POLITICIANS SEEKING ROME'S AID.
In a recent sermon in his Baltimore cathedral, Cardinal Gibbons took occasion to air his intimacy with prominent statesmen. He is reported to have said: "One evening a few months ago, in Washington, I had the honor of conversing separately with six distinguished statesmen, all of whom are available for the Presidency," to which he added that he "found them all in a receptive mood." This is pretty good testimony to the fact that the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States moves in high political circles at the capital of the nation, and is on intimate terms with its leading statesmen and politicians. The state and 'the church' are getting very close together, and the great church federation movement is greatly facilitating the soon-coming union. And the masses are oblivious to the meaning of it.