The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-11-15
The Spanish Revolution.

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j Now thas thS public Aaye become familia
with the course OF rscent sysnts in Spain, tn
Internal policy " the revolutionists begins t.
attract attention.a The infidels and opponent
Of the Church greet with applause every a
calculated to damage her. This is particularly
true when the Jesuits are aimed ct. But thers
are those who, without any love for the Church
fear that this precipitats If mot unjust policy
may prove detrimental to the 6ause,n and
bring about reaction. The Pail AaH Gasstss
though relentlessly opposed to the religious
orders, and especially spiteful to the Jesuits,
is constrained to apply to these much abused
men words of compliment, and acknowledge
| the "invincible tenacity" of body of men
against whom the combined efforts of all evil
powers have unavailingly striven to destroy
This journal says:
"The expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain,
and the confiscation of the property of the re-
ligiOus orders, are acts which no once ould have
failed to expect who had followed tho course
ject of the policy of the Queen for years past
has been to reverse the policy of Mendizabel,
and by one method or other to rentroduce the
monastic orders and to confer upon the Church
every part of the power of which his measures
We're intended to deprive it. 1t is therefore
natural, and indeed inevitable, that the first
public act of those by whom the Queen was
Overthrown should be the emphatic affirmation
Of the policy which she had -assailei. There
is almost equal danger of exaggerating and of
undertaking the Importance of such measures.
On the one hand, it is perfectly clear that the
reactiOnary forces of all classes in Spain must
be prodigiously strong. If this had not been
the case, it would have been impossible for the
Queen to hold her power SO long as she did, and
proceed SO For on the path which she chose;
butt on the other hand, there il. q disposition,
especially among highly educated Observers, to
underrate the Importance OF legislation, to re-
fer too much to the slow operation of general
principles, and to believe that, because it is al
most es much o matter of course to signalize q
liberal revolution by u demonstration against
the Jesuits as to celebrate it by manifestations
OF popular enthusiasm, acts of the one kind
count for as little in the long run as displays
OF the other kind. A mean must be struck be-
tween these two views, but experience aud the
course of events alone can show what, that !
mean is. AS for the un1ucky Jesuits, we.dO not |
profess to be able to form any Judgment Mt all
as to the effects which this expulsion will have |
upon them. They must by this time feel about |
expulsion and abolition much as cells do about
There is hardly country in Eu-
rope in which they are not OF have not been
more or less expelled and prescribed, to say
nothing of the abolition of the order itself by
Clement the XIV. in 1873; and, though proba-
bly, few OF our readers are aware of the fact,
hey are still subject to variety of penalties
IND disabilities i'll our own country. Certainly
ew bodies have taken much killing none in
modern times has incurred such intense oblo-
luy, and hardly any could apply to- itself with
% much justice the hackneyed lines of Horace
bout the oak shorn by hard axes. They are
ort of Christian Jews, minority continually
ra ruth. themselves with a'toa'ti"r i"N'neih'e