The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-08-06

3 PASSED IN RE FEW
Rev. John Conway. A. n. The editor
sof the Northwestern Chronicle, has a
article ii the August number Of the Re.
view Of Reviews on Cahenslyism versus
Americanism, which will attract consid-
cradle attention and provoke some COM
ment in ecclesiastical circles.
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The widow OF Ralph Waldo Emerson,
the New England philosopher, is now in
her Goth year. She lives with her un-
married daughter, Miss Ellen, in therold
homestead at Concord. She sees no visi-
tors, reads nothing, and apparently feels
no interest in the outside world. Only
at the rarest intervals does she leave the
house. Then she goes for short drive
in the old family carry-all, which looks
as If it might have been purchased with
the house in 1885. Miss Emerson is the
constant companion of her mother.
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Pope Leo XIII. has conferred on Mr..
Eugene Kelly of New York, the we'll
known banker, the honorable distinction
of Camerier de Cape ct d. Epee-(bearer
of the cope and sword). This honor has
never before been conferred on an Ameri-
can. Eugene Kelly is generally accounted
the leading Catholic layman of New
York, He is an intimate friend OF Arch
bishop Corrigan and member OF the
cathedral congregation. His liberality
towards Catholic charities, his labors in
the advancement of Catholic education
and his zeal in the propagation OF the
faith of his fathers has frequently VOL
him RECOGNITION from the Vatican in the
past.
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The London Daily News has an OK.
allied opinion of Thomas Sexton as a
parliamentary debater. 1t declares that
if the members of the late House of Com
mons could have been polled on both
sides the large majority of votes would
have declared Mr.. Sexton the greatest
debater after Mr.. Gladstone in the house.
Like Mr.. Gladstone he is debater and
something else-he is a debater and also
an orator. Mr.. Balfour and Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain are both keen and powerful
debaters, but neither can pretend to be
an orator. Sir William Harcourt is a
more powerful debater than either, and
60 is Lord Randolph Churchill; but Sir
William Harcourt does not trouble him.
self about oratory, and Lord Randolph
Churchill wants the finer qualities of in.
tellect which would make 1t of any use
to trouble himself about it.
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The way that s'protection" encourages
exports may be the better understood by
reading this plain narrative: A company
building a railroad in the East Indies adj
vertised for steel rails. English and
American manufacturers entered into
competition. The lowest bidder was
Andrew Carnegie. His price per ton was
S225O laid down in India. Now the price
maintained by the steel-rail trust in this
country for the same grade of rail is $50
per ton>at the works. Mr.. Carnegie was
willing to sell to the foreign purchaser at
$3.50 ton less than he charges Ameri-
can buyers, and to pay the freight to In
dia in addition. Who gets the benefits
of high protection? The manufacturer
and the foreign consumer. Who pays
all the penalties? The American buyer
and the American workman. What lot
of valuable education that Homestead
strike brought forth!
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A correspondent Of the Boston Pilot
says: I have no patience with the self
glorifed "Scotch- Irish.' Apeople living
in country for $50 years, and still claim
ing to be not of it deserve contempt, and
care ought to be taken to exclude them
from the Irish pure and simple. But
many men who might call themselves
Scotch Irish glory in being Irish only,
as Prof. r. 3. Thompson, Of Pennsylvania
University. He is the kind of Irish
Protestant admire and ]ove-a true En-
met Irishman. I believe it to be the
duty of Irish writer's of ability to refute
the idea that we are Anglo-Saxons, and
that the latter produce all the ability of
the world; but for PHYS sake take care
to exclude from the list of Irishmen all
who are ashamed Of being Irish, or who
would wade knee deep in the blood of
their fellow-countrymen, even if this
would necessitate excluding Wellington
or Wolseley.
On the Both Of April, 1889, at the
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