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The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

Timothy Harrington, M. T. for Kerry,
has issued letter to his fellow country
men, calling upon them In the name Of
patriotism to stand fast by the prtnci-
pies enunciated by the late Charles
Stewart Parne1l, and ignore the action
Of John Redmond and his followers in
destroying the national league founded
fifteen years ago by the dead leader. He
declares that no man or body of men,
no matter what their standing has the
right to destroy a national organiza-
ton without the assent and authority
Of the Irish people in national conven=
ton assembled. He concludes his let
ter with the following good advice:
Avoid recriminations and fruitless dis
cussfons of the past. Turn your talents
and your energies to combine the peo-
pie as Parnell combined them, to push
to the front not the cause of this party
or that party, this leader or that leader,
but the cause of Ireland, nation. With
such a policy you will win for yourself
and your cause the respect of your oppo-
nents, the hearty support of the masses
Of IrishmeH at home, and the proud ad-
miration of the men of your race in
every land and In every cline.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

The bimetal1ic commission, consisting
of ex-Vice President Stevenson. Gen.
Paine and Senator Wo1cott, sailed for
France last Saturday, to confer with the
heads of European governments about
holding an International conference on
the money question. After comforting
with the French government they will
visit England, Germany. Austria and
other European countries to request the
various governments to name delegates
to general congress with the view of
agreeing on double metallic standard.
We think their mission is a wild goose
chase" Even If they succeed in getting
a congress of international delegates
they will accomplish nothing. It is hui
initiating for the commissioners of the
United States to go around to the vari-
GUS capitals of Europe, begging and
praying for congress to convene for
such a purpose. It would rebound more
to the dignity Of this gigantic republic
to have European commissioners come
to us for settlement of the financial
question. We are big enough to go on
our own hook.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

Kennedy's Own, the new literary mag
azine published in Minneapolis, is i'm
proving with age. The number for May
just issued is replete with good things.
Among the contributions from local
writer's are Crime AMI It's Punishment
by Judge John H. Steele; Corporal
Punishment in Schools" by his legal
partner, P. T. Megaarden; "A Bit Of Old
New England" by Katherine w. Kid
der, an accomplished teacher in the city
schools, and ,"Cuba and Our Foreign Re
lations,"' by Judge John w. Willis. of
St. Paul, in review of Judge Ponds ar
ticle on the same subject in the preced-
ing number. The editorials on the lead
ing topics of the day are both timely
and interesting, especially the criticism
of the Times article on the FiskeC leary
controversy, and Catholicism in the
United States" an extract from which is
elsewhere given in these columns.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

Illinois. .ti1ats etart4 comm zthouId
be appointed to hx the. tarin schsdules.
As they are now fixed they will never be
satisfactory to the conflicting interests
affected. What satisfies the East will
dissatisfy the West, and vice versa. Tho
East with its manufacturing industries
want to grow rich too rapidly at the ex-
pense of other sections, but the time: will
come and that soon, when the East will
be checked in it's cupidity and ayariee
by the ballots of an Independent peo-
pie. The internal revenue tax, and the
high tariff required for government pur-
poses only, is heavy. enough burden
for the people to bear ct the present
time. The high duty ON imported goods
for revenue only will act as protective
tariff for the eastern manufacturers and
enable them to pay good wages to their
employees and compete successfully with
foreign rivals
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

After an unequal contest the Moslem
and the crescent have triumpheu over
the Christian and the cross, and the
holders Of Turkish bonds are happy.
Gallant little Greece fought nobly, but
was overmatched from the start. AT
the fall Of Larissa the Hellenic troops
became disorganized by panic, but
so did the Union troops at the first bat
tie of Bull Run. The Greek army of
$4,000 met the Turkish army Of 50, 600
and displayed great valor. The latter
contained German and Russian officers
Who aided the Turkish commanders
with their military experience, while the
Greeks were led by a crown prince un-
skilled in the art of war. Poor Greece
is DOW bleeding from every pore. her
villages are destroyed, her people are
slain, her widows and orphans are scat
tered homeless throughout her isles.
She has thrown up the sponge, she con-
fdes her interests to 'the powers, -
she is evacuting Crete, and preparing
to pay s25,00O,0O0 of a war indemnity
to her conQueror.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

