The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-07
EMIiPlORIA NEW s.
Z FRIDAY. lNlARCH q. 1873.
BISMARCK AND JEsUIrIsM.

Those who suppose that Bis
! nAarck, tho most sagacious of lis
ing statesmen, Is waging war wit
the ecclesiastical power in Ger
many upon any superficial o
Whimsical ground do him grea
injustics.--The-key his position
stis evident. The calling of tn
great GcumenIcal Council a
Rome was the sign of the probabl
ascendency of Jesuitism in tn
Roman Church. The declaration
i by the Council of papa infalabil
/ ity was the proof of Jesuit So
prerRacy. Bismarck is a man o
much too profound insight not t.
see the political consequences o
such a fact, and he acts according
". For Jesuitism is an absolut,
despotism which recognizes onl,
its own purpose and its own meth
DDS. 1t Acknowledges no tie o
country or kindred. The Jesui
| is a dumb and passive instrumen
engaged in the subjugation of thu
human. mind to an ecclesiastical
supremacy. Japan and Alaska
Turkey, italy, England and Amer
lea, are to the Jesuit the indifer
ent scenes OF his labor. He take:
no root. He shares no common
sympathies. He is no fellow-ci
zen. Patriotism is necessarily
impossible to him. The task il
which his whole being is enlisted
is the creation of a state within 6
state, of, an allegiance beneath
that of country and government
to a distant, absolute, and relent.
less authority.
= Jesuitism is not Roman Cathol-
icism, but it controls it. "Jesuit
! ism," says Goodwin Smith, in the
discourse lately delivered by him
in Toronto, sis not religion: Jes-
uitism is and always was conspir-
acY: 1t conspired of old with
Catlolic- despots for. the oyer
throw Of Protestant governments,
and Of the liberty in which Protest
antism has its being. 1t conspires
with factions for the same purpose
now. az - Jesuitism is at
work in every country organizing
n movement the object of which is
the. extinction Dof Professionalism
and Of modern civilization" 1t
has made great progress he thinks
in Europe. In Belgium it is grasp
ing education, the polls, the judi
ciary. In Italy it is playing the
demagoguc, and mingling in the
elections. 1t is advancing in Lower
Canada; sand IT," says Mr.. Smith,
and his words are suggestive-"if
our party organs are silent on the
subject, or try indirectly to divert
the national mind from it, this is
merely an instance of the manner
in which Jesuitism gains political
influence, and paves the way to its
ends. The Jesuit comes in time
to the polls, the legislature, the
Judiciary, the executive: but he
first lays his hand upon educa-
ton" ia a.
With every intelligent observer,
Bismarck knows all this, and he is
resolved that in Germany Jesuit
ism shall be thwarted. The copn-
try that has been regenerated by
education shall not be destroyed
by entrusting education to its
enemies. A German subject to
Jesuitism is a thought so mon
strous that Bismarck is fully arous-
ed, and all the wiles of the enemy
do not avail. He has expelled
them, not as charitable men and
pious ministers, but as enemies of
the state, who, under the plea of
charity and piety, seek to poison
the very fountains of patriotism.
There is no more interesting move
ment in the world at this time
than Bismarck's contest with this
subtle and deadly foe. He not
only banishes the Jesuits, he seeks
to eXtirpate Jesuitism in Germany.
On the 10th of JunH, 1872, the
members, mostly women, of GER
tain religious orders were forbid
den to teach in the public primary
schools of Prussia. During the
next session of the deputies
motion was introduced that such
an order violated the constitution
of 1850, which provides that, I'M
der due reserves of law, the public
functions arc free to every capable
person. The minister, in defend
ing his order, said that the law re
quired that every public officer
should neglect nothing that could
be of advantage to the state; the
question therefore, was whether
the women, members of religious
orderg who were TEACHERS in the
public schools, and therefore Off
cersCNf the. state. performed this
tluty. Do they give any guaran-
tee whatever, lie asked, that they
edncnte the children eonfided to
their care in such ideas of liberty,
of fidelity to their country, of
bbedieacG to the laws, of at
tachment and devotion to the
state, that the opinions, the hopes
and wishes and purposes, in a
word, the ideal of the scholars, is
within erlwithout their country B.?
The. minister answered his own
question. HPhese teachers, he said,
are bound TO their order by tie most
sacred vows Before they become
| teachers. 90 servants. of the state
ttheS are vowed to passive obedi-
ence to superiors who are often not
within the Jurisdiction of the state
and their views, the conditions OF
their. position, do not permit them
TO understand the nature of the state
in which they live. Alien authori
ties assume 10 decide how far these
teachers shall obey the laws, while
thai AlieR auth gritty ITSELF has not he
Independence which It formally en-.
| ioyed. - Moreover, secular remos
STRANGE is of little weight with thosl
| who are so bound by religious
vows, How entirely their individ
fuaIity is lost is shown in Rhenisl
PrRssla, in Westphalis, In Silesis
where the contracts for this service
are not concluded with a person
but with superior or a congrega
ton. Even the salaries are paid Il
tihe superior or to the congregation
The minister said that he had Seel
a contract in which it was provides
that neither the children nor thei
parents could speak to the teache
texcept In the presence of the supe
rior. q,
Such reasons the minister held t
be 8 sufficient Justification of his Oh
der (; but there were others. tn
number of religious orders an,
fhouses is rapidly Increasing. Wit
out including the Jesuits, theT
} were sometime since not less tina
kS92 h0uses.and $3.50 inmates. b
/ bsides the esReFmous number OF 9Th
T religious" teaching in public and pr
vate schools was suggestive. In III
= department of Coblentz there wa
nearly $50 in the public schools ;, j
7 that OF 20 ussel Id 0rf alone, I'D in Or
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