Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-07

| gested to a Catholic, in whatever land
he might live, that in treason to the
government to which he owed allie
glance he should fail his officers and
betray his country.
PROTESTED VIOLATION
THE violation of Belgian neutrali-
ty was a violation of international
law and it was the duty of those ma
tions that had made that law to pro-
test against that violation. But did
they? No. The Scandinavian coun-
tries, Norway, Sweden and Denmark,
were silent; Holland was silent Spain
was silent, as were all the republics
of South America. Even our own
United States was silent, against
which silence the noble Theodore
Roosevelt cried out. So why single
out the Holy See from among that
silent crowd of civil powers who
should have protested against the vio-
lation of Belgian neutrality, those
who had made the International law
that had been violated?
THANKED BY POWERS.
What makes the attack on the
Holy See more atrocious is the fact
that amongst all the neutral powers
of the world the Holy See was alone
in making a public protest against the
invasion of Belgium, for which the
Holy Father was thanked by Albert,
King of the Belgians, and a party of
French journalists sent an address to
the pope, thanking him for having
alone of all the powers of the world
MI tn1x
Belgian neutrality. Cardinal Mercier,
the Belgian cardinal, wrote pastoral
letter to his people, in which he en-
referred to the pope's
efforts in behalf of Belgium.
THE pope's efforts along human,-
tartan lines during the war are known
and praised the world over. In res
ponse to his proposal of December 81,
1914, accepted by all the belligerent
powers, prisoners unfit for military
service We're exchanged and sent to
their own lands. Through his nego-
tiations of May, 1915, thousands of
Invalid and wounded prisoners were
lnterned and cared for in Switzerland,
and he sent them provisions and pres
ents and obtained for them absolute
freedom from Sunday labor He es-
tablished at the Vatican a central bu- |
reau of information for the purpose of
locating missing soldiers and the ef- |
Llclency of this bureau is known to
thousands of homes in Europe to
which it brought joy. Sir Henry How
ard, representing the British govern
nent, sent letter of thanks to the |
pope or the pope's efforts in hehalf |
# British prisoners of war.
PROTESTED AGAINST BOMBING. |
The pope protested to Austria .
against the aerial bombardment of
'pen Italian cities and charged the
cardinal archbishop of Cologne to con-
'ey his protests to the German en-
'eror against the bombardment of the
athedral of Rheims and the churches
u France and Belgium generally, and
lie declared the submarine to be one
II the weapons of offense which were
Employed contrary to the dictates of
and international law.
He protested against Russian
ruelties in East Prussia and Galicia
nd against the massacres of the Ar
lenians and pleaded FOR naked and
women and children
FINALLY, in August. 1917, the pope
roposed a series of specific peace
uggestions, the first of the kind Of
cred to the warning no ions. Presi-
ent Wilson, as spokesman of the FL
ed powers, considered he time mon
ortune to attempt &c make peace
nth Germany on any terms, but he
Id the pope the honor to embodv the
uggestions in his famous IA PROPOSE
ions of January s, 1918. 1t is well to
emember that the pope explicitly
tates that the fundamental principle
nderlying the future peace of the ]
'orld is moral right and that it must :
e substituted for material force of {
rms, ana for this President Wilson {
lso contends.
GREETED BY WILSON,. :
The whole world knows of the COR /
lal greeting received at the Vatican T
y President Wilson when he paid 5
ope Benedict a special visit, and /
ope Benedict was described as the :
lost democratic executive met by the =
resident while in Europe. .
Nineteen million of American {