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Show IWI'S REPLY Says People in America Do Not Understand Conditions Prevailing Pre-vailing in Rome. METHODIST - ASSOCIATION DENOUNCED AS ENEMY Holds Public Address of Former Vice President, Before Society So-ciety a Bar. CHICAGO. Feb. S. A slatompnt was given to the Associated Tress by Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland toda,y lu which the archbishop arch-bishop says: " "People in Aiheriea may easily mls-, mls-, apprehend tho circumstances in Hrrtnc which led the Vatican to refuse an audl-enco audl-enco witli tho holy father to Mr. Charles W. Fairbanks after he. a former vice president of tho United States, would have made a public address before the Methodist association of that city. Most likely. Mr- Fairbanks himself did not fully realize the moaning which Rqinana would attribute to bis address. "It was not a nuestfon of Mr. Fairbanks Fair-banks being a Method 1st or going to a Methodist church in Rome for fcunday devotions. Jt was a question of appearing appear-ing to glvo the fullest upprovnl to Lho work of the Methodist association in Rome. "I was in Rome last winter and I made a very particular study of this Methodist propaganda. It has gone so far that Catholics have organized tlio society so-ciety for the preservation of tho faith lo fight against it. Roast for I.cthodists, "Tho purpose ' of the work of the Methodist association in Rome is confessed con-fessed openly. The mcnii3 employed arc by no means honorable. Thoy take eveiy advantage of the povej-iy of the poor Ol liorac. x w nniiKS eircuini.cn anil displayed In the windows of their book stores are slanders against the Catholic faith, the holy pontiff at Rome and a misrepresentation of the whole Catholic svsteiu. "Now, a public address by a former vice president of the United States before be-fore the Methodist association can have no other meaning In the eyes of tho Roman, public than arc approval of the methods of the Methodist association. Had the holy father, guardian of the spiritual Interests of the Catholic church of the. world, .smilingly welcomed Mr Fairbanks to an aiidienco on tho following follow-ing day, in what other position would he j appear" 'to be than giving Ids approval to the, propaganda of the Methodist association as-sociation before which the address had been given'.' "It was simply Impossible for the holy father, In his ofiicial position as a sovereign sov-ereign pontiff of tho Catholic church, to do aught else lhau to say politely to Mr. Fairbanks: v " 'I cannot receive you and accord you the honors due you in alt other circumstances cir-cumstances as an American anil as a dlntlngnlshcd. representative of a great republic " . |