The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-16
MARCH 49,

N ESSENGEh, SUNDAY. MARC
competent judge-when that provision ex-
lists, is it always sufficient opef is it freed
from all restrictions which might make it
more nominal than reaIf and lastly, Is il
always furnished to all the children in the
union who ought to profit by itf
WALES.
The Distress in South WaIes.-The letters
which we continue to receive from the pas
tors of the Missions affected by the strike
draw terrible picture of the sufferings
which that unfortunate measure has en-
tailed upon the families of the Catholic
workmen in comanOn with the rest of the
population. Speaking broadly, about 10.
QUO Catholics are actually suffering starva-
tion, and the season, the climate, the nat
ural features of the country, and the elev-
ated site of all these mountain villages
considerably aggravate the calamity. In
the face of such misery no one will be in
ciined to enquire into it's causes before
offering relief, and whatever strong feelings
may be entertained as to the tyranny of
the Unions which forces workmen into
against their wiil-there can be no two
opinions as to the duty of succouring those
who suffer under it.-London Tablet.
SPAIN.
The Immediate Future of Spain.-It is
quite useless to speculate, says the London
Tablet, whether or how long the expert
indeed only sprinkling of Republicans ;
the peasantry are chiefly Carlist, the mid
die classes aud most of the aristocracy are
Alfonsist, and the Republic is adopted by
the majority in the Cortes, simply because
the cannot agree on Spanish King, and q
foreign King has been proved to be out of
the question. The Carlist instruction is
itself, at least on the defensive; Don AL
fonso, the Prince of Asturias, has left Wen
ma for Paris, in order to be within call !;
and the principal Communists in London,
Brussels, and Geneva, are-,said to have
started Cor Madfid SO that there is every
Spanish Republics elsewhere have certain
" not proved q panacea against military
despotism, everything will probably de-
pend, as hitherto, upon the line which the
army may ultimately take.
1t is all over with the House of Savoy in
Spain. The impudent attempt to plant on
the throne of Catholic nation the son of
the despoiler of the Papacy has ended in an
ignominious collapse, and the reign which
the ntidel press of Europe hailed with iu-
bilant EMULATION has rotted to extinction.
There is an end of the regime which the
world was asked to regard as final tri-
umph over Catholic spirit in Spain, aud a
distinct procurement on the part of its
population in favor of irreligion and OPP
preston. If "Cervantes smiled Spain's
chivalry away" there is still sufficient pa
triotsm and sense of duty in the land of
the olive and the vine to render the pre-
sence of the son of an excOmmunicated u.s.
upper in the Escural a6horrent to the feel
ings of the people, and not even the pres
sure of military despotism has been suffi-
Gent to keep him on the throne into which
he had been intruded. From the first day of
his short and ill-starred reign the indigna-
tlon of the people was evidenced by acts of
open war. Never for an hour was that
protest suspended, and neither the lying
kilograms nor connected dispatches suffic-
ed to conceal the fact that all attempts to
were utterly nnavailing. HOW freely and
unscrupulously these means of deception
rere employed no one who has not closely
watched the course of affairs in the PENN
sula can even imagine. 1t will be news to
most people, and yet it is undoubtedly q
fact that for the past six months for
midable lnsurrecti0nary war has been
raging in Spain-a war embracing fully
one-thlrd OF the country in it's area, and
supported against the Government by regu-
larry drilled and equipped forces, number
ing In the aggregate over fifty thousand
men. 1t ls also certain that Don Carlos,
the candidate for the crown, whose cap
ture or flight to France has been so often
reported, never during that period quilted
his native soil. Over and over had the de-
feat and dispersion of his followers been
reported at least hundred times it has
been announced from Madrid that the ia
surrection was finally suppressed, aud that
order reigned in Spain. The English press
gladly published these tidings, and chung
with frantic vigour to the hope that in
Spain, as in Italy, attachment to Catholic
principles would go down before the auda-
city of liberalism" But it was not to be-
Tue insurgents, aunihilated on paper one
day, were found to be as active as ever the
next; the population gave them their full
est sympathy and assistance, the troops
sent against them joined their ranks; in
the highest circles, as we'll as in the lowest,
antipathy to the foreign ruler became
passion; generals as we'll as privates
caught the fame of patriotism, and re-
VOTED against the national scandal. With
il tue past month matters have been hasten
ing to crisis. The difficulty of stemmiug
the torrent of instruction Increased each
day, until at laet tue current became ire
sistible. To face the gathering dangers
was more than the intruder was equal to.
To escape from Spain with whole skin
became soon the chief object of his ambi-