, 1876-08-28

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lensc, lown-trodden, povrrty-strlckou masses.
tally needed tho sword Of 0alsbaldi, and when
he deiiycrcr Aopcarc !, the sublcets oil hls tlol-
,ess had out one ery, The cry of welcome 70 tne
dungeons and over vhore unfurled banner shonc
Lhc star Of liberty. With the "sehoo.lcston mof
llatory, with ait irEestatihle logic about like
nassf rom noasn.sn o H % iisre Romans @ las now lis
scarlet Cardinal, It's dcvotccs hava poured INTO
lhia land from their native hanslcta and hoyol',
have surrounded tho ballDt.6ox and monopo-
'Ized of]lre. Its tone ia becoming more @ arro. .
stili and jook On In siencet No. Duty calls US
to speak; patriotism calls US to shake ofY NOR.
bid Indifference. Let " do 80, and enueavor 70
would, II II could, sweep away the charter OF
mans best rights and leave our liberty At tho /
mercy OF = tyraut's mud.
oy A sSos any o0 sn Ro@sa. m as ns
rrotcstau.s these words. bigetry, into's!9nee,
ton has meyer been virtua oi ths i.,, Ronlsn
Church II RSmsnists a. are eve, foana peasdinE
which they never Erauted:. Lst the ;Ihool.boy
turn over few pages Of Macaulay's !listory, Of
Epglaud,-- book, wh!cl, understand, lsunder
Tbs bsn S e hs w sae tSs
throne Of Q Prutestant Kingdom, pleaded for
general federation. The rights Of conscicncc
was favorite phrase then In the nionarsha
viii discover that tia tolsr:.ton aimed It BY
tho Popish King was Catholic sscendency and
the se-estnbltshnlent Of Romantsm.. To chain
Britain once more to the chariot OF ths Rope
Ills heart. To effect Til, be scruplel not TO
tramplc In the dust the constitution Of the
Kingdom and the constitutional rights OF h's
Protestant subjects. Ills mad and tyrannlcal
tion was forced to arms, and arose in its
ulAjchty, asserted It's rights, aud at Inst on tho
banks Of the Irish Boyne, the Orange banner. OF
William III. settled tho career of tho traitor
i'm afraid Of that word liberation from the
lips Of supptiant Catholics II Is Is dangerous
as were THO ancient Greeks when they appeared
tu approach with gifts. Tolcration we advocate
other rord for ecclesiastical ascendency nntl
Iunish rule, VIC spurn It rs atecetver, 4 t2Aitor.
Look at tie school syatcn n rapal Austria.
There II Is denomtnat!oDnl. Children OF Catho.
schools, while children Of Protestants may at
tend Catholic schools. Catholics NAV teach In
Protestant schools, but Protestants are not per-
mitted to teach in Catholic schools. That Is the
suggests to us that kind Of school eystcrn which
tho Papal ctniksasics would like to hare in this
new tolerant Republic of the West.
In The tribune sclool.lesson We hnve the
got a cinder il hia eys. Willie ths ciuder Is
there, there will be irritation aud palu, ard no
relief Gun be Ind until the, cause Of uneasincss
nt b. sS .oos"1 Nsx as a as asS'' nu + ba s
understand that the bb,e In tho schools Is .
clnlcr In the public eyo1 It was not clndcr in
tue eyes Of tho fathers and founders Of our
surpassed, and IN their deep. broad foyo TOR q
country whose freedom was written In letters
Of blood they gaye place to tho Bible 10 the
common schools. The Bible ln the school ID no
..ttsttur tn In r1f AFVnr 1sFrtn
whether nntiye-born or naturalized.. 1t is no
cludcr In the eye Of those who cherish supreme
loyalty to The Constitution and institutions OF
these United States, and who arc governed by
national glory. Had the tide Of immigration to
these shores been less Catholic and moro Prot-
tcstants, there might hare been to-lay no co''-
trovcrsy about the school question. Protestant
Of this free land Just as they ind them. But
komanists, aliens everywhere where popery 10
not tr'Nuephant, feel everything to be q ctnder
tss but asl Hoh n s y as hos
in this OF in other lands 1t may be = cfuder In
tho eye OF TnE TRIBUNE teacher, or 1t may not,
but VIC tell hin that It has bseu and Is 4 cinder
In the eye, Of the Ronslsh hierarchy, and not
| only e3n1cr, but 1 sword within the bones.
| Where and when has the Bible in the veEnaeular
language Of people not been cindcr IN the
eye OF the grent ccclesiastlcal pollty Of Konet
Il Rome had ths power she would M ban!sh @ 1.Ia thc
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our homes, and stop not In her e1tcstninatln!.
raids until the book was driven back again totho
dust OF a munastte ahelf, to lie there as muu1-
my In the cold cerencnts Of the dead languages.
We all know enough to know :" In whose eyo
| the vcrnaeular Billie Is ali irritating cindcr.
Where IL Is m Irritating cinlcr tolay Il was the
same when the foundations Of this RepublIc
wrrc laid. THIS hostility to ths Dlblc Is nothing
new. The foun.lers Of our school system knew
all about IT, 1t 1.lay bu new fight, but Il Is The
old forces and the old battle-ground.
Now for the application Of thIs cindcr-agurc'
II Is this: Remove tho Bible from the schoe' ),
III 1t will 6c the peace that follows victory,
but never reeoncics. It will be removing. tile
endcr out Of the oyo Of one only to ding 1t Into
tho eye Of another. Tho bhlo hns been expelled
Tor tic present from our Chicago schools. lIae
this net vi The Board alayel all Irritationl No
1t bas raised tho dust of dcnomtnatlonal war,
hus become thu occasion Of foul murder. and
has made the character and tntrigues Of Roman
istu the pulpt.thelnes ot the day. Divetsc us ar.
the aims nnd nature OF Professionalism ant
popcry,. a victory to the one cannot but b.
'nortitying to tho other, and will never promot.
m unruficd peace. l hold that Komana,n aut
tts advocatcs arc responsible for all the pfescn
strife and Irritation over tho school question
They are the aggg,rcssora. They havo nasa!let
and disturbed an existing. custom--thc Bible II
Ia this city. The Hoard Of Education has sols
the raBs and allowed Ronantsts to 0y thor col
ors o'cr Victorious field. With all this done
: hayc The friends of the custom no ground 70
Invasion of a prescript!vc rIghtl Or il tbey at
tribune that Il Is better to keep still, for II
: be claimed as a right to layc the Protestant We!
sion read In school-vcry Jesuitcal! We dom
claim as q right to havs The protestant vcrsio
, read, but We claim that tile use OF tho Bible |
I sehoos ls too servlceabfc to be dispensed with
8 II VIZ lnslst OH this We nre told that the force
OF Romanlsnl, ,Int!uislll, Natlona.lsn, aud Lit
| erAl Pr0testnntieln will combine in nEo soil