| Show THAT PAPAL DECREE h 1 S t Views of the National Leagu Concerning It THE TORIES AT THE BOTTOM Journalistic Enterprise and the Bni falo An English Opinion of America Amer-ica Talmnee Indignant Etc The Papal Decree LONDON April 29Following is tbe text of the Papal decree On several occasions the apostolic see has given the people of Ireland whom it ha always regarded with special benevolence benevo-lence suitable admonition and advice when the circumstances required as tc how they might defend their rights without injury to justice or public peace Our Holy Father Leo XIII fearing lest in the species of warfare that has been introduced among the Irish in contests between landlords and tenants and which is commonly called I the plan of campaign and in the kind oi social interdict called boycotting boycot-ting arising from the same conlest the true service of justice and charity will be perverted ordered the supreme congregation of the inquisition to subject the matter to serious and careful examination fiance the following was proposed to their eminences the cardinals of that congregation con-gregation Is it perrnisible in disputes between landlords and their tenants in Irland to use the means of the plan of campaign and boycotting After long and mature deliberation their eminences unanimously answered in the nega ive and their decision was cor firwe t by the Holy Father on Wednesday Wednes-day the I8hof the present month The justice of the decision will be readily seen by any one who applies his mind to consider that the rent agreed on by mutual consent cannot ithout violating violat-ing the contract be diminished at tl e mere will of the tenant especially when there are tribunals appointed for settling set-tling such controversies and reducing unjust rents within the bounds of equity ater taking into ac louui the causes which diminish tbe ylue of land neither can it be considered permissible that rents be extorted from tenants and deposited in tbe hands of unknown persons to the detriment of land owners Finally it is contrare to justice and charity to persecute per-secute by social interdict those who are satisfied to pay the rents they agreed to pay those wbo in the epcerciseof their rights take vacant farms It will therefoie be your lordships duty prudently pru-dently but effectually to advise and exhort the clergy and laity not to trans jies the bounds of Christian charity md justice while they are striving for a remedy lor their distressed condition Signed R CARDINAL MONACO ROME April 20 LONDON April 30A dispatch from Rome says that the College of the Holy Office was charge to examine Mgr Persioos reports and see whether the 3atholi9s belonging to the National League were guilty of sin and debarred rom absoluion The cot gregation he Pope p esiding replied in the imrmaive and drew up a decree to hat effect Cardinal Simeoni acting under the Popes orders forwarded the decree to Ireland with special instruc ions to Mgr Persico and the Irish episcopacy when instructing the clergy to enforce it to inform them that they must refuse absolution to any ont ae lining to renounce membership in the National League It is further stated hat Leither tbe league nor its political urns are explicitly condemned by the lolv Office which confines itself to de ilsrin that the methods employed ae oniriry to the religions duties of Catholics The Pope approved the dec de-c lion without in any way entering into he political questions pending between England and Ireland Archbisnop iValbh is still in Rome in compliance with ord rs from the Vatican A meeting composed of Irishmen and Englishmen held at Aldershot ondemned the Popes decree and resolved solved to found a branch of the Home Rule Organization and to cease con nbuting to Peters Pence DUBLIN April 30 Cardinal Simeoni haR written a letter to Irish bishops from the propaganda inclosing the papal decree ralative to the plan of campaign and boycotting Mitch ells town branch of the National Leaeue discu sed the decree and has decided I hat it will not take its politics from Rome |
