The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-11-14
TIE ADDRESS or THE B4H4RfAN DIET
ILondon Tablet. Oct. le

OF tne majority OIL the Cham Der OF deputies
has been expressed in the most emphatic
manner in the address to the Throne.
Notwithstanding the discreditable marnl-
vres which were had recourse to in order to
prevent the popular party from obtaining
the victory which, looking to the convic-
tions of the vast bulk of the people, was
no more than their due, the Catholic ma
tional Deputies have been strong enough
to vote an address which is an open act of
accusation against the Cabinet. The fact
that the parliamentary majority exceeds
the minority by only two votes is no test
of the true condition of the parties in the
country, and although the London Press,
faithful to its associations, ignores the real
explanation, the results of the elections
for the Reichstag give an indubitable in
dex to the national feeling. Out of the
forty eight Deputies which Bavaria is en-
titled to return TO the Imperial Parliament
of Germany thirty two, or full two thirds,
belong to the Catholic Nationalist. The
came proportion would unquestionably
hold good in the election of members to the
Bavarian Diet, if the Ministry had not al
tered she voting districts on the eve of the
elections in such a manner as to neutralize
| to the utmost the numerical pIeponderance
of the Catholics. In some cases the electors
of district known to be opposed to the
Liberalist policy had to make long jour
neys by rail in order to reach the polling
place, instead of polling as before in the
town village in the vicinity. A clause
in the Constitution, giving the Ministry of
the day power to revise the electoral dis
tricts previous to each general election,
was the pretext for this proceeding. a
revision of the voting districts must have
meant in the intention of the trainers of
the Constitution such a re arrangement as
might from time to time be necessary to
give fuller effect to the popular will. 1t
certainly cannot mean @ re arrangement
designed to prevent the majority 10 the
Die5 from corresponding to the majority
in the kingdom.
The address prepared by the committee
represents these proceedings in their true
light, and petitions the Monarch for the
dismissal of the Ministry which has
crowned all it former acts of subservience
to the policy of Berlin by q Justification of
the electoral system which even Prince
Bismarck has not ventured to perpetrate in
the Rhineland or in Posen and Silesia.
Whether the King will grant the prayer of
the petition is another matter, and, con
sidering the peculiarities of his conception
of his royal responsibilities in so many re-
spects, it would be difficult to say before
hand what the action of Ludwig IL. is
likely to be. The young King of Bavaria
is understood to be animated with no very
cordial sentiments towards the Prussian
Court and policy. Prussian Princes, and
even the g. German Emperor" himself, can
go to and fro in the dominions of King
Ludwig without any attentions beyond
what etiquette strictly demands. We be-
lieve that not once since the Treaties, of
Versailles has the Bavarian Monarch
brought himself to visit or to receive in any
personal intercourse any member of the
Prussian reigniDg house. AT the same
time, he has imposed NO such restraints on
himself with respect to his other royal
neighbors. The conclusion to be drawn
from this line conduct is, however, con-
trolled by other facts not less Obvious. !
The policy of prince Bismarck has been
followed by the Bavarian Cabinet as closely
az the Bavarian people would endure it to
be pushed, and the breath of rumour has
seldom limited at the Kings making the !
slightest opposition to his Cabinet. 1t
would seem, indeed, that Ludwig II. is sat !
isfied with escaping the contact Of Prus
sauism 80 far as his own person is concern |
ed. Besides, tits not to be forgotten that the
influence of DR.. Dollinger is supposed not
to have lost all it's weight with his royal |
pupil. 1t is needless to add that that in |
fueDce fs not to be relied on in the politf- |
cal any more than in the religious sphere. |
In case the Liberalist Ministry finds it
self dismissed the future of Bavaria is to-
lerably clear. On the other the supposi- !
ton, however, the prospect is gloomy |
enough. If the "Patriets persevere in |
their opposition, as lie to be expected, a
deadlock must ensue, which cannot but
produce serious, and might produce Gala
mlEOuSs consequences " uoGn6T Tue hlO-
istry would hit upon the resource of gov
erning without the Diet is perhaps doubt |
ful. 1t is not to be concealed, however,
that the possibility exists that this course
might be adopted, and as it is atonce de-
sp0tic and anti Catholic, it weuld unques-
recommend itselfto the approval
of the majority of Liberalst statesman
and Journalistic both in Germany and out |
of it. As for the support of the Berlin
Cabinet, sndif need of the Prussian army,
there could never be a doubt. Prince |
Bismarck wonld probably be delighted at
50 good an excuse for interfering on behalf
of the "Cultar Kampf, and he has there |
fore demonstrated that no financial scrQ- |
Piles about shedding the blood of " brother
Germans" need be expected to restrain |
him from pursuing a great object of Prus-
sian policy. Langensalza, Kissinger, and !
Sadowa could be repeated over again, we |
have no doubt, without sensibly affecting |
tho iron ChancelIor's serenity. An avow- |
eddy prosecuting war would have its perils,
when it would come to send |
ing Rhineanders, Westphalians, Silisians,