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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06
WOLCOTT In EUROPE.

Although Senator Wolcott is having
an easy time talking bimetallism to ELL
ropean gentlemen and toying with the
foibles of Partisan life it is not expect
ed that he will return to these shores
with an International agreement on the
silver question snugly placed away in an
inside pocket. The English, French and
German gentlemen when Wolcott will
meet and converse with on the monetary
question may hold out some hope in
spots but that is all. England does not
want bimetallism and will never accept
it unless forced upon her. She has too
much of the selfish, commercial spirit to
accede to anything in that direction that
would be suitable to the people OF the
United States. The adverse feeling may
not be so strongly marked in the other
European countries us in England but
it is sufficiently emphasized to prevent
any cordial agreement between this
country and the old world. 1t will come
to this yet, that the United States will
be obliged to take the first step and in
such a spirit of independence and deter
mination as to show to the, world that
we are in earnest. Then and not till
then will European countries give the
matter any attention worthy of the name
and senator Wolcott and others who vi
sit Europe to impress the people there
with the necessity of the undertaking
will have their labor for their pains.
pains.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

When w. J. Bryan heard the views
the new secretary of the treasury, Mr..
Gage, held about the currency he said:
"Mr. Gage is daisy. Greenbacks should.
he says. be retired and silver purchased
under the Sherman act should be sold
and treasury notes redeemed and cancel
led. Then we ought to have bank notes
that are redeemable only in gold. And
he also says that the government should
not act as a warehouse for either gold
or silver There is no doubt about Mr..
Gage being a daisy. I wonder II he
would not like to inaugurate system
by which we would have to obtain his
permission each morning to live through
out the day"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06
in THE CONFESSIONAL.


The Independent says: 1t is amusing
to see the many Catholic papers join the
chorus that it is impossible that the
knowledge Of the. coming revolt in the
Philippine Islands could have first come
to the Spaniards from confession made
by the wife Of a eonspirator to Spanish
priest who warned the governor, mas
much as priest cannot possibly reveal
anything learned in confession. It's not
a question Of possibility, but of fact;
did he? 1t is by.no means an incredible
story, nor is it clean that the priest would
have done wrong in giving information
of threatened. massacre Of himself and
his fellow-Spanjards.
To this the Boston Pilot answers "that
of course priest could betray the secret
of the confessional; but inasmuch as no
one has done SO in all the centuries of
the churchs history our e. c. esteemed
should give at least the
benefit of the doubt in the case Ct the
nameless priest in the Philippine Is
lands. And the. Pilot continues: "As
for the question OF: moral wrong involved
in such betrayal, surely the Independ-
ent has not given it sufficient thought.
Not to save his own life, nor the lives of
a thousand persons would anybody,
priest or layman, be justified in violating
the most sacred of condolences. A law
yer who should do so would be disbarred
in any civilized country. The life of any
man is Of little consequence. since we all
must give up life at last. in comparison
with thu spirit ef honor, to invoke no
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06
DISPLAY OF vULdARlTY.

