The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-10-25
The wisconsin Democracy Denounced
by a Democratic Organ.

NINA Ghee ueijdSoSucS WHO HOiptU "
win Offices upon 1t. They cared nothing
for principle, nothing for Democracy,
nothing Jor country, nothing for state.
They knew that a foreign element had
been stirred up against the Bennett
llw by its race and church leaders and
that there was 4 chance to gain votes
and it was nothing at all to them that
the policy that they were TO adopt was
wrong ana mischievous. They stupid
l. imagined that the patriotic and
intelligent Democracy of the state
might take, no matter how vicious,
and that the votes to be gained from
misguided foreigners would be sutfi
cicnt to give them the election. On
this theory and with no thought of
the inevitable result OF such sacra-
fee Of principle. the Milwaukee SIM
IlctonS succeeded in committing their
party in city and state on the side OF
IN offensive foreiSniSm and against
American independence and national
ity.
The Bennett Law has been misrep-
resented by every Democrat in Wis
consin who has been seized with the
itch for Office. 1t is not an oppressive
LAW. 1t was adopted by the votes of
Democrats and Republicans. 1t is OPP
posed only by people VIII are not
Americans, and who do not intend to
become Americans Opposition comes
10 it from foreign know nothings-i,o-
l.tical, journalistic and religious. 1t
is proper manifestation of the power
and authority of the American state,
and it can give otTcnse to no one whose
heart is not st!ll welded to some for
eien prince OF potcn.ate. 1t caa cay
ie a'tGctcd ty tolShocd. 1t has been at
tnc'ed c,:'y by .falshood.
This law provides for the compul-
sorry education of children, and for
their instruction in the English Ian
guage during twelve weeks in each
year. This education may take place
in a public, a private or a parochial
school, so that there is no interference
with the parental control, but no
school shall be considered school,
under the act, unless the elementary
branches are taught therein for por
ton of the time in the English lam
guage. 1t should require no argu-
ment to convince an American citizen
of the fact that men who come here to
enjoy American freedom should
understand the language of the coun-
try, nor should it be necessary to dem
onstrate by argument the power of the
! state, not only to establish schools of
its own, but refuse to recognize
schools, in the purview Of the conpul-
sorry education law, any institutions
that may be inimical to American in
situations, or may utterly fail to furn-
ish their pupils with one of the first
requisites of good citizenship-a know
ledge of the language in which the
republic are written.
The Democratic convention, influ-
enced by few depraved and what
any price demogogues in Milwaukee,
went over to this new sovereignty en-
massc, and an effort is now making,
in the characteristic fashion of the po-
litical boss, to drive with bladgeons
self respecting Democrats everywhere
into support of 4 combination that de-
serves no support ana merits only the
contempt Of honest Americans.
There Is M Democratic cam?n:ya IN
Wisconsin. The IIerall repudiates the
shameless crew who, stealing the robes
of Dem ,cracy to MASQUERADE in, have
set up in defense Of an insolent for
eign 'sm They are not Democrats.
To be Democrat is to be an Ameri-
can To be an American is to submit
ones self 10 no higher power on this
earth than the American state and the
federation of the states. No Democrat
,rortty OF the name can indorse by his rote
| the disgIucefI surrender that The foreign
! inspired Hj',raukee blothcrshitcs NOR ask
! the party to make. No party can afford
| to win in such fight as that which
| the Wisconsin Democrats are waging.
/ Defeat now will be warning to dem
! ogogues and revolutionsts elsewhere
! that they will not fail to heed. Vic
! tory now and the people of every state
! in tie Union must confront the same
issue, for demogosues are not confined
+ to one city or one state.
! This is America. The public schools
are not to be destroyed either by di-
rect assault or by roundabout methods,
The sovereignty of the state is not to
! be limited either by a race or by a
church. The political leader who i'm
AGNES that the American people can
be frightened or bullled or cajoled into
! a surrender such as the milwaukee,
knaves propose is 4 fool and no Demo
crat.
| The Difference between Them.
! The difference between the two
great political parties i'll Wisconsin
] this year is clearly shown in the fol