, 1874-07-15
GERMANY'S GOOD WILL TOWARDS
FRANCE.

menting on the appointment OF the new Ger
man Ambassador to France, makes the follow
ing striking illusions -
During the past week the telegraph has
informed us that Prince Clovis HohenlOhe had
presented to Marshal MacMah0n his creden-
tials as German ambassador in Paris, IN place
of Count Won Arnim. More than a month ago
YOUR correspondent informed your readers OF
Prince Hohenlohe's appointment. But imul-
taneously with this telegraphic news you
CONGRATULATED the single-souled veteran who
il at the head of the French government on
his good fortune in having as German ambas-
sadOr " a devout Catholic, like Prince HOhan-
lohe," who would be, from his very religion,
disposed to lean toward the Pope and to act a
conciliatory part between France and Germa-
nv. In one word, this appointment appeared
to YOU a sign of good will towards suffering
France and an omen of lasting peace. And
taking up the HERALD's song, the World
piped also to its readers of "peace and good
wiIl' through the advent of this new princely
paragon of piety in the French capital. As
these lines are written, however, yol dispel
the illusion, and assures US that
WAR is MORE THAN PROBABLE
between the two great countries in question,
and that Germany cannot and will not allow
France to gather strength any longer.
How, without reminding your readers of the
facts produced by "Prudentius' in his first
letter concerning the conflict between Bis
marck and the Catholic Church, it could be
for an instant concluded by the public press
that Prince Hohenlohe was a devOut "Cath0-
lic' is passing strange. That he is of an old
Catholic stock l grant you, and also that one
of his brothers is a cardinal. But that Prince
Clovis ever performed one single act of Catho-
lie piety or showed in a single instance his
regard for the interests of the Church or his
sympathy with her brave old Pontiff in her
struggles is what the world has yet to learn.
It is just the time to repeat what has been
already stated in your columns. The persecu-
ton of the Catholics in Bavaria, long before
the breaking out of the Franco-G German war,
was due to the %"piety" of this same Prince
Clovis Hohenlohe, at that time Prime Minister
of that kingdom and he ceased to fill that
post because the Catholic party in Bavaria
coal esced with the "patriOtio party" to drive
him from it. They knew six years ago, as
they know but too well to-day. that
THE BITTEREsT ENEMIES OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH
are statesmen who call themselves her
children while betraying her most sacred inte-
rests, and churchmen, like Cardinal HOhen-
lobe, whose only religion is a~arvlllty t. kings
and their ministers.
France has nothing to hope for but unre-
lentfng hate from the clever, bad man whom
Germany now sends to her. He it was who
oouhselfed his King before the opening of the
late war to cast his lot with Prussia and
against France, the old-time ally Of Bavaria.
It was, to be sure, an old way of paying the
new debt contracted toward Napoleon L. by
Bavaria, when be raised her to the rank of a
Kingdom.
During the campaigns of the first French
Empire the Bavarians had shared all the glory
of the French arms. And when, under Prus-
sian leadership, their legions invaded the
French soil in 1870 and took a foremost part
in9every battle which FASTENED the overthrow
of Napoleon LII, and ended in the dismember-
ment and utter spoliation of France, there was
not a tBayarian who did not feel that he was
running his best friend to elevate his worst
enemy. Nor was there then a Bavarian who
didnot know that the man who had brought
about the fatalIalliancs of Southern and North
erni Germany against France, unprepared and
deceived was Prince Clovis Hohenlohe.
Think you this political apostate will falsify
the, proyerbial tfalse and fatal zeal'' of all
a~postates against those Of their former creed
-Enr -<haxy rar1 against fhem and have them