The Bradley Martin ball Will take
place in New York next week no matter
what the preachers and others may say
as to the exhibition of extravaganza
The Vanderbilt ball few years ago
eclipsed anything that had ever been
seen in that city up to that time, but in
order to show that she is the leader OF
the 400 Mrs. Bradley Martin Is deter
mined to eclipse the Vanderbilts. Their
ball cost s250, 000; Mrs. lartin's will cost
100000 and if people shy much more
about 1T by way of condemnation 1t will
cost 100000. Such is woman. 1t cost
the Vanderbilts for costumes $3.50, 900,
the Martins will expend 1897 200 for the
same purpose. The former spent for
flowers $4,000, the latter will spend $15-'
900. The Vanderbilt incidentals were
$4,000. the Martin incidentals will be
$4,000. At every point the Vanderbilts
must and will be eclipsed.
It would be wearisome to describe in
detail the features of this ball and the
Belshazzar feast that accompanies 1t.
When the poverty stricken Miss Smith
from the south married Vanderbilt she
wished to display her newly acquired
wealth and she did it in the ball referred
to. Mrs. Martin is the daughter Of a de-
ceased millionaire cooper of Troy in that
state, and the old man perhaps little
thought when he was hopping it up in
the early days to make living th.t his
daughter would some day be thus lavish
ly squandering his hard earned money.
The extravagant Mrs. Vanderbilt nee
Smith has been divorced, slipped her cup
of sorrow and is now living under cloud
to some extent. What Mrs. Martin will
be doing some years hence it is idle to
inquire. A short time time ago the foun-
ders of these aristocratic families-save
tions. The head of the Vanderbilt
house was a ferryman, the head OF the
Astor house d rat catcher, the head of
the Martin house cooper, and so on.
Excepting, perhaps, those that descend
ed from European prison walls the ferry
man, the rat catcher and the cooper were
in better business and should be more
respected than theirsdescendants that are
now posing as leaders of fashion. The
founders were at least thrifty, frugal, in
dustrious, and no doubt honest, besides
having worthy ambition to succeed IN
a legitimate way. Their descendants are
neither frugal, industrious nor honest,
and have no ambition but the vulgar
display of money and to be talked about
in the sphere of no,dledom called socie-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06
KEEPOUT THE WORTHLESS.

The new immigration law will consid-
erably reduce the population of Canada
as it. will prevent people from coming
into this country temporarily for the
sake of work and then after season
returning to their homes. 70 obtain
employment here they will be obliged to
take out naturalization papers and be
prepared to remain. The law will SINH
larly affect the Mexicans for the same
reason. AS it exacts ina. the immigrant
must read and write the English Ian
guage or the language Of the country
from which he comes the people from
Alsace and Lorraine could not be admit
ted, for, while their country Is Germany
they use the Frence language generallT-.
It will be the same with the Poles who
speak and write their own Polish Ian
guage but not usually that of the coun-
try to which they belong-Russia. So it
is with Hungary. The Hungarians have
a language of their own, although really
LuC11 O+uAt1y 10 1AASSAAe%' VI "~A~A NNNS
language is German.
If the law should be strictly enforced
there would be much difficulty and per-
hasp hardships experienced at the ports
of landing, but still this country finds
that some regulations must be made so
that the baser elements of European and
Asiatic countries will not be dumped up
on our shores. These Undesirable i'm
migrants are ignorant to the densest de-
gree not only OF the language and govern
ment of this country but of the govern
ment and institutions of the country
they. come from. Citizenship they do
not desire. their only hope and ambi-
ton is to exc out an existence some
how-honestly, perhaps, II that comes
easiest, but dishonesty, and crininally Is
an Acceptable alternative 50 hiatt the hon
handwriting portions of any community
are continually compelled to keep their
hands in their pockets to pay for the
support or the punishment of worth
less element.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

II the free silver men of Idaho had
been true to their own interests they
would have stood ~ Dubois in the recent
contest for United! States senate anu re-
turned him to his place in Congress
Personal ambition on the part of some
and political combinations on the part of
many should have been cast aside and
the fortunes Of Dubois adhered to ten2-
ciously. AS II is the Democrats and sill
yer men OF that state may be called upon
for an accounting.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

Brigadier Susie Swift Of the Salvation
Army in pleading for assistance, asks
those who cannot contribute in money
to do so Ey their prayers. 1t would
seem that upon the latter proposition
there could not fail to be an abundance
of help. and yet there are many so. con-
structed that when asked to devote any
thing they look upon it as a hardship.
Because others share with them in
breathing the air they begrudge it.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

1t. cost England over 100000 to carry
Oh the farce OF prosecuting Edward J.
Ivory. The Scotland Yard fee alone was
100000 and $4,000 waalpont in obtain
ing testimony from thd United States.
1t would seem propable that as long as
Ccotland yard detectives can reap such a
harvest Oh SO slender foundation that
they will continue right along in the old
business aud at the same old stand while
informers will always be found prowling
about or fitting to and fro like carrion
crows waiting for their affcl.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

