The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-09-15

I of an external military policy out of
all proportion to the resources of the
country
\ policy of vengeance against the
Pope, a purely dynastic policy against
the people, a policy of false greatness
toward foreigners, such is the charaC-
ter of the Italian State. The House Of
Savoy with it's present programme has
been fashioned by Margherita. That
is why we perceive in the Italian gov
eminent a feminine timidity through
out the duration of any scheme If
she hated Crispi it was because the
dictator believed only in himself but
in spite of his unbounded pride he was
obliged 10 make concessions TO the,
woman in order to maintain himself in
power. SiSnOT CriSDi will never return.
At the same time she pulled every Wire
of politics to preserve the status quo
against the Pope, against France and
against democracy.
That is the reason. too, why the
Quirinal and its ministers have direct
ed the whole literary, intellectual. sci
entific and artistic movement toward
England and Germany. 1t is from
there that models were taken, it is
thither that the new generation has
been sent. From France and from the
United States republican and demo-
cratic countries. everything caused
y
republic. because its reflex action was
feared. democracy. because popular in
terests and democratic principles are
the opposite of purely dynastic policy.
1t is the fatal destiny of the House of
Savoy; in order to last it sacrifices a
whole people, and this people begins
to feel it and to grow angry at it.
Bresci's bullet did not come. as the CEN
sOrship would have people believe,
mic
a dynastic pistol. The programme Of
the House of Savoy has created an at
mOsDhere in which despair fourishes
and from which criminal electricity
flashes.
1t seems. therefore. ingenious to talk
as people are talking of the changes
which the crime of Monza and the new
reign will introduce in the dynastiC
rule. The programme of the House Of
Savoy is a solid block. 1t rests on the
Roman question on hatred of demOc-
racy on the selfish preservation of the
dynasty The hand that framed it
will apply it with greater passion than
ever. What will be new, perhaps. i'm
the reign of Victor Emmanuel III will
be the rebuilding of efforts to bring
about a reconciliation between Vatican
and Quirinal on the basis of the status
quo and the abolition of the non
expedit.
But the infexible ffrmness of the
Pope will permit no deviation from the
present policy; this. too, is a block. II
is true that the House of Savoy, with
the aid of the Triple Alliance, is work
ing to create the coming Pope by pre-
pairing a complaisant conclave. This is
mere blindness. Their intrigues would
suffice in themselves to assure the in
of The Roman senate and
to confirm the Papacy in its unchange-
able programme. The next Pope viii
continue more emDhatically the work
Of Leo XIII. At the Quirinal it is the
reign of a woman that is beginning.
In closing this letter l must tell Of
The wonderful success of Mgr. Ireland's
Journey TO Rome. Leo XIII and Car
1inal Rampolla have received him like
an old friend and a power. They have
wished to affirm aloud that there never
nave existed and that there do not eX-
st dissensions between the Archbishop
If st. Paul and the Vatican After the
meetings. between Mgr. Ireland and the
Holy Father few can say that a sponge
las been passed over what is called the
unpleasant incident of "Americanism."
in the New York Sun.