Edward O'Brien, editor-in chief of the
Irish Standard, started last Wednesday
via the Northern Pacific on trip Of
c,1G0 miles to the coast. He will lie
gone three months in the interest o.
his paper, during which he will visit
the principal points along the route in
Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana,
idaho, Washington and Oregon. He
will also pass into British Columbia
and visit Rossland and the Kootenai
mining district in her majesty's domin-
ion. During his absence he will fur
nish correspondence relating to the
principal places and prominent person
ages in the far Northwest. We be-
speak for Mr.. O'Brien the courtesy and
consideration due him for the advo-
cacy of principles that are cherished
by the readers of the Irish Standard in
the region he travels through.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

Thomas F. Bayard has finally es-
capped from the fog and mire of London,
and by this time has returned to the
plebeian republic where titles of nobility
are unknown. It will be hard for him
to live here now, after basking 50 long
in the smiles of the British aristocracy,
and probably he may initiate Willie
Waldorf Aston and others by going
back to the mother country" to live
there permanently. Before leaving the
modern Babylon, the ex-ambassador
was rendered farewell banquet at
which his successor attended. Bayard
spoke for an hour and was visibly af-
fected, we are told. He bestowed COM
plfments upon Ambassador John Hay.
whom he styled his Industrious sue
cessor," but that gentleman in replying
did not administer much taffy to his
szcophontic predecessor. eff 1 was ever
worth button" exclaimed Bayard
with tears n@his voice and optics, 'ty;o1auu
have here better button to put in my
place" We hope SO. AS far as Bayard
was concerned. he was not worth "a
continental to uphold the honor and
dignity of this great nation. Ia, ia,
Tom, your name now is Denis.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

One of the editors of the Congrega-
tionalist, George P. Morris, has this to
say about the Catholic University at
Washington: Zone who visits tho Cath
Ollie University, meets it's professors and
studies the type of student there, comes
away impressed with the high standard
of it's founders, their breadth of pur-
pose, the virflity and courtesy of the
men one meets, and the culpabi:ity Of
Professionals who affect either to ignore
or despise the life and purpose of such
men or such an institution. To do so is
both foolish and wicked. John Fiske
is a foeman whom few care to joust
with, yet Prof. Shanahan, of this Uni
versity has done it recently in most
vigorous, skillful fashion, as all may
see who care to read the last number of
the University Quarterly Bulletin. Pro.
fessor Shanahan is a splendid specimen
of the stalwart, refined Irish-Ameri-
can"
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

Rev. H. P. Nichols, rector of st. Marks
Episcopal church, recently created a
sensation in Protestant church circles
by commenting on the action of Rev.
Pleasant Hunter, Of Westminster church,
in performing marriage ceremony in
st. Marks. Rev. Nichols regards the
act of the Presbyterian divine as an in
trusion, dissertation and cot.tamina-
tion Of his own sacred ediflce. Ill justice
to Rev. Pleasant Hunter it may be
stated that he went to st. Marks to
please the young couple, one Of whom
Belongs to that church. Ills own church
was burned down some time ago and
services are now being held at the Ly-
ceum theater. 1t may be added that
Rev. Hunter is as pleasant as his name
and quite popular with all denomina-
tions. + ::
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15


Oliver Rasnick, the man who figured
so prominently in the Avon school case,
sends communication to the Sank Cen
tire Herald in which he proclaims him
self a Catholic. He says the a. p. AS
had nothing to do with the matter and
that the leading spirits against all kinds
Of divine worship in the school were
Catholics, with one exception. He says
further that young men and women born
and raised in stearns county, and edu-
Gated in the public schools, are unable
to speak and comprehend the English
language We cannot see how the
young people can acquire a better
knos III III
|1sprfyine rem q -, q.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

Of the thirty-eight chaplains in the
United States army at present. twelve
are Methodists, eleven Lutherans, eight
Episcopalians, three Presbyterians, two
Catholics, one Christian (Campbellite)
and one Congregationalist. Yet Of the
soldiers there are more Catholics than
there are members of any two othe;' de-
nominations. BY the equities of num-
bers and of the needs Of the service,
there ought to be about twelve priests
instead of only two.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

