The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-06-07
The Ecclesiastical Programme of the German
Government.
Iron the London Tablet, May TO-


- From the London Tablet, May l6i
When the second reading of the supple
nrntary Ecclcsinstical law, othei wise
a. known the Banishment Bill, was beinE
=. debated, Herr von Sybel; the liberal ms
t"rian, aroused great laughter by his
&, description of the devices by which, as he
. alleged, the pcasantry in the Rhine Pro-
= vince and in Westphaia were stirred up 10
vote against the prosecuting laws. He
declared that during the elections at Bonn,
> the people were told that what Prince
Bismarck really wanted was himself to
become Pope; that at ncighboling village
it was declared that the Bonn Liberals were
much worse than even Bismarck, for that
he only wished to take the Pope prisoner,
but that they wished to draw and quarter
him that on the 18th May all the Catholic
churches would be shut up, and those who
would not turn Protestant Imprisoned, and
40 on. Herr Won Sybrl was doubtless very
amusing, but it is not very difficult TO
make a metaphor look ridiculous by affect
ing TO understand it literally !; and, in IA
certain sense, 1t is quite tru" that the Gov
crnmcnt-that is, Prince Bismarck-d"cs
aim ut putting himself in the place of the
Pope ia far as the supreme spiritual juris-
dicton over German Catholics ia concerned.
We will take the estimate of the situation
furnished by the correspondent of the DAILY
Telegraph, whom the PIussian Government
will scarcely consider an unfriendiy judge
1.-The Government" says the writer, "uocs
not propose to add to its powers of offence
and defence, until it 81 all be in q position
3 to judge 10y fair amuant of experience
whether or not the subordinate Popish
f clergy, or any considerable section of that
body, will think fit to submit itself to the
secular arm, and by doing so, " TO Scrcr the
= connection cTisting bcinrCen and TIC Tdti-
cam" 1t will be seen by the words which
IS wc have printed in italics that it is admit, d
x that the consequence of obedience to the
It =" secular arm in this matter would be,
al ~,
!, But thr writer continues: " The group of
laws already available to the authorities
II for -Hnrtiing the disobcdicnce of his Ma
M icsty's Bishops, will enable tho Executive,
within the next few months, to get all the
al pIelatcs and their vicals general, besides !.
" considerable sprinkling of the lesser clergy,
|" safely into prison or across tho frontier.
IN whilst the civil powers will have secured
&c the entire and exclusive administration oi
re the vacated dioccses. A good many cures
ns will be vacant, and every possible cncour-
-, agemcnt will be given to their congIrgn
u" ton to appoint thereto, by election, priests
"' of the Old Catholic or Reformed Catholic
an persuasions, if no Papal clergymen can b,
found to take the oaths and subscribe IT.,
his declaration required under the new enact
h, mcnts. Should such congregations prove
refractory, and refuse to elect ecclesiastics
nv who may be acceptable to the Adminisra
81. ton (and none l"t hcrctics are acceptable
to they will simply lave to do without spr
81 such time as they may deem it wiser t.
yield to the stern necessities of the situa
9 tion." We confess that we cannot see any
'h very important difference between thi
exposition of the Governments intention.
rot and the last of the statements which Her
I'll Won Sybcl thought very absurd.
l,t there is any zeal distinction between for
49, bidding people to have any priest or any
va worship which is not non Catholic, an,
1'" forcing them to turn Protestant it is on,
IN mi t,, Il,
or eyes OF any candid locker on.
lot PRINCE BISMARCK AND KING VICTOR I'M
nj MANUEL.
Prince BismAik is the most uufortunnt,
Id of men in having attributed to him so mucl
re-, which he is obliged to deny. This time i
90 Ia again an alleged conversation which il
''' in question. The Paris correspondent q
as tho Times, backed by the authority of Nj
he John Lemoinnc, stated last week that al
rt the recent interview in Berlin, the Prince
py had sounded King Victor Emmanuel as tc
No, the possibility of using an Italian claim foi
Is the restitution of Nice and Savoy as the
's rrctrXt for a fresh war between Germany
no and France; suggestion which the King
re was said to have very decisivcly rejected
fer We did not reproduce the Iumor, as i
bv was, on the face of it, Improbable and Ger
tain to he contradctrd and it has actual y
been coutradict,d most rmphatically ant
on authority both 10y the German and the
"H Italian official papers. But we mcntioul
M, now t" record the fact that the Corrcspon
Nv" dent OF III" Tunes does not YIELD an inch o
rna his ground, but t"leGraphs that Gin spite q
w, this contradiction uhe Roman one) an,
'"' Others which from the first momcn; wrr,
II" forcscru, til" information given III TIA,
cry Paris letter to the Times of the 9TH of Ma,
'm proceeds from source of which the au
'N, thrnticity cannot be contested"
Of
me Writing of spring, the Tartller thinks " Ill
h" hirh titne wa had N, do nm onr wind. 70 III;
I'll" perennial misery as inevitable English poets
and WI" seem to have hihernated with the bear
Ia during winter, and have come forth lean AM
Al vigorous I" the dawuiuE spring, or have slrp
with til" dan"dlls until May brcczes wok
them together to fresh life, are never tired q
ou Singing the renewal "t spring to themselves
its strength. its Gnyrty, the vital fire in risn
sap or pu''h"n'd blood; til" roses bud, til