The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-06-17
EMPEROR AND POPE.
WILLIAM AND LEO HAD AN IN
TERESTINO TALK
The Pope Asked to Help the German
Emperor Pass the Army BIli-A Cor
respondent Gives Their Exact Conver'
sation.

New YORK, June 0.-Under date OF
Rome, May 20, and over the non dc
plume "lnnominato, there Is printed
mere a letter of highest interest. IL
opens thus:
Now that the lights are out and
that calm has succeeded the agita-
ton OF the imperial festivals in Rome,
IL becomes more easy and more in
structive to gather in the lessons and
the results connected with the visit OF
VII lam III, to the Vatican. In vain
the quIrinal bedizened itself in
all its tinery; the public min
was conc entratcd upon that 1T
tie modest chamber where tho
lamp which lights the labors of
Leo NH. burns until the middle o;
the night. Instinctively, and without
understanding the drama that was GO
ing on there, the people had the con-
viction that the Emperor and the Pope
were about TO enter into courteous
struggle to decide the turn which events
must take in Europe, What hap.
pened? What did the two masters of
the political and the religious idea say
To each othei?"
Then follows n carefully guarded
record of what occurred during the
Emperor's visit TO the Pope.
when the two interlocutors were
left alone they began to touch upon
political questions. With in, ontesta-
BILE skill the Emperor planted himself
upon the ground where their views
would most easily meet.
1T was announced in advance that
the Emperor would endeavor to eXci.e
distrust in the ropes mind against
revolutionary and socialistic France
and TO draw him into the orbit of the
triple alliance. William III. planted
himself upon this ground with an
ability full of tact and expediency.
THE papacy, said he, lis great
conservative force which certainly
ought t. tender its aid to the monarch
ial cause and to the pacific intentions
of the triple alliance.
1.-THE Pope, with n great deal of
finesse, understood the allusion and
replied that in testifying to his inter-
est in the legitimate aspirations of
modern nations he intended TO raise
no politic;S question.
~ he head of the church as SUCH"
said he, has no prediction in regard
to political institutions and must ev-
erywhere enjoin the Catholics to place
themselves upon the constitutional
ground of their respective countries.
Then his holiness remarked that
there were certain monarchies just as
hostile to the church as certain re-
publics; for instance, the Italian mon
archy. which took advantage of the
strength derived from the triple ALI
ance to make upon the church war
of continual veXations and insults
I'm this way the thrust was parriod
with grace and skill. But in turn the
Emperor, discovering the arricre
pensee of the pontiff assured him
that the triple alliance had no
intention to encourage tia Y to
adopt an anti-religious policy. lie in
tended, he said. 10 speak to his friend
Humbert upon this subject and it ap-
pears that he did so the same evening
But that was the extent of the initia-
tive, which had been attributed to
him, of precise project for concllia-
tion between theV atican and the
Quirinal,
without the slightest doubt Leo
NH. will continue without modi6ca'
ton the general lines of his policy"