testants, and when he does he generally
betrays It. On the other hand. Protest.
ant preachers occasionally resign tss,iT
pulpits. and, after due preparation, are
ordained, to the priesthood. The Paulist
order, especially, is composed Of such
men, and they make Jealous and sue
cessful. missionaries. The ex-ministers
differ widely from the ex-priests in that
they never attack their former core
lfgfonfsts nor cast aspersions upon the
church in which, they were born and
bred" III
The editorial concludes by referring
to the nberaIitN in religious matters
prevailing among Catholics and Pro-
testants in the United States, alleging
that in this respect they are more, lib
eral In heir views than the people OF
the writer in that assumption. The
English and Irish people Of today are
not behind the Americans in liberalfty
of thought and we are inclined to think
they surpass us in many ways The
Irish people, the most loyal Catholics
on earth, selected the Protestant Par
nell as their political leader, and the
English people, with: an established
Protestant church, selected Sir Charles
Russell, Roman Catholic, as the Lord
Chief Justice of England Many year
will pass before any political party in
the United States will nominate Ro-
man Catholic for the presidency. It is
fresh in the memory of every one how
James G. Blaine, the most brilliant
statesman of our time, did not get that
cordial support from the Republican
party that he was entitled to partly be-
cause his mother was Catholic. The
late Gen. Sherman and Gen. Sheridan
would have no chance of getting elected
president because one was Catholic
and the other had a Catholic wife. At
the Democratic convention in Chicago
last year Richard p. Bland, who is men,
toned in Kennedy's Own, was not con-
sidered by some a good presidential
candidate, because his wife and children
belonged to the Catholic church.
Boast as we may of our liberality in
religion there are yet. to be found in
this country a lot of narrow-minded
men and women of Protestant denom-
nations who imagine that Catholics are
far beneath them in loyalty and fidelity
to the country and it's institutions.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15
THE ELOQUENT IRISH TRIBUNE,

IOQay, May 10, being the nEtletn an
niversary of the death of Daniel O'Con-
nell, the great Irish publieist, we deem
it BETTING occasion, for the instruction
Of young men, to devote considerable
space in this issue to the life and labors
of that extraordinary man. who accom-
plished so much for the cause Of civil
and religious liberty in Europe during
the first half Of the nineteenth century.
AS will be seen elsewhere in these COL
umns, the Irish Liberator, as he is still
called, passed away from earth to ;heav=
en- on May Is, 1847, dying in Genoa,
the birthplace of Columbus, while On
his way to the Eternal City to visit
Pope Plus TX. s
He had nearly completed his seventy
second year. For nearly forty years
of that extended period he had been a
public man-perhaps the most public
man in Ireland. For at least a quarter
Of century his reputation was not
merely Irish, nor British, nor European.
but unquestionably cosmopolitan. He
achieved greatness as lawyer, a states
man and an orator, and earned Tor
himself the title of tribune of the
people"
By the force ON his eloquence he made
the British throne tremb1e and brought
British statesmen to their knees. He
was the first Catholic that entered the
British parliament as a member since
the Reformation, and year after taking
his seat he secured Catholic emancipa-
ton. He had organized his, country
men in such formidable phalanx that
the Duke of Wellington, the hero of
Waterloo, who was then prime min
lister, was afraid of civil war in Ire
land and granted religious emancipa-
ton to avert it.
O'Connell spent several years in advo-
eating repeal Of the union between
Great Britain and Ireland but failed.
Space will not permit US to dwell upon
his labors in behalf Of that cause. We
will confine ourselves to brief mention
of him as matchless orator.
In September, 1S47, at Castle Garden,
New York, William H. Seward, subse-
quently the secretary of state in Lin
coins cabinet, pronounced an eulogium
upon the dead Irishman which IS an
epftome Of Irish history. He considered
him one of the greatest orators that
ever lived. In later days Wendell Phil
lips, the silver tongued American ora
tor, said the same Of o'ConneH. The
following passage which we give from
memory will be found in Phillips Leo
ture on o'Connen: Language alone
does not constitute soratory;; there must
I q, w
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

