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FATHER CLEARY'S LECTURE.

No man in the community is ever 80
ready to lift up his voice and pen in the
matter of good cause than Father
Cleary. Days in and out, week after week,
month after month, year after year his
voice and energies are exerted in behalf
of sobriety, in behalf of humanity In
every phase to the better1nent Of men. In
all these matters he spares neither time,
energy nor money-nothing that will adj
vance the interests Of the various par-
fishes.
y He gives his great lecture, '"The Pas.
sion Play" at St. Charles church, on Sun.
day evening, Sept. q, and it should re-
celve the attention 1t deserves. It viii
be an intellectual treat. No man can
handle a subject better.
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NO SECRET IN ENGLAND.

1t is very interesting and very crafty
ing to observe patriotic Americans rising
Indignantly to deny that the wool was
pulled over the eyes Of the president of
the United States, Gen. Grant, and with
him a, majority Of the members of con-
,epur.ess, and the entire population of the
United States in the matter Of the monet
airy legislation Of 1873, says the Peoria
Journal. It is very pleasing because
while it places the brand of perjury on
the hero Of Vicksburg, on Gen. John A.
y logan and James G. Blaine, the plumed
knight, Senators Hereford, Allison, Beck,
I Gambling and many others of both polit-
:caIs parties, 1t clears the great and only
/ ohn sherman Of plicity in subter-
.sff,,ase that. to use the words Of q dis
stir 1,,iiahed economis and bold monomet-
the laboring and
ssSIs,i Some have
n ~ 4! a
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life to fve-year terms The killing q
Burke. was the work 81 band 81 irish,
men WIND 'swore to obey the orders o6 tht
Irish Invincibles without inquiring tDd
deeply into what they were to do Thia
band was not to exceed fifty, and 1t is
supposed that the No. who has been SO
long sought was the man who gave the,
ORDERS furnished the weapons and start.
ed the four men who, occupied the ,a1.
In Phoenix park on their mission.
!" True bills for murder were found
against lyman and two others. II lyman
is really the No. 1, his conviction at this
date will perhaps be harder job than
the British government had before. Sew
eral Of the informers are dead Carey
was killed by Irish political patriots who
followed him and assassinated him on
shipboard. The arrest, however, serves
to recall some of the more violent scenes
Of the later political agitation in Ireland
In 1882 the Irish party In the houee Of
com mons was strong, defiant and united
1t made the liberal cabinet, with Mr.. Glads
stone at it's head, a great deal Of troubles
The government responded to the dis
turbance in Ireland with drastic coers
cion act and about the same time passed
a. remedial land bill. 1t was not until
1888" that the ordinary processes Of the
courts were re-established in Ireland, and
then it was claimed that the land blu
had done more to quiet the country than
coercion: The arrests, convictions ana
which took place almost daily
Unframed the Irish people, who, as, the
strong arm of the government fell with
harsher effect upon them, grew su.leu
but not submissive. 80
1t is remarkable fact that it was but
three years after this state Of semi-ro-
bellion in Ireland that Mr.. Gladstone
brought forward his home rule bill, which
was once defeated In the house Of come
mons, once successful there, and once de.
in the house of lords by a majority
of four hundred or more. The bill
wrecked two liberal admlnist1 atoms and
brought the tories back to power pledged
against home rule. ...
The present status Of home RUE II
would be difficult to discover. The tories
are certainly not in favor Of 1t and the
liberals are divided on the issue. The
next appearance of Ireland's home rule
seems to be uncertain, though
it has. usually made it's appearance In q
sensational manner. Perhaps Joseph
Chamberlain, who loves to do sensational
things in politics and who appears to .ba
slated to modernize the tory party, al
prime minister may yet be the friend Of
Ireland"
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FLAYED 'EH ALIVE.

In this issue, on the first page, Will be
found an argument in favor OF free sill
YER by DIR. H. H. Cleary, Of Galena, ILL.,,
brother Of Father Cleary, of this city.
The doctor f1ayed his opponents without
mercy. The Dubuque Telegraph edi-
torially spoke of the discussion, which
took place in that city, as follows: .'=','.'
"The local gold bug orators are also
in favor of protection. But the particu-
lar protection they yearn for is less
against foreign goods than the i1nporta-
ton Of DR.. Cleary from Galena. II when
they started the orators supposed they
knew something about the money ques~
ton, they had no such delusion when
Cleary got through with them. In his
hands they are primer class pupils in the
hands Of master. The orators can learn
from DR.. Cleary, but they can't discuss
with him. And after last nights expe-
rience, when what happpened to them
was what usually happens to those who
tackle buzz saw or hornets nest, they
will never again attempt it. A man Of
rare natural gifts and varied accomplish
rnents. a lawyer as we'll as doctor. an
orator as we'll as student and thinker,
Dr.. Cleary would be q formidable oppon-
ent in any circumstances. But with
facts and truth on his side, as champion
of the cause of justice, humanity and
civilization, he is invincible. The b..
metallists are proud of him, and they are
reverently grateful that in the emerg-
ency in which they are so sorely needed
heaven has raised up such men to pro
claim and maintain the right" ''.'
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-19
CONDITION OF MEXICO.

