Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-01-31
A SLAV DELUGE FORETOLD.
Pope LeO'S Views Oh the Russian
Advance
In the East and West-End Of TIE
British Empire at Hand England
Now Stands Alone The Slavic
Invasion Accords with the Law
Of Progress.

of Progress.
Core pondent New York sun.
ROME January o. Leo Kill, anxious
with good reason, about the Oriental
drama. had summoned Mgr. Azaiian the
Armenian Patriarch. 10 Rome 10 consult
him about what was to be done. The pre-
late had to put off his departure re had
gone 70 VI. Cambcn. ,he French Ambassa-
dor, and introducer of Christians 10 tire
Sultan. and had asked him to request the
sovereign for permission to take the Jour
ney. The diplomat said to the Pa l4arch'
do not so. Very serious things viii nap
pen here within two months. ana 4Out
presence may be necessary on the sh"iSa
Of the BOspOrus." New as little reasSui
ing comes from all the centres OF turopeah
diplomacy. England especially, which ca
r!es on
ITS MYSTERIOUS COURSE
at Paris. where she invites TO an agree
ment against Berlin: at Vienna. Whete Sile
ventures TO pronounce the big phIasc'
"quadruple alliance" and at Rome. MheIV
she weaVes quietly her traditional Wep' -
Is undeniable that Europe has rs eyes itA
ed on the m!narcts Of Saint SOPHIA ma
admirable jewel OF art and of clViilZa 'ioh.
Russia has thought that the hour HA33
come 10 make a forced march on the IoaN
Of the East and OF the Vest. and. suppoI...-
ed by France. and cOurted by GethllIly
she wishes. like the Piedmont ot 800. 20 10
10 the bottom of things. Hcn'" "
fears. / do not believe that there MH Li, ~. D
complications The extra cOntlneHl"t
agreement of France. Of Germany ana ok
Russia is a sufficient aegis OF peace. ~
England persists i'm her underground WotN
she has right 10 do 20. IL Is her liHel't-
ancc OF centuries, which is perhaps
THE STAKE IN THE GANB
and she has 80 often heapl muttered near
her ears sinister comparisons with Venice
and with Rome that her anxiety j., or VIII
seem natural The car Is at the prcseHl
moment the god OF the East ana VI. ildl4o
tauN Is his prophet. There are more ItCeisI
fears which the events in COustantnopie
have aroused. These are the peSSimls &c
forebOdings OF great many tdtHu,tS
groups a Rome and elsewhere. II Is an
Orcutals who around the vatican ledu
the attack against the prepOnder2nce OF
Russia at COnst1ntnOplo and M the Last
They keep repeating that If the Franco
Russian alliance takes expression against
the Sultan r. Will logically bring about inc
fall of Catholicism i'm the Levant. IL Is a
law OF history that when one power rises
another falls and this power OF unity j.
exercised on the
TOTALITY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS.
In physics il is called The law of cndos-
mosis and Of cxosmosis Hitherto the
Catholic adhrrents I'm almost equal pro-
portions, the latter under the protection oil
France, the direction of the Holy See anu
the support of the propagation OF the talth
the former under the always ehcaclous
and wide awake protection or the Holy
Synod ana of the Russian government.
As i'm the East the religious question IS Inc
vital point around which national and po-
litical affairs turn, and this equilibrium
has an international and diplomatic I'M
pOr,anco. When Leo Kill sent out his ar
dent ana lively appeal for the union OF the
churches Russia was rot stirred in vain by
II. and that natural uneasiness is perhaps
not the least of the reasons for the quick
mess with which the car handles the SICK
man a Constantinople. To-day
THERE Is ANXIETY
in the Catholic patriarchates and at the
Propaganda. If Russia does violence TO
the bride of the BOsporus II she plays first
fiddle in the European concert; If France
and Germany. dragging after them the
other power. form halo around the head
of Russia. the prestige of the minarets OF
Moscow viii be blended with the light Of
Saint Sophia. and from thiS fusion Will
spring a glory TO which Orlentals are sem
stivc. as are all the weak and all who are
linden the protection Of force or OF AFRO
gance. Guicciardini tavsnt ;He- fTahans
OF the sixteenth century that worship of
the strong is the a y g of politics. No
prophet has taught this wisdom TO the
Levlntines. but undoubtedly IL is because
danger for the Catholics. perhaps for
Frances protectOrate. he Crlmean war
arose from quarrel about the holy places
In Palestine. has not the hOur for q retail
alton come for the Greek cross? Is IL not
at any rate a formidable dyke against the
Roman tide OF reunion which was already
aroUsng
SUCH BRILLIANT HOPES.
I'm the presence Of this splendor of the Rus
sian flag. viii not the schismauc Greeks
and all those who obey. an ant-Roman
power feel their hearts beat higher. and
will not the power OF attraction be hostile
TO the Catholics?
Such are the complaints Of those oppos-
ed 10 the French at Rome. who curse tho
Franco-Russian alliance. whence all these
evils will arise: the reasoning Of the Pro-
paCanda which does not love the Office Of
the Secretary Of state: the anxiety Of the
friars of the East who make the sign of
the cross at the interlacinC OF the eagles
OF France and Russia. ] was present the
other day AZ a very animated conversation
between an Armenian priest and a French
political man. You are simpletons." eX-
claimed the Oriental. gcSticulating Wild
~: the Russian Is more terrible for MS
than the Turk. the Russian means the
triumph Of the >chism. the crushing Of the
adherents of Catholicism. the abolition of
the prOtCctordto. that rampant Of Rome
and of France I'm the Levant. Russia will
take everything and France will lose the
nostion she has held there for centuries"
This
CRY FROM THE HEART
Is the substance of an the lamentat tons
against tho Frlnc1-Russian alliance and
against combined action OF The Continental
mowers i'm Cons,antiuople FOR the profit Of
Russia.
These arguments lack neither weight
nor influence Simple. logical ideas. like
platitUdcs. have a strong life and are hard
TO Kill. Any one can understand them and
can dress them up iu tho shape that suits
his brain. I'm politics on the diplomatic
checker board the Same phenomenon does
not hold good. international life. which is
complex varied composed OF succcs i've
layers. is often made up OF contradictions.
II Is not an ncliu plane which drags
down an forces and an weights: % Is a
plane surface. where the most varied cur
rents. especially parallel currents have
play without meeting or injurug each 9th
or. Leo Mi. and France 10 not share
these terrOr- which spring from supposi-
lions. The Quai 'Orsay has taken it's pre-
cautions and the POpc has not givDr.
lightly the sanction Of thc tiara TO the
marriage OF scismauc Russia with ronuh-
licau France. 7 even believe that the Holy
Father would look without terror on
THE PEACEFUL EXPANSION
OF Russia. What nowadays constitute
the religious and civil originality Of Rus
STA is it's traditional character its ataVism
its frontiers OF almost Asiatic power The
dav when this immense ocean shall over
flow it's waters mingling with those Of the
West would lose their essential properties
Just as the victory OF Sedan bv spreading
Prussia over Germany and Europe has
taken the strength out OF the centuries
old power or Iuthrrauism through the n--
ting OF the Young empire 20 the new con-
diiiOns Of the mixed state. so we believe