The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-07
FOREIGN MAIL NEWS.
JEWS AND JEsU1rs IN aERnANr,

paper of extreme Radical politics, the
e Etsenbahn Zeitung, or "Railwsy Gazette,
70 calling for the expulsion of the Jews from
the frontiers of the German Empire. The
. exile OF the Jesuits, it says, is now a Iait
dccompH, and that of the Hebrews must fol
low, II Germany is to be saved from dan
ger indescribable by any other term than
thatof sin vssion - so numerous are the Jews.
so audacious, and so powerful. Their &C
tivity, the writer goes on to cay, is i'm
mense, and the more active they are the
more mischief they do the country. Their
activity, he asserts, ia entirely devoted to
gain, guocunque mode and, as they out
number the Christians on the BOurse of
Berlin as 90 to l while official statistics of
taxation show that Christian wealth is to
Jewish only in the proportion of 10 TO 1, he
thinks the conclusion is mathematically
warranted that the acqnisitiveness of the
| Hebrew race exceeds that of the Christians
tenfold Only twenty five years ago the
! mansions in the aristocratic suburb of
Berlin, called Inter den Linden, belonged
exclusively to Chrlstians those houses are
now, without a single exception, the
now popularly called the Judengas- @, or
"Jews' street." Then also joint stock
Companies, which, to a lamen table extent,
have proved themselves of late years little
else than mode of swindliDg and plum
bands of the Jews, who oatnumber the
Christians on their boards of directors in
the proportion of 80 to 1. AS to the pub
lie press, it has long been known that it is
IN Germany to great extent at the dispo.
sal of Jews. The Radical railway organs
conclusion is: "We expelled the Jesuits
that we might not cease to be Germans,
we must take some measures with the
Jews if we would escape being beggars.'
DE asserts that the complaints Of people |
VINO nave grievances against the Jews is |
loud throughout all Germany, and that |
1.-The Jewish question has become a ques-
ton of life and death. Why does not the |
majority of the nation exhibit as much
resolution against the Jews as it did against
the Jesuits 8" The reason 10 evident 1t
Is not in obedience to the dictates of genu.
Inc public opinion that the Jesuits and the
Church have been prosecuted in Germany
The country is ruled by two powers
openly by Cfssarism and secretly by revo-
lutionary Influences. The Catholics have
been sacrificed to a temporal coalition of
the two naturally hostile forces. The ILL
assorted compact already shows sigus of
dissolution. When it breaks up, a change
OF the present policy will become inevita-
BILE.
THE PERSECUTION AT GENEVA.
fresh outrage against the decencies of
religion is reported at Geneva. The Car
teret administration have deliberately des.
ecrated the Church of Notre Dame, which
in defiance of law and justice has been taken
from the Catholic body, although it was
built with their money and guaranteed
them on the faith of the city. The use of
performers belonging to the theatre as a
music hall The Performance but
thinly attended, and the aude;.ca was not
select. The outrageouenees If the pro-
ceeding was not di minished by two circum
stances. The profane concert was given
in the church on a Sunday, and law suit
is still pending in which the Catholics are
seeking, though without much hope of
success, to Establish their right over the
edihce against the Cantonal Govern
ment. 10 common decency the authorities
should have at least refrained from making
any use OF the property until their legal
right to it's possession had been placed be-
yond question. At present they ouly hold
it by the strong hand.
THE FRENCH CHAMBER AND THE ELECTIONS
The decisions of the new French Cham
Der of Deputies on the elections are GER
tainly the most barefaced exhibitions ofpar-
tizAnsbip which have been witnessed since ;
political honesty has been professedly in 1
fashion. If a Republica. deputy is charged I
with even more than :egular mar Duvrea,
the presumption is taL u to be in his favor
-incorruptible elect.ss will of course ,
have elected a RepRblican-and he gets the !
benefit of every possible doubt. If a Leg 7
.timist, Imperlalist, or Catholic candidate '
is on his trial, any charge ia sufficient to |
invalidate his return. A Sub Project or a b
Mayor has supported him, the local clergy a
have interested themselves in the election, ii
OF some paper on his side has spoken dis t
of the Republican candidate. q
Even this is quite enough, and one deputy T
has just been unseated on this ground. He
s assumed to have inspired the attack on K
his adversary, although, as in this case, he '
may declare upon his honor, not only that o
he did not do 80, but that he had not even II
'ead or seen the paper. On the other hand,
". Bartoli, Deputy for Sartene, in Corsica,
8 charged with having induced Mayor to =,
'ount for him votes given for his opponent, :.
md to write his name IN pale ink on Il
threats are alleged to have been Published 81
md circulated that voters for the Bona d
,artist, NJ. Abbatucci, would be shot down
they came to the poll M. Bartoli es-
aped with no more than a complaint from Oh
Il. Paul de Cassagnac and an understanding a
hat the circumstances of the election u
hould be inquired into ; but on Friday, g