The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1888-09-01


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Winona Drift.
Special Correspondence of The Irish Standard.
Fathers Cotter and Gallagher have
returned from their annual retreat.
Examinations for the Normal School
commences Monday. The sch Dol opens
Wednesday.
| Saturday was the warmest day of any
with us, the mercury reaching as
high as 80 81 in the shade.
Frank Rowe was kicked by a horse
in the livery barn Of keenan, & Rowe
last Friday but not seriously injured.
There was very pleasant moonlight
excursion went from here to Fountain
City, Wis, on the Steamer Musser Sat-
urday evening.
The young ladies of st. Thomas gave
a very pleasant picnic one day last
week in Clark's grove on the south side
of Lake Winona.
Miss Croker, Miss Courtney and
Miss Gibbons. of Minneapolis, are Wis
iting friends in Winona, and to all ap-
pearances are having drst-class time.
The State Teachers Institute opened
at the new high school building in this
city on the 9th ult., and will con
tinue until Saturday. A large attend
ance is expected.
M. ". Mcdonnell has engaged with
the Shell Lake Lumber Company, Of
St. Paul, in the capacity Of travelling
salesman. He left here on the 9Th
inst, for long trip into Iowa and Ne
brasKa.
E. c. Mentally, accompanied his
brothers. wife, Mrs. D. S. Mentally, to
st. Paul last Tuesday, who went on the
excursion train to Helena, Montana.
Mrs. McNalIy has been visiting her hus-
bands parents in this city,
The city schools open Monday, Sep
TENDER 8. Miss Mary Liebe, who has
been visiting friends in Dakota, re-
turned home on the oath inst. Miss
Liebe is considered one of the first
teachers in the city schools.
The Presidents recent message to
Congress is considered in this place by
Democrats and Republicans alike as an
able,s fearless document for which Re.
publican senate is accountable and will
add to the presidents popularity.
w. j. Smith, of Galesvi'le, Wis, who
has been in the employment of the
West Publishing Company, of St. Paul,
severed his relations with that concern
and has accepted position in the law
Office of Towney & Randall in this city.
Gen. Geo. A. Sheridan, of Now York,
delivered what few of his Republican
friends termed a political address. here
on the Oath nit. His attempted dis
cussion of the tariff question fell fiat
and was great disappointment to his
friends, who were lead to believe that
Mr.. Sheridan was both a profound
thinker and an eloquent spe ker. He
gave as reason why the present tariff
should be maintained the old, old story
that everything was cheaper now than
before the tariff, and attributed it all
to the glorious system of protection.
He cited steel rails as an illustration
but carefully avoided mentioning even
a word of Henry Bessemer who trans
formed the face Of the civilized world
by his invention of a cheap and speedy
method Of making steel nor did he speak
of Thomas or Gilchrist whose improve
ments upon the invention of Bessemer
have been attended with results almost
as great as the Bessemer process itself
and which reduced the cost of the Bes-
semer steel rail more in the short period
of six months than has the protection
and l. american competition combined
from the day of its inception. The
Republican party will gain no votes by
reason of Mr.. Sheridan's tariff argu-
ments. But we understand that to
discuss the tariff is not his mission, bat |
to influence the so called Irish vote is !
the reason that he was sent out by his !
party. But in this he also fails, for his !
if such we may term his
idle talk, to that end, are as devoid of
truth as are his tariff arguments of
reason. There is not an Irishman in
America who does not know, if he is at !
all acquainted with the history of his
country, that it was not the free trade
but protective policy of England that
broke down and literally destroyed the
Industries of Ireland, and any argu
ment to the contrary is false and very
of the demagogue who
seeks to play upon the sympathies OF
The Irish voter to influence his vote for
Harrison, who hesitated not to abuse
him in recent speeches which are still
fresh in the minds Of Irishmen, who
will demonstrate to the entire satjsfac-
ion Of Mr.. Harrison that there are