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THE AMERICAN y i 0 ( A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, HOW ROME REGARDS THE WAR WITH SPAIN As a Contest Between Prot estantism and Roman Catholicism. Sentiment or Member f the "Sacred College" Also Unfriendly to the United States-Pope Sets . Cp Claim U Cuba. A Special' Cabk gram to the Globe Democrat from Rome dated June 11, gaye: Although every effort has been made In Vatican circles to prevent the mat ter from becoming known, the pope is in such a delicate condition of health that four times during the last three weeks Dr. Lapponi, his chief physician warned his immediate entourage as well as the papal camerlengo, Cardinal Oreglio, who, by virtue of his office, as sumes on the death of the pope, charge f all the affairs of the papacy pending the election of the new pontiff, to pre pare for the worst. It is not that he has suffered from any specifio Illness, but there has been a most alarming1 decline in vitality and In strength, and that has brought about syncope of such alarming char acter that Dr. Lapponi expressed fear that the aced pontiff would never re cover consciousness. The physician as well as those about the pope do not hesitate to attribute his altered condition to his grief on the score of Soaln. and he has on several occasions! intimated to his attendants, and likewise totthe Marquis Mary Del Val, theij venerable Spanish Ambassa dor to the Vatican, that he felt that his hour'ihad come, and that Divine Providence would asiuredly not per mit him to live to witness the downfall of a Catholic nation so dear to his heart as Spain. . ' ' ' , There is co doubt that the sympathy of the Pontiff, as well as the papal court and of 'the sacred college, are DISTINCTLY AND PRONOUNCED LY IN FAVOR OP SPAIN and that the present war is regarded at the Vatican as A CONFLICT BETWEEN CATHOLICISM AND PROTES TANTISM, and that a defeat of Spain will be considered in the light of BLOW to the CATHOLIC CHURCH As pointed out to me today by a for eign diplomat accredited to the Vatl- can, andjwho has spent many years of his life in that capacity, there is no power in the world, not even Italy it self, which fromSUme immemorial has maintained such intimate relations with the papacy as Spain. The latter has always been the chief ally of the holy see in combatting the reformation, and, since , the council of Trent, the theology, the philosophy and the en tire influence"of the papacy has been Spanish rather than Roman. More over, the three (most influential mem bers of the sacred college at the pres ent moment, namely, Cardinals Ram polla, Jacobini and Mocenni, have all spent long years as nuncios in Madrid, and are avowedly pro-Spanish, while the favorite prelate in attendance on the holy father and the one who enjoj s to the greatest degree his confidence and affection, is Mgr. Merry Del Val, the son of the Spanish Ambassador here. The pontiff thoroughly disapproved of the present Liberal cabinet in Spain and deplored the policy which it has pirsued, as well as the neglect of which its members have been guilty In making proper preparations for the conflict with the United States. Pre mier Sagasta has never stood well here, owing to the fact of his being the grand master of Freemasonry in Spain, while the Liberals, whenever in office, have Incurred the animosity of the holy see by introducing reforms that were an' tagonistlc to the church. But the relations of the bolv father with the queen regent remain as litl- mate as intimate as ever. He is in constant communication with her, and, "AMERICA FOR AMERICANS." although since the rej cuon by the United States of his offers of mediation, he has been forced to maintain an offi cially neutral attitude for fear of off. nd ing the influential Catholic element in the United States, yet he has NEVER CEASED FOR A MOMENT TO LA BOR through bis nuncios, and particu lar THROUGH THE ORDER OF THE JESUITS, for an Intervention by the continental powers in behalf of Spain, with a view to a termination of the war. He is perfectly indifferent to the loss of Cuba, but desires at all costs to maintain the Queen Regent and her son on the throne of Spain, and like wise to secure, the retention by Spain of the Philippine Islands, where the Roman Catholic church owns vast property. Tte holy father takes the view that; both the Philippine islands and Cuba are, j strictly speaking, tfie projerty of the papa cy, Spain holding tftern from tlie holy see, as fiefs granted three centuries ago, and Leo XIII claims tlwt from the moment that Spain ceases to fulfill tlit conditions of the fief and is unable to retain coritrol of these dependencies, the fief ceases to be op erative, and the depehdencies REVERT TO THE HOLY SEE. While the pontiff is not prepared to put forward any arguments on this score with regard to the Antilles, where the church interests are rela tively unimportant, he is doing so in the case of the Philippines, and there is no doubt that, were France or even Germaiy to secure from Spain a lease of the Philippines in return for an ad vance of the money needed to pay the war indemnity, which will doubtless be exacted by the United States, the theoretical claim of either of these two leading powers might be ttreegthened by a transfer to them of the fiefs by the papacy. It is intimated in Vatican circles that the unfriendly sentiments of both the pontiff and the sacred col.ege with re gard to America, in connection with the present war, will be demonstrated at the forthcoming consistory by the failure of the pontiff to fulfill his orlg laal intention of conferring a red hat upon one of the most conspicuous of the American archbishops, wco is known We hoM that U men are Aii:ercUn OMAHA, NEBKASKA, here to have teen elected for this honor. The Vatican take the ground that it would be In questionable tatte to give at the present moment to the United States so strlkirg a demonstration of pontifical regard as the creation of a second American cardinal, and the candidate for the dignity in question is, therefore, likely to have to wat for a new pope before h s can hope to receive the ha'. In conclusion, I would add on the most rel able atd positive authority