Show ROUSED ROOSEVEL TS IRE rev bertrand martin tipple head of the methodist Metho diEt church in rome has stirred up a hornets nest neat and the final sting may not come for years if ever to mr tipples zealous work for the methodist cause may indirectly be charged the incident which prevented theodore roosevelt meeting the pope only a short time ago former vice president fairbanks found himself in the same position as that which colonel roosevelt roosevell occupied of course the fairbanks incident did not cause such a furore as the roosevelt affair now colonel roosevelt Is angry at rev mr air tipple the former president wanted the clash with the vatican to rest as a personal matter so far as he was concerned but a statement issued by rev mr air tipple stirred up the trouble anew and then colonel roosevelt called reception he intended to give the american colony in rome while the work of methodism in rome says the statement started the rumpus it Is no longer methodism or any other ism but the great principle f toleration mr air roosevelt has struck a blow for twentieth century christianity after the fairbanks episode the methodists never dreamed that the vatican would commit a similar blunder with mr air roosevelt americans can now better understand how it is that the roman church has lost france and the men of italy and is losing spain and austria imagine colonel roosevelt when he be read this statement he like it a little bit and he said so in the true Roosevelt lan manner |