Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
Baron Ropp Victim of Trumped
Up Charges Brought by
Reactionaries.
HIS FLOCKS GREAT DEVOTION.
They Press About Him to Show Their
Deep Regard for Man Who Was
Friend 10 Reform.
Special Corresponding.

i'NAAA wi jos ifffAAAtllafa
~T. PETERSBURG. Dec. 2.-Ths
train from st. Petersburg to the
frontier IS about to leave the
Warsaw station, the platform is
unusually crowded and on all sides, not
Russian, but Polish, and Lithuanian.
c.re heard. In the crowd are well
dressed men and women. priests who
look like French cures but are really
Poles. worlNmen and peasants. women
ard girls with white silk handkerchiefs
rn their heads. They talk in low tones
as people In sorrow and their eyes are
directed TO the entrance TO the plat
form. Ten minutes before the train =
dJe 70 start an elderly man in long
black cloak and a shovel hat. beneath
which can be seen the violet edge Of a
skull-cap, comes slowly down The
platform.
10 Is for him the people are waiting.
Those nearest press forward TO kiss his
hgnd, his grave, clever face is lighted
with a smile as ne says a word first q
one. then 20 unc Their and il Is with dif-
hculty that he reaches his carriage.
The last bell sounds and one and al,
Polish mobiles. Lithuanian peasants,
pr ests and fashionable women kneal
on the ground. for they have come 10
receive a last blessing from a bishop
who is going into exile He stands in
The doorway OF the carriage, a tall ma
Jestic figure, all heads are bowed a. he
raises with tears g the sound II AIS
voice. soft aid clear lie blesses In
IN" mother ttubue OF the Catholic
church ana tLti says, In Polish and In
Lithuanian, last farewell. God bless
you, my children"
IT WAS BARON ROPP.
The train giides out or the station
and the people watch it until it dis
appears iu the darkness. Baron Ropp.
bishop Of wilma, has gone, bounded out
OF ST. Petersburg by the police as
thought be We're criminal or a revolt
utlonlst with bombs in his pockets, de-
priVed OF his diocese by order OF the
czar and iusultcd boy the oner OF
pension barely sufficient 10 keep body
ana soul together 10 be paid out ~
the revenues which the Russian gov
eminent stole from the national church
of Poland ANA largely uses Tor Sos own
fnd.
What arc hls crimes? What are tho
charges against hlm} First of AN be d
a dangerous aHtltor, he iucites tbs
people uf his diocese against Ia henoK-
uIrnt goE eminent ~. Nladumiron tbs
veIvot-pamed official ln charge of tbs
department of foreign cults, can pr,He
10 uu tn the hnt. This is how be does
t Baron Rnpp addressed pastoral
lriItr tn thc people of his diocese IN
which he said chat they were not con
tented with ihe schools provided by tho
government which are orthodox and
NOT catholic. UId HuulH prefer to have
their own schools. bat that they must
have patience and perhaps In time
things would hc better What moro
PROOF NJ guile could ha wantstr
HOW THE GOVERNMENT ACTS
Then hc o. politician. ANA bishop
ought t0 mind h's own business ana
UlUa NOT possess mo TIrht enjoyed
hy au ordinary citizen of taking am
Intelligent Interest 'u lhe analrs ~ the
nation This Is the official argument.
but Dr. $500 NOT hold water m an
tuDlcsiLeflD lkc7 90 play the governs
mfura game hr Dr. not merely allowed.
bat expected and encouraged. 90 use
Hl the influence at hia command 20
helu uu tur reaotionary cause. There
were mo- protests nom the government
when tho other day "a bishop IN tho
cathedral at kien told tho people IN
the midst of 81 magnificent ceremony
fu vote Tor mo candidates nominated
hv the Black Gang The famous IA
Their John of Kronstadt iH not rehuked
for spying in me pulpit as he has said
recently Away with dreams Of "a
constitution ana parliament Get
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