Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-07-24
CRY OF DOWN WITH THE POPE
Mob Marches Down Paris Streets Chanting
Anti-0lerical Rsfrains.
-REsS SYMPATHY FOR THE SISTERS
C1oe " COngregntionist Schools
by If Prime Minister
Threas -ious Trouble
I'M Capital.

PARIS. July 23.-The agitation provoked
by the order Of Prime Minister Combes to
close the congregationists schools recalls
to some extent the scenes enacted when NJ.
Ferry. then president, expelled the Jesuits
in 1880.
Demonstrations IA favor OF the nuns and
the teaching OF the friars are taking place
| In Paris and many places in the provinces
where the projects presented themselves
at the schools and ordered that the insti-
tutions be closed. UP to the present no
serious incident has been recorded. The
lnationalists have Joined the clericals in en-
gineering the agitation and their leaders
are In the forefront of the effervescence in
Paris.
Considerable sympathy has been worked
up on behalf Of the nuns and their schools
have been made the particular objects Of
| demonstrations. The clericals called on
their sympathizers to meet outside OF the
school conducted by the Sisters Of st. Vim
cent De Paul, in the northeast quarter Of
Paris, which was closed this afternoon and
considerable crowd gathered there, COM
pelling large body of police and mounted
municipal guards to form a Gordon in the
streets leading to the school.
| A few tri1ng collisisns occurred between
the clericals and counter demonstrators.
A nationalist member Of the chamber Of
deputies was arrested while trying to force
his way through the police Gordon, but was
subsequently released.
Mob Gathers on Street.
Anti-clerical meetings in the italian quar-.
ter this evening led to some trouble, but no
serious disasters.
Students followed by a crowd composed
| Of the r0MOhar al M
down the boulevard st. Michael until a
late hour, chanting anti-clerical refrains
and shouting down with the priests and
the pope" but these fed at the sight Of the
mounted guards and patrols.
The greatest excitement in the provinces
is displayed in the clerical stronghold Of
Brittany, where the peasants have gathered
in front of the nuns schools and declared
they will not allow the nuns to be expelled.
For instance, at Landerau a mob of farm
ers, men and women, have mounted guard
in front of the sisters schools, awaiting
the police. At La Bresse, the commssary
of police, accompanied by gendarmes thrice
tried to approach the congregatlonist scnool
in order to effect its closure, but was
obliged to abandon the attempt owing to
the threatening attitude Of the demon
strators.
| ABdlubL lhSoc luCluculS
however must be set off the addresses ir
support OF the government voted by many
municipal councils.
COmbes Feels secure.
J, While considerable sympathy is felt with
the sisters personally Prime Minister
Combes undoubtedly feels that he is sup.
ported by the mass of the country and :.
not likely to recede from the position h,
has taken.
The trouble is caused mainly by tn,
ambiguity of the wording of the law o
association, which has led branches Of th
congregations. such as the schools nov
closed. to suppose that their position wa
legalized by the request for authorization
made by headquarters. This was even tn
> Interpretation of the matter accepted b.
NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau, the former premier
but Prime Minister Combes takes a con
, trary view.
The Temps takes M. Combes severely I
| task The establishment now closed, say
I, the Temps, appears to have been draw
! into a trap, and the paper points out tina
there are not enough schools to receiv
. all the children turned into the streets
and that primary instruction being OBJ
:. ligatory, the government should have pro
81 vided accommodations in the oficia
schools.
Twenty thousand children in Paris alon
will need schools. The Temps asks wha
the government intends to do and adds:
''It follows the schools to ask for au
thorization and to reopen in the autumn
1t was not worth while to take the troubl
: to close them with such great noise"
A serious disturbance occurred at 10s
9 this evening on the terrace at the Caf
! de Mucise. The police cleared the caf,
: Several persons were injured and twenty
: FIVE arrests were made, some disorderi
. meetings of Catholics were held durin
I the course of the evening, resulting /
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