The organ of the infallible party threatened the emperor with the opposition of all good Catholics, and told him that, in a contention with the pope, systems of government can and must change.

It was now plain to every one that the question had become, "Who is to be master in the state, the government or the Roman Church?
It is plainly impossible for men to live under two governments, one of which declares to be wrong what the other commands.

If the government will not submit to the Roman Church, the two are enemies." A conflict was thus forced upon Prussia by Rome--a conflict in which the latter, impelled by her antagonism to modern civilization, is clearly the aggressor.
ACTION OF THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.

The government, now recognizing its antagonist, defended itself by abolishing the Catholic department in the ministry of Public Worship.

This was about midsummer, 1871.