shall  we,  perchance,  allow  things  to  come  to  pass  with  us  as
they  have  done  there  ?  Shall  we  wait  until  the  Jesuits  have
also  eaten  themselves  into  all  circles  among  us,  until  capital  as-
well  as  labour  have  become  subservient  to  Jesuitism  ?  I  have  a
conviction  that  the  spirit  of  the  German  people  vrill  become
master  of  the  Romish  and  despotic  Jesuitism.  But  do  not  let
us  think  meanly  of  the  struggle!  Had  things  been  allowed  to
remain  as  they  were  of  old  in  Rome  ;  had  not  all  the  new  decrees
been  issued  under  the  guidance  of  the  Jesuit  Order,  which  have
in  every  war  engendered  discontent  and  hatred,  it  would  not
have  arrived  so  far  as  a  combat.  But  we  have  thus  been
attacked,  and  we  must  accept  battle.  We  now  do  so,  and  I  am
confident  we  shall  obtain  the  victory  ;  so  surely  as  the  German
people   have   driven   the  foreigners  in  defeat  over   the  Rhine,


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in  like  manner,  also,  will  they  know  how  to  drive  the  foreign
foe  over  the  Alps."

Thus  spake  Catholic  Volk,  and  afterwards  the  project  of  law —
as  it  had  been  proposed  by  Deputy  Meyer  von  Thorn — came
to  he  accepted  by  a  most  decisive  majority,  at  the  third  reading,
•on  the  19th  of  June  1872,  after  it  had  undergone  some  immaterial
«mendments.  The  Parliament  thereupon  directed  that  the
Order  of  Jesus,  with  all  its  dependencies,  should  no  longer  have
■*my  existence  in  Germany;  and  it  only  now  remained  to  be  seen
■whether  the  Imperial  Government  would  act  upon  this  decision.
