The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-09

London Telegraph, is interesting, and deserve
: n careful perusal
4 would ask how il is possible for any clea
headed and truth loving observer of the pres
? ent state of public affairs in Germany t.
deduce aught but evil augury from what h
sees, hears. and reads and if he takes paine t,
inform himself accurately respecting what il
going on in all directions within the front tier
OF this bran.new empiref The political con
dition OF France ut this moment can scarcely
be held to be satisfactory or re-assurine
| spectacle; bnt it is in more than respect
| unquestlonabfy preferable to that of Ger
! many. The doctrinaries, visionaries, and ad.
venturers of the National Assembly conduct
themselves in the most depiorabie manner, it
! Is true, whereas the specialists, thinkers, and
! theorizers of the Landtag and Reichstag OBJ
serve decorum that borders on dizziness
But there is no home question threatening
Frances internal tranquility that can be COM
pared with the Que that menaces Germanys
domestic peace. unity, Very existence as an
| empire.
CHURCH AND STATE.
Every day the contest that has arisen in this
country between Church and State assumes
graver and gloomier aspect. The combntants
have come very near to the end of their self
control-they arc at swords point looking
one another tiercely in the eyes ; it would seem
that nothing can avert the mutual onsIaugh
The manifesto of the Mayence Conference may
DO taken as the deuier mot of the one hellig-
erent; the recent inspired deliverances of the
Norddeutchs Allgemeine as the ultmatum of
the other. The German Catholics will not WELD
one jot; the German Government will not
abats one little.
There are official partizans here now who,
the wish being father to the thought, assert
their conviction that the Romanist Bishops in
their Congress at Fulda, have cooked up a
modns vivondi with the State--as if the very
latest speeches of his Holiness did not PIT
anything like modus vivendi out of the
question. The Bishops cannot hei p themselves
they must stick to their colors or they practi.
calIy cease to be; there is no other modus
tn fhapa hpt l.,4a
That they will submit is as likely as that Car |
dinal Antonelli will seek admission to the So |
ciety of Friends. The State Is even in greater
quandary than are the Roman Catholic eccle-
siastics and laymen. What is it to do nextP
Does 1T seriously propose to incarcerate the
whole of the Catholic priesthood organized to
meet the spiritual wants of 100000 of Ger
nan Romanists That would appear to be it's
present purpose. When Prussian, Hessian
5adenese, Hanoverian, and other varieties OF
iefman clergymon are put in prison for DISC
bedlence to Imperial laws, can it be imagined
hat the Realm Government will tolerate for
any length of time, the exemption of Bavarian
eccieslasslcs from similar pains and penalties
And how long may il be presumed that Bayariu
will remain part of the German Reich if she
90 subjected TO II religious persecution Those
foreigners who imagine that the Bavarinns
owe Prussia, worship German unity, and are
infatuated with their own absorption into the
Deutschcs Reich. are the victims of an amiable
ielusion. Such is not the case--indeed, very
much otherwise,
THE FINANCES.
What will be tho end of the approachipg
,onti!ct no man can tell. That heavy trial and
yrievous afiction threaten Germany immi-
iently there can be no doubt, unfortunately /
through this ili-timed breach with Leonine |
tome. But the new empire is beset by a peck |
# troubles from other quarters. There will |
las be no more Budget surplusses next year
# the year after that. Camphausen will not
70 able, in 1875, to say triumphantly Gas he did
his and last year,, " We have bad three wara |
II ten years, all paid for on the nail aud here
re are with ever SO many millions 10 dispose {
I, alter meeting our annual bills. Truly, we ,
viii not remit taxes by reason of our surplus
mt rather spend 1t in more material and ,
trnGetic railways" No; those deceptively
looming times are past Industry and trade
throughout Germany are diminishing, aud their
respects are even more dismal than their
resent. In the iron districts, furnace after {
urnace is being blown ont; almost all the !
rcat firms are i'll ditticuRics-even Krupp has ,
ad to borrow money on his plant. The income
$ falling OFF, tho expenditure increasing. The ,
Imy next year will cost 81 1870 600 more than
did this year; the navy G250, 600. The nav ,
the officials must be raised they cannot ,
i've ON what they get now; and within the ,
asst four years the proverbial incorruptibiiity
the Prussian bureaucracy has shown symp. I
is wanted for educational purposes; where ,
it to come from Instead of the peoples
lxation being lghtened, it will be still fGFth-
augmented. Tho indemnity is all speut save |
rat 49,OOO,00O locked mp in the Gate Tower at I
pandau ,
rltE SOCIAL DEMOCRACY.
All these grievances afford plentiful pas
Ire to Social Democracy. which tlourishes
with uHDrecetcnted inxnrinnca | {