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Show ROOSEVELT REBUKES HEAD OF THE METHODIST PROPAGANDA IN ROME Calls Off a Meeting With American Colony After Reading an Attack on Catholics by Rev. B. M. Tipple, Pastor of the Methodist Church Rome, April 5. Roosevelt was not In his happiest mood today. Hi wish that thc Vatican audience Incident be regarded as personal to him had not been respected and he was Intensely ! annoyed. About the first thing tho ' former tpresldent did today was to . call off the reception to tho members I cf tho American colony which had . been set for tomorrow nlgbt This action can be traced directly to the Issuance Is-suance yesterday of a statement by Rev. II. M. Tipple, pastor of the American Am-erican Methodist church, In whkh op-. op-. portnuity was taken for an attack on tho Roman church. Mr. Roosevelt. cb.es not propose lo be used by any or.o to the disparagement of anODO else, Mr. Tipplo called on Mr. Roosevelt I yesterday afternoon and, on his ele- no.i, just as he will seo other old friends and Just aa he desired to fo Senator Root who, unfortunately, found himself unable to como to Europe." Eur-ope." KING CALLS ON ROOSEVELT. Rome, April 5. King Victor Emmanuel Em-manuel called on Mr Roosevelt at the hitter's hotel, tho Beau Site, thla morning. Some time was spent In an, animated conversation. Following tho chat, the king and Mr. Roosevelt entered tho motor car in which his majesty had driven to tho hotel, and a visit was paid to the barracks bar-racks of Iho cutrniHslcrs, tho royal bodyguard Tho cuimnslnrs execut- cd a series of maneuvers for tho benefit ben-efit of. the farmer president, who was much pleased From tho barracks the king and his guest motored to the unfinished monument mon-ument of Victor Emmanuel II. Leaving Leav-ing the car they climbed to the top of the colossal structure upon which $10,000100 has been expended thus far. From there they had a magnificent magnifi-cent view of the city. As tbey elrovn back to the hotel both were cheered by the populace. Mr. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Kcr-mlt Kcr-mlt and Miss Ethel had luncheon ns the guests of John Gardner Cool Id. go of Boston, formerly American minister minis-ter to Nicaragua This afternoon tho Ttoosovolts inado a sight-seeing auto trip with Prof. Carter, director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome, parture m:ide public a statement in which he lifted the Vatican episode out of the realm of the (personal and g:ive it a worldwide significance. "Mr. Roosevelt has struck a blow for . twentieth century Chrlstlaulty." said Mr. Tipple. "Tho representatives of two great republics havo been tho outs to put the Vatican where It belongs. be-longs. The Vatican Is incompatible in-compatible with republican principles. princi-ples. "This is a bitter dose fr patriotic Catholics in America to swallow. I wonder how many doses of this sort they will take before revolt. Is Catholicism Cath-olicism in America to be American or Romish. If Romish then every patriotic patri-otic American should ri6 to crush it, for Romish Catholicism Is thc uncompromising uncom-promising foe of freedom. The word advances but the Vatican neer." I The statement in full was shown to Mr. Revpsevelt today, when ho weld: "I had mode no arrangements to speak at any church or before any clerical organization in Rome. I have te'ce-lved a number of gentlemen of nil rellVlous'faitlia "wifcTliave called at iitj rooms or at the American embassy. embas-sy. I'nder the circumstances, I havo requested tho Amerlcau ambassador not to hold the reception which he had intended to hold Wcdneeday after-uoon. after-uoon. "As regards all efforts, by whomsoever, whomso-ever, made to bring about and Inflame religious animosities because of what has occurred between the Vatican and mself. I can do no more than to refer re-fer to the omphalic statements contained con-tained in my open letter to Dr. Lyman Ly-man Abbott, already published. "All I there said I desire to reiterate reit-erate with my whole power;" Mr. Leishman. the American ambassador, am-bassador, had arranged the reception at the American embassy in order that Mr. Roosevelt might meet the Americans in Rome regardless of tiieir delfgious faith, ou the neutral ground of the embHxsj. The appearance, appear-ance, however, of Mr. Tipple's statement state-ment displeased many American Cnth- ' ollcs, who forthwith munlfestcd on In- i tcution of abandoning their purpose to attend the reception if the Metho- j dists of tho organization represented by Mr. Tfr.iplo were to be present. The matter was carried to Mr. Roosevelt, who, after hearing both sides, promptly asked Mr. Irishman to cancel tho whole affair. This was done. The sensation caused by Hie determination deter-mination of Mr. Roosevelt not to ho received by the; pope on the terms mode by Cardinal Merry Do Val continues con-tinues unabated. The press today i filled with columns on the subject. The papers of all shades of Mjlltlcal opinion, with tho exception of the clerical organs, support Mr. Itoose-velt's Itoose-velt's attitude. Some of tho violent anticlerical sheets inllnmto that the affair may result in the downfall of the papal secretary. These "papers apparently aro trying to arouse a great anti-clerlcal demonstration to be made at tho railway station, when Mr. Roosevelt leaves the city on Wednesday Wed-nesday night. None of these partisan movements has the sympathy of Mr. Roosevelt who Is exceedingly put out that a personal Incident should havo Incited an exhibition of that very religious hostility which he so greatly depreciated. |