A most distressing case Of eviction
took place in this city this week, when
a stony-kcarted landlord attempted to
throw a family out in the cold when the
1 thermometer was 20 degrees below zero
and the mother Of family of six little
B children was lying on bed unable to
move muscle because Of paralysis. IN
reality there was no rent due. The ten
ant Is a sober, hard working man. ena-
ploYed IN "a PilIsbury elevator and tie
I owner o1 the property is q shylock NJ
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

John Wanamaker of Philadelphia in
tends to build church to celebrate his
providential escape from fire, although
he lost 100000 by the recent conflagra
ton in that city. John should also bull
an edifice of another kind to commemo-
rate his recent escape from the Unite
States senate. A statue of Matt Quay
should have prominent place so thai
the sanity John might be inspired t.
mutter something as he passed by.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06
NOTHING FOR DEPOSlTORS.

~-' The story is familiar of the man who
placed a claim in the. hands OF lawyer
for collection and in due time called up
on him to learn the progress he had
made. The lawyer frankly told him that
he had collected his own half but was
very dubious about collecting the other
half.
In the winding up of the affair Of the
collapsed bank Of New England the re-
oeiver made showing to the court that
he had collected $74,214.06, out off which
he paid $7,01023 as expenses, $2,03066 in
the settlement of claims and taxes, to
the state of Minnesota as preferred Gre
itor, $61, 20s.35, ard had balance left
of S3,918.16. The receiver was allowed
for his services $4,000 of which he had
already paid himself S4,250; his attorney
was allowed 81, 5008 IS of which he had al
ready received $922.75. 1t was found that
there was not enough money left to pay
these officers in full and SO they were
permitted to divide the sum ON hand be-
tween them and then further pay. them
selves out of, thar first moneys collected.
A man unsluifed IN banking and finan-
cial TRANSACTIONS generally might be led
to believe that the object of having re-
ceiver appoiHtedii,,was for the purpose of
taking care Of the; interests of the credi-
tors, and among the most needy of these
would be tbs poor depositors. But it
appears from the facts and figures given
that the depSEsit3ts were not aiken into
consideration,at.aH all, except as regards the
state, and it comes in as preferred cred
itor and takes The lions share, leaving
the ordinary sdepositors: out in the cold.
And in this sH6hnectfon it may be said
that it is an unfair law that gives the
over poor mar twho has but his scanty
savings. -
But if it is necessary for a receiver to
have an attorney let the receiver be IN
attorney and attend to the business him
self. In this case he was an attor-
ney. If the attorney has to perform the
work, what is left for the receiver to do
except to look wise and hold himself re-
sponsible-for the collection Of his own
fees? Why pay these men such large
amounts particularly from bankrupt
concern? 1t does not make any differen-
ce how valuable their time is. If it is
too valuable to attend to such matters
without large fees let them follow ordina-
ry occupations and let the courts procure
the services of some one who will do the
work for less, and one, also, who will
keep steadily in mind the fact that the
dollar if nothing else. BY what rule
poor depositors are entitled to some
thing, even small percentage on the
do receivers and attorneys gage the
worth of their services in such cases?
LIS it made proportionate to the amount
of the spoils, in sight and close at hand
or in perspective? At at any rate when
the spoils are being. handed out should
the widow and the orphan and the hard
working man not be remembered? Even
the state can afford to lose something as
well as the man who is trying to save
little from meagre alary.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06
WEST POINT CHURCHES.

Because Secretary Lamont has granted
permission to Catholics to build church
on the government grounds 1T West
Point great number of Protestant peo-
pie throughout the country have become
unusually concerned about it and all
manner of petitions pour in upon the
secretary regarding the matter. Hereto
fore the Protestant cadets all went to
one church and listened to the same pas,
tor, irrespective d the particular dsnon-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06
EXpiRATIONS.

