The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-10

Ous oe prepared AZ all points.
We learn with satisfaction that Archbishop
McCloskey advised the Catholic clergy to tell
the people in their addresses yesterday to
abstain from interfering with the Orangemen
and that the Archbishop himself addressed
his congregation to that effect Considering
the influence the priests have over the Catho-
lie people there is reason to hope their advice
will be taken, and that there will be no trouble.
Indeed, if unfortunately there should be q
riot, the priests, In view of their great and
well known influence, will not be held blame
less. 1t would prove very damaging to them
as well as to the Catholic community generally.
While we commend Archbishop McCloskey
for the step he has taken we wish his sermon
had been less bitter in tone toward the Profess
tant Orangemen and that he had made q
stronger argument on the question of the
equal right of all to assemble or parade in
this free country.
Mayor Hall should issue proclamation at
once warning the Catholics not to interfere
with the Orange procession and to let them
know what will be the consequence Of any
Interference. He should in this document
show, in his accustomed lucid and forcible
style, what the rights Of the people are
to assemble or parade, and that to depart
from these under the fear or threats of any
faction or sect is to give up the principle Of
liberty on which our republican institutions
are founded. He should at the same time, as
we have said before, be fully prepared to sus-
tain his proclamation to protect the Orange
men and to preserve order. In this, too, he
should be sustained by the other authorities
by Tweed, Sweeny, Connolly, the Police Com
missioners, the judges, magistrates and all
others. If these democratic city magnates
should fail to do their duty, out Of tender
| regard for Catholic voters, they would proba-
bly, soon lose their power in this city. An
| indignant public would not tolerate such
| trimming and imbecility. 1t would do more
to turn the city and State over to the
radicals than anything else. 1t would be
and destroy whatever chance they may have
of carrying the next Presidential election.
The Protestant and anti-Catholic cry would
ring from one end of the land to the other,
and the radicals would not be slow to re-echo
it for political purposes. There is but one
course for the city authorities to pursue, and
that is to defend at any cost the right of all
classes of the people to peaceably assemble or
parade, and on the present occasion to pro-
tect the Orangemen in exercising that right.
THE EMPEROR WILLIAM arrived yesterday
at Ems, where he met bis imperial nephew
the Gar of Russia. The war of 1901 has
made Ems one of the most histo rical places in
Germany. 1t is but one short year since
Count Benedict, the foolish envoy of foolish
and wicked master, pursued the King of Prus-
sia with his ceaseless clamors about the
Hohenzollern candidature while the King
was engaged in drinking cup Of health
invigorating water from one Of the foun-
tains at Ems. The mighty events which
have since taken place may, after all, have
originated in that little incident If the vain
Frenchman had, perhaps, waited until the
King had taken his I'll of Ems water, instead
of bothering him while in the act of drinking
il, he might have received a civil answer-one
at least which would not have been construed
as an insult by the grdnde nation,
and war might have been averted.
Thus the Franco German war has perhaps
a still humber origin than the Hohenzollern
neutrality-suspicious. it all sprang from a
cup Of Ems water. The meeting of the En-
peror William and the Emperor Alexander
will render Ems doubly famous in the annals
of history, for it may lead to an event equal
in Importance to the late war-.o an alliance
between Russia and Germany.
THE BOWEN CAsE-Bowen, the convicted
bigamst, has at last been pardoned Few
will grudge Bowen his liberty; and there are
not, we think, many who will blame the Presi-
dent for this exercise of Executive clemency.
At the same time it is not to be denied that
such interference with the course of law,
although unquestionably the prerogative of the
executive head Of the nation, is dangerous.
| Bowen was convicted after fair and Impair
| tial trial. We have no donbt that President
Grant felt that he was justified in granting an
| unconditional pardon. But we cannot say
that the reasons which he gives for so using
his prerogative are satisfying to our mind.
There are many persons now serving out their
term of Imprisonment for the same offence of
whom as much might be said in the way of ex
tenuation as has been said of Bowen. Bowen
has friends; they have none. Therefore
they suffer, and Bowen goes free. We do not
grudge Bowen his liberty. We do not blame
the President. But In the interests of the
general public we say such examples must not
be frequent. The effect is not morally heath
full.
THE CABINET CRISIS IN SPAIN.-The diff
culties which have so long existed between
the Cabinet of King Amadeus and the Cortes