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in danger. So Bismarck's cue was to
imagine Jesuitical conspiracies against the
integrity of the State. This was quite
enough for the liberals let the Kaiser,
they cried, have as many soldiers as he
likes, let him even gag the press still more,
as long as he puts down the common en-
envy. Into the guilt or innocence of the
German Bishops it is needless to enter
not a single definite charge of treason has
been brought home to one of them j; but,
on the other hand, it is. tolerably clear
that the Vatican never looked with much
favor on the movement for German unity,
still less on the erection of a great GEN.
trail Protestant power at the expense of
Catholic Austria and Catholic France.
Still the policy of the Court of Berlin
(for the Emperor William is equally res
ponsible for it with his Minister) is more
than doubtful in the interests of the house
of HohenzollerD. The Church of Rome had
accepted the German Empire in 1871, and
only asked to be left alone. Was it worth
while to purchase the temporary support
of a practically irreconcilable party by ali
enating that hierarchy which has, in mo-
dern times, always proved the firm SUPP
porter of the thrones of kings? Granted
that Catholicism can be put down with a
high hand, what remains but that the
crown and the aristocracy will be left
alone
FACE TO FACE WITH DEMOCRACY,
which will respect the divine right of
royalty quite as little as the divine right
Of the Pope.
The electoral statistics compiled by
order Of Prince Bismarck, and recently
published, disclose som significant facts.
At the last elections upwards of five mill
lions of voters went to the polls, About
a million and q half called themselves
Catholics and an equal number national
liberals. The remaining two millions are
accounted for under the headings of pro-
gressists, conservatives, "German" or
''liberaI" imperialists, democrats and So
ciaI democrats, Po'es, particuIarists,
"French and Danes and Independents.
The majority of these would probably
vote with the national liberals on ques-
tions Of military expenditure, the Empe-
ror's civil list or the privileges of Par
lament. The Catholics will give no help
to Q prosecuting government, and on
whom can Frederic William V. then rely
when the memory of Gravelotte and Sc
dan shall have begun to fade and the bur-
CHEERS of Frankfort and Hamburg begin
to hold once more the language of their
fathers in 18489 The present Sovereign
of Germany may love to hear himself com
pared to the Emperor Frederic H., but he
might have remembered in the interests
of his family, that the Hohenstaufen
monarch had nothing like modern radi-
calism, much less socialism, to deal with.
Those who have conver8ed with German
professors over a quiet pipe assert that
French Communism is a mere cracker
compared with the mine of explosive
thought which the deeply bordering Teu-
tonic mind is constructing. Nor is there
much
HOPE IN THE MODERATION OF PARTIES
after a glance at Prince Bismarck's tables,
where the democrats number 23,9O8 and
the social democrats 339,738. In other
words, out. of every fifteen who wish to
reform society there are fourteen who
wish to destroy it altogether.
One would have thought the spectacle
of France undergoing the agony OF twelve