Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-01-28

makes with less insistance his appeal
TO the English for the evacuation OF
Egypt, and the Turkish demands seems
To have become OF secondary import
ance. Not so, however, with the utter
ances which issue frem the Vatica.
The incessant activity OF Leo Mi,
Is an indication OF his sense that he is
entrusted with a noble mission, which
IL Is his duty TO prepare, even II he
himself cannot freely carry it out. OF
late years, his feeling toward King
Humoert aud Italy has changed. To
the former he Is hostile, but ne thinks
that the latter is kept obedient 10 the
monarchy by main force, weighed down
as IL is, by its financial emoarrass-
ments and crushed under the load OF
the enormous armament imposed upon
II. 80, turning his face towards Repub-
llcan France, he points out u the Ital-
lans, that Whenever they wish To adopt
the republican form of government,
they may count upon him as a trusty
adviser, indeed as an ally whose pres
tlge is coterminous with the world.
But the so much TO be dreaded hostility
OF Leo Nil takes In not only Italy, but
the triple alliance as well. He does not
pardon Francis Joseph for having ac-
cepted civil marriage. The emssaries
OF Leo Nil. have tried to induce the
Austrian Emperor to set his
race sternly against this change,
showing him Rlmpses OF possible com
pensations both for him and his two
allies, al the expense of the Swiss CON
federation. So that when Leo NH.
saw that mixed marriages were hence
forth TO be tolerated In Hungary Fran
els Joseph became almost As bitter an
OBJECT OF his resentment as King Hum
bert. de encouraged the rapproche-
ment OF Russia and Of France. Nay
more, the high Spanish clergy is a con-
slant visitor at the Vatican; there, IL is
encouraged, thence IL carries away spe-
clal instructions, and Leo Nil. will
think himself happy and glorious, il
he succeeds in bringing Spain into the
orbit OF France aud Russia, and, thus
opposing triplice to triplice, deals at
once blow To protestant Germany and
protestant England; isolates Italy from
its two sisters of France and Spain; as
sembles in the Mediterranean the
forces OF the new triple alliance, against
England and Italy; and thus forces
either the Italian people to shake off
the monarch, or the monarchy TO com
pound with the papacy.
Towards France everybody knows
the sentiments of Leo. MIL, the solic-
itude, almost his preference, indeed, for
everything which has TO do with French
interests. He was the first, when the
whole of monarchical Europe looked
askance at the young republic Dusily
laying its foundations beside the an
cient thrones, TO recognize this country
and TO protect IL. He did not hesitate
In his new policy either before the OBJ
servations OF the monarchies, which
saw their own security menaced, nor
before the furious outburst OF the
French royalists; and TO all the prayers,
all the insults, even all the threats, he
opposed this phrase, 80 admirable 10 its
touching simplicity: "L'Eglise du Christ
ne s'attache qua un seul cadavre,
celui-la meme qui est attache la
croix."
The Panama scandal, which broke
out at the beginning OF the year, and
which FOR a moment menaced the Re
public, had no more effect upon the
Pope's resolution than the excited
speeches OF the royalists. He was per-
fectly awere, that behind this so.cal led
campaign 10 the interest OF morality