The date Casually abreviatea' "n"n
is printed with your name on your pape1
or wrapper, shows to what tlmo S'u'
subscription Is paid. Thus. JILL w.
means that your subscription Is pau w
to January, 1895: Nov. '96. to NoVenio0i'
1895, and 80 on.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

Although the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly
is an Irishman he is not capable of MAX
ing three or TOUR speeches at the same
time. He Is reported to nave done go,
however, if one can Judge py the various
accounts in the different papers regard
in Mr.. Donnell's discussions Q the arbdi11
tration treaty in the legislature last
week.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

As wiHsbe seen by an article on Eng
lands decadance on the first page of this
edition of the Irish Standard it would ap-
pear that the prophesy of Macauley
would be eventually verifed-that trav-
eller from New Zealand would sit on
broken arch of London bridge and sketch
the ruins of st. .Paul's.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

The Tribune Of this city contained an
editorial recently entitled .Good Times
Ahead. But what We want Is good
times now and not ahead. They are al
ways ahead. @
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

The Dominant Real--'"And do you
really love me?" she faltered. "Can
you doubt me-" he earnestly demanded.
familiar as you u:ust DO with the ten
denotes, Of the literature of the day."
That is to say, dear reader, If this he
literature, then his love is real.
Doing his best-He was u new clerk n
a big retail establishment, aud he was
anxious to make q record IS. a salesman.
A young woman inquired: Can YOU let
me look at some safety bicycles?' He
turned away to get information about the
stock. and returning said, with q win.
some smile: 4 !: p very sorry miss, but
we're ont OF safety BICYCLES Dut:we haze
some very hns III tcl,se. {. i Il. Il
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

made Is I'll y taslr = : Il u :
.yond. the go rive thsm their warmest
sympathy and their most loyal. support
The people of Roaton nave held meet
ing for this purpose in old Historic Fa-
neufi Hall and their brethren throughout
the country should promptly initiate
their example.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

thesrasat vicious pattern. The furn1ture1
VIA. all removed from the house and the
woman would have been carried away
in her helpless condition but by the war
ming OF a doctor who was called TO the
scene this was prevented. We are rapid
ly following the footsteps of England.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

The free silver men will keep up the
fight on that issue although the goldbugs
have already dropped out Of the race
fearing to further aeitate the question
knowing that the more light there. /
thrown upon the matter the more con-
WINGED do the people become Of its JUS
tice. sc.-.$ .4:'i.
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REAIITTANCES.

Remittances may be made at our FISH,
either draft, express money oroef' po7'-
Office money order or registered iet'ef'
addressed to the Irish Standard" Min-
neapolis, Minn. Money sent IN any
other is at the risk OF the persons SEND
Ing It.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

The queen has commanded" Mr.. and
Mrs. Bayard to dine with her upon her
return to Windsor. Castle. 1t is safe to
say that our ambassador will make no
political speeches while the wine is flow
ing over Vic's mahogany.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

Minneapolis is rapidly forging to the
front. She now has woman lawyer III
the person of Edith NJ. Conant, who is
a. law partner Of he husband. She tried
O. case in court this week and tried it
we'll and every woman IN the court room
observed that her sllit-tailOr- made-- is
fully up to date.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06
RENEWALS.

Three weeks are required after senolns
money before the date when SHOWS "
what time your subscription has oeen
paid and serves as receipt. can be
changed. If, at the end Of three weeks.
date is unchanged, or an error is noticed
you will confer a favor by notifying us.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

: Captain General Weyler came within
an inch Of his life the other day from a
Cuban bullet. All. what a pity he could
not have been permitted to know how it
was himself. es'-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

The controller Of the currency will be
Charles G. Dawes, of Ohio, to succeed
the present controller Eckels. The COM
mission Of Eckels will not expire until
1898 and whether he will continue in Of
flee until that time is somewhat uncer-
tain, 600 ,-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

What is the laboring nan doing With
his surplus of money these day" under
the reign OF the good times advance
agent? Putting it in the banks perhaps
and the banks are putting it where it
will do the most good--to somebody:
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

was easy. Perhaps these men had scrttt-II
cisedPowers for his reprehensible Con:
duct In the recent campaign and so Pow;
ers was the self constituted Nemesis to-
crowd these men to their fate.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06
The Man She Likes.

