The sun., 1897-12-06
BULow BULLIES LEO XIII.
a1RNAN1's EFFORTS TO TURN TIM
PoRB AGAINST FRANoE.

Manoe-Importancs or the French Elections
-Dreyrus Afsir an Election Man1uvre.
RoME, Nov. 2l.-Horr Won Bnlow's visit TO
the Vatican. though In accordance with the do.
mands of diplomatic etiquette. 10 strikinRly
noticeable on account OF tho general condition
Of Affairs. Tho knowing ones whose business 1t
Il to interpret that untranslatablc world of the
Vatican assert that the head Of German diplo-
macy threatened the Pope with retaliation II ho
continued TO show favor to republican France
and schismatio Russia" / find 1t difficult to
believe that . "man Of manners" as they
used to say In tho seventeenth century,
has spoken in such terms to q sovor-
oigh. Tho days have gone by whom Louis
xiv. treated Innocent XII. with brutality or
tho Austrian Prime Minister Kaunitz received
Clement xiv. clad in his dressing gown. But
n such stories have spread without contradic-
zion. 1t 10 proof, O clear Indication Of state Of
public feeling to which such disputes would not
seem strange. The Duo do Nivernais once
wrote TO the Duo do Choiseul that 1t was neo-
essary to use fright and intimidation to infu-
onoo the Italians. Count Arnim. In the PAM
phlet Der Nuntius Kommt" advised fully as
high.handed procedure toward tho court Of
Rome, and every ono knows with what pride
Bismarck treated Leo XIII. at tho beginning Of
the difficult negotiations with the Vatican hav.
ing for their object tho restoration OF religious
peace in Germany. A former ambassador to tho
Quirinal. q confldant and adviser of King Hum.
bert a. good talker as Rivarol, as expert In
stage effects and in intimidation as Cardinal do
Retx, Herr Won Bnlow. has closely studied Rome,
that world unlike any other. that extraordinary
town where all extremes meet, where tho
"game Of this world" as Pope Julius II. called
It. acquires tho most intense excitement. Am.
bassadors to the Quirinal yield easily to tho
temptation Of going astray in the city Of tho
Vatican. When they are sure footed, as Is Herr
Won Bnlow. they venture into 1t with that pleas
ure which the unknown arouses In domineering
natures.
At present the Vatican Is tho observatory Of
the highest rank-tho place. according to Jules
Ferry's phrase. where "the most politics 10
made" Under Leo Kills thin and delicate
hand, that hand at once leonine and feline. tho
Papacy has become once moro ON the general
field marvellous instrument an incompatible
power OF projection. When Herr Won Bnlow
was in charge Of tho German Embassy to the
King. he preferred to look toward the Pope. He
sought the friendship of cardinals and prelates.
He set foot joyfully on that movable soil where
all the interests Of this world conve ergo When in
order to curb the Centre and to make ready for
the conclave, William II. appointed as Chan
cellor of the Empire Prince Hohenlohe. brother
Of the Cardinal of the same name. it was Herr
Noh puio" WIZ handBOu tuo lHJTlRuo mArTleu
to an italian wife. he played in this world of
soft and slippery windings as the halcyon sports
on the crest of the waves. He could DO seen in
the parlors of tho late Cardinal Hohenlohe He
keptup close relations with all tho upper eccle-
Moses. of diplomacy. looking v with SiI: creed sd
o the TO s ns op hs na and
Zeal mess was boing cooked up ui by ~ the Sg %ati
can and the Congregations; to learn the news
SeCFAfaryahin Tn nj ha
were starting at the Vatican and are making
that Leo Kills successor should be a Pope "a:
to the Triple Alliance that Immense diDlomiatio alto
and military engine that is visbly going to
Since the diplomat has become Minister,
h9Eeyer. ideas have taken wings; they soar and
Europe is ehahging every moment before our
eyes; The policy Of inclined inclined planes is com.
arc rising while the Triple Alliance goes down.
In the history of nations, in the intertwining Of
ss sna Of q
on hsop II That ah Of Tx % hSs noe
TRANSFORMATION fayorable to the siav Currents;
the empire Of the Haps6urgs secs the once un:
amid scandals. italy IS losing blood from iy eVery
her. England boycotts Berlin. The proclama-
tion of the Franco. Russian alliance at Peterhof
powers of France and OF Russia Does It not
geem as though after having attained the
ns tSe Rat leads G ths shores
And the Pope is one of the agents in this trans
formation, by means Of the "adhesion" in
France. OF the pacifcaton in Poland, of the
strong Tepplsion he feels for tho reactionary side
KIT IS alive. %itSsS full iif:. h Beneath his his
power its elasticity. It's memory, its full posses.
sion OF all faculties. He is the Dandolo of tho
By his rule the atmosphere will be completely
changed. Franco will have re.estabished her
win have sho%
all its effects. Democracy will overflow oil
countries and establish pIon the ruins Of an old
tquated parties fear.
It is necessaryto act without delay.
Consequently the advent of Herr Won BHlow
in a, strange and marked way with > campaign
DID Ger Saa BoR se wfh G%
from Rome thoughts Of combat Knowing the
would find out the secret to make the Pope
move ONT One thing Is sure and that Is that
not MtSont sS the rathsr
Enl stage setting for sham battle against the
Vatican: n, have no time to draw the picture of
against the Encyclical on the Blessed Canisius,
audacity!-to mark out with his artistic and
DELICATE craving tools the characteristics of
Lulhoranism; the German LutherRns. who lay
claim to having invented tho priesthood and
eacrosanct liberty of science. do Eot permit q
Pope to express his Judgment on the sixteenth
century! In tho next place the Supreme Ecclesi
astical Council OF Pruss la. whose highest Bishop
Encyclical aforesaid.
Then the National Liberals wish to abolish
the Prussian Legation at the Holy See on the
ground that Leo Y III. has hurt the German
Evangelical Beipusstsein.
Moreover, a ce tain diocesan weekly has been
lical.
To cap the climax OF this bulldozing STRAIT
egy the German newspapers call these fire.
works warnings" Warnings to whomi You
may guess.
Nor is this all. The German newspapers broke
out into attacks upon the Vatican, which was
acting as godfa ther at once for the republic and
for tho Franco Russian alliance. In consequence
Of unbimely demands from Berlin the OSserrd-
tore Romano was Obliged to retraot two arti-
clrs on the Franco Russian alliance and on
German Lutherauism.