St. Paul daily globe., 1891-10-23
Recent Demonstrations Said
: to Have Been Planned by
Officials.
Complete Resume of the Pres
ent Situation and Posi-
BILE Results.
Talk of Compromise Finds No
Favor Whatever With the
Pontiff.

will leave Rome or not. He is not sat
lsfied with tine response of Austria, the
only Catholic country from which he
expected official interference in his be-
half, and which has rested content with
an assurance from Italy that the next
papal election would be protected from
Italian interference. What the pope
hoped for was vigorous assertion i'm
favor OF the temporal power of the pa
pacy,
This failing. the pope is at least half
resolved to leave Rome, as the most
striking protest that he can present
against the existing state of affairs. The
cardinals, most of whom are old men
and comfortably settled in Rome, are
said to have given almost unanimous
advice against removal, and have so far
exercised restraining influence upon
the pontiff, coupled with his feeble
health.
The Changed Conditions.
Interviews with eminent cardinals
who are in a position to know all the
secrets of political opinion at the Vati-
can confirm the accuracy of the state
mentS in regard to the feeling at the
Vatican touching the demonSt1a alton of
French pilgrims at the Pantheon. One
of the most influential cardinals, a
prelate who is an intimate friend of the
pope. and in every way thoroughly
qualified to express opinions on the sub
lect, said, i'll substance:
Our position in Rome has undergone
radical change, as result of the
events and of the disorders of Oct. =.
The investigation which we have made
into that incident has proved that the
demonstration. justified under a chin
erlcal pretext. was prepared and
arranged in advance by the government
and Menotti Garibaldi against the
Radico-Republican demonstration of
Nice and against the pope. The king,
the ministers and the Liberal Mon
archical party were fearful Of the con-
sequence which might arise from the
alliance of the republic with the Radi-
cal-RepublicanS.
''Besides we also know that the triple
alliance has been informed of this game,
and that it approved this manifestation
as reply to the fetes at Nice, and as
direct attack upon the pope and the pill
grims. 1t was premeditated affirma-
ton of monarchical right against the
French republic and against the Statu
Quo at Rome.
The Italian government sent to all the
mayors circular letter in order to add
weight to the manifestation. We have
received the most pungent details in re-
gard to the reception given to these cir
cularS. Many of the mayors were en-
barrassed, and did not know how to re-
ply; we are in possession of several
exemplaries Of these conf Dental let
ters."
Reasons for Itaiy's Action.
''But why has so large a part of the
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these outrageS upon French pilgrims"
1.-The answer is that the government
wished to,give to the world the impress
sion that Rome is opposed to the pope,
and that Italy will not have any recon
element with France or any amicable
understanding between the Vatican and
the French republic. The demonstra-
tion was the prolongation or the result
of the republican and democratic policy
of the pope. You cannot imagine the
anXieties and fears of our liberal and
official world in face of the isolation of
the holy see. Our liberals had expected
that the religious war Waged in France
would pre- vent all rising of opinion in
this country, and that it weuld result
sooner or later in violent rupture with
the holy see.
Since the famous toast of Cardinal
LavigeIie and the demonstrations of
CronStadt. all our official world, mon-
archical, liberal and sectarian, has been
living in a state of trouble. 1t felt its
edifice, so laboriously erected, to be
cracking and threatening ruin. All
illusions, were vanishing and then came
the scandals of October 2.
''You may be astonished at the folly
of the government of the liberals in
driving away the pilgrims when it was
tn int ~
and because this source of revenue for
Rome and for Italy is now ruined in
spite of its economic decadence. But it
is necessary to go to the bottom of the
matter; 1t is necessary to know that Of
ficial Italy decided TO teach a lesson, to
show that she has made up her mind to
admit all eXceSSeS and to go to all eX-
tremeS; and that, far from adapting
herself 10 the new situation. she would
prefer assassination, the exiling of the
pope aud the piliage of the vatican.
The P0ntiff Understood.
''Such is the threat contained in that
crisis, and in those blows from sticks
bestowed upon the pilgrims, apd, let it
be added, Leo XIII perfectly upder-
stood the meaning Of what it was in
tended to convey to him. The'po
seid, referring to the affairs: Il am no
lOHScE pIlSOHGTa ALL hostage. L
am threatened with exile and assassin
alton if | will not capitulate before the
enemy"
The pope saw correctly. The man
ifestatiohs in Rome signify that official
Italy desires to place scandal between
the pope and the faithful: official Italy
desires to sequestrate him, to restrict
his liberty, and declares, by this. that,
1t the pope does not yield, he will be
killed, or that he viii be driven from
Rome. 1t is Rome closed to the pill
grims or the pope expelled from Rome.
Official Italy sees with apprehension
the progress which the pope is making,
not only in the world at large, but In
Rome itself,
Throughout the summer our popu-
lation has been looking forward to the
pilgrima geS as if they were the tenn
poral messiah, spreading broadcast both
gold and silver. But, when the Liberal
party felt the popular current spread
ing, when they saw people frat
ernizing with the pilgrims, when
they found themselves, above all, con-
fronted with the ineofnparable and un-
mistakable manifestations OF popularity
exhibited towards the holy father, they
were afraid. The scandals were not
only acts of violence; they were princi-
pally acts of weakness and of despair.
The population of Rome is in mourning.
Everybody regrets those Pantheon incl
dents, but nobody has the courage to
brave the anger Of the government