The Chicago Trades Assembly has sent
committee to Mexico to investigate as
to whether Bryan's statement that free
coinage enriches the 'ftoiling masses is
correct. The committee will find the
'toiling masses of Mexico struggling
along, most Of them, on the same old
pauper wages of half a century ago and
living on the lowest scale.-Minneapolis
Journal.
Such is the general libel concerning
Mexico. The Chicago Record has man
down there writing of the horrors of the
country, simply because the country is
under free coinage.
Recently Colonel G.. w. Harms, presi-
dent Of the Newport CKy.) Electric Light
Company and president OF the Sonora
Mexican Mining Company, was in Gin
cirnati and was interviewed by reporter
who asked him about the letter written
from Laurel Ind, by lady school teacher
to a gold paper in Cincinnati, in which sh'|
claimed that Mexican laborerss, miners and
so on were paid only wages sufficient to
keep soul and body together.
ooh! suppose" said Colonel Harms,
with a smile, "that an American lady school
teacher knows all about the wages paid the
laborers and miners in the remote noun
tain regions of Mexico, where an American
woman is rarely, # ever seen; but must
say, after years of business experience
down there, frequent trips and long So
journs, our observations are Numerically
different altogether opposed in every par
ticular.
"Our pay roll runs $4,000 a month. /
have our pay rolls for May, June and July
with me, and will let you see for yourself
what we actually pay. Here they are:
We pay our engineers SIS day; Office men,
pumping service 81 per day; blacksmiths,
SO per day; holsters. 81 per day; watchmen,
So per day; lumbermen, $3.50 and So per
day; miners, s1.50, $1.75, 81 and 81 per
day. Our ordinary outside common la
borers, wheelbarrow men and the like, s1.5O
to $3.50 per day. ID .,
Living IS very cheap. We furnish our
force with all their supplies, and I will give
you samples Ell throug the pay roll. show
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-19
TERENCE ON THE STUrlP.

Terence V. Powderly is out for the
stuff. He is making campaign speeches
for the Republicans and the gold stand
ard. 1t is not so long ago that he was
damning the Republicans and urging
the workingmen to look out for them
selves; now he says that wOrkingmen
should be content or unite with their en-
ployers in protecting their trades and
callings. When man talks such stuff
he is either knave or a fool. But Pow
derby is no fool. He worked with the
overalls on for many year, had a glib
tongue and :ngratiated himself with the
knights of Labor, from whom he re-
ceived $4,000 year as chief officer His
insincerity was soon found out, and the
labor element sent him adrift. He has
been on the make ever since, selling him
self to the highest bidder.
This is the man who is now advising
the workingmen what to do this year.
One thing they will not do and that is to
sell themselves for a mess of pottage, as
Powderly has done. .....,...
When this mans attention was drawn
to a letter he had written in 1888; in
which he said, damn the Republican
party" and which was recently pub
lished in the Journal Of the Knights of
Labor" all this advocate of labor had to
say was that any one who would publish
a. private letter was not worth answer:
ing, and, besides, he added that he had n5
recollection of writing such letter:
Powderly's memory Is altogether too
treacherous to permit him to become a
safe leader of workingmen, and it is use
less for him to try and again worm him.
self into their good graces by the most
insincere and bare-faced fattery. Work
ingmen may, in too many instances, for
preservation, sign resolutions and
other documents that are prepared by
their employers denouncing Bryan and
the platform of free silver, but, thank
heaven, they can, nevertheless, go to the
polls and protect themselves in defiance
of those who would convert them.in into hui
man chattels, and in no year in the his
tory of the country have they been SO de-
termined as at present.
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THE PROOF is GIVEN.

