The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-08
.sARIO PLEAsEs Us
This Government Gratifed at the
Choice Of the Venetian Pa
triarch for Pope.
He Is in Sympathy With Leo XIII. s
Policy and Philippine Friar Ne
gotiations Will Go On.
From The Journal Bureau, Room As. Post Build
ing, WASHINGTON.

From The Journal Bureau, Room IS, Post Build
ing, Washington.
Washington, Aug. Sit was on the 18th
of July, year ago. that Governor Ialt
close and arranged sor the appointment of an
apostolic delegate to consider with him ar
Manila the permanent settlement OF the frlai
qSestion In the +. Philippines lIIoi nan,sa Nor
Guidi as that delegate, and with MIN
Governor Taft has since been negotiating:
The complications growing out OF the frlar
situation are rather difficult, owing to the
excessive value placed by the friars upon
their agricultural lands, which the Alneri-
can government proposes to purchase 1or the
estimates, made by men we'll qualified to
pass on such q point, Ak the value of these
lands at about $5000,C00; the friars. however,
insist that they are worth $12, 900. or more;
and this the is rock upon which the negotia-
tions have been stranded for number OF
months.
In the meantime Leo XIII. passed away
and conclave met to choose his successor
1t was highly important, from the American
view point, that this successor should Dc
man as nearly as possible like the deao
pope To choose him from the ranks OF the
monks would be to inject new and danger
Gus element into the pending negotiations
and possibly prevent any satisfactory ad'
justment of the friar dirficulty. So it hap
pened that there was good deal of alarm
| in Washington at the growing prominence O.
Cardinal Gottt, himself a high Carmelite,, al
| a candidate for the papal succession. Whllt
conceding everything that was claimed 1ol
him as a man and as an ecclesiastic,. 1t was
| felt that his election would revive the cour
age of the friars in the Philippines, and per
ernor Taft in Rome in July of last year
| The American government was of course
! acquainted with the fact that no man holding
to pronounced liberal or advanced view
| SO far as the Philippine trouble was con
cerned. lay in the possibility that some suGl
elected, would be chosen. The election o
Cardinal Sarto seems to Washington an as
surance that the negotiations now under wa!
at Manila between Mgr. Guidi and Governo
| Taft are to be continued without INTERRUPT
| ton, and that the friar problem, as wei! a.
the other annoying problems in the Philip
pines with which the church is connected
| are to be solved In the same spirit that wal
so characteristic Of Leo XIII. s..
Had the American government had the or
| dering of the papal succession, 1t could no
nearly in line with Leo Kills policy Car
| dinal Sarto. and 80 the announcement
| the result of the final ballot at the vatican
quieted a good many apprehensions in thu
ington.
! It is understood here that Cardinal sartt
has never identified himself with, or beer
interested in, vatican politics, and that hi
visits to Rome have been few and far be
tween, occurring only when the urgent neces
| sity demanded them. He is man OF saint.
| lie ana character, anu LAS 6peHL luosL y
his time for many years in going in an'
out among the people of Venice as loyinl
pastor and benefactor. Without ostentation
but with free hand. he has scattered hi
| blessings temporal as we'll as spiritual
| among the poor and distressed of that city
and his whole life seems to have proved tina
he cares less for politics and policies thai
| for those things that tend to uplift humanity
At the same time, it is understood her
that, thru unavoidable environments, he rep
resents a middle ground. between the con
sentative or reactionary element of the car
dinalate and that growing body of the Cath
Ollie hierarchy which has taken up the Amer
lear idea" In this respect he stands almos
On the Identical ground occupied by Leo XIII.
who, while modern in all his best ideas a:
! ing from woundng those who like Cardina
/, Gotti, were of the reacticnary class.
Officially the American government has rot
and can not, have anything to say regardin
the satisfaction which 1t feels over the result
of the ballotlng In the Sistine chapel; bu
it's representatives have no hesitancy, whe
speaking privately in saying that this coun
| try Is to be congratulated on the fact tina
sarto and not Gotti is to sit in St. Peter
chair and wear the f1sherman's ring.
! w. w. Jermane.