The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-31
CARDINAL CALM BERT.
mrs DEATH UPSET THE SCHEMES
or mi TRIPLE ALLIANCE.


e~otiated with bismarck for the Aboii
tion OF the May Laws and Led Him q
C.no...-Hi. Relations with the Pope
ROME. May 1.-THE unexpected death Of Car
dinal Galimberti Is, from the point Of view o.
the Papacy and of foreign politics, one OF thu
most important events of this end of the centu
ry. 1t is not n man that disappears, 1t Is a world
an idea. a policy that departs. One OF the
most devoted and most disintercsted servant;
OF Pope Leo XIII. said In company: IN
seems clear that God favors the birth and de.
velopment Of a better future, since he takes
away from the old parties their most bril-
liant mouthpiece, their Mnzarin, Cardinal
Galimberti."
Salons. embassies, the foreign colonies,
the court Of Rome, Lne Vatican. are all talk
ing about this. Cardinal Rampolla, who
has suffered in silence n m~artydom coming
from every form Of resistance and OF In
trigue, feels that all symDathies and all liv-
ing forces are turning toward him, which
his rival. the celebrated man iust dead, had
disputed with him with astonishing mastery.
Leo XIII. himself, who has made use of Cardi-
nal Galimberti as OF q man of action, seems
surprised at the great place which the man
whom he bad attached TO his fortune occu-
pied. The language OF tho newspapers at
tached to the dynasty. and OF the organs Of
the Triple Alliance, has betrayed the dead
ma. With consummate art Cardinal GAL
inherit had rcgained the favor of certain
French and Roman groups. On his deathbed
even he made his friends repeat that he loved
France, that in spite Of his relations with the
Quirinal he was not striving for hat sort OK
Cancellation of which men sought to make
him the inspirer and the defender.
Galimberti no sooner was dead than the
of Vienna, Budapest, Munich,
Cologne. Berlin, the FrdnktDrter Zettung, the
K6lnische Zeitun1, the ANgemeine Zefttng, the
Fremdenblatt of the Ballplatz the Pesther
Lloyd, the Post, speak Of the man who has
gone as the centre of opposition to the Pope
and to Cardinal Rampolla, as the efficient and
enlightened representative of the Triple ALI
ance at Rome. THE death of Cardinal Gal
imberti,' Gays, for instance, the Fdnhfurtcr
Zeitung II quote this organ because the Zeit-
ung, being connected With no party, states
facts impartially), zig an event of the first i'm
Usually when a Cardinal dies 1t
makes no political impression. It is not so
this time. Cardinal GalimberJi tried to group
around him all the living forces of the Triple
Alliance to build up and strengthen Qefesti-
gem the centre of opposition to the policy Of
XIII. and OF Cardinal Rampolla. His
death means disaster for the..Triple Alliance.
The centre will not be formed again. There. is
no one who can take his place. Cardinals
Kopp and Schlauch are too far away to play
the part"
The Pope knows these impressions. Every
An official from the office OF the Sec
rotary of State brings to the Secretary a sum-
maay or a translator ans. ~ rH OF the articles t IL the
polla, when he goes to his daily audience, trans
to the Pope his inf9rmati3n. In spite of
bly, found that friends are indiscreet. and that
the Triple Alliance has shown too clearly
great hopes, This was nothing less than to
prepare a c%onclave in which, under the direc-
ton of Cardinal Galimberti, a Pope would be
noble ideal of the present Pontiticate.
The deceased was one Of the most fasci-
in Rome, oil family coming from Bergamo,
. brilliant student, professor of history at
The Propaganda, where he left his mark, editor
extraordinary eeclesiastieal affairs; a deli;
he principal rim part from ?ss5 to fs s pi after
hat nuncio at Vienna, and finally, Cardinal in
Iune, 1893 Luigi Galimberti has been q
a marvellous diplomat. fertile in
a man of ACTION who, under the
At moments the glory OF a real statesman,
md who. on his return to Rome from Vienna,
p pontiScat as n IT seF S'hi tas the i%Rt,'e esntf 9f z id easu os
.he present reign might be bafied. His his
.orical studies taught him the science Of his
of solutions by compromises. the
Of men. and contempt for them,
2e fought like a partisan with merciless
lash, always. gay, good humored. never de-
constantly on the watch for .oppor-
an Incompatible manager of Ideas
md of men. AS "A diplomat there never was
negotiator more ,adroit, more seductive,
more wary. A reader into mems souls, he
lau the deepest and most acute psyclOlOCi- |
insight; He Owed into hearts and brought
the surface an exact description Of them.
The gift of brilliant conversation. a knowl-
ny face, a delicate, exquisite f.attery like an
oriental perfum,; quick and SPARKLING. rep
Discrimination and seif-possession,
re was provided with all these qualities. He
lad what Italians prize above all things. fur
70 translated, or. II II is, there Is added t. 1t
oms wrong meaning; II is only, in the classic
roper Specification, its beauty. The dead man
the Cardinal de Retz OF the court of Leo
,ii :, like him nj he carried AR Edo on y, neEotiati9ns With
and dispensed too much with the
contact Of the great streams of history
vas born three centuries too late. he should
acted between the time of Nicholas ".
he end Of the seventeenth Century. There
Ie would have shown all his ability. He was
the diplomat of salons and of
ourts: In this period of democracy he was
he contemporary of the kings secret. as our
elightful ancestors OF the last century
allied II. Those are the limitations of his
mobile and variegated talents. He did not
owing TO the lack OF deep study and
o political associations. the deep and irreslst-
movement which is at work, IN this
ncient Papacy In this 2,o00-year-old Church,
nd which Is preparing for Rome one OF
he most astounding social and religious
enaissance'. His mind, long ago made up.
ias overse to these transformations. I'm
~oubtedly Leo Kill, 10 whom he owed all
is fortune. enrolled him among his troops
nd made use OF aim In carrying out HIS
ieas. But ho kent open a thousand back
Oors through which he hoped To escape
ack into the past.
The Gulminatine, point In his career extends
rom the month of August, 1885, to the month
( May, 1887. 1t was the time when Won Bis
lnrck felt the need of buying at any price
cace with Rome. Earseeing and intuitive,
he ex-ChanCellor wished for the cooperation Of
he Papacy with his general policy. To isolate
rance, To draw the Holy See into the circle
the Austrian-German alliance, To break in
, fragments the protectOrate OF France in the
to scatter and destroy its last power. of
by detaching her from the pnpacy or
her on bad terms with it, to play the
atican against the Quirinal ana the Quiri-
al AGAINST the Vatican by successive prom
and perhRps even TO reconcile them some
ay,, In order "a, give n solid basis TO tho mon