The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-12-09
DESPICABLE FORGERIES.


Interpretations in it's putrescent columns,
but it is capable Of manufacturing for
geries by the wholesale to be copied and
circulated by it's contemplate contem-
poraries in other parts Of the country.
In a recent issue of this A. p. A. and
Orange organ it imputed to Pope Plus
TX an imprecation in which the word
damn" is used. The inventor OF the
quotation which is attributed to the late
Pope must ave been reading about the
battle of Hastings in Dickens Child's
History of England, which is now used
by the pupils of the public schools OF
this city. The imaginative author
that classical work tells in his graphic
style that the then Pope "oursed Har-
DID," thus leaving an impression on the
minds of American children that the
head of the Catholic Church must have
been naughty man. The inventive
genius who fabricAtes forgeries in the
"Loyal American wishes to impress his
readers with the idea that the head Of the
Catholic Church in modern times was
not a whit better than the Pope who is
painted by the English novelist in his
so-called history for children. The A. F.
A. forger knows the ignorance and intol-
erance of his readers and Is aware they
will swallow his lies with the same
avidity as the school children accept
Dickens fiction for fact.
With the same facility for lying the
forger of the loyal American" attri.
butes saying to Archbishop Ireland to
the effect that Catholics will have politi-
cal control of the United States in ten
years. Although the st. Paul prelate is
alive and only ten miles away, the auda-
cious liar of the Orange organ sets Ills
alleged statement in quotation marks
knowing full we'll that the Archbishop
will not condescend to deny the forgery.
Emboldened in this disreputable style pf
journalism the veracieus Ned Doyle, who
boasts of his Dutch origin though he is
as Irish as the Devils Bit mountain in
Tipperary, credits The IRISH STANDARD
with a paragraph in the st. Paul Globe
about the Vikings, in order to engender
hatred against the Irish in the breasts OF
his Scandinavian readers. The editor OF
the Loyal American" is prompted in
his nefarious work by the spirit Of evil,
and is faithfully performing the mission
of the prince of darkness for the love OF
filthy lucre. He may succeed in hood
winking ignorant people, but intelligent
American citizens despise his tactics.
The Loyal American" undertakes q
gigantic task in attempting to fight
truth with falsehood. For time false
hood may appear to prevail, but truth
will eventually triumph. ''Let Truth
and falsehood grapple,'' says Milton,
''but who ever knew Truth put to the
worse in free and open encounter. For
who knows not that Truth is strong, next
to the Almighty. She needs no policies,
10 stratagems, to make her victorious;
those are the shifts and defenses that
uses against her power. Give
her but room, and do not bind her when
she sleeps" We commend the words of
the Puritan writer to Ned Doyle and his
confederates. He may in
vent forgeries lad libitum' and copy for
geries from his "A. p. A. exchanges as
they copy his, but he can never pass his
counterfeits as genuine coin among an
educated people like the Americans. He
may be able to do it among ignorant for--
eigners who emigrate to this country
from Ulster, Canada aud the regions Of
the midnight sun, but so long as truth
is given ROOM in this free land, shame
less liars will ultimately be put E, fight
and must hide their diminished heads.
We are glad to notice that The North.
no longer clubs with the Loyal Ameri !.
cam Il cannot afford to affiliate with
such dastardly sheet as the organ OF
ignorance and bigotry. the editor Of
our esteemed Norwegian contemporary is
an educated gentleman who has regard
Tor veracity, and though we have often.
broken lance with him We consider him:
9 foeman worthy OF our Faber pencll.s