TA A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
F ro ?n the B r i e f o f H is H o lin e ss P iu s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 18 70 .
V ol. 80. No. 2734. L ondon, October i , 1892.
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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
C h ro n ic l e of t h e W e e k :
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Mr. Cleveland and the Presidential Contest — Decrease of the Cholera — Mr. Morley and the Evicted Tenants— The London Council and the Principle of Betterment—The Lucknow Survivors at St. Paul’s—Insubordination in the First Life Guards—A German President for a French Congress —The Cotton Spinners at Manchester—A Split at the Tabernacle —The New Dock at Bristol—The White Fathers and the French Government — Mr. Balfour on National Defence—The Religious School Difficulty in Canada—The World’s F a i r—A Strange Will Case — British Agriculture and Protection—Slavery in East Africa —Escape from the Dervishes 517 L e a d e r s :
The Lord Mayor-Elect
CONTENTS .
L e a d e r s (continued) :
Some Eminent Ecclesiastics of the
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Family of Howard . . . . 521 The Grindelwald Olive Branch . . 522 The Weak Point of Building
Societies . . . . . . . . 523 Alderman Knill and the Mayoralty 524 A Letter of Columbus . . . . 525 Cardinal Newman and Dr. Russell 526 N o t e s ..................................................527 R e v ie w s :
The Pre-Reformation Church in
England . . . . . . . . 52S London ..........................................529 Through the Eastern Vicariate . . «529 Election of Lord Mayor . . . . 530 C o rr e s po n d en c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) ..........................................533
C o r r e s po n d en c e (Continued) :
Dublin :—(From Our Own Corre
Page spondent) ........................... . . 534 L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :
“ No Popery” “ Evolution o f Letters ” .. Convents and Examinations Harvest Thanksgivings ..
•• 535 •• 536 •• 536 •• 536 •• 536
A Month in Tobago The Ransom Pilgrimage to Lourdes 537 Death of Daniel Dougherty . . 538 Funeral o f Cardinal Howard . . 539 A Church Consecrated in Ireland.. 539 The Press and the Mayoralty . . 540 Ireland and Conversions to Protes
tantism . . . . . . . . 542 The Holy Sepulchre . . . . . . 542 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 543 A p p e a l to t h e C h a r it a b l e . . 543
S U P P L EM E N T . D ec is io n s o f R oman C o n g r eg a
Page t io n s . . . .............................549 N ew s from t h e S chools :
Report o f the Stonyhurst Associa
tion . . ....................................... 549 Golden Jubilee of Mount St.
Mary’s, Chesterfield . . . . 549 The National Union of Catholic
Teachers of Great Britain . . 550 About Education . . . . . . 550 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster
Southwark Hexham and Newcastle . . Portsmouth Shrewsbury . . . . St. Andrews and Edinburgh Glasgow ..........................
550 551 551 551 552 552 552
An Eighth Century Commentary on the Äthanasian Creed . . . . 553
Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
MR. CLEVELAND
AND THE PRESIDENTIAL
CONTEST.
F tion
FOLLOWING hard upon Presi
dent Harrison’s letter accepting the Republican nominacomes Mr. Cleveland’s accepting that of the Democrats. Tariff reform is still declared to be the purpose of the party, but there is a certain disposition to hedge. Thus, while Mr. Cleveland boldly declares that the Democratic party opposes the theory that tariff laws may be passed, having for their object the granting of discriminating and unfair governmental aid to private ventures, he thinks it wise to go on to make the unnecessary statement that they will wage no exterminating war against any American interest. Instead of the word “ Free Trade ” we have the word “ Readjustment.” However, in spite of prudent phrases the Democratic policy is practically one of tariff for revenue only. On the coinage question he is oracular and safe. A number of cautious platitudes are strung together, so that there is something to please all sections of the party. To please the Free Silver men we are told that the people are entitled to money abundantly sufficient in volume to supply their business needs ; but then we are also told that the currency must be so guarded that no one can be deluded as to the certainty of stability in its value. Again, while one party is told that every dollar put into the hands of the people should be of the same intrinsic value or purchasing power, their opponents may find consolation in the remark that “ with this condition absolutely guaranteed both gold and silver can be safely utilized ”— the whole difficulty of course being how to guarantee this equality. Finally, the balance is delicately struck in favour of the sound currency men by the remark that the inconvenience or loss which might arise from an imperfect distribution or deficiency of money-circulation can be much more easily borne than the universal distress which must follow a discredited currency. Mr. Cleveland goes on to commend to the American people the construction of the Nicaragua Canal, to condemn the Force Bill and to commend Civil Service reforms. On the delicate question of pensions he says that while no complaint can be made as to the amount of public money paid to those who have been actually
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disabled, or otherwise been made dependent by reason of service in the Army, the “ pension roll ” should be made a roll of honour, uncontaminated by ill-desert and unvitiated by demagogic use.
At Hamburg a feeling of reassurance is d e c r e a s e o f gradually taking possession of the people. t h e c h o l e r a . It is officially stated that there have been
17,300 cases of attack during the epidemic.
Many of the persons who fled are now returning to Hamburg, and the disease is slowly disappearing. Symptoms of choleraic disease are reported to exist in some Berlin hospital patients. There were fatalities on Monday at Rotterdam and the Hague. At Le Portel, a fishing village near Boulogne, there have been a few deaths owing to the extreme lack of sanitary precaution in the place. Five deaths and four fresh cases are reported from Havre, and a case has occurred in Brussels. Ten persons died in St. Petersburg on Monday. There were 17 fresh cases, and 43 patients recovered. At New York there has not been even a suspected case of cholera since Tuesday, and all the patients are out of danger. The cabin passengers of the B o h em ia and S c a n d ia have now been released. The vessels, however, will remain at the lower quarantine station for some time. The W erra has been released, and the S e r v ia is about to be liberated.
Mr. Morley has lost no time in doing m r . m o r l e y a n d as ¡ie was ]jjc|) and ¡n a ]etter to Mr.
e v i c t e d t e n a n t s . McCarthy announces that the Govern
ment surrenders to the summons to do something for the evicted tenants. As a cloak of justification he points to expressions used in the House of Commons last summer by Mr. Balfour and Mr. Smith-Barry, admitting that a great evil existed to which it was desirable that a remedy should be found. He recalls how an effort was made by Parliament to settle the question by the 13th Section of Mr. Balfour’s Purchase Act. Only 187 cases were settled under that Act. Mr. Morley somehow appears to think that justice is less desirable when it is expensive to the public, and he notes that the extra force of police required in connection with the evicted tenants, and the consequent disquiet, is not less than 600 men, at the cost of some ,£40,000 a year. Nor is the cost of police the only item— to that must be added the charges of prosecution, counsel, and witnesses; of the maintenance, custody, safe-conduct, and removal of prisoners, and other miscellaneous expenses. The disturbed condition of one notorious district alone has cost the country over ,£ 13 ,0 00
