The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-10-11
The School House Campaign.
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\ the campaign i'll Wisconsin pro-
crosses and the lines of the opposing
10 ces are more clearly and distinctly
drawn, the deep sign ticance and the
farreachlng consequences of this con-
test become apparent even to the most
Indifferent. 1t is not local fight.
The battle field takes i'm the whole
country from Maine to California and
from the British border to the gulph.
The eye of the nation rests upon W is
c0nSin today as it was focused upon
the prairies of Kansas IS years ago.
For this battle involves issues that are
paramount to all others. 1t over
shadows all partisan contests for the
control of congress or state govern
mentS. 1t is a contention for some
thing higher and dearer and more sd
cred than silver, or tariff schedules.
1t is war for the fundamental princi-
pies Of our national life and our Amer
lean civilization.
certify to pretend to believe that the
American public school is not serious
" threatened. The attacks upon this
bulwark of our constitutional and civic
liberty are insidious, persistent, relent-
y
the schools have actually passed into
the control of a foreign hierarchy
The danger is so imminent that it has
at last aroused the people from their
Indifference and lethargy. There is a
general awakening of the patriotic
sentiment all over the country. The
famous fight i'll BoS' on, So successfully
conducted by the committee Of one
| hundred, was only the first skirmish of
Il stupendous contest, which has been
forced upon the American people by a
foreign priesthood, and which must be
fought to Il finish and won if our civic
ana religious liberty is to be preserved.
In New York a strong organization,
including number of the best citizens
of the state, has been formed to rescue
/ the schools from priestly control, and
/ there is urgent need of similar organ
| lZatlOnS Ill many other states Of the
| union.
! The people must look this issue
! Squarely in the face. Time serving
! politicians and cowardly party organs
assure us that there is no danger
! The, know better. How can we mis-
| take the real aims of the enemies of
! the public schools in the face of their
| bold and aggressive attitude in Wis
1 consin? The members Of these foreign
/ churches are not satisfied with express
/ ing their views through the ballot in
/ the usual way but have organized
themselves into a distinct politicore re-
/ llTIouS body. in order that they may
! be able to prosecute more effectually
4 their unholy war on the most cherished
/ OF American institutions. The Catho-
! lie anti Bennett state central com
. go of hos 4,
circular, printed III English and Ger
man, III which the Catholic clergy are
requested to organize and mass the
1 Catholic vote in a solid phalanN against
/ the republican party. Listen to the
/ audacious language of this preSumptu-
! document, which concludes as follows:
TO procure repeal of this act fthe
Bennett law il is necessary that GOV.
I Hoard, this fanatical enemy of paroch
lal schools, be defeated and the demo
cratic state ticket elected, and that a
safe majority for lis be secured in the
next legislature. To this end we ask
your reverence to use Your influence
50 that IN the caucuSSeS in YOUR parish
or mSsSion only such candidates will
he placed III nomination as will pledge
I themselves for the unconditional re-
peal Of the Bennett law"
As will he seen the aim is to seize
control OF the executive and legislative
branches of the state government. and
there can he no d ,ubt that the whole
power OF the church will be used to eff
itct the purpose
The issue cannot be lodged Let
every true American grid up his loins
and prepare 10 resist the threatening
assault. This is n question that con
Germs every man. woman and child in
every community throughout the whole
length and breadth of the land The
school house campaign in Wisconsin is
z contest that Is in progress now in
every school district in the entire
country. and the Issue of which viii
decide the course and character of Am.
er:can development for years and gen.
| erationS to come.