The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-03-16
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CATHOLICISM.

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CATHOLICISM.
MIR. EDIToR:-For some years past
efforts to throw the Bible out OF
schools had been going on at va.
rlous points, instigated mainly by
Roman Catholics. Following this
up the same Jesuitical party de
manded that the school fund should
/ be divided, and the Catholics per
mitted to contro, their part. To this
IN some places assent was given
Encouraged by concession, this
same church obtained from the Dem
ocrats the passage OF a Geghan law
in Ohio, and in New York the act OF
the Gray Nuns Inn"
4 Things were going on swimming
| ly, but the country took the alarm,
and the danger to our system Of
Free Schools was sounded. The Re-
publiclns charged along the whole
line, and the Democrats defended.
During this time Gen. Grant sent
forth key note OF danger in his
speech atDes Moines, Iowa.
When the fall elections of 1876
were over, it was found that the Re
publicans had gained largely in the
North.-Following up the matter,
the President in his message, urged
upon Congress the Importance OF
shielding our Free Schools from dan
ger by throwing around them the pro-
lection of q Constitutional Amend
ment, and on the heels this Mr.. Bla ne
gave notice of Il bill to refer the
matter to the various States, to pro
vide safeguard for the future Sc
Guilty of our Common Schools.
At this stage of matters q sudden
change came over the Catholics and
the Democrats, and we may say over
the Republicans too. Catholics
ceased all at once to urge their claims
in school matters. The Democrats
suddenly began to champion the
schools; declaring most yociferously
in favor of keeping the school fund
one and indivisible. It now appear
ing that the Republicans had no
enemy in the field, and it being ter
rib'y hard to kick against nothing,
they huShed their murmurs and
ceased their warfare.
We say 20 our frien Is, be not deceiv
ed. Sleep On your arms. Keep cut
your picksts. Tt is bat ruse, a teint,
to throw rs off our guard and give
our enemy time to prepare mere ful
lv4 for his assault on our citadel.
Whoever knew the Jesuits to alan
don any o; their purposes Of domin-
ion? They may seem to do SO where
they find they spring the mine too
soon, b 1t it is only to change the
tactics and adopt some new plan,
having in view the same end. They
pursue power and dominion as re
lentlessly as death pursues life.
Foiled at enc point, they rally on
some other.
The Democracy having failed to
sustain the Jesuits in their open at
tack on our schools; having gone
back on them after they had the full
benefit of their votes, to change base
became a necessity. To gain their
ends the Democratic party must have
control of our country, and these willy
Jesuits know it so well, that they
viii not persist in openly eontending
for anything that will damage the
chances of success to their ally. All
that Democracy desires is the ''loages
and FISHES all that Catholics want
is the control Of our schools. So
you see they can work in harmony.
The passage Of Constitutional
Amendment that should remove the |
schools from sectarian control, is Just |
what the Jesuits seek to defeat, and |
if they can lead the friends of schools |
to abandon it, they will have made |
point in their game. This Amend |
ment check-mates them
The free Press has long been re-
garded as the Palladium of liberty,
and to it we look for notes of alarm
when freedom is endangered. But
in this venal age the press is liable
to be subsidized and become a means
of enslavement. 1t is row sail that
the Jesuits are busily engaged in
muzzling the press. They are adroit
managers and spend their lives in
studying ways AMI means to ag-
grandize the Church.
Rumor is ri.'e at this tina with the |
idea that the Bishop of Baltimore has
his emissaries all over the country,
with ''sinews of war to use on ali |
our leading papers, to keep them
qUiet about this matter of Blaine's
Amendment. 1t is strange how sud |
denly all our leading papers and pol
iticians became silent as the grave on
this point. It looks ominous. We
know thlt politicians watch with |
eagle eye tie Press, to see what is in
the wind, and the silence of the
papers fully accounts for politicians
being na'aa, and shall we think our
leading editors are GUieted with
hush money? That all are still, ad-