Exchanges: By the bye, somebody
asked me what sort of man woman
likes. She Is usually pleased by a man
who has that true gold of his heart-good
manners. q
She likes man who is o0nsider@t'>0f
her.
she does not want him to look as II
what he did wear WIS by order of his
tailor.
She does not like man who is effem-
mate.
She likes manly hand, but it must be
one which is kept in good order.
If man is fortunate enough to be able
to sing we'll, talk well and dance we'll. he
will be that much more popular, but it is
more important that he should know
how to control horse, row a boat, and
pitch ball, since they are specially man
ly accomplishments.
A woman likes a man who doesn't talk
about himself, but who does talk about
her. .... .. H.
She likes to think Of him as good
business man, able to win his own way
in the world, and, therefore. independent,
She likes to think that, IL the house
catches on fire, he'll keep cool, save
her first, and then do no end of heroic
deeds.
Nowadays there is no fighting IL the
ring, there is no chance r a contest with
a bull or lion, and SO man must win
his spurs in other ways But woman
does adore a man who would be. she is
sure, under any circumstances, as brave
and as gallant as Chevalier Bayard.
She doesn't like fool. A woman is so
constituted that she often adores a fool
to annoy hero. IT seems to her as If
he ought to be deviled with pin prickA
She forgets that he might meet a tiger
without a culver and be sinothered to
death by a fly.
She likes man who, in some peculiar
situation, cannot only rise superior to it,
but master it. Indeed, when she is a
very real woman, she likes Il man who
can master her.
She likes to win q NTH t, her way of
thinking by feminine persuasion; she de-
spises him when she cal order him about.
Sometimes she does this, and then she ia
the mother of children who have only
fear for their mother and an intense love
but no respect for their father.
She likes man who can buy her a rail-
road ticket without getting flurried over
it as she does, and who can mark. on a
railroad timetable, just what the story
of the train mcans-something that to
her is like famous Greek riddle.
One explains 1t best when one says that
woman likes a man who is tender at
heart and a bit ashamed Of it; but with
nature of the purest gold, with a body
that is essentially masculine, wearing
clothes that fit we'll. having name rs that
are good and heart that in time ue-
comes hers.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

The whole of Ireland has found a plat
form upon which it can stand to protest
against English mis- rule. 1t would seem
that Providence has opened way for
people so distressed to regain their liber
ty and should they fail to take advantage
of this new movement through the am
bition or jealousy of any faction the
world kould not feel inclined to indulge
in deep regret.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

A $1,000,000 Dall in New York and a
$4,000 ball in Washington, planned for
the near future, will indicate that there is
plenty of money Observation-Disclosures
polls Tribune.
You are right, neighbor, and the men
who have it keep on crowding into
Washington pleading with the govern
ment to give them further opportunities
of robbing the people so that scandalous
orgies may be carried on in large cities
of the east and perhaps elsewhere while
those who are robbed are still pleading
for bread. O, yes, there is plenty OF
money somewhere.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-02-06

T III Em.sa5de Il \ III Il 4 a Iconpany ~
the Guaranty Loan Daiidins ID this city.
has Just issued In one group Beautifully
executed portraits OF i've Of Ireland's IL
lustrious, patriotic mem Hugh o'Netll.
Patrick sarsheld, Robert Emmet. Wolfe
Tone and Lord Edward Fitzgerald. In
termingle with the pictures OF these men
is Ireland's emblem. the harp. and the
whole presents a unique gem which no
doubt every lover Of Ireland will be glad
to possess. Al this pretty collection is
sold for only &c Il Is confidently felt
~ to ad0rn Its walls. A hint might here,
be dropped 40 aseats that Iby handling
these pictures they will find they can be
readily sold az soon az presented.
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DISCONTINUANCES.

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every subscriber until ordered stopped
and all arrearages paid up. Inc Only
legal method of stopping q paper Is by
paying up al back dues.