Show UNDER FIRE Fairbanks Incident at Vatican In Inspires Inspires Inspires I spires Editorial Denouncing Religious ting WEEKLY Y REVIEW SAYS POSITION WAS W PS IMPROPER f Characterizes Former As Admirable American But De Dc Defends Defends fends Position of Vatican n Rome Romo Feb 12 The Weekly Re Ro Review view Rome the th organo of English speaking Catholics today todar publishes a alone alone along lone long editorial on Charles W Fair Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks banks former rico president of oC the th United States Stales which Is believed to have been Inspired by the Vatican The Tho editorial says sa s sIr Mr Ir Fairbanks protestantism Is broad and logical and allows him to pu put lul his stalwart shoulder to the wheel to help In every overy good cause Though a strong party part man mall In politics his devotion lo to party does doe not mako him desire the disappearance of or all parties but his own and he lie has the Ute same Barne the thc theory ory Ol with regard to religion He is a Methodist but ho has hiss no wish that Methodism should be the hue only religion Iu In America Mr Fairbanks is a type of millions of good Americans Americana friendly to the Catholic church ch and believing that it makes maes little HUle difference what a Q mans religion is 15 provided he docs doco his best to live lIvo up to it After reviewing the tho incident be between between between tween Mr Fairbanks and tho the Vatican The Tue Review emphasizes the tolerance of the Vatican and points out that a aman aman aman man may ma pass his whole life working In tho the Vatican archives and galler gallor galleries ies lee without even een being questioned as asto asto asto to whether he IB Is a Turk or an Ho lie may oven even bo ho a diplomatic representative of the tho Vatican without be being being being ing a Catholic But even eyen the of tho the Vatican continued tho the Re Review Review Review view cannot include the Methodist organization organisation which entered Rome Romo through the th breach mao mado mo o September 20 1870 with willi red shirts shi ts Many animosities have resulted but bul they hove have made no change In the spir spirit it or the tho system of the w ta Thai does not minister to the wants of or visiting lalLing Methodists here hore but It Is directed toward pervert pervertIng perverting Ing the faith of the people Not only that but the he Methodists have always been bitterly and avowed avowedly ly 13 1 eagerly welcoming ev ov every 0 I cry ery er opportunity to discharge venom I against ag Catholicism Ism Statistics com coni compiled compiled piled by themselves show that the tho cost of making a single Roman a Methodist averages seven saven thousand franks 1100 In the last forty years they have spent twelve millions In this unholy work of Catholics especially especIally Catholic children Mr Fairbanks did not riot know these facts or ho would not have given his promise to speak sl cak in n the time Methodist church hours before the time fixed for his audience with the pope Otherwise he would have havo un understood understood how incompatible was his public appearance In this hotbed of proselytism and antipa pal bitterness with an nn audIence with the tho pope |