Show I THE FRENCH MARCH DECREES As our readers have seen from the telegraphic report of the last weeks the execution of tho decrees of march 29 against the unauthorized religious congregations has created considerable excitement in france the hubbub produced by the compulsory departure of alio french jesuits haa agh degree of animosity kindled and fanned by alio monarchists who have been quick to perceive therein a weapon against theodious can government these mortal enemies of republicanism are eager to make political capital out of the loss of their powerful allies the astute members of the society of jesu their loss is a groat gain to the friends of popular freedom universal education and progress on all fields of public life hence the venomous vituperation of which the clerical and journals are teeming against M his cabinet still it would be doing the french government a gross injustice to consider tho forcible expulsion of abo jesuits as a religious persecution peise cution however much personal feelings and individual sympathies may havo been wounded by the apparent rigor and harshness of the law the french government acted according lo 10 laws passed and enacted long fears ago by monarchical governments ab times when tho influence of the jesuits and their auxiliary arces was almost these laws placing a careful restriction upon the establishment and spread of unauthorized religious corporations have frequently been confirmed as equitable patriotic and ex bedient by the highest tribunal in the land supreme judicial decisions hive been so firmly rooted in ho public sentiment and iagal consciousness of tho country that in tho various appeals taken by different jesuits bero lower courts not ono judge dared to render a de casion by which the constitutionality of lie anti jesuit laws or the legality of the action would have been impugned standing ill the maudlin and manifestations of sympathy for the reverend fathers tho french pomplo in its totality had declared itself in the general elections of oct so pronouncedly in favor of tho republican form of government and against the clerical reaction the cabinet of at de frecci acl is well enough grounded to acot freo the attacks of the titled dukes of the bourbon orleans and bonaparte courts and the imprecations of alie black frocked priests what dangers were menacing the french republic in the deleterious activity of the jesuits on the school was irrefutably by the deputy oh the oc cation of the debate on the new school law and its seventh paragraph excluding the jessil fathers from any activity in school rooms the rejection of this paragraph by the senate placed the cabinet before the alternative cither to desist from its set liberating alio schools the bane of jesuit or to back on older laws which enabled it to crush the reactionary soc ety in doing so the government displayed no undue haste the jesuita and the other unauthorized religious ia were given three months time to prepare for their departure from a country which had refused thorn free residence ninety years but just aa in other countries in similar case the jeuitt refused to observe the injunction of the law and the warn ing of the government instead of making ready for departure from a country which cast them off aa loath acme ulcers of the body politic they profiled of tho respite for kindling and fanning rebellious and insurrectionary ary feelings and outbreaks the french cabinet is to be commended for abstaining from retaliation and for the coolness and con iaia o dignity with which they had the decree of march executed on june and the firsa of nature for a state as well at lor nn individual U that of self preservation and all the talk about religious persecution aheu applied to the expulsion of the Jesu itsu irrelevant tiro not loyal subject not faithful citi ang they ure nn extraterritorial corporation elioe homo is in dio poleg vatican if anywhere choso whoso hearth i nowhere chey are the worn foes of the french lika of every other republic this they proven three limes in a in france alicy lave shown ibby the dire talamoa of the swiss civil war of they have shown it in the innumerable revolution a and leonc in mexico and the central and south american free states aliey have tined the of all the caunt of both with in of blood and villager vil lagen chomoa and fars abiles nut even conckus enmity to progress and liberty in tho nylla bug and alin encyclical a in the laii il bulb and alo dogma of the in fallibility they leave boldly hromi the gauntlet to all free thought atee ii to everything that I i mankind they denounced abo eacret of tho of tho people of the irce agency of the individual the knowledge hya public school and public pr n cen on llie hallowed noil of the united ytA tei cannot the tei n id etnena of il they reap the iteen they owed in prance if the country against chioli they concreted plot cat ot brantley brant led with the caina inck of traitors |