New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-17
EUROPEAN ANXIETIES.
THE SORRY POLITICAL PLIGHT OF THE
GERMAN EMPEROR.
,o,cAI, AGITATION IN FRANCE-THE TROUBLE
IN pAHoMEY ITALIAN FINANCE
THE ANARCHISTS.
IBY CABLE Tribune:


london. April lettings have come to such 4
lint that people are rather sorry Tor the herman
P0ns The failure Of his political scheme has
h~r evident. even 10 himself. He is left not
~ ,itbout majority, but without The organized
opv .rt of any single party in either Rcichstag
surrondtac. the Free Conservatives excepted. The
conservatives are the Hardshel l1aptists of
nan notifies The Emperor has made many
lies since he started out as the Divine Provi-
, 10 Of the German people, and got rid of
o'. .So. bismarck The two latest are the two
..sst The Education bill and the withdrawal
AZ. Fducation bill were alike errors of the
a., nolitical MAGNITUDE. The introduction of the
IN .rraved the majority of the German people
inc, their ruler The withdrawal OF it broke
s his majority in both paraments angcred his
.norters and failed to conciliate his opponents.
srarservatives. Catholics National Liberals,
padicols Socialists are all at present in oppos-
,on % the Government, and, for the most part, to
~ o,bern So says judcious observer on the
spot.
7, is remarkable that two great men, one in the
East the other in the West, should both be com
inc "a grief about the same time. | know not
u6stber 10 say that Emperor William is the Sen
otor Hill of Germany, or that Senator Hill is the
German Emperor of New York. 1t seems equally
clear that Germany does not want Senator Hill,
nor the United States German Emperor. Both
arc busy TRYING to reconstruct a majority. We
boar OF a new cartel' in Berlin. A cartel is a
coalition The old cartel was Prince Bismarcks
work. and to Prince Bsmarcks policy, if not TO
Prince Bismarck, the Emperor now turns in his
0estituton. The Conservatives, Free COnserv-
stives and National Liberals, are once more TO
unite The National Liberals are the party of
reason and moderation They are ready to accept
concessions, ready for a reasonable compromise on
matters not of principle, or not vital. The
Emperor is ready, as he has shown, TO make con-
sssions. Why should they not come together
The National Liberals at present be had
cheaper that the Catholics who probably cannot
be had at all, since the Emperor cannot reverse
his engines second time The political difficulty
in this otherwise skilfu conception is that 1t does
not provide the needed majority in Parliament.
Rumors arise. naturally, in such circumstances
that reconciliation between the Emperor and
Prince Bismarck is on foot. Nothing is less prob
able Nothing would be greater humiliation for
the Emperor Nothing would be of better omen
for Germany.
The Clerical difficulty has broken out afresh
in France. 1t began, as usual with the Clericals
themselves a French Roman Catholic Bishop
is, perhaps, the most belligerent person now liv-
ing The French Episcopdcy has made war on
the Trench Republic ever since the foundation Of
the Republic. When the Republic defends itself
the faithful cry out that the Church is prosecuted
Thus are the Clericas able TO present themselves
10 the public as at the same time both crusaders
and martyrs. They violate the law, and protest
against the penalties they bring on themselves.
That is what the Bishop of Viviers lately did.
A. IL holt
Monsigneur dIIulst stirred up the storm of last
Saturday in the Chamber Of Deputies
MGR. d'Hulst is Rector of the Catholic Uni
versity of Paris and the successor in the Chamber
20 Monseigneur Freppel the militant Bishop of
Anglers. The present Prime Minister Of France.
NJ Loubet, is reckoned moderate man in Church
matters. He would live and let live; whereas
the Church would let nobody live-no Minister
AZ anv rate-who was not its obedient servant
But moderate rs NJ. Loubet is he made answer
10 Mgr. d'Hulst, that while he regretted the dis
,pybances which the police had done their ut
most TO repress. he must remind him that priests
who broke the law would be punished, and that If
was the conduct Of the clergy which had pro-
yoked the disturbances complained of.
Then the storm broke. NJ Jourdan met Mgr
d'Hulsts attack by counter attack on the Bshop
of Mende who had been interfering III munlclpa
elections and menacing Republican voters with
ecclesiastical penalties. The priests In his diocese
had used both pulpit and confessional for electoral
agitation They had communicated Catholics
who sent their children 10 secular schools. They
had 60, m a religious terror said VI. Jourdan and
he asked NJ Ricard, Minister of Public Worship.
what he was going 10 do about it, Now NJ. Ricard
ia Republican who thinks the Republic ought 10
be maintained, and Minister who is resolved TO
enforce the law. He therefore is one OF the per-
secutors His speech expresses, hope. the spirit
in which Clericalism is to be met In France-tne
Clericalism which Gambetta long since denounced
as the real enemy Of the Republic. lie PROMISED
10 take proceedings against the Bishop of Mende
in the Council Of State, and meantime 10 STOP hiS
salary. This last is form Of reprisals TO which
bishops strongly object The Bishop. said NJ
Ricard. has begun a religious war. He has de-
nounced the education laws a conspiracy against
the souls Of French children The eccleSastic
who uses this language is paid functionary OF
the State. and as such will be prosecuted. Inc
Clericals SPELL it prosecuted "You are trying"
exclaimed NJ Ricard, apostrophizing the Clericai
party. TO win the municipal elections by repre-
senting the Government the enemy OF religion
We will not permit it, The law does not permit
IL, and the law shall be enforced"
What il Monseigncur d'IIulsts answer? de-
fanoe of the law lie will obey no law OF when
he does not approve. The Right applauded him.
and that pattern Of Christian charity. NJ Paul
de Cassagnac, announced that the Bishop OF
Mende's salary would be made up to him by SUD
scription All sections Of the Chamber the Right
excepted. appauded and supported NJ. klcard.
They voted down Monseigneur dlIulst with his
Anarchist doctrines by more than 200 majority,
and then by more than two TO one declared their
confidence in the Governmental very good days
work.
NJ Ricard has since issued a circular to the
public prosecutors all over France, urging them
to he vigiant in depressing disorders in churches
and to prosecute offenders lie appeals likewise
10 the bishops TO put stop TO political confer
ences held In churches by priests, and to keep
the churches for the legitimate exercises of re-
ligion. II they will not. the Government will