ALLEGED CALUMNY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 7

ALLEGED CALUMNY.

METHODISM IN ROME

ATTACK ON THE POPE.

SOME LIGHT ON THE ROOSEVELT INCIDENT.

[ By. Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. ! L,' Rome, April 4. M - With regard to Mr. Roosevelt's -inability ,to promise that he would not be received; by King Victor Emmanuel or would not otherwise' offend the susceptibilities of the Vatican, Mr. Rqoseyejt- telegraphed ..to America, expressing a hope that. American journalists would treat the incident as a, merely personal one, and in ripwise affecting the relations of Catholics and 'Protestants. .'..■',''' ''".'/■ Mr. -Roosevelt, in answering the Vatican, said ho recognised the Pope's right to receive whomsoever be liked and added: "I in turn must decline any stipulation or condition '. limiting the freedom''of my conduct." .' "' ' ' King Victor Emmanuel gave a cordial audience to Mr. Roosevelt.':' ;

VMOST pFFEN?!yi CAMPAJON." ;,;; ,-. PAPAIyVIEWPOINT. i.- ; ...(Rec. April ;5, 0.25 p;m.) ' "rni,' -,r-' '- ', Ro "">i '"April 5.. . e Vatican authorities are astounded 4*.the achon of Mr,.Roosevelt mpub--"stang.--:his; correspondence- with tho Vatican, the letters'being 'regarded as.' diplomatic.documents'.." ■ ' : ':■. ■ secretary,,'who-.is" a {S : 1 , C interviewed Carding Merry Del Val, Papal' secretary. The hotter asked for. a. guarantee that Mr. ,wou]dnot-visit the Methodist' Uurch ,n Rome, which', Cardinal Merry Pel .Val. stated, was' countenancing I .most, offensive'campaign ofcalunmious detraction against . the Pope. Mr secretary ..refused' to give the required guarantee. '•■'' • .1 The ; real cause :'of 'thq P ope not re»%'P, %■ Vico-President. of tho .'United States) M?M^ 6 a<W ? esSed man.Methodists.•-.■ .... ._..■

"VICIOUS" PROSELYTismic,

&■ aotionVof : the i ope in not: receiving •■MrKFairbariK.''h?; New York "Independent'' dwef & |hejery pomt ra sed inff indictment ■■&s*,%*s&:s Methodists in'.Rome, ine . -Independent", recognises' : the r .-■ TO."aye made,.and now make',.no complaint against ..the Pope; A more |enqus matter is at hand! -:The-defence; and. av perfectly adequate one if true is made ~by.. Archbishop' O'Connell, of Boston, - in ran. editoria^jn''llis , personally owned )ourna!.,;^ e . Pilo'li and it tw-' m**W-- m-VRoihe at TS ■ fe^ was. announced to •speak. : . The. Arehb shop says—and it 5 .iicredible'that.-hedid^oTleeandip

| fariatfcal Plague-Spqt.: i .'-'.'. 'The Methodist College, is an institution wJuph .for theMasi twenty-: ears has hepn, the centre: and the plaguespot of all the worst fanaticism possible to conceive, ;and impossible,to describei?otf against -the '.Holy Father , the Church of, which lje'w.tho head,- the. clergy of..which' he is ,tta bishop, and : the:-doctrines .which, ho Jiolds.and teaches. ..'-.■",","'■■"■">■ r . ■ t,™^ 6 >?4^ai^;in;that;'eslabhshment, but only venomous' hatred for the-Vatican and -of. the: holy old PW!*™ .resides therein.. So ''it was positively conveyed to Mr. Fairbanks That he must choose either his audience prhis address. Both were incompatible dignity or decency.' '■■■■ .<_, these are very serious charges, ihey v" Pomp ;•,.'. from:: : .': ho -■ irresponsible souna. w . Archbishop O'Connell has (mown Rome'intimately for "twenty-five years, by. f requeiit,visits and eight years of residence, during 'five yearsof-which ho was, rector-of the-American Catholic j?i?^r -r. £°;, His denunciation of the Methodist, College was sent through the -Associated Press before.'it appeared in ,-W, I«ot. _ Similar .charges'"'appear from other suiiilar sources.', "-.'' : •-':'-'

Purchase ; of Falsa Conversions.

If true, these charges' ought to .be confessed ;and a "radical"reform made, 'ihey would bo a disgrace to Methodism and.to |;ho Board of Missions which is in■ control. If false they .must" be challenged and met.. A bill of .particulars should be demanded, apd no fear or favour shown. They include bribery, wholesale and/repeated bribery for the purchase of ..false conversions, ■: bribery 1 a hundredfold wprse |,han that for which Senator Allds is now being tried by tho I'Now York State. Smiate. . . -..' ■ , ■■ "Now it is not easy to believo theso charges.'to:be,true. ..That the:, mission has sought for converts is confessed j but that''is quite legitimate, if legitimately done. . lt ; is. proper to speak and hold meetings and present reasons. It is; proper .to establish day schools and Sunday schools for children, and teach those whose parents are pleased tq have thorn.attend. -That much Protectants and Catholics do properly; but to, 'bribe poor women,'.: or ,'by inoney, gifts and promises cajole young .men and girls away from; their ■ Catholic homes' is most reprehensible. And equally criminal; is it. to 'lie' and. to fcalumniato' the Pope, priests and nuns. We had:not imagined' that the Italians, werp so devoted to.'the Church that it; would be'necessary to employ these corrupt means. ... .These charges of most vipioUs' methods of proselytising have/been made, and'must be confessed or denied;' and if denied Archbishop O'Connell is bound "to "present his, proofs to the public to : 'wnM hp.has appealed."" ■."•.' '-'"V ' '.:• "';'" '" ""•