The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-10
CARDINALS LEAD WAR OF CHURCH
 AGAINST HERRI0T
Seek To Restore Clergy's
 lights Taken Away By 'S Separation Laws
PUBLIC. IS URGED {
 TO REDEEM BONDS
Advised To Withhold All Funds From Banks To
 Hamper Government
(By Leased Wire to The Ase.Herald

PARIS, Nov. 9.---French 'clericals are mobilizing all their forces to war to the bit ter end against the Herriot government. Led by the six cardinals who represent the Catholics at the Holy See, they are, planning a campaign throughout the country with the object of restoring as far as possible the rights of the clergy and the religious con- gregations of which they were deprived by the separation laws of 1904. The extremists among them do not conceal that they are aiming at a re- turn to the regime of the con- cordat, negotiated by Napoleon with the Pope, whereby the Catholic church was recog- nied as a state institution.
 Although the vatican has recognized the actual conditions in France and mas enjoined the clergy to respect them, the "rockribbed" leaders of the clerical movement have never given their ad- herence. Ever since the religious con sregations-monks and nuns engaged principally in teaching, but also carry ing on commercial enterprises of great extent--were either expelled or forced to submit to the laws governing all business activities, efforts have been made to get around the separation legislation. New communities have sprung up in scores of cities and in many cases where only a limited num- bsr of members of religious. qrders were permitted to remain in certain To- cality this number has been vastly in- creased, even after the death of the original members.
 AIsace.L Lorraine Protests
 New impetus has been given to this clerical campaign by the governments refusal to maintain it's diplomatic rep resentation at the Vatican and the pro- tests of the people of Alsace and LOT raine against the Herriot proposal to introduce into the schools of those provinces the laws governing educa- ton in the rest of France. The clergy in the restored provinces declare that when the separation laws were passed in France, Alsace and Lorraine were Tn Germany and were subject to special treatment. As matter of fact. when they formed part of the German empire they were under the regime of the con
 r.. xx1nNda RAPIin rnOnR- nized the church as a state institution. Naturally the clergy, now that they are French, object to giving up their spe- cial privileges while at the same time prostesting their love for France.
 Bitterness is growing between the clerical organs and the supporters of the radical government. The latter cry out against the old alliance of "the sabre and the holy water sprinkler" referring to the common cause made by the mili- taristic nationalists and the church. The clericals retort that France is ruled by the Masonic lodges and that int morality and red revolution are the di- rect results.
 "We are ready to fight by the side of our brothers in Alsace and Lorraine" declared Cardinal Andrieu, addressing meeting of Bordeaux railroad men. Tn defending their rights we shall not for get the rights of Catholics in the rest of France. We are ready to die If need be, proud to demonstrate once again to Europe and the world that the only causes worth while are those for which one is willing to give his life.' .-
 Urged To, Fight GOvrnment
 In carrying out this determination, according to radical newspapers, the clergy are exhorting their followers to refuse to take any part of the govern ment loans, to redeem their national bonds and take their savings out Of the banks so as to embarrass the govern ment. Cardinal Andrieu went so far as to sound the call for another ven deean uprising similar to that which kept France in turmoil for years fol- lowing the anti-religious teachings Of the French revolution. His appeals are likely to have profound effect in Brittany, where the old Catholic spirit remains as strong as ever.
 Meetings of Catholic organizations all over France have adopted resolutions to the same effect. Resistance by the superiors of religious communities to the legal demands of the authorities re- garding their activities is growing. Clerical leaders are attempting to group all these forces in a national movement against the Herriot government.