The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-06-20

less seldom You meet the more liab1a the
members are to forget the meeting night. !.
nj recently visited q town where the di-
vision met but once month. u called on
several members whom had frequently
met at convent ong They told me they
had quit the division. / asked Them the
cause. They said the division met but. once
a month and then they did not have a quo
rum, or the officers we're absent. I firmly
believe that the onlY thing that keeps the
once q month divisions alive is the insur-
ance, and / urge you all to meet twice q
Month at least and dftener Ii you can.
At the last meeting Of national officers
and board Of directors they issued mer-
chandise for the auxiliary Of the yari-
GUS states and sent us bill charging 81
cents per Qtr for each division OF
Minnesota. / refused to allow this. bill
till national organization was per-
fected and national constitutional fur
nished to our state. No higher comp1i-
me1t could he paid to our last state
convention than the fact that the trit-
ual formulated by our committee at that
time for the Daughters of Minnesota
was adopted by the national board with
out alteration, and has since been &C
cepted and adopted by all the different
states wherever the auxiliary is In ex-
istence.
Twenty-Five hundred and eleven
members out of twenty three hundred
and eighty-nine 1850 have paid the as
sessment made by the national conven-
ton for the purpose Of raising fund
of $4,000 to endow Celtic chair in the
Catholic University Of Washington, D. @.
Forty (40) additional members paid
this assessment, the amount $50, being
lost by the failure of the Irish American
Bank of Minneapolis. We find the ma
tional secretary has kindly consented to
overlook this amount as the loss re-
suited from no fault of the members
who paid the assessment.
One hundred and seventy eight (178)
more have never paid the assessment.
They are members who have lapsed
since the assessment was issued. We see
NO reason why we should pay for those
tional president. aatI !
The last report of the national secre-
tary shows that $4,000 Of the amount las
already been paid by the various states
territories and provinces and we have no
doubt that the balance will be forth
coming before the national convention. :
A book will be kept tn the university
containing the names and residences OF
the generous donors of this fund, and
will be ar ecord of your patriotism for
ages after you have passed away and
been succeeded by coming generations.
Every division should have a perma-
nent committee en- literatry, social and
musical exercises. One melting a month
at least should be a literary or. educa-
tional meeting. You cannot expect reg
ular attendance from members unless
you make your meetings interesting.
also suggest that in cities where hav-
ing more than one division, to have all
new members initiated at the same time
and place for all the divisions. There
should be no other business done at that
meeting, but OF social and literary ma
ture and entertaining your new members.
Our relations with the clergy and our
church are becoming closer and more
friendly each year, and urge your strict
enforcement of section four (4) OF the
constitution, article thirty (30} i
In order to get the assistance aHd the
cooperation of Our clergy in b4Main9 UP
and maintaining the order,' we must
show them that we are Catholics in
spirit as well as in name. l find that
where. there is an Irish Or Irish-Amer-
lean priest with his assistance there is
no trouble to keep the order alive and
growing, but in his absence it is uphill
work
I urge you to continue and practice
the true spirit of your religion. ID
During the past two years we have re-
ceived nothing but the kindliest, treat
ment from the press OF the state. They
have at all times given us credit for the
in oh
we are engaged. There is one in partic-
ular in which take pleasure at this time
in commencing to your friendship and
esteem.
The managers of that paper have at all
times given free and una bridged scope to
all our communications pertaining to the
progress OF the order. They have given
more complimentary and free advertising
than received by any other fraternal So
ciety from any journal In the county Z,
/ hardly need tell you refer to the
Irish Standard of Minneapolis, and !
suggest to the brothers to send TO that
paper as frequently as possible from each
division, an account of the general pros
gress of their divisions, it wild be read
with interest throughout the state and
will far exceed Individual efforts in
building up the order. .4,s,,9,s.. I
There has risen in our midst, like the
snake in a fair garden, an Organization,
which terms itself the American Pro-
tective Association, and is Familiarity
known as the A. P. A. It assumes 10
protect Americans and American institu-
lions by untiring opposition to- every
thing pertaining to Catholicity and par
ticlllarly to Irish Catholics.
At no time in the history Of the world
has the sky been entirely clear from re-
ligious prejudice, but may say that un-
til this organization made known Its ex-
istence, we felt that all such prejudice
had gone forever. AS troublesome in
sect may annoy strong man by being
felt and not seen, SO the A. P. A. with
It's underhand principles seeks to an
noy us.
1t has been shown by honorable men
who examined as closely as possible the
laws Of the order and it's members, that
it is entirely composed of unprincipled
and unreliable men, who are Influenced
by religious bigotry or private jealousies,
and in reality the good of our country is
only Of secondary Importance to them.
1t is only the question of a very short
time until this organization :is, blotted
out entirely. y:,,.e,sis,,. 81
However, there Is no cross without it's
blessing, and this blessing which has
been famed into fame by the enmfty Of
the al. p. A. is this, that we are bound
closer together both in the order and
out Of it. AS one twig may be broken,