For some time past there has been 60
ing the rounds of the press a quotation
from the London Financial News to the
effect that if this country adopted free
coinage England's trade would be ruined.
Recently, however, the London paper
denied that it ever made such an asser-
ton, thinking perhaps that an article
that appeared in it's columns over a
couple of years ago would be forgotten
now. or else would be difficult to repro
duce. The quotation first appeared in the
Omaha World-Herald. The following
concerning it will be self-explanatory:
Sheridan, Wyo., Aug. s1.-To the Ed
itor of the World-Herald: I have just
read your editorial pertaining to art1-
cles from the London Financial News.
7 can confirm the authenticity of the
articles. having first used the article in
speech made in Congress June S,
1894, and my present recollection is
that I verified it by reference to the
Financial News of that date. used the
article to show by the confessions OF the
great financiers of London that by free
coinage of silver our country could at
once command the greater trade of the
world. send you by today's mail copy
of my speech on Money, Banks and
Debts of the World" containing such
article on page 81. Yours truly,
H. A. COFFEEN.
From the speech of Hon. Henry A. Coz
feen, of wyoming, in the House Of Rep
resentatives, June 5, 1894:
The greatest financial journal in Lon
don, if not the greatest in the world,
acknowledges and points out incident
ally the stupidity of American financial
legislation in the following, which I
quote from an editorial in the Financial
News, of London, Of April 80, 1894:
'sThere is plain moral in the remark
that if the United States would venture
to cut herself adrift from Europe and
take outright to silver, she would have
all America and Asia at her back, and
would command the markets of both
continents. The barrier of gold would
be more fatal than any barrier Of a Gus
tom house. The bond of silver would
be stronger than any bond of free trade.
There can be no doubt about 1t that If
the United States were to adopt a silver
basis tomorrow British trade would be
ruined before the year was out. Every
American industry would be protected,
not only at home, but at every other
market. Of course, the States would suf-
fer to certain extent through having to
pay their obligations abroad in gold;
but the loss on exchange under this head
would be mere drop in the bucket COM
pared with the profits to be reaped from
the markets of South America and Asia,
to say nothing of Europe.
The marvel is that the United States
has not long ago seized the opportunity,
and but for the belief that the way of
England is necessarily the way to CONF
mercial success and prosperity, undoubt-
eddy it would have been done long ago.
Now Americans are awakening to the
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The visit Of Lord Russell to this coun-
try puts the London Chronicle In mind
of an old story 1t says that during
Lord Russelrs previous tour IN this
country with Lord Colertdge be- came, in
contact with many members of the bar.
including Mr.. Evarts. It was while
walking with Mr.. Eyarts one day along
the banks of stream that his attention
was called to point at which WASH
ington., according to tradition, mad
thrown dollar right across. The water
was wide, and Lord Russell. looked
doubtful "You know dollar went
further in those days than 1t does now"
the American lawyer blandly insinuated.
"Ah," said Lord Russell, quite equal to
the occasion, land it may have been easy
enough to Washington; it is well known
that he threw sovereign across the
Atlantic"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-19

There is grain Of comfort for the Re-
publcans in the Arkansas election. The
Republican candidate for governor made
gain over the Republican candidate for
the same Office two years ago. It Is not
as deep as we'll, os az wide as church
door, but twill do.
:; Admirers Of Mckinley are picking OUT
gems from his speeches and publish,
ing them, but the greatest gem is the
major himself. He shines like star Of
the first magnitude.
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fact that so long as they narrow their
ambition to becoming a larger England, z
they cannot beat us. It has been a piece
Of luck that it has never occurred to the
Americans to scoop us out Of the worlds
markets by going to a silver basis, and
it might serve us right If, irritated by the
contemptuous apathy of our government
to the gravity OF the silver problem, the
Americans retaliate by freezing out gold.
It could easily be done
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It is given out that Judge Hilton has
lost $1,000 900 in conducting the great
business which A. T. Stewart built up in
New York, and which recently went to
pieces. 1t would seem but matter of
Justice that he should lose it. The judge
was Stewards lawyer and confidential
adviser for long time at high salary,
and when the great merchant passed
away Hilton stole the property from
Stewards widow and ran the business
himself. or tried to run it.
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A BIT OF HISTORY.

The arrest Of lyman, the famous No. /,
who is supposed to have been implicated
in the murder of Lord CaveRdish and
Under Secretary Burke in Phoenix Park,
Dublin, in 1882, serves to recall one. of
the most thrilling and diabolical political
murders that the history of Ireland has
furnished, says the Catholic Union and
Times n.
Five men have already been executed
for this murder, and the British govern
nlent has never relented from its efforts
to secure the arrest Ind conviction. of
several more, prominent among them the
famous No. 1, who is supposed to have
be en the life of the plot. The assassina-
lions were made in broad daylight while
Lord Cavendish and his companion were
walking across the park. Knives were
used, and the two men, who were per-
fectly defenseless against weapons, were
hacked brutally and left dead within
sight Of the governor-general's residence.
Indeed it was said that Lord Spencer was
a witness of the assault from the window
of the government house, but supposed
that it was but a rough and tumble fight
among roughs. The British government
set vigorously to work to discover and
punish the assassins, and within a few
weeks had made II arrests. One Of these
was Of James Carey, who turned In
former. His thestimony and that of
seven other informers established, the
guilt Of the five men, who were executed
and several others who received sem
tences running from penal serltithde fo1
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Want to know why Cleveland wishes to
see Mckinley elected, do you? Why, he
thinks the major would make such mess
If 1T as president that the people would
take him (Cleveland) up again four years
hence and crown him lord Of all. Does not
the idea smell to heaven?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-19

