The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-22
DEBATE Is RESUMED
Count Albert De Nun Warns
France Of Danger.
ANTI : CLERICAL PASSION
Is What He Calls the Policy
of the Prime Minister
ANTI : CLERICAL PASSION

Paris, Jan. H.-The chamber OF deputies
today resumed the debate on the law Of
associations. There was brilliant as
sembly in view of Count Albert de Nun.
conservative and waldeek- Rousseau. the
premier, two OF the finest orators of the
chamber. being announced to speak.
Count de Nun reproached NJ Waldeck-
Rosseau with denouncing the milliard Of
France belonging to the religious congre-
cations as an economic peril, in order TO
revive the ancient dread OF monastic
wealth and serfdom. which had long since
disappeared. Moreover. he said. this sum
was grossly exaggerated in order to ere
ate a greater impression He warned
the government that their policy was i'm
prudent and ill-advised. NJ. Waldeck-
Rosseau, the count added, may not in
tend to carry out his designs to the end
Of his anti-cIerical passion. Possibly he
only intenden TO appease his collectivist
funds, but the latter might eventually
set him aside and carry out the work
themselves.
Count de Nun concluded with declar-
ing the object Of the government was to
take teaching out Of the hands Of the
congregations. you have begun d reI-
gious war" ne said. turning to the gov
eminent benches, and this will weigh
heavily on you. As to US, we shall con-
tInue TO combat you and hope to find in
this chamber a sufficient number Of
friends and lovers of liberty to aid US"
The Rightists and Centrists gave Count
de Nun a. great ovation on the conclusion
of his remarks. NJ Waldeck- Rosseau re-
piled that the bill would be a test point
as to whether civil power or religious au-
thority is to have supremacy. The gov
eminent, he added, asks the chamber
to continue the confidence accorded it
during the past eighteen months by vot-
ing this portion of its program. II they
Cthe ministers) had not thought the house
would do So they would no longer as
sumo responsibility for the task they ac-
cepted.
The premier denied that the church was
in any way threatened declaring that the
government simply desired by the bill
to assure peace and the regular develop
ments Of the institutions of the country.
''If it be true as the opponents of the
bill assert" said N Waldeck- Rosseau,
that congregations are Indispensable to
the development of the church. why did
not the concordat re-establish them On
the contrary, it does not speak of them,
but only for the secular clergy. Not
single congregation exists to aid the
priests of poor parishes, whereas a num-
Der Of the latter are under the tyranny
Of the regular priesthood
1.-THE congregations have not only
drained the money of the country, but
they have drained its conscience, and the
parish priests now receive only the con-
LESSONS of common people. The Catholic
clergy have nothing to fear from this
bill The only persons 1t will hurt are
the irregular clergy"
NJ Waldeck- Rosseau showed that con-
gregarions in all times and countries had
been obliged TO submit to rigorous au-
thority. He said tha. it was necessary
for the civil power to take back from the
the privilege Of teaching
the children because the congregation had
ever been seeking from the commence
ment Of the century to bring about a
revolution Never had they been
more dangerous than they are now, he
exclaimed. They are trying to gain con-
troll of universal suffrage and to that end
they. are creating new electoral congre-
CATION; but we are tired Of this slavery
and demand emancipation We have to
choose. between the congregations and f.
deity to the revolution. We hear much
talk about an "open republic" I ask
nothing better. but it must be open for
the people to enter and to leave PRO
longed applause-)
Thechamber. by a vote Of 2ss to 226, d.
rected that the premier's speech be posted
throughout the country.