Internal commissions, Fastening to their
fall. Even France ruled by the Jesuits.
is on tue brink OF civil war, ap3 Eelgi-
nm disoTirrcu and i'll at ease. But
possibly M De Laveleye las over
/
trasi llltraWoniani,,u every where
banishes education, and civil wal, decay,
and corruption are tine necessary fruits
of uncuitivated minas. If Arieona is
prgdsnt, it will srs.roely, with such ex-
ampies, be willing 10 place its education
al affairs in the hands Of the ultramon-
tanes.
But contrasted with the iInpotent or
destructive e.sestl p sierteal education
| upon tie Latin race, how grand aRd hu
ll,aae appear the growth and triumph of
our common schools! Every state adopts
them with ardor, and they have sprung
up every where 10y Tie spontaneous as-
ton of the people. Within twenty years
the system, perfected and enlarged, has
spread from the Atlantic l. the Pacific
| It hai educated tile cities and the will
| derness. 1t is the cheapest mode of
teaching ever known; yet its school
buildings are countless and often mag