The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-15
LOUDET'S RECENT VISIT
To ROME REVIEWED BYA
PARIS CORRESPONDENT
It's Political, Religious and Social
Phases Discussed by Emily
Crawford.
TWO TACTFUL RULERS
Past Differences Avoided by the
French President and the
Italian King.
PEACE POLICY PREVAILS
France and Italy in Accord-Both
Also Are Opponents of the
Vatican.
TWO TACTFUL RULERS
PEACE POLICY PREVAILS

Special Correspondence of the Journal
PARIS, April 29.-Europe rings with Che
noise of the Roman fireworks discharged
in honor of President Loubets return visit
to Victor Emmanuel. This is a greker
event than superficial observers may ssp-
pose 1t marks a new departure in Fretch
national conduct toward the papacy.
France save during the brief interval pc
tween the proclamation of the first repf.b-
lie and the treaty of Basic, 1885, has khpt
in the groove made by Charlemagne The
maker lived so far back in the dark ages
that he received visit in Paris from San
Anglo-Saxon youth whom we know as AL
fred the Great Charlemagne doubtless had
religious sentiment and lent the powerA of
his sword to the papacy because a belieF er
in it's divine mission and claim to SUPER
natural power But he unquestionably gas
actuated more strongly by political Job
jects. In this respect most French Kings
and heads of governments resembled Finn
and Napoleon.
The visit of M. Loubet to Rome implies
a full and frank remuneration OF the Car
lovingian pact with the chair of st. Peter.
Charlemagne defended the Pope against
the Lombards, Unitarian people, and the
papacy placed its spiritual power at his
service. Subsequent monarchs, notably the
early Capets, made themselves the cham
pions of the successors of st. Peter, and
they had no reason to repent having done
so. The pulpits OF all Christendom pro-
claimed France the eldest daughter of the
church and the Frenchman the soldier of
God. At the time this conferred on the
French monarchy a moral primacy among
the nations which had splendid conse-
quences and not few evil ones. The Car
lovingian groove is now ancient history.
VATICAN SNUBS LOUBET.
The Vatican made no sign during the
presidential visit to Rome. Italy, down to
the smallest village, is satisfied at this sign
of chapter being opened, and not a
single Catholic nation enters protest.
The Black party in Rome has. how
ever, found some satisfaction in the rainy
weather. a review took place between
showers but the naval review in the Bay
of Naples was spo.it by a heavy. incessant
downpour.
The German Emperor had arranged to
stay through this week cruising along the
Italian coast and studying the remains of
Byzantine art at the place where he had
appointed to land. He suddenly cut short
his cruise by landing at Venice and on
April q going direct TO the old castle which
he is restoring, near Schlestadt, in Alsace.
The reception NJ. Loubet met with in
Italy could not have been agreeable to him.
If the triplice still exists it must no longer
be a costly and wearisome chain. Such is
the meaning attached to the welcome given
to the President of the French republic.
The triple alliance or triplice sprang into
existence after the overthrow of Theirs by
a coalition of the monarchical parties on a
common clerical basis in the National AS
sembly at Versailles. Victor Emmanuel IL,
who feared the revival of militarsm in
France under Marshal MacMahon, or, pos
sibly, alliance between him and his
personal friend, the Emperor of Austria,
for the benefit of the papacy, accepted Bis
marcks offer of an alliance between the
two central empires to save Italy from
French, and Austria from Slav aggression,
and threatened at the great Slav congress
held at Moscow under the presidency of the
CZarowitZ Alexander father of the present
Car. Austria had been alarmed by this
congress and by the pro-Russian move
ment among the nationalists of Bohemia
and the other Slav states under the scepter
of the Emperor Franz Josef.
After the fall of the MacMahon govern
ment the Republicans, led by Ferry, laid
hands on Tunis, which the Italians had
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