Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-04-23
WILL NOT SEE Pope
ROOSEVELT REFUSED To BE
DICTATED To.
His Holiness Sought to Have ex-Presi-
dent Do Only AS He Desired-Roose-
welt Establishes a Precedent for Flu
ture Precautionary Guarded Himself
Following Fairbanks Incident.

Following Fairbanks Incident.
Rome, April Theodore Roosevelt
will not call on the pope. He is seeking
to establish precedent which will serve
as a code for the conduct Of all future
American presentations. His holiness
sought to impose upon the distinguished
president limitations for his behavior
while in Rome, to which, as an Ameri-
can, he would not submit. The rejec-
ton Of the pope 8 proposal with the con
ditions he attached thereto was the only
possible action be could have taken.
AS an American Catholic, am bound
TO say that no other course was open
TO him. PROFESSIONALLY the incident,
regrettable as it is, would assume seri-
Gus proportions if it were not for the
delicate and tactful way in which it has
been handled by Colonel Roosevelt.
While a member of the Dutch Reform
church, Colonel Roosevelt never has been
a sectarian. Throughout his career in
America he has been known for his toll
Grafton. He has treated the Catholic,
the Protestant and the Jew on the same
basis of his worth as a man, not with
any reference to his religious faith.
." He insisted, while president, upon
the absolute equality in the treatment
of the Catholic, Protestant or jew in
the United States, and applied to same
policy toward the Christians and Mo
hammedans in the Philippines. He con
demned bigotry, whether from the Prot
estant or Catholic, as shown by his de-
ANNEXATION of the A. p. A. before the
Methodist Chautauqua conference.
Pair Dealings With Catholics.
He sought and succeeded in satisfac-
torily adjusting multitudinous questions
of the Catholic church arising from the
American acquisition of the Philip
pines, Porto Rico and Panama, and fol-
lowing the liberation Of Cuba from the
yoke of Spain. He appointed two Cath
olics, Charles j. Bonaparte and Robert
j. Wynne, as members Of his cabinet
and placed many other Catholics in high
government Offices. This has been CRATE
fully appreciated by American Catholics,
and is fully recognized even 10 this day
by the Vatican.
he did these things. not because the
man or interest concerned was Cath,
Ollie but in the case of the former be-
cause be possessed qualities that called
for recognition recognition he would
have received had he been a Protestant
of jew and la the case of lhe interests
because the question arising Ia eonnee
zion with them required settlement for
the good Of the country and world. AS
ruler of the American republic, where
liberty Of worship Is q cardinal principle,
he MAC bound NJ % no more and no less.
and ho never sought 40 take iAe slight
esi credit fof his aei in fhls CONNECTION.
MaFked Attention 10 Catholic Missions,
Immediately after landing al Aalohl
he called ai iAe French Catholic mif.
sion and visited and lnnehed ai ihe
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