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Show IRELAND REVIEWS YATICANINCIEENT NEW YORK, Juno 29. Responding to the address of the board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church. It-sued May 16, Archbishop Ireland contributes to the forthcoming isuo of tho North American Review an extended article upu the Methodist Episcopal church in Italy, reviewing the statement of the Methodist bishops bish-ops and justifying the action of the Vatican In connection with Colonel Roosevelt. He quotes extensively from the writings of Methodist missionaries, bishops and newspapers In Ttaly attacking at-tacking the papacy and sets forth that each visit of a public man of America to the Methodist college iu Rome has been seized upon by the local representatives of tbe Methodist Meth-odist church hb an occasion for Insulting In-sulting the Vatican, He cltea tbe cases of tho visits of ex-?.layor Seth Low and Mr. Fairbanks He claims the Methodise preachers In Italy are paid higher salaries than those of other denominations; that their work Is confined chiefly to proselyting, pros-elyting, and that the results have not been at all commensurate with the cost of the work. On Roocevelt Incident. Respecting the Roosevelt incident, be says: "As far an precedents gave lessons, the vallcan could not but fear that pressure might be brought to bear on him to induce him to lend hl.i favor to the Institution of Via Ventl Settembre With the purpose and wiles of the Institute, Mr. Roosevelt, It was thought, was probably not conversant. con-versant. So far he has had do occasion oc-casion to run up against Its ruling spirit. Rev. Mr. Tipple. Tho honor of lh; Vatican was supreme, as It should be In tbe mind of the cardinal: car-dinal: it must at all hazards be safeguarded; safe-guarded; neither must obstacles intervene in-tervene that should keep the doors of tho vatitan from lu-lni? thrown wide open iu greeting to Mr. Roosevelt. with the necessity of safeguarding at all hazards the honor of the holy see, was allowed no alternative. The an- dience was made impossible. Suu I was tho Roosevelt Incident. In which, back of all the Immediate clrconv stances, the one controlling element waj the American ilethoillst EpU-copal EpU-copal church. "The attitude of the Vatican towards to-wards the Methodist mission mu?t not bo other than It Is. If In this : attitude there Is Intolerance, it Is the intolerance of vile Insult and treacb- , erous fraud With persons dlfferhS from it In creed, honorable in their j sloctrlty and belief and well man- J nered In their bearing, the Vatican Is always most tolerant, most eourteoiu. but, as was the Savior himself, eo i3 the Vatican severe and intolerant I when confronted by the pharlste anl the money changer of the' temple." "In ieply to Mr. Roosevelt's request for an audience, a message was sent, courteous and confidential, accruing, of course, to the request, yet Intimating Intimat-ing the unpleasant position to which the Vatican should be reduced wero there the least peril that what had happened to Mr. Low and Mr. Fairbanks, Fair-banks, by any miscalculation or oversight, over-sight, would happen to him. The more Illustrious the visitor, the more was he lo be put on his guard. Message From the Vatican. "Unfortunately the message of th? Vatican reached Mr. Roosevelt under the cover of comments from the haud of the American ambassador to tbo qulrlnal and was read In the glare of those comments. Certainly the situation sit-uation was perplexing. With tbo comments of Mr. Leishman nndr his eyes, the answer given by Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt Is not a surprise to Americans. "Subsequent developments brought further confusion. There wre other and more emphatic comments from Mr. Lelshmun to Mr. Roosevelt and there was the cavalier and unwarranted unwar-ranted declaration of Mr. O'Loughlln to thr cardinal that Mr. Roosevelt was Just the man lo go from tbe Vatican Vat-ican to the Methodist hall Circumstances, Circum-stances, let us say, conspired to defeat de-feat nn understanding which was sure to have been reached had Mr. Roosevelt and the cardinal secretary of state cnuifl face to face or had they spoken to each other in direct torresiwndHnce without let or hindrance hin-drance bv Intermediaries. Cardinal Does His Duty. "However, as things went, the cardinal car-dinal secretary of state, supremely preoccupied, as it was his duty to be, , |