that Leo's condition is so alarming that the news of any great Spanish disaster, or of a revolution at Madrid, might be followed by fatal results, and culminate in a conclave, that is to say, the elec tion of his successor to the chair of .St. Peter. Unfriendly Mexicans. Phoenix, Arizona, June 11 The Re publican of this city says there is a prospect of trouble between the Mexi cans and Americans, at the towns of Clifter, Morenci and Metcalf. Those towns, especially Morenci, have been the scenes of frequent disturbances for years. The present threatened out break is said to be based on the sympa thy of the Mexicans with Spain. The Mexican population of those mining camps has been recruited chit fly from Chihuahua, and is said to be made up of a class of citizens who found it neces sary to leave the southern republic to save their skins. Gov. McCord lately received a letter from Senor Maximo Gavito, the Mexi can consul at Bisbee, describing the condition of affairs in Eastern Graham county, whereupon the governor wrote the district attorney at that place, in closing a copy of the consul's letter and of his own reply Jo it, saying that aim liar copies had been sent to the town marshals at each of the above men tioned towns In Graham county, with the request that they use their best efforts toward preventing friction and asking that the district attorney oc-op- erate in the matter. the American should be on every newsdealers counter. Will you and your friends see to it in your city? Keep asking for this paper. wfco Swear Allrgianc to the United State, without a mental reervatin. Fill DAY, JUNE 17, 189$. KEEP THIS IN MIND DEWEY SQUELCHED THE ARCHBISHOP. The Manila Prelate, Caught in One Lie.Told Another to Clear Himself. The Archbishop Went "Oat Like Tallow Dip, With a Slu and a Very Bad Smell," When Dewey Sent Him His Own Signed Fastoral Letter. Washington, D. C, June 1. An offi cial with Admiral Dewey writes a friend in the Navy Department that the Admiral astonished a high church official out there at Manila very much recently. . The Bishop of Man 11a, "so the kt ter runs, "bad been circulating pastor als, urging his people to rise up and kill 'los heretlcos' (the heathen Amer icans,) who would not permit the sacra ments of matrimony or the last rites for the dying to be administered. Dewey waited until he could fix some of these steles definitely upon the reverend Ananias, acd then wrote him a note, in which the Admiral expressed his astonishment that an Archbishop could so far forget and debase his holy office as to be guilty of lying, and lying to basely, li ne neara any more oi these falsehoods from his reverence or any of the minor clergy, he, Dewey, would turn his guns loose upon the Archbishop's palace at Cavite and the cathedral at Manila, and level both to the ground. 1 False teachers shall ntt disgrace the holy came they pretend to reverence by uitaring the most abso lute falsehoods in the name of God." , " A Frcnoh priest, who ess a broth er that is a chaplain in the United' States navy, undertook to carry the note to the Archbishop. In three days there came back a most ar ject apology to the American commandant, in which the holy man denied tbat he had ever said, or thought the wicked things im puted to him. In rep'y, Dewey simply etnt the Archbishop his own pastoral letter that . he had somehow ot tained which contained the very words and expressions the arcb, bishop had sworn he never thought of, much less used. This ended the corres pondence. But the Archbishop was snuffed out like a tallow dip, with sizz and a very bad smell. "Globe-Democrat. Jesuit Working This Scheme. Influences other than commercial and political are beginning to have a bearing on the Philippines policy of this government. In the past week the President has received very strong rep resentation upon the subject from re ligious bodies. The Protestant churches are taking a deep interest Some an niversary gatherings have adopted me morials. Eminent ministers on their way to or from assemblies and confer ences have stopped in Washington and given their views to the administration and members of Congress, Religious reasons against the return ot the Phil ippines to Spain are being advanced. The same influences are pressing the government to take and hold the Caro lines and the Ladrones. Methodist ministers, who are leaders in 'their denomination, to which the President belongs, have called on him to says that the moral sense of the na tion will not submit to the restoration of Spanish rule in the Philippines. They declare the United States owes it to the Philippines to give them religious liberty. They argue that this nation has christian duties to perform, and that it will disregard Its obligations if it suffers misrule and religious intoler ance to resume full sway when it has been almost banished, These ministers talk with much feeling. Their convic tions are very positive. It seems that they are backed by considerable senti ment of the same kind in the churches. If this religious argument regarding the Philippines is as widely entertained as it appears to be, it will figure in the determination of the government's course. The Protestant bodies make the point that missionary efforts to bet ter the condition ot the natives to civ ilize them have been prohibited in tho PhllloDines bv the influence ot the Catholic orders with the Spanish au thority. They tell the president of re peated efforts in vain to get a footing on the islands for christian missionar PRICE FIVE CENTS. Number 25. ies. They are about to put iorth new efforts, and they insist that It to the duty of the United States to at loaot give the attempts to evangelize the Philippines protection. The case of the Carolines is being used to point the argument At one time the people of those islands were, under missionary influences, advancing rapidly toward civilisation. The Span ish authorities expelled the missionar ies, and the natives relapsed. If the administration listens to the church people, the Carolines and tho Ladronea ai well as the Philippines, will be wrested from Spain, Exchange. Are We to Have More of Copplnger. Washington, June 9. 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