"sewell must co., says Paul Nordvoort,
nresident OF the Reform Press Association
of Omaha. But why say that? SeWaH is
going already-going to be elected vice
president Of the United States.
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Will wonders never cease? Maine has
cone Republican. Our friends, the en-
envy. are in state of Joy bordering on
frenzy. Something has got to be done,
and so Maine is taken. The Dutch have
captured Holland.
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When Democrats make surprising
gain in any locality our friends the en-.
envy say it doesn't amount to anything,
but when Republicans make the slight
est gain they herald it as landslide.
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It is said Senator Palmer wants to get
o,,f of politics and return to Chicago and
build UP his law practice. The ]op mlsnt
prove a difficult one. as the senator never
nracticed law in Chicago.
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Yes, we have heard from Maine. The
majority? Yes, know all about the ma
iority, and will admit, as Democrats, that
we've been whipped in Maine.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-19

A Republican paper says Chairman
Jones has evidently overdone the busl-
ness in Arkansas He has, dear friend;
has indeed-for Republicans.
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Bourke Cochran has turned out to be
the biggest blatherskite of the period.
When Bourl1e was honest he was elo-
cuent; dishonest, he is meaningless.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-19

Senator John NJ. Palmer is almost 80
wears Of age He may toddle along at that
age but he certainly cannot run for pres1-
1ont
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Mckinley's majority is already figured
out for New York. Further work down
there. will be unneccessary-but 1t Wall
80 on.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-09-19

Rev. J. NJ Langan, Of 1shpeming,
Mich, after visiting his mother for Jew
days, returned last Friday evening.
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land, the only kind Of prosperity that;
unhappy land will ever have, SO long as3
her enforced, accursed union with Eng
land endures.
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in their stead we are asked to accept, Gs
an indication of national prosperity, the
inert cash balances in a few joint-stock
banks. Well has the Irish poet written
"lll fares the land-to hast'ning ills a
Where wealth accumulates and men de-
cay"
Nor is this apparent accumulation It
money as real as it is represented to be.
The official statistician, in order to sus-
tain his ."prosperity'' statements, has
seized Upon that period of the year when
the Irish farmers are beginning to real
ize on their crops, and are depositing the
product in the banks, there to await the
calls of the landlord for the November
"rentgale'-the coming Of which is as
sure and inevitable as the" death and
taxes of the satirist. When the rent
call is satisfied, the surplus Of the Irish
banks will not be quite as large as it is
at present, for large proportion OF it
will have been transferred to the pock-
cts Of absent Landlords to be squandered
on the English race tracks, or in the
gambling hells OF London and the Con
tiLent. That is the inevitable end ct
what is misnamed prosperity ~ Al, Ire-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-19
MOTIFS FOR BRYAN.
Have the iron Duke and Senator Butler
Come 10 the Parting OF the Way

Another straw showing how some
of the Populist officeholders feel was
to be found in a letter received to-day
by National Chairman Mott, of the sill
yer party, from Senator Marion Batter,
of North Carolina. DR.. Mott and Sena-
tor Butler have worked in harmony
in North Carolina, but they disagree
on ,hc subject of endorsing Bry an.
Or. Mott thinks Bryan the ideal can
G:datc tor the masses, while senator
Eutler, in hrs letter to-day, said that
PopuliStS should nominate a ticket of
their own. He thought an unqualified
endorsement of the recent Democratic
work would result in the swallowing
of the Southern Populists by the Dem
oeracy. The Senator, in his letter, said
that the preservation of the Populist
and free silver parties is essential to
the proper protection of the masses.
te scr ,ously questioned if the Demo-
cratic party would continue TO voice
the sentiments it has recently enun-
ciated. and ven'tured the prediction
than in four years the party would
again be controlled by the ''goldbugs"
of the East.
To-day Chairman Mott photographed
Senator Jones, of the Democratic Ma
tional Democratic committee, asking
him to come to st. Louis for the pur-
pose of comforting with the Populist
leaders.
Through Senator Vest, who is now III
the city. Chairman Jones conveyed to
DR.. Mott the information that some
leading Democrats would come TO St.
Louis. The Populist leaders are obvi-
ously anxious to force the Democrats
into some sort of fusion on the cleo
toral ticlets-7New York Journal.