Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-11-11

This system has become dear to the
people" etc. 1t is well known tina
the Church of Rome is no friend tc
common education, and has always
trownol upon the cultivation of liter
ture by the masses. "Presidenl
Grant" it thinks, 'has grown a cubit
in stature since he has ranged himself
along side the German Emperor, the
King of Italy, the Gar of Russia,
and the late Premier of England in
defense OF the liberty of the mind
against the Ignorance, superstition
and ambition" which asssil it in its
most Jesuitical guise, that is, in the
education and training of youth. The
battle is never ended. 1t is the eter.
nal struggle of light with darkness,
of good with evil; it is the strife of
Oromasdes with Ariemanos; but we
may hope that in the end light will
prevail, and the blessings of "free
thought, free speech, free press, free
schools, and unfettered religious sen.
timents will not only pervade the
United States, but the whole world"
Such generous appreciation of re.
publican principles makes amends for
an infinite amount of Tory dullness.
and recalls the eloquent honesty of
Burke and Barre, when hundred
years ago they ventured to defend
the passionate longing for liberty of
our patriotic ancestors. The strug-
gle begun by Otis and Samuel Adams
is not yet completed, and foreign bar
barism still tolls to destroy by subtitle
intrigue and open violence the fair
fabric of freedom that has sprung up
from their labors. Another London
paper, the Daily Telegraph, in an
article on the Guibord case, says ::
"The truth is, the Catholic church
has been tempted TO commence hos
tilities with American society too
soon. She is beginning to feel that
in an Anglo Saxon republic, surround
ed by an atmosphere of free thought,
free speech, and untrammeled right
of private Judgment, she must either
| reign supreme or run to ruin. The
two great objects now stirring Catho-
lie ambition in the United States of
America are, first, to have ali Catho-
lie children taken from the public and
forced into the parochial schools Of
the church, and secondly, to draw
from the present education fund raised
by tie State for support of public
seminaries the money wherewith to
maintain parochial schools under
priestly control. That President
Grant" it adds, "should declare hos
tility to Vaticanism, that the Demo
cratic party in the State should indi-
cate an intention to bid for the Cath
Ollie vote in order to defeat their rivals,
who are apparently anti-Catholic,
may be the preliminary skirmish shots
between Rome and Anglo-Saxon re-
publicanism, which must be fought
out in two great divisions of North
| America"
These extracts show how clearly
intelligent Europeans see what so
many of our Protestant Democrats
and some Republicans refuse to ad
mit-that foreign church is already
meddling with our politics, and rul-
ing our Democratic politicians by
menaces of defeat and brides Of sue
cess. If Cincinnati and Cleveland
| had not been wiser than their party
guides, they must have fallen under
the Roman Catholic yoke at the re-
cent election, and the papal priests
would have held a real control over
one of the most intelligent and pow
erful States in the Union. And
there is no State nor city from ocean
to ocean where this active political
church is not laboring by every art to
win the ascendency, to thrust its cor
rupt members or instruments into
office, to poison the press by its for
eign vices of dupicity and casuistry,
to gain political influence by all those
shameless expedients with which it
has SO long afflicted the papal States
of Europe. Could all those wicked
devices by which the Roman church
has striven to hold the control of the
city of New York so successfully for
so many years be told to the public,
they would win for it the contempt
and horror of even the least scrupu>
lous mind. 1t has fostered pee
ulation, shared the fruits of public
robbery, and sustained the robbers in
office it has made the Democratic
party mass Of moral decay has
purchased editors, and practiced upon
their vices or errors TO terrify them
into obedience; has made use in its
unhallowed projects of fallen women
and erring men has covered New
York with European corruption, and
cultivated the vices by which it rose
to power. Few, indeed, who have
not examined its career can ever sus.
pect the extreme moral depravity OF
its political agents or the base means
by which the priests have essayed to
continue their control over the press
and the society of New York And
yet our Republican politicians are
often afraid or unwilling to point out
the chief enemy of American institu-
tons. 1t is plain that this dangerous
reticence can continue no longer We
must call upon all honorable and
patriotic Roman Catholics and there
are, no doubt, many Of these-to
withdraw their church from its mad
political career, to separate it from its
unholy alliance, and teach it, if pos
sible, modesty and self restraint But
we must also urge every freeman tc
come to the rescue of his country
and help to guard it against the fierce
aggressions of the foreign priest. II
its modern and ultramontane form the
Roman Catholic church is the mos
terrible of all the enemies of knowl
edge. It has crossed the ocean to
crush tie elements of progress
throughout the American continent
It will spare no institutions or gov