The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-04-27


AND EQUAL RIGHTS OF ALL CITIZENS
LETTER FROM AN IRISH CATHOLIC
DEMOCRAT.
The following letter is from sub
stantial business man of this city, who
truly signs himself an Irish Catholic
and Democrat:
To the Editor of the Cincinnati Gazette.
CINCINNATI, April 6.
Your paragraph III to-day's paper
stating that whatever else may hap
pen, the Democratic party will 90 be-
fore the people of Ohio next fall plas-
tered all over with the motto the lead
ers have chosen-"Free Rum and No
Sunday" is not entirely correct.
Rather should you say that large
section of the Republican party have
deserted under Gen. Halstead, NJ, and
set up the banner of king Gambri-
nus, the Boss | inclose the cut of
the banner, taken from Tuesdays
Commercial, and | invite your atten-
tion to the look of triumph the liking"
wears. Note how gracefully sits the
crown, and how well the ermine on
the exposed lining Of the cloak shows,
and how fittingly the hilt Of the saber
rises from under the left arm. Iwish
you would give this cut in your paper,
with the Commercials headings, to
show your readers how disgustingly
truculent that paper has become, and
to arouse them to the danger that
menaces what little is left of the pub
lie morals of our city. Much of this
danger comes from the time server
editor and politician-who ''bends the
knee that thrift may follow fawning."
| copy five extracts from the CONNER
ci0Ps editorial of Tuesday showing
how meek he is to his German friends,
and how apologetic he is for having
dared to write or vote against 1.-THE
boss, King Gambrinus:" 1--WE very
much regret that so many of our Ger
man fellow citizens were induced, un-
der a sudden excitement, to under
value their political consistency
''The Germans have been so threat
ened with and worried about legisla-
ton" "The Germans who led in the
rush yesterday" SIT was not upon
such an issue as this that our German
fellow citizens'should have made war
upon their old partisan associates"
'That which is unfortunate in this is
that the German Republicans. "We
are puzzled to follow the course of
reasoning of some of our German
friends" And in yesterdays paper:
'The greatest measure of restraint
that can be had is that to which Ger
man Republicans will consent" So
that it has come to this, that when
we propose to restrain immortality in
the community generally, we must
first go hat in hand to ''the German
Republicans" and respectfully ask
their commands and consent in the
matter! 1t would seem we have ex-
changed the native Know Nothing of
1854 for the German" Know Moth
ing of 1882. Now, Mr.. Editor, isn't
there just getting to be a little too
much of this Germanism in our poll
tics? Our German friends are not
satisfied with receiving much more
than their share Of local public hon
ors and profits, but they must ask us,
who have no interest in them other
than as American citizens-not Ger
man subjects of King Gambrinus" or
his successor Kaiser Wilhel Into put
our hands down into our pockets and
pay 100000 per year, in this city OF
Cincinnati, that they may have their
provincialism taught to their children
in a language in which nobody but
themselves have any interest. They
90 further and ask that we open the
foodgates of hell and have the morals
of our young drowned in beer vat;
that we shall be sneered and hooted
out of our old fashioned respect for
Gods honor and regard for His COM
mand: Remember thou keep holy
the Sabbath day." I don't interpret
this command to their personal detri-
ment or discomfort in the sense that
the Puritans did, but in the sense that
we should all have restful Sunday
1t is not necessary that we shall have
brassbanded into our ears, or swilled
down our throats, the new creed that
beer is king. Neither is it a restraint
on any ones liberty to say that we do
not want temptation placed before the
young invitingly on Sunday. These
: arrogant demands lead me back to the
subject of teaching a foreign language
in our public schools and at public ex-
pense. In view of the gage of battle
thrown down by those German Re
publicans,' | now make the PROPOSE
ton to entirely Englishiee our public
schools, and if our German friends
wish to teach their children German
ideas, let them pay for such exception
al benefits themselves. You have no
interest in a brewers child learning
German. l have no interest in it.
, The down town merchant or manu-
facturer has no interest in it; nor has
the vast body of the community any
interest in it. Then why longer bear
this great and unnecessary burden,
when the money so wasted would give
, US we'll paved and clean streets, and
invite capital to locate among ust
Suppose number of my people with
q me would go up with respectful pc
Y tition to the School Board In session
and say, Gentlemen, there is a very
large number of us Irish here in tn,
II city, who pay taxes to educate othe
|, peoples children in language that i
/, of no public use; now we demand tina
y you educate our children in the Iris
T. &c va,.u old