New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-03
HOMAGE TO THE POPE.
OFFERED IN THE NAME OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE AND THEIR PRESIDENT.
Nm MORLEY AND LORD RIPoN IN DUBL1N-PLANs
yoR RELIEVING DISTRESS IN LoNDoN-cARDI-
NAL MANNING PREACHING socialism
THE LITERATURE AND ETIoUE1TE
OF THE PRlZE-RING.

FOR RELIEVING DISTRESS IN L0ND0N-CARDI-
NAL MANNING PREACHING SOCIALISM,
THE LITERATURE AND ETIQUE1TE
OF THE PRIzE-RINa.
IBr CABLE TO THE rRIBUNEl
cspyriohf: 1888: By The Ne,o- York. TiounA
LONDON, Feb. 2.-An extraordinary telegram nom
Rome appears in to-day's Times" giving what
purports to be the original address of the Ameri-
can pilgrims who presented Mr.. Cleveland's jubilee
aift TO the Pope. These pilgrims II this document
be genuine spoke in the name both of the Ameri-
can President and of the American people 1hcy
offered His Holiness an expression OF the venefa-
ton of the President They describe their mission
ss the tribute paid to Your Holiness by the ruler
of sixty millions Of freemen." They entreat HIS
Holiness ITO receive through its most worthy
President the tribute Of a free and independents
people, They remind the Pope that his favorite
theologian, Thomas Aquinas has written true ana
beautiful things concerning republicansm Ihey
assure him that the Catholic Church in the Ameri-
can Republic is left perfectly free, theoretically ana
practically: and they conclude: I'VE beg you,
then Most Holy Father, to bless this brave young
republic which has achieved so much in single
century. Bless the land discovered by your
sanity compatriot Christopher Columbus. Bless
the wise and manly President of the United States.
And kneeling before you we beg Your Holiness 10
bless bv your apostolic benediction ourselves ana
our people,
The correspondent who telcgraphs this from
Rome says that this read in Latin to the POPE
who could not understand the readers pronuncla-
tion and adds that a majority of the socalled Pill
rrims were Protestants as the Pope learned, much
TO his surprise This document and these facts
may not be to you They are new to Ameri-
cans here, some of whom would be glad TO Know
how far these pilgrims were authorized to speak
fbo oft
and who empowered them to offer the homage OF
the American people to the POle
The reception Of Mr.. Morley and Lord Rlpoh
at Dublin is described at some length IN the Loh-
don papers, but elicits no very striking conihen'
aThe Times contents itself with report oil hi'ii
n column. and saws not word edltorially. Inc
torcblight procession was thought effective two
Thousand being the number of torches, one TO each
hundred persons according to The Dally news
reporter The green Tag and the stars ana otripes
were carried, bat the british tiag was not 10 pe
seen. saws hostile witness who, however, auihits
that great enthusiasm prevailed Inc hui'''u"'
were orQerly and good humOred, and the ponce
kept out OF sight.
Yesterdays deputation to Lord Salisbury III
behalf of the unemployed was lntuentlal anu LII
portant perhaps most important OF all IN proving
two things: first, tlat the distress Is chrome hcV
exceptional; and second, that no two OF all these
eminent doctors can o5rce on a remedy Ho,"
Uerscbell. Cardinal Manning Earl Compton, the
p;shon Of Bedford. Mr.. Cyril Flower and Mr.
Arnold White are all men with special knowledge
sacb heartily in earnest and In full sympathy with
tbe noorer classes Mr.. Shipton, member OF inc
Trades Council and other representative working
mon formed mart of the deputation. Zach speaker
5isclnimed responsibility for the proposals OF Ine
others "
Cardinal Manning, whose public declaration
that a starving man has a right to steal remains
unretracted went to the extreme limit OF socias'io
doctrines He is for what Lord Salisbury declared
TO be equivalent to proposal 1Of es'ap4lshlhs
national workshops The State, IN Cardinal
Mannings opinion, ought to provide WORK ior
those who want it, This sort OF talk only h"ru0n'
English hearts. Mr.. Arnold White is for emil
grafton and for stopping pauper immigration III"
this country, for which last proposal he aptiy
cited the American example. But Lord Salisbury
doubts whether the American system is bere prac-
ticable Mr. Shipt0n of course, opposed IL. Lord
Salisbury finally dismissed the deputatl0n wlth
many sincere professions OF sympathy, WIFI d
stern protest against Cardinal MaDnlngs scheme
and with q pledge carefully to consider the whole
subject.
Of blows is the present occupation of the hnglish
prze ring There appeared yesterday what Jem
Smiths fond friends styled an acceptance OF
Snlbvan,s challenge Anybody might accept it
with a light heart in similar fashion. The condl-
tions Smiths manager-for pgize-ighters like prlm"
donnas now require managers-proposes turn the
acceptance into a refusal. Fleming Is the name
of this functonary. Fleming Will only allow
Smith TO fight Sullivan On condition that Smith
shall select Sulivans supporters at the ring siue
Smith to name the place and date OF the pattie
and the money to be deposited with Smiths organ
IN the press Finally, to make everything quite
snug the fight is not to take place I'LL altef
Sullivan Shall have left England. May or June
is named and Sullivan's departure has long been
6xed for April The great Bostonian this morn
ing counters heavily on Smith. lie declines
10 agree to these remarkable terms, but recalls
Flemng's attention to the fact that s2,ooo OF
good money is lying at The Sportsman" office
waiting to be covered lie is ready to sign articles
on the usual terms. If Smith is not. let him.
cries Sullivan in the classic language OF the rng
crawl into hole and pull the hole in after him
Let him." concludes Sullivan, put up or shut
up'
r. is odds that the English champion will do
neither the one nor the other. lie and kllran
are engaged in an elaborate hlppodromlng business
too profitable to be relinQuished Tor serious
encounter in the ring. Sullivan refers TO the
recent Smith-Kilrain contest az the Rouen farce.
He takes the public behind the scenes and men
tions as matter of news that Fleming had pro-
posed to Phillips, Sullivan's manager, a four round
bout in public, with the gate money equally
divided Sullivan to sign document agreeing not 10
knock Smith out of time, the contest to be declared
a draw and Fleming to claim that Smith had Chc
best of it, with leave to Phillips TO do the same
for Sullivan The British public" said Fleihihg,
as reported by the American champion, "ouio
stand two and possibly three such affairs. and we
should make great deal of money! e. W. e.