The New York herald., 1879-07-10

Unlimited liberty moreover. would involve not only
Jesuit. but communist schools; but he warned
the Extreme Left that struggle between the
black international and the red international
would end in the triumph of the strongest-viz''
the Jesuits The peril traversed by the Republic
during the past eight years was too serious TO
allow of blind confidence in the permanence OF the
triumph. and he deprecated the conversion OF
society into the battle field of the official classes
trained in reactionary and the in liberal
sentiments. The government. having an ad-
mitted right to dissolve or prohibit associations
dangerous TO the State, had right to forbid
educational organizations the avowed aim of
which was to corrupt the rising generation.
eve. are abused" said M. Ferry. "for pro-
posing to withdraw the right of teaching from
few thousands of congregationists 1t is forgotten
that the Catholics count at present 10000 author
lied monks and $4,000 authorized sisters. Do we
cut down the public worship estimates? On the
contrary We are asking this year for 2O0000f more
for the desservants Nothing in the bill prevents
any religious body except of course, the Jesuits,
from bringing its statutes and asking to be recog-
nized. Suppose, however, no non-authorized body
asked to be recognized how many young people
would be deprived OF their teachers? sixteen
thousand. They would probably not all be sent to
us. lue OtnefS Woulu go lnto the lou estapHsA'
ments under the direction of secular priests. Our
tcees and colleges. according to calculation have
drawn up. could receive $4,000 pupils with
out buildings. or these $1,000 could be accom-
modated in the departments where the
authorized bodies have their establishments" AZ
regards the objection raised against the BILL as
too heavy task for 80 young government as the
Republic. M. Ferry contendcd that the task was
increasing in difficulties. and that not day
should be lost in graphing with them. NJ.
Ferry exhorted tho Chamber to vote for article
7. Otherwise it would for ever sanction tho
teaching Of the Jesuits. and those who wrote the
history of time would say that the powerful
body which had agitated the eighteenth century had
been driven from every European country, except
Prussia and Russia, had been attacked in 1762 by
the Parliament. and re-established by Louis XVI.
on condition of their absta ming from all teaching.
had been abolished by pope. and only restored
in 1914 under new condtions-these Jesuits, with
whom the restoration could not exist seeing that
it inflicted the ordinance Of 1928 them, with
whom monarchy could not exist either, for it in
ficted the order of the day of 1S45 them-these
Jesuits republican majority recalled. and they
found in French Parliament the solemn sanction
they lacked M. Ferry was warmly applauded.
FOR AND AGAINST THE BILL.
The bill has been warmly advocated and opposed,
both in the Chamber of Deputies and by
means of addresses and petitions. Up to the
9th OF May there 66.l40 signatures
against the bill. while 100000 signatures
collected by the Ligne de rEnseignement in
favor of compulsory, gratuitous and lay instruction
Declarations of war were issued against NJ Ferry's
bill by the Archbishop of Tours and his suffragan
Monsignors Of Lucon, Nantes. Angouleme and An
gers. Cardinal Bonnechose. Archbishop of Rouen,
also entered the lists. followed by the bishops Of
Seez. Bayeux. Lisieux and Evreux, with an address
to the Chamber and the Senate in which they
condemn the bill. especially on the ground that 1t
would be positive interference with the rights
of property. The billl has however been
generally condemned too sweeping in its
effects. The Paris correspondent of the
Times said recently -No eloquence is able to make
the bill anything but inopportune iiberal and in
applicable Nobody asked for measure which
has reused the most inauspicious of struggles. If
NJ Ferry wanted to please certain portion of the
nation, that portion with whom hatred of the
Catholic Church is a political and social creed it
would have suiced to place the granting Of degrees
in the hands Of the State and subject the places Of
instruction to q rigorous inspection accompanied
by penalties. That would have been enough in the
eyes Of antclerical fanatics. Nor can NJ Spulers
port smooth away the beral character Of the bill.
There is not liberal man worthy Of the name. what
ever his religion, who does not condemn article
z as an attack the liberty Of human conscience.
1t is difficult to understand how the republicans,
whose greatest glory consists precisely in having
won these precious possessions OF conscience. can
seek to lay hands on it. and nothing shows the
violent nature Of the bill more clearly than NJ.
Ferry's words when In one of his speeches
he announced that Frenchmen were free to have
Jesuits in their own houses for the education Of
bill from being inapplicable when it is passed. for
passed it Will be- and the few Senators and Deputies
who have the courage not to vote will conhne them
selves to abstaning."