The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-15
Spectal Gable Despateh TO THE Sun.

tienaI Unity" M says. MAY E1ist IN
Other Formsp Than THAT Imposed on Italy.
Special Gable Dsspatch to TEE suS.
LONDON, Jan. lathe correspondent of the
Chronicle at Rome sends what he describes as an
important application Of the Pope's Christmas
allocution, which appears in the form Of an arti-
Gle in the new Cipiita Cattotica, which, the writer
saya, is the most powerful Vatican organ. 1t is
edited by q picked staff of leading Jesuits, and
10 overseen closely by the Vatican. Giving the
text Of the allooution, the correspondent sends
tho following:
when was IL ever forbidden q State to enter
the path OF just reparationf :"
The writer remarks that the allocution was
occasioned partly by Prime Minister Rudini's
circulars OF September and October, in which
the projects were ordered to suppress
tho Clerical propaganda directed against free
institutions and national unity. 1t protests
against such a description of the Papal policy or
the activity OF tho Catholic committees as I'M
warranted, and says:
1.-THE thing which stands opposed to the
spiritual chief of the Catholic world is not the
unity of Italy, but the special end concrete form
In which 1t Is at present maintained. with re-
suits much more disastrous to the state than to
the Holy &c.,"
The writer then proceeds to make the start.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES thdJ III ARCHAEOLOGICAL hNoA'o
of the Vatican and the Italian monarchy is Inn
possible. One or the other must go.
The allocution contends that there is no
reason why tho precise form Of the integrity Of
the unity of Italy should not be modified. and
says:
There are innumerable examples to prove
that national unity may exist In other
forms, such as the national unity Of
strong Switzerland and that most powerful
American confederation. These constitutions
are admirable and glorious. true unities Of the
nation and State. though Of another form and
mode from that which is now imposed on Italy"
The writer proceeds to ask whether the italian
people are to DO sunk in this quadruplo
| abyss. fiscal, financial, economic, and moral.
| forever merely for the maintenance of a
form. What can the masses think of the power
which jeopardizes for an accidental. mutable
political formula the existence and hope Of
ltalyi"
The writer hardly troubles himself to repel the
accusation that such q procurement may be
| regarded as revolutionary. and the concluding
appeal may certainly be 80 regarded. This Is:
without the aid Of foreign bayonets the true
Italy will find for itself its own way and rise
again, let us hope. from the ignominy in which
II now lies PROSTATE to its true greatness"
The Chronicle claims to have the best reason
TO know that the article is an intentional revela-
ton to the world Of the policy which the init
mates of the Vatican have long known as the
inner mind of Cardinal Rampolla, the Papal
Secretary Of State.
1t would probably be untrue to suppose that
the Pope or Cardinal Rampolla has any idea Of
an alliance with the italian Republicans.
who are mostly anti-GleTical. but they
wish It to be seen that although they
regard it impossible to make peace with a King
relgning in Rome they could do SO with a re-
public. The present moment was chosen
for the pronouncement probably because
1t is believed that not only the existing Min
istry, but the dynasty Itself. is more seriously
menaced than usual.