The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-23
Diplomacy IN Europe.

Nnen u sudden fWInOf lNdt hbpthri biNN0
European war was AZ hand startled the world
4 few weeks ago the Herald was almost the
only paper which at once put the true value
~ il and endeavored to calm the minds OF
those imaginative people who foresaw an I'M
mediate fall in the public securities aud the
probability that all the available capital now
lying idle-which amounts 70 large sum
would be shortly required for loans and CON
tracts to enable the beligerents 70 march
sword in hand against their creditors. m
deed the war rumors suited large class 81
persons perfectly and they came like sun
shine in harvest or like showers after long
| drought Something rather more than sus-
\ picion exists among well-intormed people that
the hopes and fears Of the Stock Exchange
were mixed up with the business The financial
crisis, both in Paris and Berlin, must have
alarmed many respectable mopeycd men, and
they may not have been sorry TO see q way
open 10 them ont Of unusually hazardous
speculations Moreover there has been
lately a most harassing dearth Of news, and
able editors have been everywhere suffering
from il. Even those most in the confidence
Duke Decazes who are all accustomed 70
use the press freely, have felt the scarcity Of
early and trustworthy intelligence. The
German Chancellor has very little to tell the
world which the world does net already know.
He wishes 70 set up a government Of all State
and no Church. Perhaps he will succeed;
perhaps not The experiment has often been
I rs
that were permanently satisfactory, Ger
many led the way to reform Of what
were then called obsolete supersttions
long time ago, under the guidance Of Martin
Luther yet there are still fifteen millions Of
Roman Catholics in the German Empire, and
Austria is all Catholic Henry VIII and
Queen Elizabeth of England chopped Oft the
heads and roasted many excellent clergymen
who professed 4 respect for the Pope Queen
Mary used similar arguments 70 convince
those who SGT him ~ naught King James l. aid
what he could publicly for Professionalism yet
Father Hu7dleston administered the last sacra-
ment 70 his grandson even although 4 sue
/ cessful revolution had decimated the adherents
70 the old faith Then the dynasty was changed
4 ia England for the Protestant cause, and
penal laws Of severity quite astonishing 70
\ the modern historical student were enacted
\ against the Catholics-lavs which remained
ia tuil force till the passing Of the Emancipa-
/ ton bill by the British Parliament only q
generation ago. IT had been said loudly
enough BY many wiseacres chat the Roman
Catholic faith was only kept alive il England
by persecution. and that 50 soon as papists
ceased 70 be worried Oh account Of their re-
hgious belief they would die out as a sect, Just
As the Quakers, who we're once also numer-
Gus and influential body are nov fast disap-
pearing The plan hos been tried Tor more
than thirty wears. Roman Catholics are under
10 disabilities III England at present, except
that they cannot aspire 70 the throne, and
there is tradition that they must not hold
Cabinet Office. What respect Is really paid u
this tradition may be seen il the case Of the
Marquis 81 Ripon Roman Catholic, who las
been 4 member Of whig government and
50, after every sort u contradictory egisla-
ton has been tried BY turns, and first
power hes blown hot and then cold
upon the Catholics they have been strangely
iusensible both to penal enactments and to
royal fayors The order Of the Garter was
given 70 the Duke 81 Norfolk, q Catholic
noDeman, who Is acknowledged AS Premier
Peer and Hgr ditary Marshal of England; vet
he has not sverved from the ancient faith u
tie Horarls Lord Robert Montague, brother
Of H. Duke 81 Manchester, has had . prom
isiug political career blighted because be Is
Roman Catholic, and yet unevenhanded justice
has not brought him back T. Professionalism:
and il would hardly be going too far to say
that, after what has often appeared = death
struggle Las been gong on for centuries be-
tween English Protestsnts and English Catho-
lies, tie predominant influence 10 England il
still that Of tire Church 81 Rome while blood
and ire have done their worst AGAIN and
again, without perceptible result. Il drive
the ancient faith from Ireland Crom-
well brought his curse upon il; William
III crushed il under the heels Of his
victorious host George ~ graced il with
his amiable presence, yet Pro,estantism bad
still 70 listen TO the loud protest Of tho electors
Of Glare, and Ireland is as obstnatey pa
pistica IS ever. Therefore, although many
impatient ard short-tempered politicians wish
Prince Bismarck well and quickly through
with liz higl-nandsd measures against the
Roman Catholic Church the more thoughtful
statesmen think that he has weary and
arduous task before him, task which he
would have done better never to have begun
At an events nobody can tell Us anything
new about SO old story which has invariably
progressed to nothing, and of which nobody
has ys, imagined the ending To read the
repetition 81 discussions which are hundreds
81 years old 10 lie pestcred with faIlacies
which have been PIT forth and reiuted a
+ thousand times Is worse than being con-