New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-05

| Austrian archdukes and Burgundian dukes VINO
were ali loyal till death. as sons OF the Catholic
Church. to the honor Of God. to the increase OF
the faith. and to the salvation OF souls: and SO.
pursuant to their example till now nave ny
! Gods help, lived as II beseemeth a good Eli
peror so to do But since 1t has now become
patent to all that monk has been so dece'eu
by his own opinions as to put himself IN OPP
position to the whole Of Chrislendom. ana I"
maintain that those who lived thousand years
ago. as well as those Of the present day. nave
been in error. we nave decided 10 spare neither
kingdoms. lands peace. body, blood me- HUI
spirit in getting this matter set TO rest
| From the day on which this note OF warning
was sounded the history of PROFESSIONALISM III
Spain was the history of Charles V. He was
| wise monarch in many ways, ana eSpecia'S
where questions of pure satccraft we're con-
cerned but in identifying the welfare OF the
Church with the welfare Of the state he con-
| fused his own mental processes and saw things
| I'm a strange light Then all his bgotry. all his
Intellectual incapacity came to the surface, ana
we see him working with holy zeal in the eXter-
mination Of ideas that never could have done
his State the slightest harm. His was a cruel
| nature to begin with. Religious intolerance
drove him to deeds characterized by a truly dev-
| ish malignity. There is pathetic contrast
! between the cdicts If his failing years and the
| beautiful environment in which they were medi-
| tated and framed To the monastery OF san
Yustc he retired with every circumstance or
humility and devotional fervor. History mas
recorded the details Of his abdi'ation TN Octo-
Der 81, 800. in the palace at BRUSSELS. he handed
over his power and maGnifi'ence IN the Nethcr-
lands to Philip. In the fol,w wing year he re-
signed Spain to Ferdinand and though. in l3o'
ne still retained the style and potentialiteS or
| Emperor. he withdrew 20 san Yuste. in one oil
the most beautiful valleys of Estramadura. with
feeling that tn" rest of his life would be ded-
icatcd to thoughts far from the pomp Of courts
and the ambitions Of 4 statesman. He might
| as well have talked of leaving his head outside
| the walls Of hs retreat He might pray and
| work at mechanical pursuits. IL might tend his
| garden and go shooting in tn" neighboring for
| csis but his heart still with the govern
| ment As Herr Wilkcn, reminds us. h. contn-
ued to correspond with the rulers Of Europe and
with his family. his hand was potent in the
| moulding OF Spanish policy and when he heard
from Joanna that congregations Of heretcs had
been discovered in Valadolid and Seville all his
old energy returned in redcublcd force. "Hc
who hcstatcs is lost" h. wrote to Philip. to
Joanna. to the Grand InquiSitor and to every
else IN authority zone must act pitiicssly. he
wrote even as they had been obliged to do in
| the Netherlands. If the proper means were not
used now at the commencement of the trou-
Bile neither the King nor anybody else would
have power 10 do ii later. He did not know
whether it would b. sufficient TO do what was
usual in such cases. namely. that the culprit.
having received punishment should be vouch-
! safci pardon on confessing his guilt repent
ing and Pleading for mercy. II liberated. would
he not be cmbtter'd by his punishment. and
encouraged 10 do the same harm again out or
revenge and with he dignity of one who could
boast Of having sur red? In cases Of such
mischievous import he did not consider that
the determination OF the evil could he effected
| by mercy"
| So the King lived and died. bounding the
Protcstants with a passionate enthusiasm that
Philip adopted and cultivated with as eager
| spirit Yet what was il that their victims de-
| manded- AS the late Archbishop of Dublin
tiuntly put it, nothing but Gods Holy Word.
| The last touch is given 10 the tragedy of this
campaign of persecution 10y the sympathy shown
| for it by the people At large The idea is apt
to spread that in times like the sixteenth cent
ury IN Spain a powerful monarchy allied to
powerful Church. could keep "A whole nation in
subsection by the direst means. The truth H.
| that Charles had almost the full support of his
| people ignorance made a good soil for the
| charges against the Protestants flung broadcast
| by the priests Inundated though they were
| by the Inquision. and hating it. on the whole.
with profound hatred the natives Of the penin-
| sula were nevertheless persuaded that hereto
| had somewhat of the nature IT a ravening beast.
| and that it was the duty of every man to bring
| him. II possible to his doom. Hence an auto
| da-ft was witnessed not only by splendid CONS