A GOVERNMENT LOAN TO CUBAN PRIESTS.
Some of the papers are affirming that the United States Government has loaned money to the Catholic clergy of Cuba to support them until they can become self-sustaining. It is sincerely to be hoped that the report is not true. And if it is untrue, the government should lose no time in denying it. The evil of such a deed is not because this money is loaned to Catholics. The principle is just the same, and it would be equally bad if it was loaned to Protestants. And if it is actually true that the United States Government has made such a flagrant departure from its original principles, there will surely be a storm of protest against it on the part of the nation that will compel the reversal of the action. But if a prompt protest does not come that will speedily reverse this order of things, the powerful American nation will soon complete her ruin. And when this nation meets her ruin, all the rest of the world goes with her. There are things taking place in America to-day that should lead the most giddy to sober reflection.