The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1875-06-27
Something for Bismarck's American Admirers

Bismarck has many claims to admiration
in Germany. The Liberalists should spec.
tally regard him, for by his arbitrary and
harsh manner of enforcing the demands of
absolutism, he is preparing the way for a
political and social revolution in Germany
far more effectually than all their couspir.
ing and plotting could effect. The Prot
estants should admire him hugely, For.
although he has almost emptied their meet
ing houses, previously but scantily attend
ed, aud destroyed the little respect prev
iously entertained by German Protestants
for their "ministers," yet is he not perse
cutting the Catholic religion, which they,
too, have been combating for three hun
dred yearsf followers OF Germany unity,
of course, admire him for is not the wide
spread aud deep seated dissatisfaction
which he has fomented, if not created in
Germany with the recently instituted
German Empire, all been the result of
measures which he urges in the name of
German unity and the Interests of the I'm
perial Government The people of Ger
many generally, especially the meI chants,
manufacturers and workingmen, admire
him. For by his policy of blood and iron,
and the foancial and military measures
necessary to maintain that policy, he has
impoverished the country, and turned it
into vast camp; he is sweeping the
flower of the population into the army, or
compelling it to emigrate.
German Catholics, too, admire Bismarck.
For, though be has ignored the patriotism
and gallantry they displayed in the late
Franco Prussian war, banished the mem
bers of religions Orders, fined priests and
imprisoned shops, closed Catholic
schools and sem inaries, and acted the part
generally of prosecuting heather, yet in
all this, while intending to destroy the
Church, he has but pruned off decaying or
dead branches of "che ViDe," and caused it
N AOuriSh more ViUOrOualv and hripo forth
fruit more abundantly.
Recently, however, approaching, doubt
less, with such thankfu(ness as he is cana
bic of the eulogiums of his Protestant
friends in the United States, Bismarck has
doGe that which must especially commend
him tosthe gratitude of American Protest
ants, aud win their unqualified approval
and unbounded admiration. He has pro-
hibited the circulation in Germany of the
Baltimore German Catholic paper. Our
Protestant friends, who admit that most of
Bismarck's measures seem to be extremely
arbitrary and tyrannical, but, when view
ed from the stand point of human freedom"
are call right" should get up an address,
announcing their. warm approval of this
latest of Bismarck's acts, requesting him
to persevere in enforcing penal laws against
Catholics and gag laws against the Catholic
press, and expressing their sympathy with
him under the virulept persecution waged
against him by the Catholic newspapers of
America, especially by the Katolische
Volks. .Zeitung Of Baltimore.
We respectfully suggest to our Protest
ant lovers of "human freedom" la Bis
marck, that they get up a memorial, re-
questing Congress to enact laws forbidden
any criticism. on the part of Catholic news
papers in the United States, of Bismarck |
and his "Liberal" measures. Our national
authorities might thus, perhaps, anticipate
q request for such legislation on the part of
Bismarck himself.-Philadephia Catholic
Standard.