Show THE POPE TO THE KINI thie the attitude of the pope and the boman catholics of italy is set forth in afferent affe cent encyclical to the bishops the clergy and the people of that country it is an important document it Is clear as to the alms aims of the church and holde holda out no false hope concerning a possible yielding to the demands of the state italy must come to terms the vatican Is prepared to continue to stand against the quirinal that is 10 the abe ahda meaning of the document the pope explains that he Is responsible for the organization of the darno of italy and that it was undertaken in reply to the fierce per se directed against catholic in he accuses the government nt to meet the demands of a buffering people the state he contends by confiscating ecclesiastical property erty and the patrimony of the monks onks has dried up the springs flowed the riches of the people those ase lands scattered over all parts of italy were the great reservoirs reservoir of th tafe public fortune the peasants and tl th poor drew their living from them before the sequestration of this property the people had a last resource in cases of 0 urgent ent need the reservoirs aig ar now dried up the capital has been squandered banana ered the megalomaniac government has turned it into cannon and ambitious war vessels the money of th the church of the congregations and odthe country has emigrated especially to england with the disappearance of coin came EL a ferocious and infamous fanto ius fiscal system Dely deprived rived of dweir tr belr capital the peasant and the lin landowner downer are p pressed by the agents of twe the treasury who being paid a percentage cerr tage on the contributions oppress and ana exhaust the poor man while the ten rqn thousand rich men by coming to an understanding with the collectors en except exceptional fonal privileges such according to the holy father is the origin of the poverty and misery of italy to the crusade against the church the encyclical says it la is due th that at the peasants find nothing to eat and therefore leave the country and that the workingman has become the slave ot of society in all parts of the country he is condemned to work hard bard for low wages in many villages there is no bread no meat the policy of the italian government is the policy of misery and famine in view of this state of affairs the pope tells the bishops priests and laymen to go to the pel people ople that is he recommends the establishing of parish pariah associations working mens clubs popular banks agricultural savings banks economic bakeries and a syndicates of all I 1 kinds the idea is f for or the church to come to the aid of the classes stricken by the hand of a shortsighted government it to hoped that the papal party in this way will be able to repair the net that has been I 1 broken by persecution I 1 and reestablish establish re one by one ane the institutions the government has dissolved suffering there must be during the period of reconstruction but ultimately the end will be gained the encyclical declares that though catholics may submit under compulsion to the existing state they cannot yield to it their allegiance their duty 14 1 to work for the restoration of the liberty erty and independence ot of their spiritual i baa oro po demand their consent to fh t order of things la Is irrational and al Batard because directly opposed to the of the fhe see to which 4 vamie obedience prom pro m fh IBB of the encyclical as furnished to new york p papers it is ingers evident evi defit that the pope P looks upon a surrender to the italian bovat monarchy chy as impossible the struggle may be drawn out indefinitely but that will not change the final result the italian government ernt nent now realizes its own weakness and the power of an utterance that has behind it the moral support of faithful believers scattered mattered throughout the whole world there are signs indicating that italian statesmen will yet have to acknowledge that tt it was a mistake rali take to wage war against the church that has the italian capital for center no civilized state can dispense with the moral influence exerted by the religious organizations g when working together tor for a common end each within its own proper sphere the and state are the dispensers dispense tv of blessings among the children of men when at war with one another the result must fruat be not only moral but also economic decay and ruin |