The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-04-20
The Eaton Register and our
dlernanm and Erimh CiE1zeus.

deStrOye u tHS Piouhioo oht
year, and the Easter hot snap of the
editor of the Register appear stimuli
taneously. We do not wonder that
the old fello W feels badly as he sur
veys the field and beholds the scat
tered forces of his great party, but
such blasts of his bugle horn as ring
through the last issue of the Regss
ter are not calculated to do either
him or his party much geed.-Ne1
do not know whether our old friend
will ever realize the fact, that in a
free government public opinion is al,
ways "the power behind the throne
greater than the throne itself" and
that however distasteful to him may
be the results Of the expression of
that opinion, that great power, al
wayss safe when trusted, will work its
way, and the judgment of the major
ity whether the editor of the Regis
ter likes it or not, is apt to control.
He says, fare the Germans TO bring
over the sea their morals and habits,
and force them upon the land oftheir
adoption" Why Bro. Charles, do
you want them to leave their morals,
so that they will be suitable material
for your party? Or why do you OBJ
iect to the honest Industrious Ger:
man emigrant bringing from his
Fatherland his morals with him?-
What is the matter with the editor
of the Republican organ of this conn-
ty, that he should so suddenly dis
cover that the Germans, whose in
tegrity, industry and economy have
planted houses of comfort all over our
land, at once become subjects for out
lawry? Germany feraasnturies has
impressed her thought and ciyiliza-
ton upon the world, and we welcome
to our land the sturdy German emf
grant, who makes "the desert to bios
som as the rose" and we say 1now
and here, that We have faith enough
in the people and in4the great ,prin
ciples of free government to believe
with jefferson, that error is never
dangerous if reason is left free to
combat it. But the editor of the
Register seems to takeono stock In
this broad and noble theory Of self
government. Notwithstanding the
fact that a few, very few generations
cfasping hands could reach back to
the. cradle of, the first white child
born in our land, the mingling of for
eign blood with American, is To MIR
rECharles's mind a dangerous expert
ment., Does the, man in his insane
rage at impending and overwhelm
ing defeat, loose all Judgment, tha'
he should let fly SO many poisoned
arrows at the Irish and German ele
ments of our population? He ough'
to know these are no new elements
i Side by side Irish and German pa
f triots marched with our forefsther:
to the tune of Yankee Doodle" il
the days that tried mems souls
/ They fell in the same conflict AM
t were buried in the same trenches II
; the old days when the absorbing
question was, shall we have fret
t flag and a free government, and from
that hour until to day, no men hav'
served the country with, un
swerving fidelity or un1inching brav
cry. %
/, Whenever an editor of journa
assails whole races in such a count,
as ours, he treads upon dangerou
t ground. His own ancestral line
e cross and recross the very national
It'll es he stigmatises. A few genera
, tions back the ancestry of this wis
and proscriptive editor of the Regis
ter were in some other land thal
this, and such editorials as the on
to which we refer, almost incline Il
: to the belief that Darwin is right
and that way in the back ground 9
the shadowy past, Apes and Balloon
= are stretching out their hairy paw
and saying to him, 'son, your edite
riaIs are worthy of your original an
cestorsr'a .4S.ta - q~....r,5
at is ins client in foreigners to sc
the overthrow of that law and ordc
that has made u country desirf
;, ble," exclaims our old "Know-Notf
ing friend. What is the law an
! ordert to which you refer, Mr.. Charles
o Has your party, which has been j
SO long, had a system of la
i. and order which should be preser'
ed? Are you not now attemptin
what you cannot accomplish? An
is not that the result of your ne
rs and wild departure from a theof
t upon which you have rested for IL
4. fifth of a century troubling yot
a brains? So long as the Germans an
le Irish voted with you, you did NJ
IS talk about making our land a bot;
a. ny Bay into which to dump the pa,
pers and criminals Of Europe!" tt
10 sweet German accent and rich Iris
IS brogue" were alike sweet music
a your editorial ears, which, ifthe &c
of man and Irish read your late edit
-. 49, Ill ho1;o,o % H. L.