New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-20
In III Health Many Years.

Tho Pope's last Illness began almost
coiucidcn,ally with the great war iu
Europe. Those close TO him believe that
grief over the situation brought ON the
uual crisis and SO overwhelmed him
that he was unable in his ciPhticth year
20 withstand another attack Of his old
enemy equity catarrh.
i.l health had been the PontIf's lot
for many years. and intcrmitteut.y the
attacks have been so serious that the
world was prepared several times 20
hear Of bis demise. During the summer
there had been numerous dcnials from
the Vatican that his indisposition was
serious. As late as August 10 last,
on the occasion OF the eleventh ami
VcrSaSy Of his coronation. Pope Plus
granted numerous audiences. Two days
later 10 became known that he had can
cc.led practically all engagements. His
attendants reported that he was unable
90 work, and that ne sat listlcss and
silent Tor hours. evidently broodng
over the great clash Of arms IN Europe.
His physician. DR.. Marchiafava, or
dercd His Holiness TO bed on August
l6 when 10 was announced that the vgr
and the intense heat I'M Rome had com
bined TO deprcss him.
I'm bed he continued TO dream Of the
conflict by night and 20 discuss II by
day
Wanted Ia Check Bloodshed.
u shall not cease TO impore God TO
pu' "A stop to this inhuman butchery,'
he declared. His physicians had to deal
with the mental conditions as well as
physical suffering. Arrangements were
4 d. l.r. ..g1 .4.IA al
the Papal Secretary Of State, would
render His Holiness daily report on
the war situation. The Pope desired
TO see in what way he might exert his
influence TO check the bioodshed, and
he was the more affected because any
action seemed useless.
At the beginning of the European
crisis be had addressed an eEhortatIon
10 all the Catholics of the world, ask
ing them 20 lift their souls toward
Christ, who alone was able 10 aid, and
he called upon the clergy to offer pub
lie prayer.
The break between Austria and Ser
via from the first became q source of
great grief 10 him, for the Vatican
was most friendly toward both nations.
He was ineNpreS sibly shocked. he said,
81 the assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand the heir 20 the Aus
trian throne. who, like all the Haps-
burgs. was an ardent Catholic, and he
was sympathetic toward little Scrvia,
with which the Vatican had recently
concluded a friendly concordat.
His Views on Peace.
The Pores views on peace, embodied
i'm an allocution delivered at the con-
sistory al which he created thirteen
new cardinals last May, constituted
such a remarkable document that che
Carnegie Peace Union, founded in Feb
ruary by Andrew Carnegie with an en-
dowment of S2,OOO,0O0, decided 10 be-
gin its educational activities in behalf
OF disarmament and arbitration among
the clergy Of the Roman Catholic
Church BY sending 20 each Of the 49,
600 priests of the United States and
Canada a copy Of this allocution.
In il the Pope referred TO men OF
distinction and force planning schemes
for preventing the calamltes OF revo-
lutions and the slaughter of war 2Id
for insuring the blessing of peace,
which. coupled with the fact that he
spoke at length with the three Ameri-
can Cardinals Gibbons. Farley and
O'Connell -was interpreted as refer
ring TO the efforts Of President Wilson
and Secretary of State Bryan IN De
half of universal peace.
"To-day,' he said, peace or war IN
society and the state does not depend
so much OH the rulers as on the multi