The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-23
Bismarck's War On the women.

i Bismarck's War On the wsmsn.
THIRTEEN LADIES FINED FOR ADDREssIN,
i TIE BISHOP OF MUNSTER.
The action brought against the ladie
who presented an address to the Bishop o
Munster has been decided. The lad, "a ha,
expressed their sympathy to the Bishop
and had protested against the manner |,
which TIE sentence of fine had beer
carried out. For at early dawn the epis
| copal palace had been entered, almost al
| thieves would enter q house, to carry ou
! the sentence. The address was hardly
KNOWN. when the Bishops house wal
| searched to procure the original of the
address. Those who signed It were sum
moned to appear before tribunal, and il
was rumored that one of the heads of the
accusation would be an offence against the
sovereign. 1t did not, however, 60 so far
as that; the State lawyer could oply dis
cover an offence against the district court
OF Munster which had carried out the decree
against the Bishop. On the same day.
When the accusation was to be publicly
brought before the court, everything was
arranged as for most important latter.
count of the limited space, only seventy
persons could get into the hall itself. A
great number of people had, however, as.
sembled outside the hall to see what thev
could from there.aS0fthe thirty.si ladies
summoned seventeen appeared; they ar
rived in splendid equipages. In the in
dictment the following expressions of the
address were brought forward Robbery
OF fightfui property-acts of violence of
blinded judges" together with a passage
where the condemnation of the Bishop and
the distraint of his goods were compared
with the persecution of Onr Lord .. by
hangmen and executioners." In the accu-
sation OF each Individually, they acknowl-
edged the fact of signing the address, but
declared that they had no thought of in
sultiDg the District Court at Munster or
any other court; they refused to give auy
further Information regarding the author
SNIP OF the address, and regarding the per-
son who gave it them to sign. The lady
prlneipally accused, Countess Droste Wis
,heriDg Won Nesselrode- Reichenstein, who
lad been especially busy in circulating the
address, was asked if those terms Of the
ADDRESS did not appear to her un becoming I. |
he answered with perfect courage, that
he considered them quite suitable. bnt
nat she had not intended To apply them to
NY particular Tribunal. The Government
attorney then endeavOred to show that the
erms of the address were punishable as
oDtalning an Objectionable insult; it was
lot question whether the ladies had the
Intention to insult, or whether thew had
ny particular tribunal in mind. For the
est, he believed that it was not 30 import
MT to make the punishment severe, as to
make known by summoning these ladies
hat they had acted improperly. There
ore, he proposed that the Countess Nessel-
ode should be Imprisoned for three DAYS.
nd that the others should each pay a fine
Il fifty thalers. After long and brilliant
peech from the advocate Of tie ladies. !
,ounselior Windthorst, of Munster, the
Government lawyer, replied alt is not
uestlon of the intention to insult, the
INSULT is contained in the expressions them
elves, it matters not which tribunal the
ccused ladies had in view. IN. B. The
ccusation was formerly drawn cut as an
1sutt specially directed against the district :
ourt of Munster.) The ladies are not VIC !
ms to the strife between State and Church. !
ley are punishable because they have dis
lssed matters on which canon law reonired
omen to be silent. Muller taceat in {
'ciesia J" The ladies' advocate again I
'plled that women also, and especially
nose distlnguished by rank and birth, had G
hurch that they were specially called to e
ORR In the province of religion; if a G
brlstian woman did not so work, she was :
't the model woman whose image was q
,'ere him, she was not the true Christian |
hom God required. @
The court then retired ~ deliberate. and
Ter three-quarters ct An bour pronounced Il
ntence: Countess Sesserudp. as the n
innipal and most active agent in circu. L
tlng Tile address and collecting the sigma v
les, was condemned To Il tue of two n
inbred thalere, or in defaaIt to an inn |
of six weeks; the other ladies'
a fine of a hundred thalers or in default /
imprisonment of three weeks. Four a
dies, who bad declared in writing that il
ey mad an imperfect knowledge of the .
ntents of the address, were acquitted. II F
a remurkabte fact that the tribunal went II
beyond the punishment proposed by the c
'vernment lawyer. The people showed 81
sympathy with the accused. 81
ags were hung out in the streets where al
~ had to pass. In the evening arrange pr
nus were made to give the ladies a X
united escort, and led them in triumph tn SC
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