The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-03
GENERAL OF JESUITS.
Padre Martin, a French Priest,
Obtains the Honor.
THE CHOLERA INvADES HUNGARY
Cases and Deaths Reported in the varf-
Gus Cities of Continental Europe
The Disease Decreasing.

Loypoy, Oct. Padre Martin has been
elected Jesuit general. He is native OF
Bourges, of France, Of humble parentage,
and Al years of age. He is distinguished
theoiogian and scientist.
Padre Martin is the twenty fourth general OF
the society, succeeding Antonius Anderledy,
who recently died at Florence. Italy. The cor
rect title OF the office is supervisor general of
the congregation of the Sacred Heart"
The society was originally known as
the Company of Jesus. and was established
by Ignafius Loyala, who was afterwards can
onized on August Is, 1884, at Paris. He was a
soldier, a Spanish cavalier, one of the bravest
men OF his time. He got wounded In an exploit
OF daredevil heroism at the siege Of Pampeluna
and. while Tuning and frettihg in the
hospital, took up to read for amuse-
ment the "Lives of the Saints" It
converted him, and when he was able to get
ont again he forsook the work OF killing men Q
bodies for that of saving their souls; though
often, say his enemies, the two processes went
hand in hand. And on september y, l5t0. the
order was officially recognized and approved by
the pope-Paul Hin a proclamation, begin
ming in fine martial style. "Regimini militantis
Ecciesia.' It was not long before the
order met with determined antagon-
ISM. Within fifty years from its
establishment It was exgelled from
France by Henry OF Navarro. But that king
was presently glad to cali 1t back and make
amends for the expulsion A few years later it
was charged with completely in the kings assas-
sination, aud its books were burned in public
by the hangman, though it managed to avoid be-
ing sent again into exile. All through that
century, the seventeenth, the Jesuits ruled
France. PascaVs eloquence was directed against
them in vain. and when Father La Chaise, in
tho confessional, directed Louis XIV. to re-
woke the edict OF Nantes the king obeyed. In
the next century they came to grief however. in
a financial panic. The Jesuit Father Velletfe,
director of great commercial house in Mar
Unique, failed, with liabilities of more than
100000 francs. The crash spread ruin and
dismay through France. and the parliament
summarily demanded that the order be again
expelled. Reluctant though he was, Louis
XIV. complied, and exiled the Jesuits in
1894 Nor was this all, nor indeed more
than the beginning of strife. Nine years
later the pope, Clement XIV, declared them to
be troublers of mankind, and by his famous
bull, "Dominus &C Rederaptor Nester," decreed
the suppression and abolition of the order
throughout the world. But this bull was no more
eificacious than that other one directed against
a comet. The Society Of Jesus still lived under
ground, as Beranger said, while Clement
XIV. quickly died in agony. Beranger. in the
poem quoted, intimates that the pope was
poisoned by the Jesuits, a not unnatural sus.
PiStoh, tHSuRu CeItainly uuiOunueJ ana Cu.
true. But though they were innocent of his
death, they made their power SO felt that
his successor, Plus VII, was glad to revoke
the hostile bull, and to recognize them
again as a legal and honorable organ.
izaton. He made them, however, take q new
name, "The Congregation of the Sacred Hear"
Even in this they conquered, for the new
name WAS soon forgotten, and they be-
came known as of old, and as to this day,
as "The Society of Jesus" Some coun-
tries, it is true, declined at first to follow
the pope's example and allow their re-establish-
ment But one by one they yielded, most Of
them largely through the Vaccinations OF Father
Beckx and Father Anderledy, two of the most
noted Of the generala Pope Plus TX. again looked
on them wife disfsvor, and In lsiS drove them
out of Rome. But they soon returned in
triumph, and thereafter tbs rebeliious pontiff
was the creature of their will There will not
be any further such conflicts And this is due
chiefly to a change in the order itself, at
least an ostensible change. One of the last
acts of Father Becks was to issue a pro-
nunciamento to tho effect that the order was
devoted exclusively TO spiritual interests and
was indifferent to political affairs. Father An.
derledy accepted this as the policy of his adj
ministgation. and thus 1t became permanently
fixed upon the orier.l