The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-07

NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER L 1873

Az this Misrepresentation has been, as usual.
repeated by some of the English correspond
ents who as was said of ambassadors, have
been sent "to lie abroad" though certainly
not for the good of their country 1t may DO
worth while to refute it in detail. In the hlss
place. rs, in order to make the total of third
of the Prussisn citizens" the one and a-nalt
million Poles must be added to the six and a
half million Prussan Catholics, and as the
total representation of Poles and Catholics
together amounts to ITO at the very least, the
Spener'sste Zeung has not acted honestly IN
taking account Of the deputies of the purely
| German Centre party alone. In fact, the County,
organ stands convicted of q very sorry sort OF
| artifce even on its own showing. In the sec,
ond place, although it be true that the tnird
of the populations subject to Prussian rule are
Catholics, it is no less true that the Prussisn
| electoral system, as the Spenershe Zeitnng 10
fully aware, does not allow of representation
in proportion to population. Although an al
| most universal suffrage is nominally the rule,
in fact the wealthier classes obtain such
Fictitious preponderance that half Jew
usurers may have more weight than hundreds
electoral district the voters are divided into
three classes according to taxation-that 49,
IL according to wealth. The richest voters
those whose united contributions amount to u
, third of the local revenue-form the first class.
The next richest-those whose contributions
amount to another third-form the second
class All the remainder of the population
forms last class, which only returns as many
! electors as each of the two former classes.
When, accordingly, the electors chosen by TINS
species of universal suffrage come toge'net, ~
f choose Parliamentary deputies for the distrlct'
the first and second Glasses, though represent.
o ing the merest fraction of the total popuiatioh
are as two to one against the popular class
The result in Catholic districts has been very
prejudicial in many instances, as the Spencer sch;
Zeitung must be supposed to know; to the r ta1
Of Of tee
}. thousand Catholic votes were recorded o
against only four thousand of the " Mishmasl
! party "-as the Heterogeneous medley OF bis
MARKHAM Liberals is merchandising y" Mlsn
mash nevertheless. consisting largely OF IN
If wealthy official and banking interests returne'
the majority of representatives. This ID wh.
"the third of the Prussian citizens" are no
reuresented by q corresponding third OF Tn
Prussian deputies and the Spencer sche Zettnng
suppression of the truth is equally useless an
discreditable.-~ a.,
It is not TO be supposed, however, that tn
disappointment of Liberal expectations In
niles any abaudonneut of Liberal design
"a The anti Catholic aud authoritarian maJorit
in in the new L.ndtag is greatly stronger than
We the di-snlved Assembly. The state worsn'l
he ping National Lib.rals" have risen from OF
ny hundred aud ff cen to over one hundred h gu
ID si1ty The Radical " Progressists, whoi
RS proxrxnuie is disesta bshmeHt and non -reco
We nitiou Of all churches, compulsory civil mh
X riage, goddess education. aud nncoesecla ar
ch cen.te-ies have risen from fifty to near
be | seventy The old Christian Lutherans an
'm Conservatives have been simply efaced, la
NJ ing collapsed from venty TO uine or Ten Il;
'ly inIi.ed have the Liberal conservatives W
I'D fetch and carry the Government been mu
'ut more fortunate. In fact the electoral struge
me has turned on the question of Catholic or an
use Catholic, and while Westphalia, and KIM
ors land Siiesia and Posen have proved the
Try selves indomtably faithful to the persecut
od- Church, the Liberal and iufidel masses OF
OF Prnssian population have returned an oF
Ith- wbelming Liberal and infidel majority. =.
tue course the Government affects to CONSIDER u
ali majority ga devotedly governmental. 1
ick Liberals and infdels do not conceal VI
It's different opinion. They are prepared TO
ole Bismarcks work against the Church, but u
ena are also prepared TO do their own work aga'
ons the Constitution. It is Instructive un'
ex- these circumstances to find the NorddeutS
ponI, Iiqemeine Zeitsng appealing to the triumph
%: Liberals not to give way to the tenn PtaI ~
ao- to utilize their dominant position on oennil
nly q political abstrsetious and "extrene"
md fmmoderate" solutions. In vain, hoWeN
era- The words "Organic Reform" have alrea
nay passed the lips Of the Radical leaders,
five Prince ven Bismarck, like every former POI
hat cutor of the Church, will fnd that IN Snmm
the ing the Revolution of his Aid, he PAS 81
vled himself not o servant bat master;
last Catholic Church has come out the ordeal oo
n of to the present with increased suenl
der Already, however, the Monarchical Co9sel
'rse- tives have almost disappeared from the al
ESQ meut of the PEussiAn Monarchy: C@SSt
sian caSt off God and the Liberal and the hao
the already stand on the atePs OF the tnrOne'