The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-25
MIscELLANRous YoREIaM NEWS.
ITO January 3rdl

THE PRUssIAN CATHOLICS AND THE EMPIRE.
Another important passage in the speech
OF Herr Reichensperger, to which We called
pointed out in a letter to the Spectator.
Speaking of the imputation Of disloyalty to
united Germany which Is the stock argu
ment In defence of the Falck laws, Herr
Reichensperger declared that the electoral
agitation of 1870 received the support of
all German Catholics, which enabled Ger
many to unite and put forth all her strength,
and thus prepared the way for glorious
victory. The Left laughed, but the speaker
went on -" Yes, gentlemen, thereby WAS
rian Diet and the mobilization of the
Bavarian army rendered possible. The
majority of the Bavarian Diet had to
decide on this point, and the efforts of my
friends contributed to this important deci-
sion." And as the Radicals still laughed,
of the National Liberals: "I have wit
ness" he said, to what affirm-ask Herr
Lasker." And Herr Lasker replied "Per-
fectly true" The revelation has made no
little sensation; and the Allgemeine Zeitumg,
itself a Bavarian paper, and therefore q
prefers to ascribe the act Of the Bavariac
Landtag to the irresistible impulse of the
moment-" die Macht des Augen blicks "
"does not affect to deny that the Cathcn,c
leaders in Prussia did use their influence in
the sense indicated by Herr Reichensper-
ger )" and Herr Jorg, the leader Of the
Bavarian majority, In letter which he has
just published, though he does not recollecs
that the mobilization of the Bavarian,
army was promoted by any representations
from the Prussian Catholics, admits it to
be q certain fact that the latter were favora-
BILE to the unifcation of Germany and the
institution of the Empire, and asserts that
their infuanca waa naa6 IN Obtain the adj
berence Of Bavaria to the offer Of the I'm
perial Crown to the King of Prussia at
Versailles. We have thus two perfectly
independent testimonies to the truth of
what we have 80 persistently asserted
namely, that previously to the recent anti
Catholic legislation the Prussian dynasty
and the new Empire had no more faithful
aud attached supporters than the Prussian
Catholics.
LORD RUSSELL AND THE PRUssIAN PROTEST
ANTS.
The Berlin correspondence of the London
| press continues to dwell on the satisfaction
! with which the prospect of Lord Russells
sian Government and the partizans of its
| oppressive policy. The Post, however,
points out that the Protestants Of Prussia
| experience no such enthusiasm as that
| which inspires the author of the Durham
letter. "And the reason is that in Germany
the fact is notorious, which in this country
| is overlooked" that " the particular policy
| Of which the Roman Catholics complain is
only part of q general scheme by which
ecclesiastical authority of whatever kind
throughout Prussia is to be reduced to a
minimum"
| THE PERSECUTION AT GENEVA.
We have had occasion before this to
point out that the telegraphic agencies in
Switzerland, and particularly at Geneva,
are entirely under the inf aence Of the new
| scot. A patent proof of this is furnished
by the extraordinarily impudent telegram
which appeared in the English papers on
Tuesday. Here it is "Geneva, December
29.-Three parochial councils and three
cures were elected yesterday, tho successful
elected are M. Marshall, at Carouge; NJ.
Perrochon, at Lancy; and n. Gully, at
Chene. Several persons abstained from
voting. The proceedings passed of quietly
| The italics are our own, and the passages
so marked are certainly calculated to pro-
the adherents of M. Loyson's schism had
each their candidates, and that the latter
out-voted the former, q few parishioners
only abstaining from the poll. The real
facts are these. No Catholics voted, for
the very good reason that the benef1ces are
not vacant, and there were no candidates
for those benefces but the three foreign
apostates who were elected. No wonder,
then, that they were successful. The cold
Catholics" or those who profess to belong
to that body, signed petition to the Gov
eminent to call on the parish priests to
take the anti-Catholic oath; they, OF
course, refused, and the Government or
dered an election, as though the cures were
vacant. The same Old Catholics thereupon
o6ntrived to find three rebellious priests,
put them up for hole and corner election,
and as nobody else would take part in it,
of course carried their men. The real
priests, who are expelled from their
churches and presoyter,es' have published
the same telegram relates to another pre-
tension of an incredibly cool description.
ga general meeting of Liberal Catholics u
there were only " about 500 " present
was held on Monday in the Hall of the
Institute at Geneva. 1t was there proposed
that the Committee should be invited to
take needful steps to obtain the use of
Notre Dame, the principal Cath Ollie church,
Al l.