The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-23
WHAT WILL POPE Plus K. Be?
,suE LIKELY TO CARRY on THE
POLICY or LEO MIL?
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He His successOr-SuppOrtcr Of Chris
t,sn Democracy WOrk--A Good Ad-
m,nistrator and Close to the People.

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po,tr Aug. SIS he a Plus VII. or a
pns TX Jacobs darling son Benjamin
H. loo NILS successor. In 1901, after the
a,e,stion for the cyst, the Holy Father
,oceiyed Cardinal oreglia and said to him.
,r,iling, "You wished to have n Conclave,
7 mn, going 10 prepare consistory.' This
latter Leo XIII. called among his friends.
a., nreparation for the Conclave from
,hcb would come the Elisha upon whom
h;s mantle would descend. In that con-
s.,c,y. as every one knows, the Pope created
CARDINALS big batch of Italian ArchbishSps
and Rishops; out Of eleven Cardinals only
nne was a foreigner, and that creation it
was that brought about in the provinces
The movement that has resulted In the
election to-day of Plus X. 1t was triumph
or tl. or, vinces over the Curia, the pre-
ronderance of the hierarchy over diplomacy.
IN the morrow OF that historic consistory
Loo XIII. pointed out the Patriarch Of
Venice to a Cardinal and said: there is
nv successor.
Leo XIII was fond of Cardinal Sarto, for
he liked all the men whom he had picked
ou, and selected personally. Plus X. was
hurled in his country parish priest q house
al Salzano in the Venetian territory, where
he had led calm and beneficent life up to
his fortieth year. In 1894 Leo XIII. ap-
pointed him Bishop OF Mantua, from which
he advanced to Patriarch Of Venice in 1898.
He showed himself TO be a wonderful ad-
ministraor. father Of the people His
crystal soul, his heart Of gold, his angelic
piptv, his popular activity, his expeditions
among the people and the seamen, his AHA
billy, won he hearts Of the people. He was
the Pope Of the peasants and the gondoliers
before becoming the Pope OF Christendom,
The Government respected his personality
and his Office. The popularity OF the
Patriarch disarmed hostility. At the be-
ginning Of his incumbency he had TO en-
due the prosecutions of Signor Crispi.
then President Of the council The -dio-
ator" dared to act his hand on that veneer
able head In former times the Popes
had granted to the House Of Hapsburg
the privilege Of nominating the Patriarch
Of ST Marks On entering Venice the King
Of Italy demanded that this favor should
he continued But the Pope declined;
he knew not the King of Rome" and the
conquest had put an end to. the Austrian
right
Victor Emmanuel II. and Humbert l..
easy-going and not quarrelsome, bowed
before the firrnness of Plus TX. and Leo
MIL, but on his second return to power.
IN 1903, after the rebellion in the isle of
fire, the Siclian Crispi had the audacious
pretension of being the appointer of the
Patriarch Of Venice. 1t was q vain effort.
The Prime Minister suspended the episco-
pal stipend and the ecclesiastical salaries.
He thought he had to do with an Able
Constantin, gentle and weak. The good
curate" concealed under his smiling and
attractive good nature. infexible firmness
Let him strike" said the Patriarch; Il
can wait: will wait"
!, He told me himself at Rome, after the
conflict. how it all happened. saw under
Pat mask of graciousness b front Of bronze
3fhey will yield he added. and in fact
few days later Signor Crispi granted tho
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ften perceived in such tranquil and serious
Natures. full OF evangelical kindIness and
ssnerous, popular fervor. He has shown
the same energetic and persevering will
in the case Of Dom Perosi, the maestro
Of genius. The young priest. who heard
voices, met in society and among the clergy
steady persistent hostility. To compose
oratorios, to perform in public halls music
that was almost profane. to make q show Of
himself and in way to give up the ecclesi-
astical restraint and dignity, what scandal
that was But the Cardinal covered the
maestro with his authority and genius
spread its golden wings.
In his episcopal career two Characters
tics gave his work personal mark: he
commented the enoyclicals of Leo XIII.
and he helped to remould the Opera del
Congressi"
His pastorals explained in popular Ian
guage the sublime teaching and lofty
thoughts Of Leo XIII. He was the fervent
popalariser Of the Papal policy. Short,
striking, clean, strong and sensible, his
words won over mems hearts. In this
respect, with his literary genius and
sGOtIetv, he reminds one OF Tensions
familiar homiIies, just as his watchful
EincJness brings up the memory Of the
Archbishop Of Cambria His smile and the
Lighting up Of his face showed the fulness of
the Joy with which he hailed the encyclical
Rerum Norcrunt and the socialist policy Of
the Hov See
have heard him celebrate in the Vatican
mat appeal to the fraternity and the up
ttms OF the people. "These," said he,
are the latest political and social incarna-
tons Of the Gospels" He taught that the
church Of God must be understood by the
poor in spirit. II must be shown to the
muItltdes, with, in it's train, the rich who
6'e good and who preserve their devotion
70 1T end do not ask it to give up its indie
pendence TO them. Then those who have
Deserted the temple with those who have
never entered it. will try in vain to rouse
The masses by denouncing the periIs OF
clericalism.
The pious and amiable Patriarch counted
on such preaching to I'll the churches. to
zeal the alliance between the Church and
democracy, according to tho prophecies
Chateaubriand OF Lamartine, OF Lamen-
mas OF ketteler, and of Manning.
No when two years ago, Leo XIII. re-
organized -ropera del Congrssei" on a
popular basis, Cardinal Sarto offered TO
AID at the very beginning. In this new
arrangement Of the Guelphic party Leo
ALL put at the head Of the central
committee young men, and democrats.
by uniting all the Catholic forces on this