The Irish standard., 1891-01-10

:, this testimonial of their regard. land
through you who are present" be
added, II wish to thank my non Catho-
lie friends, for while I minister to
Catholic people, I have made many
friends among business men and Of
ticials, who are without this circle, and
have always been received by them
wlth.open arms, and they have on every
occasion given me promises OF assist"
ance in any work I might undertake.
whether it be for cathedral, church or
orphanage,"
NORTH DAKOTA.
The Bismarck Tribune: A meeting Of
the citizens of Bismarck was held at
the city hall Monday evening to take
preliminary steps toward the giving Of
Bishop Stanley reception in this city
at al early day, Hoe. E A. Williams
presided, and Frank Kihm acted as
Secretary, Father Martin having ex-
planned the object Of the meeting, it
was decided that a committee CT ten be
appointed by Father Martin, with full
power to act and complete arrange
ments, The meeting then adjourned,
subject to the call of Father Martin. 1T
is likely the reception VIII be rendered
some time next month. Bishop Stanley
has not yet honored Bismarck with his
presence, and the capital city should
see that he is greeted with right royal
reception.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Senator pettigrew, OF South Dakota,
believes in the extermination Of seals
in Alaskan waters. The following is
what he said TO g. New York inter-
viewer: ALI of the seals in Alaskan
waters should be exterminated. I'he
government should pay q bounty for
each seal killed until thew are all gone.
IF the seals We're exterminated the
Alaskan waters would be the greatest
fishing waters in the world. The seals
feed On cod fish, Each seal eats five or
six pounds of cod fish per day. Now,
instead of having a great fishing sea de.
stroyed entirely, I think it would be
more profitable to kill every seal and let
the fish be the prey Of man, The seal
company gives employment to some 800
Indians but if these waters are rid of
seals and given over to fishing at least
10000 American citizens would have
employment. Alaska would then
amount to something and the Behring
sea difficulty would soon be settled.
WISCONSIN.
In an address delivered at Madison
before the State Teachers association.
0. E. Wells, the Democratic state SUPER
intendent of schools, had this to say on
the Bennett law:
Despite all improvements in lin"
guistic training, it remained for the
legislature OF Wisconsin TO discover the
superiority of arithmetic for language
exercises. UnskiIled teachers IN bh1s
state, with little knowledge of any Ian
guage. must initiate the unversed
foreigner into the mysteries OF English
speech by the use Of Arabic symbols
and the mathematical notation. Why
history should have been selected for
instruction IN language is not very
plain. The mastery of a new language
is found sufficiently arduous without
being freighted with the conquest OF
two Of the most difficult studies in the
schools. Thepresent status OF this law
as an operative statute does rot concern
us, An appeal upon that phase Of che
question has been taken to the highest
tribunal in the land. and judgment has
been pronounced. For more than Thirty
years our laws have not recognized any
school in which all instruction was not
given in the English language, au ex-
ception being made in favor of formal
class work in some foreign tongue not
exceeding one half hour day. # this
statute has been neglected or evaded
there must have been some fault in the
supervision, county and state. The
remedy. then, would seem to be better
inspection and control of such schools
and the cultivation of better public
sentiment. If this does not suffice, and
it is thought that the use of English is
diminishing relatively to the growth of
population. and that such loss Is COR
relative with other injuries to the pub
lie veal, then campaign Of education
should be begun to persuade che people
to permit, through constitutional
amendment, the control Of all education
to the state. Perhaps the result might
be more efectually obtained by such
amendment as would permit education.
al qualification for suffrage and eligi-.
bilitY to Office. Interference in that
case would only be indirect and remote.
Qaali fcations for these important
public functions would then depend
upon personal choice. and dlsfranchise-
mept would be entirely voluntary, If
we point to single state in uI,ny, . !,