The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-04-15
BIOMARCK'S RULE.
Js,EVEN BISHOPS, FIFTY PRIESTS,
THIRTY-SI&JO URNALLS7S AND
lHIRTYFIVE OILERS
ARRESTED IN one
MONTH.

JFrom the N. Y. Worlds own Correspondent
7 Berlin, March 25.-lt is becoming un-
commonly hard for any one TO live in
peaoe and security in the German En-
pire. The new God which we are all re-
oguired to worslip-the omnipotent and
eomnipresent State-seems to be an eX-
ltremely Jealous God; and nothing but
the most abject and complete submission
ro his will is sufficient to save one from
she pains of arrest, domicilary search,
fine, imprisonmentand Punishment. Out
side of Germany, 10 doubt, the world
hears most of what punishments OF this
kind are being inflicted on the Roman
Catholic priests; and it must be confessed
that they are getting it hot. But they
ARE not the only sufferers. There is not
"a day when a seamstress, a brlcklayer,
AN artisan, q shOp-keeper, civil or mill
tary officer, an author or journalist, a
doctor, or clergyman, Protestant or
Catholic, is not made to be victim to
the new laws of the German Empire
GOne of our journals, the Frankfort Ga'
2ette, devotes much of its space to a re-
cord of the punishments inflicted upon
1he transgressorS Of the new law. Even
''!to speak disrespectfully of Prince Bis
narclI" is a crime. During the last
month (February) ninety citizens were
sentenced to fine and imprisonment tor
speaking disrespectfully Of Bismarck.
February is q short month; but in its
twenty-eight days the courts have had
.2S4 cases under these new laws for the
propagation and defense of the ."Kultur-
kampt" Besides these there were a
host of dOmiciliary visits, 6anishments,
summary arrests, suppresslons OF schools
and CLUBS, and prohibitions OF pnDhc
meetings. The Frankfort GGzette emu
.merates the work OF the month thus:
Seven bishops and hlty priests arrest
eed; two priests seized i'll their churches
"a military force was necessary toprevent
Ehe people from resCuing Their PASTORS
all The priests, save two, residing III the
seminary at Fulda expelled; u line ol
81, ,72O imposed upon a priest for eXer'
scislng his functions as priest after hay
ing been depOsed by the State; seven
communities of teaching nuns suppressed
and baniShed; several sChOolnasters for
bidden To exercise their calling; thirty
asix journals punished by tine or imprls
,onment, among them Herr Meyer, oil the
Gemnitz bree FreSS, sentenced 10 twenty
sone and half months imprisonment
for speaking disrespectfully OF Prince
Bismarck" the editor of the Germdntd
sentenced to two months; the editors o
the Frankfort Gazette, OF the Dresden
YOLEsbote, and OF the Posen Kunyer, al
SENTENCED to various terms OF lmprSon
ment. One writer, who asked wha
should be the proper penalty for calllni
Prince Bismarck IA scamp" imprisoned
for two months; thirty five ofthe citizen
of Dreihausen sentenced to terms OF i'm
prisonment varying from two to fourteen
days for expressing sentiments disre
BpeCtiul to Bismarck; SOCIAL democrat
sentenced to OseVenTy-ive days impTisOn
ment lor speaking dlsrespeCttully OF tn
Empress" and SO on.
lUuuIay imagine how all this irritate
and chates the people. AS tor the Ro
maG Catholics, Deputy WinthOrSt. tn
leader OF the Catholic party in the Par
Lament, thus expressed the wishes OF hi
corehglonlsts tire other day:
Il am convinced that the unhapp
conflicts in which we find ourselves an,
which daily grow more acute, admit @
no other peaceful solution than the mos
complete separation of the Church fron
the State, We see a re
lation OF this kind in America (and to
certain extent it exists in England), AM
while we exhaust our strength in eCcle
siastical politics, while we cannot hel
fearing that in this struggle the feeling
of the people will become more anC
more embittered, and that brothers O
one and the same country will get NOR
and more estranged from each other
while we have to fear that in this strng
ole all love of freedom and law will per
ish. in the United States there reign
profound peace, although the create
proportion of its inhabitants are Protest
ants. II is notsurprising, therefore, tha
all. those who love peace cirect thel
eyes to those countries, America an'
England. But in those countries tn
separation of Church and State does no
mean that the State expels the Churcl
and surrounds her with the police ant
gendarmes, crushing or controlling an.
movement of her lip. Every Church !
left absolutely free, the State being quit
Indifferent as to the way she educate
her priests or appoints them or exercise
her discipline on them. There the sat
leaves the churches alone, and ther
there is peace" 4n