The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-24
ITALY AND THE PoPE.

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ITALY AND THE POPE
SIgnor Mort on the SItuatIon-TheA ttael
ON the Late POpe's Body.
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still ne lett Rome only upon, compulslon
Ills Holiness Leo Nil would Only-could
only-leaye the Vatican II he were TO be
dragged from u ny iOrcei ana then nc
would take refuge where his predecessor
nave takeil refuge pelore MN, and We
should once more pehold the spectacle Of Q
spiritual court IN me Catacombs' He can
not leave Rome II u inc Apostolic see
II has been hallOwed by the blood oil the
martyrs; It v the place Tor the Head OF the
Church, and am sure the Holy Father
Will never desert his post"
THE ATTACK on THE LATE popEs BODY.
"Nhat wns thc origin of tho insults NJ
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'etei '" tue "'u! vi fiuS ~
I'm our country We have party called
the Anti-C leriCals. II Is chiefly composed
OF students educated in our inhdel uni
yersities. A number Of them, about
eighteen or twenty, led by u man named
Toquetti- whose brother was condemned Ia
death for blowing up q barracks in which
he thought there were soldiers, but which
cunthinedonly u few Italian mtisicians-as.
sembled on the night Of the funeral. Es-
corting the body were carriages containing
some OF the monsignore who was attached
to the household OF the late Pope. Follow.
ing these again came about two thousand
people bearing torches You know that
that Is the fashion in my country at fun.
erals Nobody expected an attack, and
when these men dashed upon the process.
sion they actually got hold fthe body.
They would have thrown It into the river
Tibcr II It had not been rescued. Think Of
the PROCLAMATION The route was five miles
long from 81. Peters Church Of San Loren.
10. During the time Il took to 90 that dis.
lance these men followed the procession,
singing ribald songs and throwing stones
ut the carriages and the hearse. The next
day the Italian government suppressed the
kilograms, and allowed their own dispatch.
es 10 be sent The consequence was that
nm utterly false account was sent abroad.
Two OF the English papers, however, the
Times and Standard, published true stories
about the Outrage, and although the Italian
government protested, they would not take
them bick or alter them. The Anti-Cler.
ical party claimed that the burial Of the
Pope wns an act calculated to stir up ILL
feeling. What NONSENSE There were no
banners, no insignia. II was only the car.
ryihg Of the body Of an, old man from one
aee q aho,hgr %t ~ a. e THAI Se al sp
IWbat ia these Anil. Clericals wnntS;
"They want the guarantee laws abolished.
When Victor Emmanuel became King, he
guaranteed to the popes their rank as spir'
itual kings. They were Y have the same
respect paid to them as that exacted ior
himself; they were to have a civil list--so
much money a year upon which 70 keep up
their state-and the property O. the church
was TO be sacred. The Anti'Clericlls want
these laws abolished, They, want the
churches seized, and converted TO secular
uses. They. seem 70 think that Tue churches
belong 10 thenl-the people, Think Of the
Vatican being Hlled with officers oil gov
eminent, and st Peter turned int, place
for shows. Yet, that Is what they demand
They do not realize that the money Which