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Show Inspired Editorial by "Review" Discusses Fairbanks Incident By Associated Prcaa. ROME, Fob. 12. Tho Weekly Re-viow, Re-viow, Romo, tho organ of English-speaking Catholics, today publishes a long editorial on Charles W. Fairbanks, former for-mer vice president of the United States, which is believed to have been inspired by the Vatican. The editorial says: "Mr. Fairbanks 'b Protestantism is broad and logical and allows him to put his stalwart shoulder to tho wheel to help on every good causo. Though a strong party man in politics, his devotion devo-tion to party does not mako him desire the disappearance of all parties but his own, and ho has tho samo theory with regard to religion, lto is a Methodist, but ho has no wish that Methodism should bo the only religion in America. "Mr, Fairbanks is a typo of millions of good Americans, friendly to tho Catholic church, and believing that it makes little difference what a man's religion is provided he does his best to live up to it." After reviewing the incident between Mr. Fairbanks and tho Vatican, tho .Review .Re-view cmphnsi7.es tho toleranco of tho Vatican and points out that a man may pass his whole lifo working in tho Vatican Vat-ican archives and gallorics without oven being questioned as to whether ho is a Turk or an atheist. Ho may oven be H diplomatic representative to tho vnt-ican vnt-ican without being a Catholic. "But even the all-embracing liberty of the Vatican," continued tho Kcviow, "cannot lucludo the Methodist organization, organ-ization, which entered Romo through tho breach mado September 20, 1S70, with Garibaldi's red shirts, Man' animosities an-imosities have resulted, but thoy havo mado no cliango in the spirit or tho system sys-tem of the Methodists. Thoir organization organiza-tion does not minister to tho wants of visiting Methodists here, but is directed toward perverting tho faith of the people. peo-ple. "Not only that, but tho Methodists havo always boon bitterly and avowedly anti-papal', eagerly welcoming overy opportunity op-portunity to discharge their venom against Catholicism. Statistics, compiled by themselves, show that tho cost of making a single Roman a Mothodist averages 7000 franca ($1-100). In tho last lorty years thoy havo spent 12,-000,000 12,-000,000 francs in this unholy work of proselyting Catholics, especially Catholic Cath-olic children. "Mr. Fairbanks did not know these facts or he would not havo given his promise to speak in tho Methodist church twenty-four hours beforo tho timo fixed for his audience with tho pope. Otherwise he would havo understood under-stood how incompatible was his public appoaranco in this hotbed of anti-Catholic anti-Catholic proHclytism and anti-papal bitterness bit-terness with an audionco with the pope." |