The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-28

Try %, 1872.
: ne South a.r..a. and u. 1ash.s.s. :.
.. The hostililies displayed By the authori
4 ties Of the new Empire has st length M
ceeded In ronsing the Catholics Of German
seneo Of the dangers which their iib
b ereies VIII run If they do mot prompt
sake advantage Of tho safeguards still Il
l .ofae0 1y the Constitution, before thos
saieguards have been entirely overwhelme,
and destroyed. Prince Bismarck can CON
gresuisee himself on possessing 4 pliabl,
anu emciopt tool for any anti Catholic an
| terpnse which he may be inclined to under
axe IN the Central Parliament or Richstar
tions concluded With the Sonth Carr. a.
Ssa6es, at versailles, in the November d
IoU. IN that assembly the oppenents 81
t .o NnuTcn form largo majority, for it ii
TUG Iepreeentative assembly Of United Ger.
nnn ~ sne United Germany, numbers 25.-
lies. Nor are tho anti Cath,i liz inciins t;on.
OF tho keichstag to be measured merely by
sne necessary prepondersncs Of Lutheran.
Jew and lnfdel members. More non.
Caeho!ics might be disposed to slow to the
Sh h;n sne same liberty Of conscience
Any possible tendencies towards eonitv in
TINS request are, however, completely ffus-
trated by the fact that the Prussian Gov
eminent has chosen to attack the Church.
ana that the constitution of tie German
representative body makes it the subservi-
ent ana dependent minister of the Govern.
ment. To Englishmen. accustomed to the
spectacle OF House of Commons, which.
with Its many defects and shortcomings. ia
still the independent exponent of the con-
v'ctlons OF the members, and, through the
mem oers, OF the people, the German Reich
v1,,S- T.,0
foretathers have gained for us the inesti
mao!e blessing that the members of Parlia-
ment can be no body of supple placement to
watch the nod and do the errands of a min
i isy on whom they depend for daily bread. |
WlCnout this guarantee, the liberties of
without any real reaning, and when the |
~ noerties OF Parliament cease to exist, |
IL IL ID unnecessary to speak of the |
liberties of the people. The independ-
ent character of the German Reich.
s1as may be g1aged by the test of one or
Deputies no less than I6O are pensioners or
officials. There are thirty Eight judges Of
supreme or inferior courts. It win he mn.
derstood how heavily tho dice must BE-
weighted against the fair consideration of
any measure to which the masters Of all
And when official enmity is allied with acc.
prejudice, the chances of equitable
disappear altogether. It may he
'aieiy assumed that there is no persecutipe
sdlct, no intolerant Interference with the
catholic conscience which it might enter
mo the plans OF the Imperial Government
o propose, which would not be passed bv
ne obsequious zeal of such an assembly.
Inc lengths to which Prince Bismarck's
reatnres are prepared to go, have been | I
evinced by the insulting and t
injurious law for the arbitrary imprison-
Mt al IT, i
tiles, to which we have already called At !
entlon. The temper of the Reichstag was
uch, In fact, that even the right of trial by .
jury was refused to the intended objects
y the penal statute. The simple decision t
u the Judge OF other magisterial official d
arceration of two years. Many further
nactments against the peace and freedom
the Church are threatened, and. conf C
ent of the obedent disposition of the p
entral Parliament, it has become the main NJ
ndeaVor of Prince Bismarck's domestic
snce of that Legislature over the whole Ia
cid of State and internal legislation. The te
ghts which still remain to the Diets of al
aVarla, Wurtemburg and the rest are to
steadily encroached on, until there no th
niger remains Constitutional barrier be- -,
'een the liberties of Catholic congrega- ~
ons In Swabia or Lower Bavaria, and the ~
mister directed despotism of a conven-
IN of placemen and anti Catholics at lie
erlin +b
1t is TO meet this imminent danger that r..
Q Catholic aud Constitutional party in
uth Germany are now agitating, and =
We already commenced to convert their BIZ
itation into action. The most remark pc
le manifestation of the new sense of de. an
to oppose unconstitutional en- on
'achments has just taken place in the =
varlan Diet, which has declared. it's in
ltion to watch over the rights reserved to ma
Varia by the Versailles treaty. A SINH. dul
motion with regard to the State-rigbts ant
the Kingdom of Wurtemberg had been ous
reduced few days previously into the F
lttgart Legislature. In Bavaria, how 49,.
r., where Herr Won Lutz is engaged in p'S
rying out the Bismarckian Programme mat
inst the Church, the. circumstance is 100
st i'm ortant. The terms of the bill in thr,
ch Drs. Schuttnger and Berth, on be- his
t of the Catholic majority of the Cham r.
, express the resolution of the House to
ure no usurpation of the treaty rights, a'
of the most precise and unflinching char nrr
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