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CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH. In Essentials, Unity; in Non-Essentials, Liberty; in All Things, Charity. *o, Vol. LXVII. CINCINNATI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1898. No. 7. It did this in three ways: It abolished rive its legitimacy.” In order to show THE SITUATION IN FRANCE. act would be to take sides, not alone in MYERS’ TRAVESTY ‘N HISTORY slavery, it created charity, it inculcated the social activity of the Church, we shall the central issue at stake, but in a hun¬ dred side issues that are not self-sacrifice.” Slavery was universal consider itunderseparateheadings. The perceived by the under the old pagan regime. The Church first element of civilization is undoubted¬ public eye, and to take sides would mean ly law. No nation can be regarded as possible defeat just now, which Summary of the Work olthe Church in taught that all men were equal befoie God Interesting Analysis by Father Walsh, and was the first to preach that slavery civilized which is not governed by con¬ again would be utter ruin during the com¬ the the Distinguished Augustinian. Middle Aps. was unnatural. “Since the Saviour and stitutional law. Now these barbarians ing elections. Driven by this policy they let Creator of the world,” wrote Pope Greg¬ had not the faintest conception of law things take their course; the law acts according to its normal functions, and ory I. (540-604), 1 ‘wished to become man, when they settled down in Europe. They The the hand of the Cabinet is not seen in the Prof. Myers is the teackr of history at in order, by grace and liberty, to break were wild, wandering tribes, governed by political situation in France is just now marked procedure. This policy kept the Cabinet the University of Cinciiiati. This in¬ the chains of our slavary, it is right and certain customs. In a few -generations by disturbances the issue of which it is hard to foresee. The mind of mute while the country was in a ferment stitution is maintained } great part by good to bestow again upon man, whom they had a constitutional government and wise the nation has been stirred to its depths unparalleled since the war; it left the money raised by taxatioion the citizens nature has permitted to be born free, but legislation. Whence did they get it? nation at the mercy We shall show that the Church was the by the scandals of the past few years, of venal newspapers of this city, Catholic as |11 as sectarian; whom the law of nations has brought which have been again renewed during when a word from the Ministers would and it is therefore reasdable to expect under the yoke of slavery, the blessing of great legislator in the early ages. Next the last have calmed the tumult in a moment; and that the chair of his to law comes education. These barbari¬ month, and universal attention historjshould be filled original liberty.” The abolition of this has been fixed upon the need of such re¬ pact of silence was only broken when was ans, the ancestors of the present European by a gentleman imparfiil as to creed, slavery almost entirely the work of the Count de newal of the national forces as may as¬ Mun, in a superb burst of in¬ veracious as to fact, anicompetent as to the Church. Guizot, the French Protest¬ nations, received their education from the sure to the nation a nobler dignant eloquence, summoned the Minister ant Church. Liberty, too, progressed under public life and ability. How Prof. Mers answers to historian, recognizes this when he of War to defend the her a higher ideal of service from its official army whose chiefs these requirements came readily ascer¬ writes in his “History of Civilization in benign influence. The pioneer re¬ rulers. The true significance of the Drey¬ were so terribly traduced. The method of tained by a perusal of ae series of arti¬ Europe”: “The Church resolutely strug¬ publics of the world were founded by her fus scandal in its last action seems to have pleased all sides, children. The world undoubtedly owes phases must be cles, which have been ippearing in the gled against the great vices of the social and has not sought in the circumstances that now ac¬ apparently further alienated Monitor of San Franciso. state, for example, against slavery. It to the Church the foundation of constitu¬ any one, Jew or Gentile, from the Govern¬ We has been often asserted that the abolition tional government, the company French politics; it would be a reproduce one, eiitled “The Foun¬ preservation and ment of the wrong reading of the question of the hour day. dation of Modern Civiaation were Laid of slavery in modern Europe was exclu¬ spread of letters and the growth of liberty. to interpret it as a passing incident of Now, it may be asked, what are the by the Church”: sively owing' to Christianity. I think this public life, for it is rooted in other facts Catholics doing during this crisis; do Summary.—We havinow refuted the is saying too much. Slavery long exist¬ Woman Rewarded by France. which must be the basis of they make capital of the situation to ed in the heart of Christian any correct principal anti-Catholiccalumnies of the society with¬ further the cause of To the small group of women whom religion and morality? first out judgment of current events. The French part of Myers’ “Mdiasval and Mod¬ greatly exciting its astonishment or The answer to this France has signally honored by the be¬ Chamber is now in its last hour, accord¬ question is not easily ern History.” We haedevoted consid¬ drawing down its anathema. A multitude stowal of the Cross of the Legion of ing to the Constitution of the Republic. given, as the times are very tangled and erable space to the nutation of these of causes and a great development in Honor has just been added Mile. Mar¬ The question of the hour, then, is how to it is hard to see the right direction of af¬ calumnies as other ideas of civilization were they arete stock-in-trade required fairs. The guerite Bottard, the eldest of the nurses only way to better the actual to eradicate this evil of evils. replace the present by another legislative charges against the latholic Church. state of the Church in France is to in the asylum known in Paris as the Sal- estab¬ The Yet it is indubitable that the Church body, and every section of political bigoted historianhas crowded as lish a petriere, where she has worked for fifty- thought strives its utmost to impose its Government of (Atholie statesmen many lies as possible ito this period of employed its influence in restraining it. who will undo the evil work of the seven years. views and ideals upon the coming Parlia¬ past history. In refutingthnwe have quoted There exists an unquestionable proof of A French journal, commenting on the ment. This is the true secret of the terri¬ twenty years and give the country a new the most reliable this fact. The autorities, Catholic greater part of the formulas direction and a new bestowal of the cross, speaks of the fic struggle now being waged in France political life. This and of -Protestant, and,the fair-minded enfranchisement, made out at different can woman as “imprisoned by devotion,” between the Jews and Christians, between only be done throngh constitutional reader cannot but coni'ide that Myers is eras, ai-e founded upon a religious motive; channels, and leading a life of abnegation with modesty the friends of order and the apostles of through the agency of the a deliberate falsifier. And yet this so- it is upon the invocation of religious and without talk, without encountering disorder and disruption; in a word, the people, while the people can be reached called “History” is wiily used through¬ ideas, of hopes of eternal bliss and the other than the satisfaction which comes rival schools of thought and action in only by the process of a general election. out the United States s a public school equality of men in the eyes of Heaven, from her good conscience and without France have begun the battle for the Em¬ Consequently, the policy of the Catholic text-book. The taxesff Catholics are that the enfranchisement is almost invari¬ other support than the counsels of her pire of the future. party is, in its central method, one with paid in order that the gross calumnies ably pronounced.” In this policy we be¬ that of its good heart. The Jewish influence was rivals; they must act in view of hold the wise and paramount on their religion mi$ be spread, that prudent action of the the Mile. Marguerite Bottard, who has for many years; their great financial coming electoral struggle and so as to Church. She found the system bigotry might be perpuated. This is a of slavery broaden their influence with the masses passed her seventy-sixth year, was born kings dictated political methods to a flagrant violation of tt principle of re¬ deeply rooted. She could not abolish it whose shoulders alone can in the Cote d’Or in 182'A When only 19. Catholic country, and bj their support carry them to in one ligious freedom, an (atr.'ge on iustiee year or one generation There¬ on January 12, 1841, she' entered the Sal- encouraged Ministers in their nefarious victory. Now, with the bulk of the French and fair fore she labored for the amelioration of play. Catliics may blame electors the Government candidate has a petriere as a nurse in the wards of Dr.