New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-14
CHIEF OF THE JESUITS.
FATHER ANDERLEDY AND HIS Work.
CHANGES IN TIE ORDER.

The death at Florence of AntOnus Anderledy, the
twenty third General OF the Company OF Jesus.
is an event Of personal and reminiscent interest.
rather than of political ecclesiastical signit-
cance. Time was when it might have portended
vast changes and revolutionary movements in many
lands. That was when the Society Of Jesus was, as
President Dupm said, "a sword, of which the
lt is in Rome and the point in every quarter
Of the globe: and when as Maclulay said, there
was no region of the world, and no walk or
speculative or of active life in which Jesuts were
not TO be found, putting forth whole libraries
OF controversy, casuisty history treatises on
optics, Alcaic odes, editions of the Fathers, mad
iigos. canticles and lampoons In those days
they dictated the politics and diplomacy even OF
the countries from which they were eXiled; and
the policy of their Head was more important than
that OF any King or Emperor. "(e black-robed
men, wrote Beranger, whence come yOu9 From
meath the ground come, half FOX, half wolf;
you know why we were eXiled; we return. BE
silent then and send your children to our schooh-
Pope cursed us: in an hour he died.
Another blessed us, and his very bones to-day are
rcIiquares' " That was but song Of the adj
vanced Liberal, Bcranger. But it had the ring OF
truth for oden times. To-day, though, all is
changed, and in politics, in Europe, at any rate:
the hand of the Jesuit works no more
Father Anderedy was the last of three very
notable men who successfully to the General
ship Of the Order. The precise title is Superior
General OF the Congregation Of the Sacred Heart
the name Society of Jesus having been officially
abolished nearly century ago, though still USED.
ropul1rly rs much as ever. The first OF the three
was Jan Roothaan, IIoandcr, who was Superior
General from 1929 to 1888. The second was
Peter Beclx. Belgian, one Of the Gcst eXtraor-
binary men in the Order since LOyola himself He
it was who prevailed upon the Austrian Govern
ment to let the Order be re-establshei throughout
its domnious, even before he became it's General;
and he it was who practically forced Pope Plus
tx to recall the decree OF Punishment, welcome the
Order back TO Rome, and proclaim the two great
Jesuit dogmas OF the Immaculate Conc pion and
Fapa Infallibty. From 1853 TO 1884 he was
the General Of the Order, and on his death he
was succeeded by his Vcar-General, AntoDius
Andcrlcdy. This extraordinary was Swiss,
and in early life identified himself with the Jesuits.
lie was expelled with them from Freiburg, and
went into Piedmont: and on being again en-
PEELED, went thence to the United States and for
time was the parish priest of Green Bay, Wis
consn Returning to Europe he had long
career college professor, and in 1870 became
| assistant 10 Father Becky.
Father Anderledy much more man Of the
world than a priest. He was a born diplomat
Il
intrigue more imperccptibly than he o: carry it
on to a successful issue more quietly and unob-
servedly. lie worked through tn. most innocent
and unsupported agencies so that even in the
most important matters his hand was never seen
and his voice never heard His manners were
singuary sulve and polished. and yet there never
n If more 9utocratic will. II was indeed
perfect example Of the iron hand in the velvet
glove suaviter in mOdo. fortiter in re-. lie was.
too, man of great and varied accomplishments.
All the riches of science literature and art APP
peared to be treasured within his mind, ready for
instant use. He knew every important modern
language, and Frenci. English. German. Italian
and Spanish he spoke with the entire perfection
of native of one of those countries lie was
indeed q fitting man TO lead an order the most
cosmopolitan Of all.
The most cosmopolitan of all orders: and for
three and a half centuries. nearly. the most famous
and most feared and hated in the world. Ii has
been the avant-courier of the Church Militant;
prominently an aggressive fighting body. Why
not? 1t was founded by a soldier. a Spanish
cavalier one of the bravcst men of his time. lie
got wounded in an exploit of daredevil
herosm at the siege of Pampeluna. and
while Tuning and frcttiug in the hos
pital. took mp to read for amusement the
Lives Of the Saints Ii converted him: and
when he was able to get out again he forsook the
working Of killing mems bodies for that of saving
their souls; though often. say his enemies the two
processes went hand in hand. And on September
-, 1910. the order was officially recognized and
approved by the Pope-Paul Hin proclamation
beginning in fine martial style, Rcgimni mill
tantis Ecclesae. ~
Ii was not long before the order met with
determined autagonism. Within fifty years from
its establishment it was expelled from France by
Henry OF Navarro But that King was presently
,lad 10 call il back and make amends for the
expulsion few years later it was charged
with completely in the Kings assassination, and
its books were burned in public by the hang
man, though il managed 10 avoid being sent
again into exile. All through that century. tie
seventeenth. the JesuiS ruled France. Pascals
eloauence was directed against them III VAN, ana
when Father La ChaiSr in the confessional. al"
rec,ed Louis XIV to revoke the Edict OF Nantes
the King obeyed. In the neNt century they came
TO grief however, in 4 financial pane. Inc Jesuit
Father La Nallettc director OF great commercial
house at Martinique. failed. with liabilities OF
more than three million francs. This crash spread
ruin and dismay through France and the faria-
ment summary demanded that the order he
again expelled Reluctant though he was. LOUIS
XIV complied and eXicd the Jesuits IN o. Nor
was this all nor. indeed, more than 'he beginning
of strife Nine years aIer the Pope, 'leneh0
XIV, declared them 10 be trouDlcS Of nlaihlnu,
and by his famous Bull, Domiuus ac Re,lemptor
Noster,T decrccd the suppression ard abolition u
the order throughout the world. Bat this Bull
was no more eicacious than that other one
directed against n comet. The Society Of Jesus
still lived, underground. as Berangcr said wine
Clement XIV quickly died in agony. l%ranger.
in the poem Qustcd mtimates that thc Pope. was
poisoned by the Jesuts, rot unnatural siv
pcion, though certainly unfounded and nnirue.
But though they were innocent of his death Lev
made their power SO felt that his successor. nus
VII was glal TO revoke the hostile Bull. ana 10
recognize Them again as legal and laudapis