| Show ITALY AND THE VATICAN how the bloodless and unequal war Is waged it 13 a maxim handed down from aap to age by the successors of st peter that w bat ever spiritual or temporal powers haye once been placed within their hands shall be kept intact and unimpaired says magazine they do not admit defeat what they do not possess de facto they at least posses de jure if they have lost the substance they retain the shadow and if their earthly kingdom has been filched that loss they say will only be continued for a season until eliat brighter day returns when all ahall be restored the holy catholic church it is said can afford to stand and vait an all seeing providence will give her the victory at last in the belief of all true catholics it is certain that she will eventually triumph as that the sun will rise again meanwhile though she never she never rests and she presses on her claims with a persistency which if often silent never flags they are pushed unceasingly from hour to hour from lay to day from year to year and if the outside world can forget them or deride them the government of king humbert never can it has to face an unsleeping foe whom no good will can ever conciliate or appease whose claims are incapable of compromise both demand the right to rule in the city of the caesara caesars and the victory of one side means the inevitable and humiliation of the other so is waged the bloodless but unequal war yet though the occupation of the quirinal is securely based on force the vatican has weapons in her arsenal of a less material kind with which she is well able to harass and annoy |
