Year: 1876

The editor of the Galveston Catholic must


have been out Of sorts last week ut least we
Judge 80 from the character of some of the


axtioles which he published. In the hrst


column Of his editorial page he gives IA Little
Plain Talk to the Catholics of Texas for not


supporting Catholic enterprises, notably the
7sras Catholic; then in another column of the
came page, he relates q stale anecdote wherein


two Irishmen, shovelling sand on hot sum-
zner's day, exchange views on the labor ques-


tiou, the conversation winding up with the


following assertion by one of them: We'll, for


. nice, aisy, clare business, I'd like to be
bishop"


Elsewhere our editor very truly says:


Galveston must either grow, stand still, or


go backwards from the position she is now


Alling among the commercial centres of the


world"


These little slips would not notice, how


ever, were it not that in the same issue the ca


1holio copies from the Louisville Courier Journal


. malicious article concerning distin guished


Catholic Englishman-tbe Duke of Norfolk
aggravated a bundred-fold by misststement
OF the causes which have led to the pres
ent deplorable condition of the Catholic clergy
in Germany.


It will be remembered that a few weeks
since the Duke appealed to the public for
assistance for the clergy of Germany, whose
incomes had been confscated by the Prussian
Government, and whose focks were forbidden
under the severest penalties, to contribute to
thoir support. To break the force of this
appeal, some bigotted Protestant publish ed
story TO the effect that an English clergy
man, whose parish lay within the Dukes do
main, and whose salary amounted to only ESQ
. year, had appealed to the Duke for an in.
crease of wages, but that the latter, while
willing to help foreign clergy men, had refused
TO add to the miserable pittance of an English
minister.


This incident, of the truth of which we
know nothing, the Comir-Jomna! used as a
text from which to read the Duke and several
ether Catholic Eng!ishmen lecture upon the
way in which they should dispose of their
Incomes. OF course the Pope was made to
fgure as the recipient of a large donation tho
appeal in behalf of the German clergy was be.
Titled in every way, and the suggestion was
m ade that two or three Catholic mobiles "might
undertake the support of the whole of the dis
possessed priesthood in Germany till nodus
riCeHdi be established, and not feel the burden -


Now We don't care particularly for the Duke.
though it does seem strange to us that he,
Catholic, should be held up to soorn for no.
Increasing the rdges of Protestant minister;
but 1t does concern us to see Catholic paper
lend lite columes to the publication of articles
which belittle so noble q movement as the one
u which the Duke is engaged and which are
moreover, to give the public false
dea Of the great issue involved in the pending
liMoulties between the government and the
'leRgy of Germany. The Catholic should, we !
hink, explain fully to its readers the causes
Thich have led to the persecution of the Catho-
los in Germany and the wide scope of that
'eraecution. In q word, the people of Texas
hould be told that not because the Bishops
nd Priests refuse to obey just and simple
Aw of the land are they imprisoned or ex.
their property and incomes con.
seated, and their faithful congregations
not to offer them even 30 much as
oruSt of bread, but because they prefer to
bey the laws of God rather than those of men.