THAT there is strong probability that in the near future the Jesuits will again be permitted to carry forward their propaganda in Germany is recognized in many quarters. Speaking of this and of the reasons that will lead to according them a renewal of their privileges, the Continent of Sept. 26, 1912, says:— It is felt among Protestants in Germany that there is considerable danger of a readmission of Jesuits to that empire, from which they were excluded in 1872. The Center party of the German Reichstag,—which is the Roman Catholic section of the imperial parliament,—though violently opposed to the socialists and lamenting in general the recent extraordinary addition to the numbers of their socialist colleagues, appear to have conceived the idea that they can make a profitable alliance with them in this one particular. As is well known, the socialists are more than willing to annoy the German emperor in every way possible, and though they could have no other interest in the readmission of the Jesuits to Germany, this reason alone is considered by some of them at least to be sufficient excuse for joining hands with their Romanist fellow members on this issue. These parties are the two largest groups in the Reichstag, and united they would constitute an overwhelming majority. The expulsion of the Jesuits was Bismarck's first stroke in the fierce kulturkampf, the great political conflict with the Vatican, on which he launched out immediately after the present German empire was organized, at the close of the Franco-Prussian war.