The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-06-22

tenay Baylor, from which We copy the
following interesting clippings
The Cuban may he any one of fifty
things. There Is a fundamental basis
of degenerate Spauiard.
Ii was n Catholic priest who put into
his own words what he knew. He
said :" | cannot understand ii. We
have the holy mysteries of the one
true Faith. But | have lived in Eng
land, i'll America, and though | hold
You to he entirely wrong in your pre-
misses. somehow your religion makes
for character look around and see
good Catholics always, but not 80 often
good Christians | see Grightful inn
morality. SEGA Sunday without true
sacredness, mdcfcnsihle; see low
standards Of life, of truth, of honesty.
of honor In the family, in this state,
see that which no Christian priest
can respect. or conscicntiously uphold.
do not know what the remedy is.
Doubtless our blessed Lord will give
it to us eventually, but this country is
now in far more terrible state reh-
giously and morally than politically.
| do what can, personally that Is all
any man can do when things go wrong
and leave the result tn God. lie
bowed his head ON his breast rs he
spoke, aud his face WAS full of sorrow.
not malice or anger | dent think he
spoke rs a Spnniard Mt all, though he
was II very highly patriotic and
intelligent one. | think he spoke
as Daniel. ms jeremiah. ~ lsaiah
did. And anyone who has lived in
Cuba long will bear Witness that he
spoke the truth of II people who have
amiahle and excellent qualities but
whose religious IDEAS need to be vital
2ed. Priests and people have alike To
learn that the letter of any religion
kills, and that the spirit of any rcli-
Slon calling itself Christian must
produce creatures whose characters
are like CHRIST lives III greater or
less measure the life of Christ,
One Of the things that struck me
most IN Cuba Was that the churches
were Tor the most part empty even ON
Sunday. In these unsettled times
they are not always kept open. IT IS
true aud IN the interior theyare guarded
by the clergy and saeristans very care
fully. No doubt their most valuable
treasures have been long since remoy
ed to some place of snfctY. But even
on Sundays and saints days one sees
only the devout few, the faithful.
not the large congregations one would
expect to see under such sorrowlul
circumstances. Bull fights and cock
fights, lotteries, bales and fandangea.
monte, and Wlthal the guitar baseball.
now the latest fashionable fad after II
low mass, perhaps the markets, shops,
thcatcrs, cnfcs, all open ~ usunl tho
drive or promenade on the Prado
these make II Cuban Sunday, together
with endless cigarrlll08 md siestag
and louugings public and private.
Trumpcts sound musicnlly IN HE Prado
for the Sunday morning inspection of
the Volunteers ii turbulent aud
powerful body enough, for they hive
known to raise against the Captain
General himself. suck the pnlnee md
send him hack to Spnin but IN the
main loynl pcuiusnlnres mud 10 he
counted upon by Spain. They hive
relatively the poaition of the National
Guard with us. are not paid eXcent
when in active service nnd nre employed
in Guarding pHbIic Bropertv and prez
SERVING order
SpaIn has. Mt tins time. trnu9portcd
la the island the lnrucst force ever
sent hv sea hundred aud eighty
Thousand men. uerordluu 10 olliciaI
statements She Ind II fleet to nrt IN
concert with this big army. She had
another army of civil ollieinla " ho did
not want tn lose place. power. and on
portunitica for REGULATION above Mi !,
whose emheZ2lcmcnts amount to mil
lions every year. and who were aus
premeK loVal tothen own selfish inter
csts She held the large cities and
maintained very good order in them
nil. But she Ind to war net only
against the insurgents, but against
the elimn'e, homeeiekness, her descr-
tions, trofugoa (fugitiyes from the
draft aud cronkcra of her own ranks.
Cuha has been mn orange which has
been most numerically squeezed by II
mailed hand, and that in thousand
different fashions This was inevi-
table Where the governing power IL
thousands Of miles distant from the
province to be governed, it il always
the ease. Cubu hasaIways had 10 bear
II great deal more than her gust share
of the debt which Spain has incurred
in her numerous wars. She has TO
raise n large sobrnnto for the child
king whether she can sparc IT or not.
She has had to pny for her own goV-