Excerpt from Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, Vol. 5: October, 1910 Mr. Ryan is very much persona grata at the Vatican. He is in intimate touch with the financial affairs of the Roman Catholic church, and it is predicted that it is only a matter of a short time until he, rather his banking house, will have carte blanche with the vast funds of the church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.