The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-24
RELIGIOUS WAR
Is THREATENED
Situation in Paris Growing More
Serious.
MODS PARADE THE STREETS
CRUSADE AGAINST RELIGIOUS
SCHOOLS MAY CAUSE STRIFE.
MODS PARADE THE STREETS

II AXIS, July z5--Ihe agitation pro-
voked by the order of Prime Min
lister Combes TO close the Congre-
gationalist schools, recalls to some ex-
tent the scenes enacted when NJ. Ferri.
then premier. expelled the Jesuits in
1880
Demonstrations in favor of the nuns
and the teaching friars are taking place
in Paris and many places in the prov
inces where the projects presented
themselves at the schools and ordered
that the Institutions be closed. Up to
the present, however, no serious Incl
dent has been recorded.
The nationalists have Joined the cler-
icals in engineering the agitation, and
their leaders are in the forefront of the
efTerVescence in Paris. Much sympathy
has been worked UP on behalf of the
nuns, and their schools have been made
the particular objects of demonstra-
TONS
The clericals called upon their SYM
pathizers to meet outside of the school
conducted by the Sisters of St Vincent
de Paul, in the northeast quarter of
Paris, which was closed this afternoon,
and a great crowd gathered there. COM
polling a large body of police and
mounted municipal guards TO form
Gordon in the streets leading to the
school.
But Little Rioting.
A few trifing collisions occurred be-
| tween the clericals and counter demon
strators, who replied to the clerical
cries of Long live the good Sisters"
and "Vive lie Hberte" with Down
with the priests" and Long live the
republic" A nationalist member of the
chamber Of deputies was arrested while
trying to force his way through the
police Gordon, but was subsequently re-
leased.
Anti-clerical meetings in the Latin
quarter this evening led to some effer-
vescence, but no noteworthy disorder.
A few students. followed by a crowd
composed of the rougher element,
marched up and down the Boulevard
st. Michael till a late hour. chanting
anti-clerical refrains and shouting
Down with the priests and the pope"
but these fled at the sight of the
mounted guards and the patrols.
The greatest excitement in the prov
inces is displayed in the clerical strong
/ hold of Brittany, where the peasants
have gathered in front Of the nuns
schools in several places and declare
I they win not allow the nuns to be ex-
PEELED. For instance, at Landerfeau a
crowd of farmers and women have
mounted guard before the school of the
| White Sisters awaiting the arrival OF
the police.
Schoolmaster Thrashed.
The inhabitants of the village of
Ploudaniel, who also are guarding the
Sisters school, seized by a lay school
master and thrashed him with nettles.
At La Bresse, in the department of
| Nosges, the commissary of police, ac
companied with gendarmes, thrice tried
Il - L. ~
/ school in order to effect its closure
but was obliged to abandon the attempt
on account of the threatening attitude
| of the population. At ST. Ambroix
near Mines. the demonstrators de-
/ tached the horses from the carriage
4 which were conveying the Sisters to
| the railway station and dragged the
vehicles, with their occupants, back to
/ the convent, shouting Down with ty-
rants" The gendarmes were powerless
! to prevent the demonstrators from car
t rying out their plans. and reinforce
ments had to be summoned.
Against these and similar incidents.
/ however, must be set off the addresses
! in support of the government voted by
many municipal councils
! While much sympathy is felt with
! the Sisters, personally, Prime Minister
4 Combes undoubtedly feels that he is
| supported by the mass of the country
and is not likely to recede from the
position he has taken. The trouble is
caused by the ambiguity of the word
/ ing of the law of associations, which
/ has led branches of the congregations.
/ such as the schools now closed. to sup
| pose that their position was legalized
| by the request for authorize ton made
by headquarters.
Former Prime Minister'S Views.
This was even the Interpretation of
! the matter accepted by NJ WAldeck-
| Rousseau, the former premier, but
Prime Minister Combes takes a con-
trary view.
The Temps takes NJ. COmbes severely
to task. The establishments now
closed, says the Temps, appear to have
been draws into a trap, and the paper
points out that there are not enough
lay schools to receive all the children
! turned into the streets, and that, pri-
mary Instructions being obligatory, the
government should have provided ac-
| commoda tons in the official schools.
Twenty thousand children in Paris
alone viii need schools. The Temps
asks what the government intends tc
do. and adds: "If it allows the schools
to ask for authorization and to reoper
in the autumn, il was not worth while
to take the trouble to close them with
| such great noise"