The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-08

Hebron Auxiliary of Geneva; Col. Eugene | ,
Alet Count Raphael Dc Co satsn SRssp carS
Tuscany-Roberto Gherardi del Jurco (flor-
ence). ,e-,,
ADDRESS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE EINsIEDEIN
COMMITTEES TO THE BISHOPS OF swITzER-
"My Lords-The Catholics assembled at
Einsiedeln from all parts of Europe: cannot
separate without Offering to Catholic switzer-
pitality with which they have been received.
They therefore approach your lordships, as the
true representatives of Swiss liberty, the ex-
Switzerland, as elsewhere, it was Catholic
hands that founded liberty; it is Catholics
that best know how to defend it. Surrendered
into slavery. OF this you, my lords, have had
of late sad experience. Under pretence of lib
erty of conscience the secular authorities have
cu1ion az the most tyrannical Governments
could scarcely rival. In the remarkable me-
moir which you have recently published, your
lordships have shown that the result of revo-
luton is the oppression of all that is good and
the freedom and activity of all that is evil
On the soil of free Helvetia, the oppression OF
the Church must excite surprise put what W. ats Is
troubles you have been able-Providence aid
ing your own unwearied exertions-to bring
about SO great revival al. OF religion a. IN ny your a
tablishment of q Roman organ of the press at
Geneva, and concludes by humbly asking the
Apostolic Benediction Of the Bishops. That
and bring about the realization of our hopes"
Great Meeting of S,ciss Catholics.-On
Tuesday and Wednesday, September and
6. upwards of 1000 Swiss Catholics assem-
: bled in Fribourg, to celebrate the anniver-
sary of the founding of the Plus Verein ian
association formed for the propagation and
9 support of the Catholic religion), and to
discuss the various religious, moral and
Il material questions in which they were IN
a terested Each of the cantons of Switzer'
. land was represented by numerous dele
: gates. The most important speech was one
II made by a Capuchin monk, who is reported
to have fairly taken his audience by storm
II He smoke of liberalism in the following
terms: There is first liberty, then liberal
~ n ism, heretical liberalism and Catholic liber
~ u alism The last is the worst OF all, th'
u HOLY Father having declared it to be espe
J. cialjy dangerous and it is difficult to under
stand what it really means.
The Bishop Of St. Gall, in Switzerland
,e is preparing for publication pamphlet
"a defence of the dogma of the Infallibility c
"a the Sovereign Pontiff. In it he will prov
he that not only the New Testament, but ais
90 the traditions of the Fathers of the Churcl
Nv fully authorize that dogma.
gs These offshoots of the International sti
nu Belgium they seem to be on the point
1873 being arranged. Our readers cannot b.
~ have observed how singular is the coinc
OF dence between the strikes at Brussels ar
IN. Newcastle -on-Tyne. In each town Il
'er workmen ceased worklas ifby preconcertt
do arrangement, and laid down conditions q
d most identical. What makes tho coine
ICE depce appear in more serious light Is Il
arc fact that Mr.. COIN, who had been del
ST. gated by the Newcastle engineers to pr
:. coed to Belgium, was arrested at Antwer
, ~ Init released on promising to quit the cou
oi try. In Newcastle Tyne the strike b
me now continued four months, and up to t
d. present time there seems to be no proSpe
an of any arrangement being entered into B
~: ~ tween the contending parties. The Nj
nst Hours League and other branches OF :
usS various Trades Unions have expend
oW more than f12,O00 during the past fife
I en. months in helping the men on strike, W
- f are now quitting the district in large ma
1,o beers, only little more than 2OO0 out OF
III, 5000 who were at first on the books OF
rho less dependent on the association for tn
I'D support, the present rate of pay allow
LIZ being seven shillpgs a-week for each n
,sne and one shilling for each child: AS, ho
~, ever, men cannot exist on such starvel
MO. allowance, aud as they dare not come
tha terms with their masters, great exo'
and has taken place, and they are seeking w
on elsewhere. Meanwhile the masters hi
'en imported foreign workmen in large MT
" Of bers, and though many of these. sol
: an doubtless, urged by fear and others by
holic solicitations Of the English workmen
MT to the orders of the International, have g
s are back to Germany, yet by the arrlva
oce- new recruits the employers of labor
hop able to fulfil the calls made upon tn
; long 31g The only hope of settlement seems t.
Il '& of in arbitration, and we are glad to no
a If o. that Mr.. Samuelson, MP, has taken
nncil initiative, and that negotiations have
prop entered into which Will De olscusseo
SO he Conference which is shortly. to be
in between the masters and the prime
It in Taocnara In Brussels this has alrG
ID to been done, and the disputed points 6
Q 5 nis to have been nearly arranged, whilst
sr at the Au1empuIB e 49, e.
deln, have granted the TeouCEAon VI A@VVh w