St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-06

QlSpOSltlon mas Deen made or the great
sums of money that have been poured
into the state treasury from year to
year.
We are going to have reasonable
share Of state issues in this campaign,
and the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor, whoever he may be, will not be
backward in discussing them.
THE WISCONSIN CAMPAIGN.
The anti-Bennett law state central
committee of Wisconsin, consisting of
clergymen and laymen of the German
Lutheran and German Catholic
churches, has formally decided to sup
port the Democratic ticket in the APP
preaching gubernatorial campaign, and
the members of these two ecclesiastical
organizations are urged to vote for
GEORGE w. PECK as the most emphatic
way of expressing their protest against
the meddling of the state with indi-
vidual religious convictions.
Of course this action has excited
the Republican press to frenzy
of Indignation, and there is no bill
ingsgate in the Republican vocabu-
larry but is being hurled at the pious
priests and clergymen who have taken
this bold stand in defense of personal
liberty. The Evening Wisconsin, which
is Gov. HOARD's ablest organ, calls
them 'narrow-minded partisans and
bigoted churchmen," and alleges that
the whole movement is being controlled
by foreign priesthood who are
aiming to undermine the corner
stone of the republic-the public
school. Those who recall the days
of knownothingism are familiar
with the language employed by the
Wisconsin in this connection. 1t is pre-
cisely the way the Know Nothing lead
erS prated as they went about the coun-
try inflaming the public mind against
foreign-born citizens.
This country is too far advanced in
intelligence to bedeceived by such clap
trap as the Wisconsin INDUCES in. 1.-The
title free school house under the hill''
is not an issue in the Wisconsin cam
paign. 1t is the little school house in
the individual citizens private Enclosure
that is in issue. No one is aSsailing
the public school or the public
school house. The Lutherans and the
Catholics are contributing their quota of
the taxes to support the free school, and
they are doing it cheerfuiiy. But there
is somebody assailing the private school
which is owned and operated by the in
dividual citizen at individual expense.
The Republican party is the assailant
of the private school, while the Demo-
cratic party is its defender. 1t is no
wonder, then, that the LutleranS and
the Catholics, who maintain parochial
schools, should array themselves on the
| side of their defenders. They could
hardly be Christians if they did not;
and it is sure they could not be patri-
| otto American citizens if they did not
stand up in defense of a right which
| they believe to be guaranteed to them
| by the constitution of the United States.
Gov. HOARD and his organs are
| travelling over good deal Of ground in
! their endeavOr to find substantial
| argument to sustain their antagonism
to the parochial school. Having failed
to find an argument. they adopt the de-
|
| paign of SANDER and vituperation. In
| its present attitude the Republican
campaign in Wisconsin is nothing more
or less than resurrection of know
nothingism. They appeal to ignorance
and bigotry under the pretense of de-
Tending education against ecclesiastical
eneroachment. They seek to array
Ameriean-born citizens against those Of
| foreign birth. Their whole stock Of
ammunition consists of race prejudice
and religious bigotry. Their war cry i:
down with the foreign priesthood,
| and, under cover Of the little school
house, they are assailing the principle
of religious liberation. Out with such
bastard politics. 1t is repulsive to the
| American instinct and alien to the
spirit of our institutions.
The Wisconsin Democrats stand on
solid ground, and they should stay
there. They are battling for a princi
pie that lies at the very root of Ameri
can government. 1t is the essence O
home rule and of personal liberty. L
| the BENNETT law is in harmony witt
| the spirit of American institutions, a:
the Republicans assert, then there are
no parental or personal rights sacred
from state aggression. And if that bt
conceded, there is nothing more left Il
cOncede. American freedom becomes {
mockery, and the individuality of thu
citizen will be lost in the new form OF
imperialism that must speedily arise OF
the ruins of popular government. The
Democrats of Wisconsin can. afford Il
make the issue squarely against Gov
HOARD, for they are contending for thu
same principle that our forefather
fought for at Bunker Hill and York
town. If politicians are accorded tn,
right to dictate what a father may O
may not teach his children at his owl
expense, then we will have no use fo
the form of republican government
because we will be subjected to TIL,
worst realities of despotism.
Again the GLOBE says to GEoRGI
PECK: "Stand by the flag of freedom
old boy, and be the gallant defender O
the constitution of your country, as yo,
did in the red-hot days of rebellion
And we say to the patriotic people O
Wisconsin, irrespective of past part,
affiliations: Rally around Picks ban
her. Elect him governor, and then vim
dictate the right of every American
citizen to worship God according to tn
dictates of conscience, and to erect hi
family altar under his own vine AM
fig tree"
KING AND EDITOR.
Kaiser WILLIAM is a progressiv
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