The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-03

when we come to look carefully into the admins
tration OF modern countries and discover the
may be inclined TO think that the time has come
to insist shat there too little interference OF the
priesthood In secular AFFAIRS rather snan zoo muS6
be kept SO tar from the ken and oognixance o.
heavenf Can there be any temporal business
why should secular affairs oe conducted in man
ner contrary TO the divine COMMANDMENT MOST
christian peoples admit that they VIII nave 10 give
account OF their actions hereafter. They say 80 on
their knees In their churches and, having done
this some Of them coolly add Nov let Us put the
God OF parties and majorities likewise to the gilt
calf which stock J0bDers have set up. Jehovah,
the King Of kings Am Is an eternal being who mas
which he made" An Odd argument is put ior-
ward by the adherents OF the Prussian government.
VIII prove q prosecutor II extraordinary powers
1ded TO him and he is raised higher than
the Almighty. He IL very good man. SO be IT,"
There is, indeed, no more respectable person on .
throne than this William the Conqueror. But how
that these powers Wi not be awruliy abused By
themf 1t Is hard task to control mems religion
without cruelty. They win consent not only to De
nned and imprisoned but 10 be also burned alive ior
their laith, as history often shows and perhaps
some day Prussian potentate may take fancy
for nianllesting his power over the souls Of his
subjects by the cOgent argument of namiug lagots.
THE JB5UITS.
Respecting the expulsion OF the Jesuits nom
Germany, IL Is really blunder OF the gr0sseSt de-
scription. 1t was charged against them that they
were active political c0nspIrar0rs who entertained
correspondence with the enemy. This was very
vague charge, and II was not proved But II 1t mad
been proved what thenf II any Jesuit was traitor
and supplied Information In war time to the enc
mics Of his country, there were laws enough to
punish him. He was amenable to those laws,
whether Jesuit or not, and to despoil and Danish
the whole Order OF Jesuits for this reason would be
ike driving out the medical profession because
some doctors had been accused OF malepractices.
THE PRUSSIAN Law OF RIOT.
On the 10th December, 1871, Prusslan law was
promulgated making II - penal offence for cler-
gymeA to tncte riots or otherwise endanger the
public peace" 80 far 80 good. But why thus law
should have been followed by an Act OF Parliament
dated July l. 1874 banishing the Jesuits from
ali the territories Of the German Empire, Is
utterly tnexplicabe upon any grounds Of reason
or justice They were expelled untitled ana unheard
for no offence. Ii II could have been proved that
they had offended against the laws 1t would
have been proved, and they would then have
teen punishable, not a. Jesuiys, but as law
breakers and punishable only by Ineligible SEN
fences according to law for Onences known to the
law. But to punish whole community because
OF absurd rumOrs Is q proceeding against which
perfect innocence has no defence. Lastly, may
mention before concluding this letter that queer
mistake prevails among official people at Berlin
that the clergy should be subordinate to the civil
power because they are paid by the State. That
has been fixed by divine authority. The clergy
have divine right to tenth OF the goods OF man.
kind, and they seldom get 1t punctuaily paid.
They would not get 1t at all but that there Is some
thing in Gods law which cannot be evaded by
human perVersIty.