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Show THE VATICAN IS ASTONISHED. The latest note from the War depigment depig-ment through Gov Taft to the Vatican hus disconcerted the Tapal dlplo-matists dlplo-matists They expected long-drawn-out negotiations halr-spllttlng nnd compromises Instead of thnt, their declaration that they coull not ordei tho frlits out ot the Islanla was no cepted ns final, and this Government will proceed on the general principles alrevly agreed upon with the Papal See Our officials will collect the evidences evi-dences of title will compute the value of the mllltnr) occupnnc) nnd will agreeabl) to the terms of the pro-ceduin pro-ceduin of the valuation commission prnvlled for In the negotlitlons pa) whatever la idjudged to be due will take the lands of tha monistic orders thus paid for and not found to be necessary for the uses of the church nnl the friar must go W Ith regard to the demand for the withdrawal of the monastic orders Sccretars Hoots note mates Is vers .plain that It Is not this Government that demands It but the native Catholics Cath-olics who tind thelt presence and med llesomeness Insupportable The hostility of the native potulatlon Is such that the friars cannot return tn their founer locilllle without being suMnlncd bj force und Ihls tone cm-not cm-not bo exerted bs thla countrs nor under II aiisjlces Iho reult will be thut thes will have to go, and j,o In worse plight than If the Vatican Tiu I undertaken the manner of their going The etfect will be 1 rac tlcall) thnt the "ratlcan leaves them 0 thel- fate The failure to econrt the efforts of this Government for Ihe reinovul of the frlara will Juatlfs thono governments ililelly ot Catholic countries which hive dealt directly with church question ques-tion that affect them un I theli 1 eople without reference to the Vntlmn Hut bs the Vatican has ninny protested against being Ignoted thla falluie nf the United States lepiesculiitlves lo como to nn understanding Willi It on 11 cnurch question by iuhoii of lis own declination to act, .neps away nt once the giound for every protest thnt the Vatican ha mule In this leaped Tho full and cohiluslvo unswer in caso 01 null n protest In future 1 in be thnt as shown In this ease II Is qullu useless use-less to undertako to ileal with the Vatican The powera Inteicsted havo understood this All nlong, but It re. malned for tte Unite! states to dem onstrate It. The dispatch refer to thl matter as a partial failure of the negotiations ne-gotiations of Gov. Taft. To our mind It is a signal triumph This Government Govern-ment can now go forward In Its own way, on the line agreed upon. It ha a free hand, and as the Filipino people peo-ple declare that they wont have the friars on nny terms, these gentrs must look out for themelves, they arc out ln the cold And there Is where "fine dlplomacs ' gets left and 'shirt-sleeve' dlplomacs gets In Its effective work. |