The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-03-14
A Catholic German Daily on the Press.
WHAT THE GERMANS ARE DOING.


St. Louis, has the following. We do not agree
with it as to the generally tolerant character
of the English-writing secular press in this
country; but when it says the German is much
worse, it has undoubtedly good grounds for
the assertion:
One of our English exchanges, the Catholic
44drocate, of Louisville, has n bitter complaint
about the bad support of the Catholic Press on
the part of the English-speaking Catholics of
the county. There are in the United States
twenty seven Catholic weekles issued in the
English language. Catholic English daily
does not even exist. The twenty seven week
lies have, altogether, only 100000 SD bscribers.
and of these is q great number that take and
pay for several Catholic papers.
The Protestant weeklies can show quite
different number of readers. In the congrega-
ton of the notorious Henry Ward Beecher
alone, there are issued g. week three
religious newspapers: the Christian Union, with
l1S,O00, the Independent with 144 900, aud Ply
mouth Pulpt with $500 subscribers. These
three papers alone have their 100000 sub
| scrI beers, therefore moro than all the twenty
| seven Catholic weeklies put together. The
| entire Protestant press of the country, of only
religious contents, has 1890 900 subscri bers.
The Catholic 44drocdte, after giving those
! figures is right in excaiming: " How miser-
ably compare with these the 10000 Catholic
| su bscri beers"
1t is true, the Catholics of the English ton que
| in the United States have not Yet properly
valued the Importance of the Press. The main
reason for this is found, no doubt, in the cir
cumstance that the English newspapers gen.
orally do not make business of their hostility
| against the Catholic Church. Catholic may
take such paper up without expecting before
hand to be insulted most keenly by it's con-
tents The English journalists, penetrated by
the spirit of the free American institutions, are
mostly, at least, tolerant, and try to be just
towards the Catholics 1t is quito different
of the German newspapers of this country.
They are, without scarcely An exception, man
aged by fanatic enemies Of all religion aud by
modern kuiterkampfer, that know no other duty
in life than to throw dirt on the Catholic
Church.
1t is easily understood how, under su CHI cir
cumstances, the German Catholic Press of the
country il making such rapid and pleasing
progress of late. The Cathollcs grew tired OF
being spat upon, and even paying for the cruel
compliment. Scarcely one-third of the eight
millions of Catholics of the United States are
Germans. But these have, as far as the Press
concerned, by far outhanked their brethren
in the faith of the English language. The
number of the German weeklies is scarcely
less, but their circu ation much surpasses that
of The English. Besides these, the German
Catholics have six or seven dailies that enjoy,
likewise, healthy circulation.
The time is, perhaps, not far distant, when
the eyes of the English-speakiug Catholic
priests and people will be open to the necessity
of having a press of their own. When the
German clergy in the United States directed
their whole energy to the establishment OF
parOchial schools IN their congregations, 10
for the bringing up of their children as
Christians, there ere many even of the higher
clergy of the English language that could not
well understand this " zeal" But soon they
began to see it in another light, and as they
have followed their German pioneers in the
echocl question, they will, before long, learn
like them 20 value the Importance of the
Press.
The following is a list of Catholic periodicals
published in the United States in languages
other than English
wEEKLrEs.
Katolische ToIks.citsng, Baltimore, Maryland.
.durOrd, Buffalo, n. Y
Jolkstreund, Buffalo, n. Y.
UdChenbiatt, Chicago, Iii.
HOhrhei sfreuHd Cincinnati, o.
iStimmc der WGhrheit, Detroit, Michigan.
Gazeta Polsk@ hatolioa (Polish), Detroit,
Michigan.
Lurem6urger Gazette, Dubuque, Iowa.
EirchenseitHng, Jamaica, n. Y.
GLdubeRsbote, Louisville, Ky. |
CORoordiO Mauitowoc, Wisconsin.
KGtO!ische ZeitTHg, Milwaukee, Wis.
Le PropagdteWr Cdth0liqpe, New Orleans, La. |
Nord america, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ohio WaiSeNfreund, Pomeroy, o.
Herald, St. Louis, Mo.
Has (Bohemiau), st. Louis, No.
WGnderer, st. Paul, MINI.
MoNTHLIEs.
Vereinsbotc, Cincinnati, o,
MdridhiLE, Cleveland, o.
SeHdbOte, COvington, KY.
C0Cilid, Dayton, o.
Pastoral6latt, st. Louis, Mo.
DAIILEs.
Columbia, Cleveland, o.
Columbia, Milwaukee, Wis.
N y presse New York.
ToiksbLdtt, Philadelphia, Pa.
GeTmdnid, Quincy, Ill.
4ntericd, st. Louis, No.