Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-01
From LIERIo.
His Views Of The sOId csthOIlO'' Movement
Ia Bavaria.

Ia Bavaria.
From the Munich correspondent Of the New
York Trfbnne.I
In answer to my question as to the
probable results of the Catholic re-
formatory movement In Bavaria,
Baron Liebig said: "Good teachers
are necessary. We need, first OF all,
good schools in Bavaria. The land
has been for a century and a half I'M
der the influence of the J~esuists, and
the roots OF the Jesuitical system are
still in the land, they are still deep in
the life Of the artstocracy; and this is
the reason that Bavaria has remained
so backward in civilization. All re-
formations, to be thorough, must be-
gin with the new generation. Let nee
give you an example: Nineteen
years ago King Macmillan, Of
Bavaria, called a number Of
scientific men to Munich, among
others myself from Glessen
University. I can assure you that
we were treated as ~Outcasts, the press
cried out against US as strangers, as
intruders. The people were warned
against US ; my agricultural system
was condemned. We were strangers,
but, as the world goes, the young gem
Grafton grew up with new ideas, and
devoid OF the old predjudices. Alde-
veTOpment in the world always pro-
ceeds from the yOung6g generation.
Hardly five years had passed before a
perfect revolution ofideas came about
in Munich; the old city council fell;
then came the young generation, and
we got a new city council, and the
first thing 1t did was to make me, the
stranger, an honorary citizen. But as
long as we do not possess the power of
educating the coming generation, as
long as the clerical influence is allow
ed to prevail, we cannot hope for Of
heient reform. Twenty-Five years
ago there existed in Giesson q Roman
Catholic Theological Faculty-an ex-
ceIlent theological faculty indeed; the
students attended the Protestant
medical and scientific lectures, !
and learned to love and toll
crate their felloW.students. The
most beautiful and harmonious rela-
tions were developed between the
Catholic and Protestant students.
But misfortune came. In the place of
Bishop Kaiser, of Mayence, came
KetteIer (the present bishop and ul-
tramOntaine member of the German
Reichstag), and he at once con-
demned the new system Of tnstruc-
ton and called the Catholic theolOgi-
cal students away from the university.
AfterWard these Catholic students
were educated in their own schools
and seminaries, and came no more in
contact with the world. 1t was Ket-
teller who ruined the theological fac
ulty at Giessen. The government
ought, indeed, to have stepped in and
put the bishop in his right place.
But no |! The government at
that time rather favored the influence
of the clergy, they thought the latter
were devoted to the dynastic inter
ests, they fancied that it was the
church that held up the thronel They
now all see their error"
THE CLERICAL SCHOOLS OF BAVARIA.
SIN the whole OF Bavaria" con-
tinued the Baron, "the Catholic SEM
inaries stand solely under the iniu-
ence of the bishops, and the students !
grow up in ideas among themselves, |
and the clergy teach them views to-
antagOnistic to the development
ofthe times. We feel this vast gulf
that is created between US and the
clerically taught generation. The
know very we'll the vast inhu-
ence that can be eXerted upon the
youths, and they are untiring in en-
to retain the hold they
have already upon education. This
school education OF the priests can
only be c-Ounteracted by the popular
system. A similar state of
affairs prevails in Italy. AS long as
the priest were representatives of
they were heldin high esteem;
put as soon as they cease to be such,
and neglected the fulfilling of their
rue educational mission, they were
le5pised by the peOple-and no clergy
the world is so utterly despised as
he italian. 1t is the intellect of man.
Kind that we have to develop.
This is the only way to adj
Yancement. America has done
-ight-good schools, good schools,
rood schOolsl With all these fraudu-
.ent uses, it is incredible that more
money Is devoted to the schools by
he city of New York than the whole
Of Bavarial And what pleases me is
he education OF women with you, and
sspecially-the fact that ladies are en-
as teachers. That is excellent.
And they must all make q severe ex-
We have not come to
his. Even ia Prussia, where the
Jeachers are better paid than in Bava-
ia, the increase OF pay and the i'm
1rovement in the character Of the
eachers havehot been in q ratio cor
responding to the demands Of the age
or intellectual instruction. C0nse-
Prussia has remained stand
in educational matters, instead of
With US, however, there
8 no chance of advancement. In our
Tillages aRd towns the community is
opposed at all points by the priest.
NE community will-the priests will
lot; bat, as the schoolmaster is gener-
in the service Of the clergy, In the
and paid thereirom, he is sub.
ect to the clerical influence, and from
i'm no good can be transmitted to- |
be children"