The Irish standard., 1892-08-13
P ASSEDl TN \ I RE VIEWl

Mr.. Cnannlnge eleLer ~ Ine VIE Ql Slr
Edwin Arnold, the oriental poet and
journalist.
Navroji, the Hindoo elected to the
British parliament, is far from being 50
black man" as Lord Salisbury extensively
called him. He is very light-colored for
his nationality, and bears reputation
Of being q gentleman Of high culture
and education. The member for India
will be able to give some useful informa-
ton to the house when Indian affairs. are
discussed.
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Hon. Richard G. Kerns, member Of
the Republican national executive COM
mittee,, is an Irrishman by birth, reared
in Iowa, and has risen through his own
exertions to position Of great influence
and wealth. He is one of the most sue
cessful railroad owners and mine opera
tors in America, is a devoted Catholic.
and has been president Of the Catholic
club Of st. Louis.
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As illustrating the extent of the Tory
appeal to ignorant bigotry in the recent
election this fact may be cited on the
authority of the Countess Kesrney, who
published it in the Times: In some of
the counties in England the country con-
stituencies were warned, and number
of them actually believed, that if Mr..
Gladstone came into power and carried
q home rule bill, they would be forced
to become Roman Catholic, and If they
refused they would be burned at the
stake on the village green.
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The Puritan fathers were greatly ad-
dicted to smoking. Indeed the practice
became so common that even these
straight laced observers of times and
seasons actually smoked in church.
This custom soon caused very consider
able annoyance, as the religious exercises
were greatly disturbed by the blinking
of tlints and steels to light their pipes,
and by the clouds of smoke in church.
Hence, in the year 1869, the colony
passed this law: lit is enacted that any
person or persons that shall be found
smoking of tobacco on the Lords day,
going to or coming from the meetings,
within two miles of meeting house, shall
pay IL pence for every such default
Under this law several persons were act.
ually fined, but the punishment failed to
secure the carrying out of the arbitrary
second portion of the enactment. ::
Henry J. Gardiner, the Know Nothing
governor of Massachusetts, is dead. His
name has not been mentioned for many
a year except in connection with bigotry
and intolerance, and very few persons
knew or cared whether he was living or
dead. He has passed away unwept, I'M
honored and unsung. One of his first
official acts as governor was to disarm
and disband seven Irish-American
military companies, He falsely declared
that the honor of the American flag
should be confined only to those who
are born on the soil hallowed by it's pro-
lection. While thousands of foreign:
born citizens fought during the Civil
War, Gardiner and his fellow bigots re-
NAMED at home and never raised a
finger in defense of the starry banner.
Many of the men of the Irish American
militia companies which he had dis
banded fought and bled to preserve the
Union while Gardiner was Copperhead
kissing at the flag. )
All the Swedish Catholics are not resi-
dents Of the country where Bishop
Bitter, of Stockholm, who was recently
appointed, is the first Catholic prelate
of a Swedish see since the sixteenth
century. There are such Catholics to
be met in some of our northwestern dio.
ceses, and there is notable Scandinav-
ian Catholic congregation in Brooklyn.
N. Y, for the benefit of which Rev. e. H:
Dumahut, who, by the way, formerly
labored on the Scandinavian mission of
the old world, has built and nearly COM
pleted handsome church, dedicated to
st. Stanislaus. There is a Swedish
priest in one of the churches OF Detroit.
Mich, and large number of his coun-
trymen have been converted by him.
The day is not far distant when we ex-
pect to see Swedish priests laboring for
the salvation Of the Scandinavians Of
Minnesota and adjoining states.
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The fact that the Governor of Vic
toria, Australia, has increased the inn
port duty on Oregon pine to 1925 per
1000 feet, and the duty on canned fruit
to cents per pound, or about Is centa
per tin, information of which has Just
been received in London by cable. and