Cleveland’s Gift to the Pope by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 17, 1888

Cleveland’s Gift to the Pope

By Editor

SOME people are consoling themselves with the idea that President Cleveland's gift to the Pope had no political significance,—that he did not make it officially, but as a private person. But we are very certain that the President did not so regard it, and that the Pope did not receive it as from a private person. In return for it, he sent his blessing to the President, and to the country of which he is the head. It is worth noting that the kingdom of Italy, and the united kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, are the only civilized nations of any importance in the world, that honored themselves by not honoring the Pope with presents on the occasion of his jubilee.