Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-01
FRANCE.

Internally the life of France during the past year
has been prosperous. the people have been busy,
thrifty, contented. Wealth has increased; manu-
features have fourshed only in The once blooming
vineyards have there been any marks of decay, and
there-alas, that it should have to be said THE
chemist has supplanted the honest wine
grower, and combinations OF inferior foreign
growths issue from the parayzed vineyards of Bor-
deaux and the Champagne bearing upon their
fronts lying inscriptions. In word, France
has gone very largely into the fabrication of fraud
ulent wines in her endeavor to retain the commerce
of which the phylloxera threatened to deprive
her. AS there is plenty of sound pure wine in the
world and above all in California, this effort will
eventually fail, and then France like England, will
be obliged ny foreign competition to change her
| culture, and to adapt her industry to occupa-
tons. This is the most important commercial fact
OF the year. The most important political fact has
been the opening of the between State and
Church. naugurated by the introduction of Article
No. !, and emphasized by the subsequent enforce
ment of the DEGREES against unauthorized congrega-
tons. The relations between Church and State in
time been under agreement-through the terms of
d touSoIudt-eO pay tilS APcllSSS vi lue NuuTcU
and the Church, on condition of receiving this
annual budget, has bound itself to interfere in
secular affairs. OF course the Church has violated
its pleige. The Jesuits have obtained control Of
the Vatican, and have for time been debating
the policy of the Papacy. What is still more danger
Gus, however, is the circumstance that Ultramon.
tanism, which is Jesuitism, has become the formal
policy OF the entire Roman Church, and that there
fore the French Government no sooner attacks the
Jesuits than it finds the whole Church defending
| and siding with them. The question between the
State and the Church in France is however one
| which must be boldly encountered and resoutely
settled. The Jesuits have been comprising the
educational control of very large percentage of
the ruling classes in France. They have gathered
| under their tutelage the future officers of the
army and navy, the future barristers and Judges,
the future public men generally And while the
Jesuits have their arrangements SO complete that
the Government examiners can usually find no obiec-
tionabe features in their courses CT study it has
been revealed during the recent debates and dis
cussions that they have in truth two distinct modes
of education. The textbooks are merely made TO
| satisfy suspicious The instruction intended to
abide with the pupils is given orally, and N it
history is made the plaything of theSocetyof Jesus
and the most monstrous falsehoods and fragrant
Misrepresentation and perVersions are deity in
situated into the minds of the scholars An order
SO subtle, so INSCRIPTIONS, so completely in
the hands Of its rulers, is capable of
endangering the stability of any Government And
since the PRONUNCIATION Of the DEGREES in France it
has been more clearly demonstrated than ever that
UltramontanisIn, which means equally Roman Cath
oicism and Jesuitism at the present moment, is an
impacable enemy of the French Republic 1t has
in fact ranged itself with Imperialism and Legti-
macy against the Republic. 1t has gathered under
its banners all the mingled agnity, ibeciIity and
bigotry, of the rotting remains of the daaen
regime 1t has enrolled all the elements which are
in accord with priestiy arrogance and intolerance,
princeiy tyranny and oppression. bureaucratic cor
rupticn, and selfinterested sycophaney. Against
these elements arrayed whatever of true patri-
tism, intelligent craftsmanship, love of freedom,
contempt for superstition and hatred Of bigotry,