Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-04
SPAIN TO BREAK
WITH HOLY SEE?
ALARMING REPORTS OF RUP-
TURE EXCITE VATICAN
Some Say the Whole Affair Is a Bluff.
French Government, Having An-
tsgonlzed Pope, Wants World
to Believe II Is Right
BY w. A. PEARCE
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ROME, Nov. 3.-The alarming news
of proximate rupture between Spain
and the Holy See has recently been
bruited abroad to all the winds Of
heaven on the wings of the telegraph.
Now, Count Boni de Castellane,
deputy of the Lower Alps, declares
that all this story of complications
between Spain and the Vatican is a
striking example Of international
bluff" The French government, he
says, had in 1904 judged 1t advantage
Gus to break off all relations with
Rome. The proceedings followed in
these circumstances were qualified as
historic falsehood' by an eminent
republican, and he had good right to
know. "The inopportuneness of the
rupture" says the Viscount de Cas-
tellane, "even for the ends which
minister inimical to the church pro-
posed to himself, Is indeed fully DEM
onstrated by the separation law, since
1t is the previous rupture with the
Holy See which prevents this law
| from entering on its course"
The French government, having
committed itself to such a course, is
| endeavoring, 1t is claimed to have It
believed by the whole world that 1t is
not alone in conflict with Rome;
that all the other Catholic countries
have differences with the head of the
church, and grievances against him;
| that even Spain, a nation Catholic
| above all else, feels the necessity,
| since the arrival of the liberals to
power, of shaking off the intolerable
yoke of the religious power and of
| defending themselves from its intru-
sions in the domain of the civil power.
And at the head of this strange en-
| terprise they have not heSitated to
place the young king, under whose
protection the new ministers should
develop the movement Of emancipat-
ing, as they pretend, the Spanish
conscience
| The Viscount Castellane says 1t
would be interesting to know, Does
the Spanish government regard these
wild stories as so much in keeping
with the conduct of French ministers
that 1t is scarcely worth while attempt
| ing to note their abundant falsehood?
| 1t was added, besides, that outside Of
the question of civil marriage the gov
ernment had to preoccupy itself with
the reform of the Concordat. Now, it
| is precisely the liberals who did not
| wish to touch the Concordat. Such
are two out of several specimens of :
French inventiveness concerning Spain.
News from Avignon
An interesting piece of news comes
|
| popes, in which French troops have
been quartered for more than CEN
tury has at last been evacuated, bar
racks having been constructed near the
town for the soldiers. So this his
toric edifice will now be restored in a
manner befitting its past, and will
henceforth be kept with due care and
/ attention. This excellent arrangement
is to be attributed to the energy of
the local municipal authorities, who,
aided by goodly subvention from the
French government, undertook the
building of the "caserne," which has
had the effect OF removing the stain.
After having served as the residence
of several popes, or of their legates,
the palace had been converted into
barracks when the first revolution
broke out. Later on it was used as
a prison, this state of things lasting
until 1871, when troops were once more
quartered within it's walls. 1t is rather
a curious coincidence that honor
should again be paid to structure
which was begun in 1884, during the
pontifcate of Pope Benedict XII, so
soon after the breach between the
French government and the Vatican.
This is, of course, a pure coincidence,
but there is the fact, nevertheless.
The victory of the "Integralists" at
the Socialist congress was spoiled for
them by the adhesion of the Reform
list" section. AT the last moment the
latter announced that they would
throw in their lot with the "Integral-
lists" and vote for their program, an
announcement received bY Signor En-
rico Ferri and his friends with barely
concealed dismay. The party of ire
concilables under Signor Labriola,
who, under the name of "Sindacalists'
profess rigid adherence to the Marx
doctrines, were easily defeated, re-
cording only some 5000 votes against
nearly $4,000.
Not His Victory
But the victory does not belong to
Signor Ferri, since the "Reformists"
and the "Integralists" share in it
alike, and the leadership and direction
of the party can be as fairly claimed
by Signor Bissolati or Signor Turati
as by the "Integralist" chief The
congress has not. settled either that
question or the question of future
policy. The "Integralist" program
contains too many contradictions to
stand in actual practice
When the Italian government de-
cided upon nationalizing the railway
system, and began last year by taking
over the management of the two great
Mediterranean and Siclian companies,
it soon found that the shortage of
locomotive power and rolling stock
brought about by the old administra-
tion threatened to give rise to an
economic crisis.
To tide over pressing needs a state
commissioner was dispatched to Eng
land for the purpose OF picking up
some second hand locomotives, If pos
sible. AS a result of his visit number
of the Metropolitan Railway companys
old engines, together with fifty old
six-coupled good locomotives Of the
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