Tom Watson, of Georgia, who was
nominated by the Populists as candf-
date for the vice-presfdency with Will
liam J., Bryan, is deeply tainted with
Apaism, IL we may Judge from recent
dfatribe of his in which he attacks the
integrity Of Roman Catholics as citi-
zens. He says that all books written
by heretics, schismatics and apostates
are forbidden to be read by members of
the Catholic church, and then goes ON
in the following silly style: 'Away
goes your Milton and your Shakespeare,
your Burns and your Byron, your Cow
per and your Wordsworth, your Tenny-
son and your Scott! They are all here
tics. Macaulay must not be read, nor
Gibbon, nor Hallam, nor Froude, nor
Carlyle. They were all heretics. A
good Catholic must not drink the pure
delight of Goldsmith's Deserted VIII
lage,' nor. must he ever: hang enrap-
tured over The Grecian Urn,' of
Keats, nor must his eye grow dim as
he reads Byron's verses to his sister,
He must never walk the rich fields of
Charles Reade and Charles Dickens
never. laugh with Thackeray nor sigh
with Hood; never soar with Shelley,
dream with Co1erfdge, nor view the
gems of Walter Savage Landor." If
that is the kind of a hair pin Tom Wat
son is, he has not sense enough to fill
any office with credit.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15
CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA.

In the May number OF Kennedy's
Own, published in this city, we find an
interesting editorial on Catholicism in
the United states'' The writer enter
tains the opinion that the Catholic pop
ulation is largely in excess of that given
in the Catholic directories and at
conservative estimate places it at 49,
100000, or about one-sjxth of the entire
population of the country. Referring
to the Catholic directories the writer
remarks:
"The directories are supposed to be
authoritative, but a glance at the figures
given by them year by year will con-
vince the most skeptical that they are
far from being accurate, as they have
been giving the same figures from the
same dioceses for succeeding years
without any increase or diminution, thus
falsely showing that the population in
many places has remained stationary
for many years. The compilers are not
to blame for this. They do their best
to obtain returns, but their communfca-
tions in search of the desired informa-
tion are left unanswered, and in imita-
ton of the ancient geographers> who
used the pictures Of elephants to fill up
gaps on the map of the world, the COM
pliers of Catholic directories leave the
old figures stand rather than have
blanks in their tables of statistics"
The writer intelligently discusses the
loss sustained by the Catholic church
in the falling away of it's members in
times gone by, and quotes Bishop O'Gor-
man, of Sioux Falls, in attributing the
loss to various causes. He then pro-
ceeds to say
"The OBJECTIONS from Catholicism are
Offset by the conversions to it. In New
England the sons and daughters of the
Puritans have Joined the Roman
Church in large numbers, and it is es-
timated that the population of the six
Yankee states is more than one-third
Catholic. Many men distinguished in
politics, have Catholic wives and chill
dren. Richard P. Bland, of Missouri,
and Daniel w. Voorhees,, Of Indiana,
may be mentioned as instances, and it
will be remembered that the wife of
Gen. W. T. Sherman was a Catholic,
and that his son is Jesuit priest. It
is a remarkable fact that the Catholics
who secede from the mother church
rarely become members of Protestant
churches. They drift into inddelity
and indiferentism, though they retain
the name of Catholic and are consid-
cred such by the other denominations.
They sail under the appellation Of lib
eral Catholics and affect to despise
their former co-religionists upon whom
they look with pity for acting up to
their Simple faith and following the
rules Of the church. Once in awhile
some priest, for one reason or another,
abandons the Catholic communion and
spends the rest o. his days in upbrald-j
Ing the Catholics. Such how
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The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

49, II
% dI1wn ~ the cunninE and. chlcansFy
Of JOHN Bull. s;S IS
In conclusion, W. return our grateful
acknowledgements to the senators who
were chiefly instrumental IN killing the
treaty. They ere Senators Morgan.
Mills, Carter, Quay, Mason, Jones Of
Nevada, Jones Of s Arkansas, Hans
hrough, Baker, Penrose, Pettigrew,
Shoup, Bate, Cockre1l. Daniel, Harris Of
Tennessee, Harris Of Kansas. Martin,
Pettus, Rawlfns, Roach, White, Butler,
Hatfield, Kyle and Stewart. These were
principally Democrats. Silver Republi
cands and Populists. The two senators
from Minnesota voted for the treaty,
and we regret they are not entitled to
our thanks.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

