A SUGGESTIVE CAREER.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 23, 5 October 1894, Page 11

A SUGGESTIVE CAREER.

(Translated from the Berlin correspondence of the Nonveau Monlteur

de Rome.} The town of Wittenburg, the cradle of German Protestant i<sm, has lately seen some things both amusing and edifyiag. The Liberal Press of Germauy has preeerved such a solemn silence on this subject that wt feel ourselves obliged to mention it in our columns. The hero of the story was mayor of the town, and the spirit that filled the unchaßte monk Luther's stormy breast also existed in our hero. He was a perfect cannibal for Catholics. Had he stopptd there his anthropophagal instinct would not have led him into trouble, But he unfortunately, for himself, set about eating up the wealth of his townsfolk. His appetite in this respect was, if possiblt, ketner than hia hatred to the Church. H.s salary of £9 30 a year would have seemed sufficient to a Catholic, but he wa? too g od a Protestant and a Mason to accept such a ridiculously small sum.

Our hero, Doctor Schild, President of tbe Masonio Lodge of Wittenburg, and worthy successor to tbe sixteenth century reformers, held both hands oat for everything he could reach. £231) had been collected for a monument to Bargenha^en. Sibil 1 mide away with that. The safe for donations to the night school contained about tbe same sum ; the Government had lent £30 to mnkn a new ro*d. Schild ate and drank all tnat up. Registered letters, hospitals poor box, savings-bank account?, all were fish to the net of this Mason. Our frieni Schili hid been a professor before being a mayor, and had. therefore, some acquaintance with the classics. " Non olet, 1 ' Suetonius informs us, was Vespasian's answer to his "on Titup, whtn the latter reproached him for col ectiag a certa'n tax ia imperial Rome.

Money has no smell, says Schild, and, to make a long story short, the amount of his robberies is not yet thoroughly known, Tae iunny part of it is that all those of his townspe pie who were, to use a colloquialism, ia the swin, knew ihat ha was a thief. But they said to one another, he does hate the Cuhoiics so ; how shall we ever g-t Bach a delicious exponent of the fine doctrine* of our Protestant Scriptures? Not only was he left in his billet, but honours were shosvere 1 on him. On the 3 1st October 1892, the Emperorof Germany himself opened the Church of Luther at Wittenberg, an 1 c imphmeatad its soveieign, Bchild. Yet, this same Scmld was then known to rob his 'own-people aa brazen facedly as the commander of All Babi's forty thieves. Tbe Emperor was so charmed with the man Schild that ha sent him, as a present, his portrait set in diamonds. Schila's star being then in its apogee, beg>in to declino. He had the bad ta3te to incur deb's, and creditors having from all times been stony-hearted towards debtor? Doctor Schild Baw the insi la of a pnsjn. Ia prism Dr Sjhild committed suicide. His town clerk unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide, and the creditor, in an &<>< uy of tear for the r monr-y, seize i Bchild's furniture, including th-j E'lipjrjr'u p irtrnt with autograph attached.

It is the crash, the smash up of the kulturkampf over again, only the affair iB dirtier. The cloak of Liberalism, already white in its seam?, is no longer wide enough to hide these stories of shame. Even Prince Bismarck had to go to dnotsß. and one of the most prominent partisans of the kulturkampf in Germany has lately disappeared in a slough of mud and of blood. The Liberal, Masonic, Jewish Press has organibed around its protege 3 the conspiracy of silence. It is the duty of Catholics to defeat iheir unholy ends. Remember that whenever some Protestant or Jewish newspaper proprietor organises a clerical scandal, the whole of tbe venal Press follow the filthy scent like hounds in full cry. Tbe clerical scandal is generally an odious calumny. But, &s dirty water does not smell any the better for being stirred, the accusations are not thought worth refuting, and the odium of the accusation remains fixed in shallow people's minds. The Masons [and tbe Jews have not the same ideas that we have. And remember that a Protestant is already half a Jew. These good people will, if they have any family difficulties, beg the Catholic editor not to mention the police report in his

paper. Through delicacy of feeling the Catholic editor will agree with their view*., and the first chance they get they will repay hia courtesy by vilifying one of his priests. Ltt the Catholic Press defend its co-religionists. For every e'erical scandal mentioned in tbe Masonic Press, let them put under the noses of Judaico-Protestant readers two scandals that have occurred among their own people. After all it does not hurt any more to give a blow than to receive one. Schild waa the man of the kultarkampf. A Liberal, a Mason, a persecutor of the faith. We have the right to expose him on the pillory of public opinion, and, let us hope that our enemies w .ll disinfect their own Augean stables before sweeping Catholic doorsteps. D.G D.