The sun., 1919-09-18

our dear King who In the future win
be named Albert the Valiant or the
Great, who was the first to pronounce
the words NO bargaining, for honor
and liberty are not TO be sold.
II now seemed TO the Cardinal. he
went on, that his knowledge Of patriot
ism was formerly merely theoretical by
experience In Belgium he had known
its real meaning sinoe August ., 1914.
He refused to believe that his own deeds
had been In any sense extraordinary.
For his part, he merely never doubted
of Gods justice, merely never minded
the consequences" He told Of inter
views with his own conscience, which
told him that "be the consequences bad
or rood your duty 10 to help"
Never HAD . Doubt.
"And because I mover had q doubt" {"
he continued. IT felt that must speak
the truth 10 enemy an well as friends.
I urged my people to be peaoeable, to
obey the rules of tho invader, but
told them There Is but emo authority.
and that n your King. told thu In
vaders that because they were invaders
we would tolerate them. but In our souls
we would not esteem them"
For perhaps the first time the Cardi-
nal revealed the uneasiness OF some Of
his priests, who urged him when he
was about to Issue his famous pastoral
letter OF Christmas. 1914, not to expose
himself to the Germans. and argued
that he would be exposing the Belgian
people and the priests as we'll when
they read the message In their churches.
II had to resolve this problem" he
said. "Should / speak plainly, denouno-
inw RrftAlfUG ~ 1u
our people would run to dark despair.
The alternative was hard. / said to
hem: "A General has the right to
expose the life and liberty Of his
soldiers; am here q General. and
have the right to expose the life and
liberty Of my soldiers. wrote the
letter and all the priests read II In theiI
churches. Not one Of them refused.
II knew the Germans / knew Won
der Colts and Won Bisslng and several
military autocrats In Germany. And j
had noticed this: those powerful mer
who were 10 frightfui were rather hesi.
tant when I looked them straight In the
ayes and said. What are you doias
n Beigiumf II has been recognized
that your coming here was unjust. Their
your hrst duty should be to protect and
spare our people
when I said that to the German
soldiers and officers and GOVERNOR
was the master and they obeyed."
Later, the cardinal said. the German
officials came to him and complained
that he was making politics." He
smiled as he added: This was absurd
as I never make politics. They told
me-" he went on. "that they couldn't
say what would happen, II kept on ir
my course. answered: oh, just ai
you like It was q psychological prob.
| lem. saw that It was my duty to facs
them openly and to resist"
Altho Ugh. Of course. the Cardinal useS
no Ian Riage Of that sort, his audienc,
felt that perhaps In his own lofty wa,
he had done q bit of bluffng In his en-
counter with the Germans.
At the end Of his address the Car
dinal held an impromptu reception. an,
for more than fifteen minutes the diner
hled past him and kissed his ring.
Because Of the fact that yesterday wa
an ember day the September penitentia
season. no meat was served at the din
ner. The piece de resistance was sal
mon. as ember day L. one Of strict fas
and no Catholic can eat meat