The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-10-24
BISHOP IRELAND
Gives Cut 1ntslyisw Calculated t
Make Votes for Mckinley.
THE VIEWS OF THE POPE
Will Esvs Weight in American Elec
ton Anxious for Us to Pro-
tect Church Property
in Philippines

Archbishop Ireland, IN conversation in
New York Friday touching the senti-
mens at Rome towards the Catholic
church in the Philippines and in Cuba,
remarked that he felt quite willing to
repeat what was recently said to him
in Rome on this subject.
He said be did so the more readily
because the eminent personages with
9hom he had the honor Of conversing
On the matter showed themselves u
be in no way unwilling to have the
statements made by them become pub
lie. The archbishop said:
In one of the audiences which he
graciously granted me, the pope said:
We are well pleased with the rela
tions of the American government to
the church IN Cuba aid IN the Philip
pines. The American governme Mt gives
proof Of good will ana exhibits in it's
acts spirit OF justice and Of respect
for the liberty snd rights of the
church. TIE rsprese seatation3 10 bishops
and cGncEs indicate tlls. Dlticu!tie
of detail occur as consc luence of war
and Of newness Of compiex!ons. But
8e understsn such things We have
confidence in the Intelligence and the
spirit OF justi. of the AmeTicsa gov
ernment and people AID believe that
the future will not lead Us to change
the sentime ats towards il. UIder the
American government there will be
due respects for rights Of property and
Of conscience. You vii! shaak in my
name the President Of the republic fol
what is being done.
The cardinal secretary Of State,
Ranpolla, on my telling him Of my
conversation with the pope, said that
the statements made to me by the
pope Werc such as he, from his OWE
personal knowledge and belief, was
ready to repeat, and that | was at lib
erty to make them known to the Ameri-
can people at large. The cardinal said
furthermore that on DO less than three
different occasions petitions were sent
to tie vatican, in the name Of Philip
pine leaders, to have opened between
them and the vatican direct official re-
lations. but that the vatican always re,
fused to listen to such petitions out Of
consideration for the American govern
neut.
"The church, said the cardinal needs
| io Cuba and the Philippines the CO.
operation Of the American government
for its rights and Liberties, as indeed
the American government needs the
cooperation of the church for the psci-
fiction Of these countries
Cardinal Gotti, before his elevation
to the cardinalate, had been superior
general of the Ca1melite monks and
had established in Cuba antecedentiy
to the American occupation. three
houses of the order. He said to me:
I received few days ago letters fro N
The several Carmelits houses in Cuba.
The fa:hecs tell me that they enjoy, un-
der the present administration of the
island, full liberty; chat they have un-
disturbed possession Of all their proper
lies, and that they were nev,r in bet
ter position to labor for the progress of
religion and the salvation OF souls.
The authorities Of Rome added
archbishop Ireland, are informed to 3
degree that both astonished and pleas
ed me about matters religious and po-
litical In the Philippines AID in Cu5a;
and as they have the interest Of the
church in those countries most deeply
at hsart, and know far better than We
in An erica could know what the rights
of the church are and how best such
rights may be defended, Americans,
Catholics and others, may safely accept
their judgment Of things and not give
themselves further and needless trou-
bic about the religious conditions Of
he Philippines or of CUBA. As
plain matter of fact, the only safety
~hich the Catholic church at the pres
ent time has in the Philippines for
the possession Of her properties and
for tae lives of her priests, is the pro-
tec,lon afforded by the American flag:
| and al this is fully understood and
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