The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-06-02

write, and the Indications are that M n
eye sigh1t viii strong then sud ciently to 4
enable him 4, enter parliament and
charm the house once more with his
matchleas eloquenoe in advocacy Of Irish
Home Rule and the Newcastle Liberal
program which are making slow progress
since his resignation as head Of the Lib
eral ministry.
The a. p. "A. mayor Of Rockford, ILL.,,
has been vainly trying since his election
to remove q Roman Catholic from the
position of fire marshal in order to get
an anti Catholic in his place. The city
council refused to confirm his action by
vote Of 10 to 4, end an Injunction was
issued to restrain him from removing
competent man because Of his religion.
The Judge Of the court sustained the in
junction, and administered black eye to
Mayor Hutchins and his bigoted sup
porters.
A Welsh paper is authority for the
curious and interesting fact, based on
British statistics for 1893, that in the
Celtic portions of the United Kingdom
the proportion of the female births is,
much higher than it is in the non. Celtic
portions. The highest proportions are
found in Cumberland, Cornwall and
N rth Wales, while South Wales is only
little way down in the list and has g.
proportion considerably above the aver
age for the whole country. The proper.
ton of female births is higher in Ireland
and Scotland than in England.
~
It is unbecoming for American mill
tary and naval officers when in England
TO speak apologetically Of the whipping
administered by Jonathan to John Bull
in revolutionary days. Last week at a,
banquet in London, Capt Mahan, of the
cruiser Chicago, said that England lost
the United States because of it's being
involved in war with France at the time
According to Mahan, England was so
harried by France that, to use nautical
phrase, she "let go the painter The
French, undoubtedly, rendered great
service to the Americans, but it was as
auxil1aries, and not until they had been
fighting successfully for two years. Lord
Mountjoy in the British parliament, de-
clared that America was lost by the Irish
who fought in such large numbers under
Washington. But the fact is that Amer
lea was lost to Britain because the
colonists of every nationality who fed
here from European oppression were de-
termined to conquer or die in throwing
off the British yoke. It was Americans
and not Frenchmen who whipped John
Bull, and it comes with poor grace from
an American naval officer to give the
| credit to any other people. America
whipped England in 1872 without the
aid of the French, and can whip England
today without aid from any nation in
the world.
TX
The Presbyterians will soon get rid Of
their ablest men if they continue trying
them on charges of heresy. They lost
Prot Swing, of Chicago, who retired
from the church before submitting to the
humiliation of trial. Then came Prof.
Briggs, who still hangs on to the church,
though his teachings are tainted by
heterodoxy The last man to undergo
the ordeal of a trial for heresy is Rev.
Henry Preserved Smith, and despite his
name, he has not preserved his orthodoxy
before the inquisitorial tribunal. Like
Briggs he does not hold that the scrip
lures are inerrant, but that there may be-
mistakes in the Protestant version which
it is possible to eliminate by research and
criticism. Biblical scholars spent con-
siderable time few years ago in bring
ing out new version Of the scriptures,
and showed the King James version TO-
contain many verbal inaccuracies in tho
translation, but the old fogies in the
Protestant churches still prefer the old
version to the new with all it's imperfec
lions. When the Presbyterians brand
men as heretics because Of exercising
their right Of private Interpretation they
are administering staggering blow to
Professionalism, and knocking the founda-
ton from under their own church whose
creed is too intolerant to last much
longer in this enlightened age.
~
Kelly, the commander of the Coxey
battalion which left st Louis the other
day for Washington, is not Irish or Oath
Ole, as one would suppose from his
name. His mother and sister, who live
in this city, are thorough Americans and
belong to Protestant church. The
army under Kelly's command contains
but few Irish, despite all allegations to
the contrary. When starting out there
were 763 men in his ranks, of which 449
were American born and 214 foreign