The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-17

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ccedines willis In Japan. ia peculiarly apro-
nos here. Sir Edwin claimed thar she
modern missionary does not sue-
coed in the Orient because OF hia failure 10
get in touch with the imaginative ana
temperament of the people among
whom no labors. The tho ough
knowledge OF human nature and adnp-
liability OF the Jesuits to their sur
roundings. at all times character
istie of the order, was timely Shown IN Tue
ferred TO. Nobili gained the confidence OF
the Hindoos by assuming the dress n
manners OF a Brahmin and by strictly re-
speeding the preiudices OF caste. The result
was complete success in his mission. hicci
spent twenty years in China ana actually
had SAVIOR faire enough to gain the friend
ship of the emperor, whose protection en-
abled him to extend his lnbors. This per-
ioa was also marked by the troubles of the
order in Venice and in England. IL was
expelled from the former and in the latter
country many members were executed ny
the government through sectarian pre-
judice.
North and South America each had an
early acquaintance with the Jesuits. They
began preaching to the Huron Indians In
1926 and assisted in the founding OF the
colony of Maryland eight years later. Most
readers are familiar with their extraordln-
airy career in Paraguay, where they practi-
cally converted a whole nation to Christ
ianity.
In the reign Of Charles III. they were
driven from Spain through political in
trigues directed against them, ana IN the
time of Frederick the Great they found
themselves exiled from almost every coun-
try in Europe except Prussia. In Russia
the Empress Catherine was strongly in
favor of protecting them. All this was
brought about through the influence of hos
tile rulers upon Pope Clement NV, who is-
sued a bill SURPRISING the order. In 1914
Plus VII. restored their status in the
church.
There seems to have been more than one
reason for the unprecedented action of the
Jesuits in holding their convention outside
of Rome this year. II used to be said that
there were two popes in the Catholic church
tho white and the black pope. tho for
mer being the recognized pontlf of the
vatican, the latter the head OF the Jesults.
The saying arose from the power and indie
pendent constitution Of the ~Jesuits, which,
while it certainly acknowledges the author
ity of the pope at Rome, makes the order
independent OF diocesan control. The local
bishops or archbishops do not interfere with
the order in any way. The constitution
also ~enioins the Jesuits from seeking ad-
vancement to high office. but if the Roman
pontiff oonstrains a Jesuit to accept pro-
motion he is supposed to obey. Among
the present cardinals at Rome tho
Jesuits are. indeed. represented with
considerable force. Cardinal Ledo-
chowski, the man who bearded Prince
in the height of his power. being o chief
Of the propaganda. His career is more
suggestive of the old-time Jesuit, who,
aggressive and fearless, was p~erpetually
coming into collision with the civil power.
L~edochowski. when a bishop in Germany,
refused to allow the German language 20
be taught in the Catholic s%eminaries. and
in 1874, under the iron ule of Bismarck,
he was imprisoned and heavily fined.
Time brings its compensations, for young
Emperor William is said to have been try
ing to conciliate L~edochewski in order to
secure for Germany a powerful friend at
Rome. Another influential jesuit at the
vatican is Father s.. M. Brandie, editor of
the Civilia Cattolica, who prepares each
morning a selection from the newspapers
which he knows the pope will be interested
in reading. He is in constant touch with
his holiness, who possesses a high re-
gard for him. Thus we see the Jesuits,
through certain distinguished representa-
tives, welding an influence near the vati-
can, and yet this fact does not alter theil
determination to break away from vatican
pressure. They have clearly shown thei,
hand by going to Spain this year to elect
their black pope. 1t is true that since the
death of Father Anderledv the Jesuit order
has been under the regency of Father Mar
tin, who is a S~paniard and naturally partia
to his native land. 1t was understood from
the first that he would be tho choice of thu
order for tho Office of general. But as al
ready stated, it was the foreign members
who raised the strongest protest agains
having the election in Rome and their chic.
objection was to the tendency to centraliz.
the administration of the order there. MOI
only that, bat the bulk of the funds, it il
claimed, are in the hands of the Italian
Jesuits.
Keen observers regard the present situa
ton as the beginning of the end, and pre-.
dict an active and decisive campaign be-
tween the Jesuits and the vatican. They
say that the order has long looked with sus
picion and disfayor upon the lnot easint
liberalism of vatican policy toward things
temporal, and that, consistently clingingt tt
the medieval tradition of the absolute au-
thority Of the church, thu JesuitS considel
that Leo XIII. is weakening against tn
outside pi essure of modern socialism ant
generally l~eveiing tendencies. 1t is also as
serted in some quarters that the Jesuits be
lieve, first in the a%scendancy of the church
and then in their own ascen6ancy within
the church over the pontitf. and that they ar
now actively at work to realize their j ca
conception of power. The lred!ctlonlst
claim that this policy, if carried to it's losi
cal conclusion, will result in the extinctio
of either thu Jesuits or the papacy. 1t
secretly rumoted that the new genera
Father Martin, has great influence wit
the queen regent of Spain, and that hi
object is to form a powe full alliance bs
tween the order and the Spanish throne
Clerical influence Mt the couit-the prize,
at the sovereiRn's elbow, ADVISING and sug
g~esting-this savors of the old regime of tn
middle ages. The revival of the old Srar
ish blue law of the time of Isabella is re
ported to be a part of Martins prograpm
Spain ia once more to be the theater of til
intringues of church and state and I'll
> lever with which the Jesults will seek
move the vatican in the direction of the
own desires. Extremists even SO go far
| to assert that the total elimination
Protestantism in Spain is coptemp plated
D Martin and his disciples, through the app
8 cation of the above mentioned drastic la
9 of Isabella H., which made it n pen
: ofense for any Spaniard to embrace al
= faith bat that Of Cutholicltv, and und
whose operations numbers of persons we
thrown into dungeons to laneuish the
. during the royal and clerical pleasul
Time alone can prove whether or not the
prophesies truly f~oreShadow events to con
THOMAS DoNNELLY
o No Change in the Strike.
: DENVER, Col, Oct. 16.-The situation