The New York herald., 1874-08-10

Tnfrd-The Plus Society OF Berlin.
IL Is hereby brought 70 public notice that the
punished by 6ne OF from i've TO nfty thalers, or
| imprisonment from eight days to three months.
| BERLIN, July N 1874
THE HUE AND CRY
| This Il doubtless only the beginning OF the
| chase. One authority states the NUMBER OF men,
! bers of the Catholic Gesellen unions In Germany
to be 1000. Besides these there are hundreds of
other societies, such as the Catholic adult soce.
ties the Catholic young mems societies. university
societies and societies OF women and OF children.
| The Prussian government Is about to atm severe
blow at the organization OF these societies by al
most severtng the connection one with the other,
| even n 1t does not resort to other ana extreme
measures by Issuing ordinances with legal force,
which may later be formally adopted by the Land
tag. A paragraph in the Prussian constitution
permits this mode OF procedure In s'case OF needn
| I'm Fdlleines Nothstandes). The rapidly with
which the government has already gone to work
goes far to prove that 1t was waiting only for such
an opportunity as the present to search
nearer into the nature OF the Catholic
societies; and in this sense we can
understand the pious thanks to heaven uttered by
the Kreuz-zettung 1.-THE Journal OF the Cross, Tor
permitting Kullmann to attempt the assassination.
The Frankfort Journal protests very energeticay
against an abusive application OF the law regulat-
ing societies, since the many millions Of Catholic
citizens should not. IN any case, be held RESPONSE
BILE for the crime OF mailman or even for the per-
nicIous agitation created by certain Incorporate
partisans OF the Roman Curia against the German
Empire.
WHO BEGAN Irf
And In this agitation, kept up by lntemperate
partisans OF the ultramOntane party, Prussia has,
perhaps, the greatest cause Of complaint We need
not here search into the question, Who commenced
the connict Earnest h0sttlities against the
Church were Nrst commenced by Prince Bismarck.
He drove the Jesuits out Of Germany, and
he thought he had good reasons for so
doing. But herein he insuted the Catholic
conscience as has been done since by
the imprisonment OF priests and bishops.
So in return Prince Bismarck has received hard
names. He has been styled by the ultramoutane
press q modern Diocletian. a Nero, Caligula
the Beast OF the Apocalypse, the Antichrist and
dozen other unpleasant cognomens, and his name
has been received with gr0ans and Kisses In the
meetings Of the Catholic societies. Bismarck COM
menced the conflict against the Catholic Church;
he knew the power he had to combat, and the
Ge,naanf0 does not hit wide OF the mark when 1t
says that 1T is not strange when, filed with the
conviction that Bismarck Is the great prosecutor
Of the Catholic Church, the sum Of passion, hatred
and rage should have been collected IN certain In
dividuals and finally break forth in the rudesr re-
bellion against the laws OF God and humanity"
An Italian paper says:-"The sermons OF the
clergy. the protests OF the bishops, the manifesta-
tions OF the Catholic societies. must OF
course produce their effect 1t 10 un-
just to make the Church answerable for
the crime, but the leading astray OF the conscience
and the conviction that the course OF events
could be changed by single life can only be con.
sidered as the bitter fruit OF an imperfect educa-
ton, which places moral culture IN the back
ground"
THE ULTRAMoNTANEs AND THE SOCIAL pExocRArs
The Kissngen event has proved one thing very
clearly-rhat Bismarck. though popular with the
majority, has bitter minority against him-a
minority which he treats in very high-handed
manner. The ultramontanes and the social DEM
Ocrats sail tor the present In one boat The official
papers style them s'die schDarzen' and "dte
rothen"-the blacks and the reds-and charge
them with melting the people against tho existing
order of things. Two editorial leaders OF these
parties are at present undergoing impris.
onmenr for publishing articles attacking the
government. Majunke, the editor Of the
Berlin Ge7naanta, Is in prison on the
Pl0tzensee; Mr. Sonnemann, the editor OF
the democratic Frankfort zettun0 Is incarcerated
IN the vicinity OF this city. Dozens OF cases occur
every week in which social democratic assemblies
are arbitrarily closed BY the police. A working
mems festival was prohibited at Brunswick few
days ago. Two meetings were suddenly closed in
Berlin on the 14th and 10Th inst. by the police.
THERE is NO APPEAL.
The veto OF an ignorant policeman, who fre.
quently falls to grasp the meaning Of the words
uttered, Is SUFFICIENT. Many arrests Of democratic
leaders and house-searcbes have recently taken
place. When the wOrkmen revoted few weeks
ago at Quednau near K6nigsberg, the ofncial
papers charged the social democrats with having
melted the people thereto. At the trial OF thirteen
workmen, however, 1t was found that the low
state OF education aud morals was the only cause
OF the uproar. And so on throughout Germany,
discontent among the workingmen, discomfort
and insulted feeling among the ultramontanes.
Thus could Kuilmann say, with some truth, that
hundreds OF people were ready to take his place
II he Iell." Thus is 1t that among the
THREATENING LETTERS
which Bismarck has received since the attempt
on his lie, the social democratic and ultramon.
tame parties-that Is, some ignorant members Of
these parties-express the hatred that certainly
exists among them. l have copies of three such
letters before me. One Is from Hanover, without
date, and reads as follows:-
Our Magistrate and Schntzen. ColeQium have
sent you an address oil cOngratulation that the
bullet did not strike you; but that you may not
believe this to be the true feeling OF the people l
say to you that thousands wish the bullet had
been better aimed, on account OF the many crimes
' ONE FOR MANY AND SOCIAL DEMOCRAT.
Another letter. with the postmark Salzburg and
dated the 10Th oil June, reads:-
BIsMARCK:-We Catholics have Just read that
you had been struck by q bullet; but unfortu-
nately. It dd not do you much HARM a fact which
Is regretted very much by the Catholic clergy; and
we want TO tell you beforehand that if Q war were
TO break out you would be the nrst for whom
bullet would be cast, for we Catholics have to
thank you that sooner or later, war and revolt
Will take place among the people. You are not
worthy to occupy the high position you do IN the
Reichstag Take care, tor you are hated by high
and low One for all,
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN.
Another threatening letter begins
Born OF horror and cruelty, Prince Count Won
Bismarck, pity the bullet faiied bus we have q
better. Please see that my friend the artist and
lieutenant tout OF servce), Herr Won Zastrow, be
freed from prison; then you, too, shall be free.
L. V. D., g. w., p. v. IT.
WIN TUrv Apu