Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-04
THE PAPAL DECREE.
Full Text of the Latest Edict Of
Pope Leo.-Condemning the Plan
of Campaign and Boycotting.
One Declared to be Violation of Con-
tract and the Other AbhOrent to
All Ideas of Justice or of
Charity.

| LoNDoN.-The exact terms of the papal
decree condemning the "pan of cam
! paign" and boycotting have been awaited
with interest and some anxiety by the
Irish leaders, some of whom have refused
to express any opinion concerning it un-
! til its nature was accurately known, and
| have evidently hoped that the reports
concerning it mig ht not be true. The de-
| cree is received tonight and it bears
out the published reports. Its text is as
| follows:
"On several occasions the Apostolic See
has given the people of Ireland, whom it
has always regarded with special benevO
! lence, suitable admouitlous and advice,
| when circumstances required, as to how
| they mig ht defend their rights without in
| jury to justice or to public peace. Our
holy father, Leo MI, fearing lest in the
species of warfare that has been intro
duced among the Irish in the contests be-
tween landlords and tenants, which is com
monty called the plan of campaign and
in the kind of social interdict called
boy cOtting' arising from the same con
tests, a true sense of justice and char
ity might be perverted, ordered the
supreme congregation of the inquisition
to subject the matter to serious and care
fUl examination. Hence, the following
was proposed to Their Eminences the
Cardinals of that congregation rs it
permissible between landlords and their
tenants in Ireland, to use means known
as the plan of campaign and boycott
ing?
after long and mature deliberation,
their emineuces unanimously ans Eered
in the negative, and their answer was
confl med by the Holy Father on Wednes-
day, the 18th of the present month. The
justice of this decision will be readily
seen by any one who applies his mind TO
consider that rent agreed on by mutual
consent cannot, without violation of
contract, be diminished at the mere will
of the tenant, especially where there are
tribunels appointed for settling such con-
troversies and reducing an just rents with
in the bounds of equity, after taking into
account the causes which diminish the
value of land. Neither can it be con-
sidered permissible that rents BE extort-
ed from tenants and deposited in the
hands of unknown persons to the detri-
ment of land owners. Finally, it IS con-
trary to justice and charity to persecute
by a social interdict those who are salts
fed to pay the rents they agreed to pay
or those who in the exercise of their
rights take vacant farms. It will there
fore be your lordship's duty prudently
but effectually to advise and exhort the
clergy aid laity not to transgress the
bounds of Christian CHARITY aud justice
while they are striving for remedy for
their distrtsS condition.
z. CARDINAL MONACO.
Rome, April 20.
THE RESULT OF TORY INTRIGUE.
LINCOLN, Neb., April 29.-Ou the ques-
tion of papal condemnation of the plan of
campaign, Patrick Egan, ex-president of
the National league of America, said to-
day that such course on the part of
Rome has been expected by those ac-
qGainted with the intrigue between the
Tory government and the Vatican. at
has long been the ambition of the papal
advisers" he said "to secure direct dip
lomatic relations with England aud have
an accredited representative at the Court
of st. James. 1t is also pet scheme to
have endowed Il Catholic university in Ire
land. 1t is understood the Tory govern
ment has promised to satisfy these desires
on condition that the authority of the
papacv be directed toward what they are
pleased to term the specification" of Ire
land-in other words, the crippling of
the National league. This attempt at
spiritual interference in matters partly
temporal and political, will, instead of
suppressing, put new life and determina-
ton into the movement; will raise up un-
expected difficulties for England and
bring no credit or advantage to Rome.
Irish Catholics recognize very ol early that
cAurchmen are not the church, and while
they will have no quarrel with the latter.
they will stand no dictation from the for
mer, and especially when no question of
faith or morals is involved. Resort to
such methods to help their ends by the
Tory government indicates that they are
indeed getting into desperate straits.'
Secretary Sutton, of the League, said
papal interference with the national
fairs of Ireland should meet with speedy
and emphatic resistance. 1t is not the
first time RomIsh politicians have been
hired to knife the nationality of Ireland,
only to find the edge of their weapons
turned by the inde5tructible breast-plate
of Ireland's fidelity to the principles of
liberty. President Fitzgerald is in Du-
luth and his views could not be obtained.