The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-07-08

MARSHAL MACMAHONA AND THE FRENCH
REVOLUTIONISTS
FULL AND CLEAR EXPLANATION oE THE
CRISIS.
Catholic World for JulyJ

telligence from Europe to this country fc
the use of our daily journals are serious
An event Of importance occurs to. day /
London, Paris, COnetantinople, or Rome
the same afternoon we read what purport
to be an account of the event in our even
ing journals, and the next morning we ar
furnished with few more details, accom-
panied often by leading article hurriedI,
written and based, as rule, upon no othe
Information than that contained in the dis
patches. In twenty four hours afterwardl
the event is almost forgotten and by til,
time that the letters of correspondents or
the spot, or the journals of the locality
can reach us, the incident has become ar
old story and the interest excited by il in
the arst place has faded away. This man
4 ner of dealing with matters of great i'm.
portance would be lamentable, even if the
Information contained in the cable de de-.
spatches were always correct, full, and up-
colored by prejudice but too often the de-
spatches are models of what they should
not be-that is, they are incorrect in mat
tiers of fact; marked by omissions of the
truth and by suggestions of fslsehood and
disfgured, in the majority of cases when
the events reported have, or are supposed
to have, some relation to the interests of
the Papal See, by an ingenious perversion
of the real and natural meaning of the
incidents which they purport to describe.
A heavy responsibility rests upon the con-
A0StOao Va JUL 1huy JOuEu6Ib III GnIS maGC6r
"a responsibility to which we should be
glad to see them more sensitive than they
now appear to be. They know we'll enough
how 1t happens that the bulk of their cable
dispatches from the Continent of Europe
is continually affected by an evident ami
mus against the Holy See whenever there
ie an opportunity to display this feeling
they know well enough why it is that,
whenever possible, a coloring hostile to the
church, and calculated to excite Protestant
or Mons atholic prejudice against her, is
given to events.
The greater part of the European dis
patches of the New York journals Ia trans
mitted from London, being made up there
chiefly from the dispatches of the Renter
Agency, supplemented by the special de
spatches received by the leading London
Journals. The Reuter- News Agency,
which has its ramifcations throughout ali
Europe, and is conducted with admirable
skill and good management as business
enterprise, is in the hands of Jews it's
agents have peculiar relations with the
governments which stand in need Of their
services, and q system of mutual benefit is
kept up between them in return for the
monopoly of official news and other similar
favors on the part of the governments, the |
agents of the Reuter- company transmit |
only such intelligence as is agreeable to |
the governments, and with such coloring |
40 the governments wish. The relations |
cAintlnS ootWeou bn0 At8ll8n government
and the Reuter- Agency are understood to |
be especially intimate; and certain it is |
that from no capital in the world has more |
false and distorted news been sent forth |
than that which all the world has received
from Rome since the italian occupation of
that city. As for the Continent dispatches
taken from the London journals and sent
to New York, it should be remembered
that not enc Of the London daily papers is
in the Catholic interest, and that those
whose dispatches are most frequently sent
to us-namely. the Ismes, the Daily Ne.ss,
= very lively hatred and fear of the church.
We believe that the conductors of our own
daily journals are for the most part actu-
Ated by honest motives. Their heads are
sometimes deplorably at fault, but their
hearts are generally right; and, with rare
exeeptions' they are free from the guilt of
Rilfully mierepresentiDg facts and design
sdly deceiviDg their readers. But too fire.
Iuently they do permit themselves to be !
deceived or misled, in the manner we have l
'zplafued, with respect to the true meaning I
md co relation of political events on the ! !
continent of Europe.
The facts mentioned are, or should be. Z
perfectly we'll known in the editorial rooms +
f all our journals; and it is certainly to a
70 desired that our editors should cease to v
axe their opinions at second hand, and 9
hould begin to exercise their own judg- 8
lCAG upOA ONcutS dS GuSy OCCuE dOTOaO. II
hey were in the habit of doing this, and if y
hey were furnished with cable information "
f correct and uncolored character, they ~
'ouid not, we are certain, have fallen into t.
40 error of regarding the recent change of q
overnment in France as a wicked, base, d
nd unprovoked conspiracy to destroy the ci
epUblcan institutions of that country, g
ut would have recognized in Marshal Mac a.
.ahon's action the wise, absolutely neces- r.
ny, and not too rapid determination of Al
lat ruler to save the republic if possible, is
lille it is still worth saving, and all events ii
} save France and society generally 60
lroughout Europe from the convulsion, an
'chy, and destruction into which the rev. re
utionists were 80 rapidly and surely drag CT
ng them. It is by no means certain that G.
arshal EacMahon will now succeed in IF
e task before him; he may have waited So
% long. Nor are we concerned to prove 90
at the motives of the Marshal President /"
his dismissal of NJ. Jules Simon, and in AZ
8 selection of his present advisers, were pr
lmixed but we are anxious to show to ar
II readers that his action was necessary, 90
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