The only Greek commander who has
displayed any military ability in the
Graeco- Turkish war is Gen. Smolentz,
the dashing chieftain who captured the
Reveni Pass from the Turks and sub
sequently made bold stand to drive
back the onrushing hordes of the "Sick
Man" Had Smolentz been made the
commander in chief instead of the
young and inexperienced Constantine,
Greece would have Jared better in the
fight.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

gamut. When at meeting Of sore
persons in Exeter hall, England, he told
the people of South Carolina, who had
sent remittance to aid him in the re-
peal agitation, Take back your blood
money, and release your slaves, I
thought his voice crossed the Atlantic,
struck against the Rocky mountains
and reverberated back to the hall. When
portraying the injuries inflicted upon
his country he moved his audience to
tears and the next moment they were
in roars Of laughter. I have heard
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Choate, Ever
EFT and Corwin, but O'ConneH was all
these rolled into one. He was the
greatest orator that has lived on earth
since the days of Demosthenes.''
The late Dr. Shelton Mackenzie, who
had frequently heard O'Connell in par
lament, in court and at mass meetings,
has this to stay of him: ireland has
been particularly profuse in her con-
tribution Of eminent orators. Burke,
Canning, Plunket, Grattan, She'll, Wei
lesley and Curran stand pre-eminent on
the roll, but doubt whether o. Connell,
when the length of his reign is con-
sidered, as we'll as the great extent Of
his influence, derived chiefly from his
power as a speaker, was not greater
than any of these great orators. He had
less wit than Canning-less imagina-
ton than Guarantees philosophy than
Burke-less rhetoric than SheiI-Iess
pure e1oquence than P1unket-less cias-
steal expression than Wellesley-Iess
pathos than Grattan, but he had more
power than any of them"
Earnestness was the great secret Of
his power as speaker, and his YER
satility was wonderful. He always
spoke to suit his. audience. When adj
dressing a monster meeting on the
plains of Meath his style was different
from that used by him in the court Of
Justice and in the British parliament.
Though he was 81 years old when he
entered the house of commons he Inn
mediately assumed first rank as an
orator and debater and retained it to
the close of his career. Henry Flood,
the rival of Grattan in the Dublin par
lament, utterly failed as a parliament
ary orator in London, for as GcaItan
said cf him che was an oak of the for
est, transp1anted at fifty" It was not
so with O'ConnelL He was Immediately
recognized as an orator of SURPRISING
ability, and kept up his reputation to
the last.
OConnell is criticised a good deal 81:
the way he conducted his agitation for
repeal of the union. He was never in
his life an anti-monarchist, and was
opposed to total separation of Ireland
from Great Britain. He would not
favor such thing as an Irish republic.
During the rebellion of 1893, when a.
young man, he joined the lawyers corps
to assist the government in suppressing
the instruction. He was the very
antithesis of Tone and Emmett. For all
that, he was a patriotic Irishman. and
his name will go down in history rs
that Of e great man whom hts country
men. will delight to honor for genera
lions to come.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

The British government has under
consideration scheme for connecting
ireland and Scotland by a tunnel. The
proposed submarine tunnel will be %
miles long and cost thirty-f1ve million
dollars. 1t will run beneath the irish
Sea, or North Channel, from Carrick-
fergus in Ireland to Point Patrick in
Scotland. The tunnel will be lighted by
electricity. When completed it WILL be
the longest tunnel of the kind in the
world.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

Rev. J. J. Faude, the ritualistic rector
Of Gethsemane church, does not believe
in the Interchange of pulpits between
the ministers Of the various Protestant
sects. He thinks that so lony az The
different denominations remain separate
and distinct in name and doctrine, they
cannot On the score of 1iberality cx-
change pulpits Unfortunately without
sacrificing their religious principles.
And we think he is right. If the Protes-
tant ministers have any fixed beliefs
they ought to stick to them and preach
in their own pu1pits.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

August Belmont has erected maui
soleum for his own use which has cost
half million dollars. Now he is about
erecting a statue to his favorite horse
at an expense of $1,000. The financial
magnate, of course, can do what he
pleases with his money, but money
spent on an equine statue could be put
to better use.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

1T will afford much pleasure to the
numerous admirers of Justin Mccarthy
in this country to learn that this genial
writer and parliamentarian is con-
valescing from his recent attack Of ILL
ness and will soon be able to resume his
literary and political work. We wish
him many happy years in his career Of
usefulness.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

The. 4OOth anniversary of Cabo.'s dis
covery Of the North American main
land is to be commemorate in Bristol,
England, by the erection of an obserya-
tory on Brandon Hill at cost of about
$4,000.
The Irish standard., 1897-05-15

The only flying machine that has ever
actually fown-that is, maintained and
moved itself in the air by energy gem
Grated in its own mechanism-!s one
lately constructed. after years Of Ia
foricus and disappointing experiment.
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dlt onian INIT ntion The nrst fun
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