THE TRUE SPIRIT OF PRUSSIAN LEGISLATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 29, 15 November 1873, Page 13

THE TRUE SPIRIT OF PRUSSIAN LEGISLATION.

As Prussian legislation finds its admirers in this Colony, we make the following extract from the ' Daily Telegraph ' which shows its true spirit:— " *! required no keen sight, to detect that this new measure [the Press Bill] and the Act for the suppression of Ultramontanism were inspired by the same ideas. 'The Stato above all' is the Prussian motto ; aud when Liberals applauded State control of the pulpit they forgot the possibility of State control of the press. . . The journalists were delighted to sen the priests bridled, and iv their transports did not observe the bearing reins quietly prepared for themselves It is quite possible Liberals iv Germany may recognize the fact that freedom of opinion means equal freedom for the publication of all opinions. The 'Daily Telegraph' is a journal that cannot be euspocled of Gathohc tendencies, and it writes no doubt from a fellow focliug for those gentlemen of the " Liberal" press, who, as a leading Catholic paper says, " aro quite willing to oppress othev o but prefer to bo free themselves." The 'London Tablet' says of those writers who applauded State control of the priests, forgetting the possibility of State control of the piess, that perhaps, they will comprehend before long that Cajsarism means the suppression of all individual liberty, especially of nnud and conscience, and that the most brutal tyrani.y under which man was ever crushed is the tyranny of the State.

His Eminence Cardinal Cullen was obliged to repair to the country for some time to recruit his strength after the ooii'-inuous labor, strain, aud anxiety during the recent trial in the Queen's ?iench. At the late Jesuit missions ia Philadelphia, 57 converts and 14,200 communions were made.