The Irish standard., 1894-06-16

tOBr1en Bros, proceeding or convention 100
LOrganizing counties. ......... 80. 25.Cl
! |9obn Mccarthy, postage and stationery 5.0
Expense at State Convention. .......... 10.e(
John Mahoney, postage and exchange. 24t
EW. J. Murphy ......... 20.0t
IJ. Mahoney, door keeper ........ 80. 20ce
i +. z. Kervick. masses ......-............ 25tl
i
~ 1,46311
i The assets were,
Cash on hand at date of last Convention s41o Il
\. Received for Mdse. S quarters -. ...... 926.0O
j.
I'm Il 1856 Il.
Il Ea Making expenses above receipts one
] hundred and twenty SIX dollars and forty
6ne cents. An assessment Of 20c per
capita was levied to pay delegates ex-
penses to National Convention, this It
paid by all would realize about $3.50. I
have only issued orders for $116 against
this fund, which was your delegates ex
pensee, feeling that your officers have
no constitutional right to use this fund
for any other purpose,
Article "a of Constitution vests this
power in the State Convention. NowI
aak you to dispose of this matter and
also make proviso in your bylaws for
similar emergencies in future and when
voting supplies at this Convention take
|into consideration your prospective rev.
enue for the coming term which will be
Iabout 1850, if you leave the merchan-
ldise at 81 per quarter as at present. The
Inew constitution gives you the privilege
lot cutting that down to not less than SO
cents per quarter. But in any event
keep your financial condition in view
when voting supplies and do not leave it
ito your officers to devise ways and means
Ito meet your expenditures. renew my
Recommendation Of two years ago that
1.-THE members Of organized counties make
10 special effort to organize adjacent un-
Iorganized countless
With societies Of bigots like the A. p.
La and kindred organizations springing
Iup all over our glorious country for the
purpose Of destroying our religion and
lparticularly Irish and Irish-American
Catholics, to prevent us from enjoying
llite, liberty and human happiness which
Eas handed down to Us s,y the fathers Of
this great and glorious republic, to pre-
vent us from worshipping' the religion of
our fathers and the religion that lifted
the whole christian world from pagan
ism and barbarity to civilization and
morality, when they attack what does
them no harm and is both life happiness
and hope beyond to us it is time to be
up and doing and / trust that when the
next biennial election occurs that every
county and every township of our CON-
monwealth will have organized divi-
sior of this great Irish-Anlerican Catho-
lie society.
| It is almost impossible for the state
president to organize new counties with
out your assistance by reason of his linn
tied knowledge of the character and
qualification Of men who are total
strangers to him, and in order TO keep up
the character of the organization it
should be necessary before admitting q
member in an organized or unorganizsd
county to have some member in good
standing in the order vouch for his char
acter and qualification.
Many members have done splendid
service in the past organizing new coun-
ties and trust will continue to do so in
the future
LABOR BUREAU.
The establishing and maintaining of a
Labor Bureau by the National Organi-
zation at some central point like Chi
cago, was recommended by the national
president and suggest for your consid-
Grafton the establishing of state babor
Bureau at some point like st. Paul or
Minneapolis. The cost would be very
triding, just to keep corresponding
secretary that the members Of tie divi-
sions could correspond with, he keep
ing in touch with the national secretary
I believe that in times of depression like
the present, lasting benefits to many Of
our members would result therefrom.
| Invite your attention to the system
of fixing delegates expenses to conven-
tion on the per diem plan. The railroad
fare is usually two cents per mile, three
going and one returning, add to this
three or four cents, enough to cover legi-
innate expenses there could then no
question arise as to members expenses,
his compensation being fixed by law.
No necessity has arisen for the past
four years demanding the assembling Of
the state directory other than at the
Estate convention and I invite your atten-
tion to the fact that nothing is said in