The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-10
corning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NKw ORLEANS, SUNDAY, AUGUST TO, I6'3.
The Principles of 1880 in France and Spain.

HEw ORLEANS. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10. 1873.
The Principles of 1888 in France and Spain.
The Atheistic Republic continues to progress
in SPAIN and it seems that Spanish petroleurs
are in no respect unworthy of their French
Gliarism at Alcoy recall the deeds of the Paris
Commune and although tho kilograms from
Madrid, inspired by tho ri y Margal Govern
ment, seek to convey that these atrocities form
an isolated case, the details which are publish
ed in tho Spanish press of all shades of opinion,
prove that at Cadiz, Malaga and Seville, not to
mention Carthagena aud Barcelona, as info
nous deeds hay o been perpetrated, and anarchy
is almost complete. The march OF some bat
talons of troops against Alcoy has turned out
to be little more than military promenade in
IKE sense that Gen. Velarde has been unable
or unwilling to jnfiict any punishment upon
the insurgents. There appears to have been
nominal surrender of the city on the condition
of an entire amnesty, condition which suff-
GENTLY proves the impotence of the Repubi-
can authorities to chastise the worst excuses.
The resolutions of the Cortes denouncing VEN
empty gasconade. Gen. Contreras, lately
Governor of Catalonia on behalf of the
Madrid Governments, is now Governor of
Carthasena against gt the that Govern
hear of him next rs Captain General of
Madrid by the appointment of the authorities
he Is Opposing today In fact; 1t Is 81 already
hand in tho Cortes Us well as in the great
cities. Pi y Margall who was elected Dictator
. fortnight ago by the votes of the more Con-
present o firm front to the Red faction, has, as
might have been expected from the antece-
dents of the translator of Proudh on, rated to
Cabinet by tho aid of the revolutionary ex-
deputies, whose retraimiento was tho signal for
the outbreak in the South. The spectacle OF
Socialist Pi Margaii, the biasphemous Suner
Cap dc VILE, and the inscriptions Esteva.
nez will be no bad representatives of the party
which oonfiscates property, W hich assassinates
priests and detiles churches, and which trains
soldiers of the stamp of the brutal mercena-
ries who ravage the hnmlets of Navarro acd
Catalonia, but who surrender like sheep to
raw guerrillas and halfarmed peasants.
OF course, the duration of Republication in
Spain is impossible, though it may last long
enough to make the ultimate recovery of the
Quilt Tie annual revenue of Spain In ordinary
circumstances hardly exceeds eco COO 900, and
the interest on the debt is computed to absorb
2l5, 900 900 of that amount. At present, how
ever, the revenue is scarcely collected at all,
and the debt is being continually augmented
by loans ut enormous usury. Twelve months
the annual revenue Of the State to 81 600 900,
and 10 raise the annual interest on the State
debt to $4,000, 600. We can see nothing
ahead for Spain accordingly but total financial
collapse, even though total social collapse may
be prevented by the rapid extension of the
CaIlist power, or by some unlikely revolution
on behalf of the ex Queen Isabella. Consider
lng the manner in which the capitalists of the
European Stock Exchanges-those gigantic
hels" which can deride the penalties re-
served for gambling Of a lesser order-have
encouraged The interruptions politicians who
have brought Spain to its present condition
1t will be somewhat hard to feel much com
Hniseration for the disappointment in store foI
dler as to swindle anybody else but we fancy
that, nevertheless, the world will be more
amused than Mortified at the punishment OF
the spectators whose gold has supplied meat
dts and freebooters who have ruined the couu-
try Of the Cid. A good many European capt.
talists have put themselves, towards Spanish
ReVolntionists, pretty much in the same rela-
ton as the enterPrising persons who advance
the purchase monies for "jemmies" and skeIe.
ton-keys to certain classes of operators. We
suspect that they are about to realize the risks
which 1t is to be presumed they allowed for in
the calculation of their rates Of interest. The
modern civilization condemned by the Sy'-
National bankruptcy Is a leading principle of
the Revelation. 1t will be q singular incon-
sistency on the part of modern civilization "
II the impending bankruptcy of Spain is not
Apparently encouraged by the success of the
hevolutiopary propa ganda in Spain, the friends
OF citizens Gambetta, Ranc, Barodet and the
like redouble their exertions to re-introduoe
Franco to the scenes of the Fourth of Septem-
81 ber and the Eighteenth of March. No oppor-
tuuiSy 10 lost by the partisans of disorder in
NASoSAAoty
which they hope will have the effect of lower
ing the authority Of the Legislature through
out the country. NJ. Theirs is asserted to BIO
the leading counsellor of this strategy, al
though he refrains from presenting himself in
public and from openly assuming the respon-
sibility for the acts of his clients and allies.
de prefers, 1t seems, to play the part of "cham-
Der lawyer to the Revelation, and his organs
in the press conduct themselves accordingly
Every time that q furious uproar has been pro-
veked by some understrapper of the plot, no.
thing can exceed the grief of the Journal des
psSass the GIA"e Steele, and the rest of the
pseudo moderate journals at the occurrence
IF we had only kept N. Thiers," they sigh
Or they ask, with virtuous indignation, y" Is it
not plain that the Assembly has outlived
itselff Legislature which abandons itself
to such violence had better be dissolved with
1t may be acknowledged that the move if
unsorupulous, is not unskilful. A great part
of its snccess must. however, depend upon the
means which the Conservatives may adopt in
order to coRnteract 1t. Plainly anything like
concession would be thrown away on the band
of fanatics and intriguors who profess to be
marshalled under the united standards of NM
Gambetta and Theirs. At the same time it is
impossible to allow the Sovereign Legislature
to be converted into bull ring or bear.garden