The Irish standard., 1897-11-27
persons with whom he wouul not wish
to be classed.


The wise doctor commenced his ad :
dress, falsely asserting that Ireland
was only one-half the size of Iowa 1t
is four-sevenths as large as this state.
VI course few thousand miles Of terri
tory is not much of difference, but
1t simply shows he wishes to belittle ey-
erything. With the same animus he
talked of the village Of Cork The
city OF Cork has population of over
10000, which is greater than any city
OF Iowa, and, therefore, should not be
styled a village How would our
neighbors of Des Moines feel ii We
spoke of the capital as village
1.-THE story of the one-penny barber
and that mutton chops was the only
kind of meat he could get, was anus
ing. But, wealy, now, doncherknow,
doctor, tourists are not considered re-
spectacle who frequent such haunts.
You can find cheap chop houses where
they serve only chops. and third-class
barber shops in our own cities. First
in Erin, and they charge just as much
as first-class hotels charge in America.
For instance. in Dublin, the Gresham
charges SO a day up. The Shelborn,
from $3.50 up. These are simply SAM
pies of prices for board and lodging in
hotels you can find In every city in
Ireland.
Catholic church teaches that 1t is sac
rllegious-a sin of Simony--to sell a
sacrament or the Holy Mass. There
fore, Rev. Mr.. Van Ness is guilty of a
is free in the Roman church in Ireland
that they must pay for everything
in their churches
again the learned doctor is wrong
when he says the laud is poc> and the
mass of the people shftless.'
Lord Macaulny, a bitter enemy of
Catholic Ireland but a fair historian,
said in one Of his speeches: In nat
area of equal size in Europe, and is
far moro important to the prosperity,
the strength, the dignity OF the British
empire than all our distant dependencies
together; more important than the Cam
| adas, the West Indies. South Africa,
Australasia, Ceylon and tho vast do
minions Of the Moguls.' Thus said the
great Macaulay, and ireland is smaller
in extent than our state ofs;4awa.
James G. Blaine was so astounded
at these words Of Macaulay that he
says that he examined the question Of
Ireland's production for himself and
tells us that he went about 1t in plain
farmer-like way, taking his information
from British authority. He found that
in the year 1880 Ireland produced 40O0,-
600 bushels of wheat S,O0O,0O0 bushels
Of barley, 7O,00O,O00 bushels of oats,
110,0O0,000 bushels of potatoes, within
60000,000 of the whole product OF the
United States for the same year. etc,
etc."
Father Lenihan gave other statistics
to show that Ireland's crop in 1880 was
far above that of the average country.
During these cruel years Il
code of laws was imposed on Ireland by
her tormentors, that would have been
| a shame to the reign of Nero; n code of
laws which made, at one time, the Cath
olic religion capital offense; and
which, when greatly mitigated, denied
to Catholics the means of education;
the claims of property and the rights
of citizens. Ireland gave up all and
clung to her faith.
Famine and pestilcnce followed in
the wake Of persecution. 1t is utterly
| impossible to detail the fearful atflfc-
| tions of the Irish people under this
| double scourge. 1t was hero the real
merit and beauty of their faith were
| manifested. When abandoned by all
| human succor, this sacred, this divine
| faith sustained their dropping spirit
amid the most appalling misery and they
died happy, even, surrounded by it's
blessed consultations.
"Van Ness says they still cling to
the primitive Implements which, when
asked To describe he said he couldn't
Pretty hard to describe a thing which
one has never seen. The first electric
tramway-street car lne-in the Unit
ed Kingdom, was equipped and oper-
ated in Ireland.
EDUCATION AND TEMPERANCE.
l. In regard to education Father Leni-
han cited Protestant authority and re-
liable statistics to prove that the Irish
held their own with the English and
| Scotch, and in regard to temperance
and morality, they were far superior to
their neighbors.
"Mr. Guinness, Ganness Or Vanness
(for in Hesse the 'G' and W are in
terchangeable," he said, "who is the
biggest distiller in Dublin, spent over
$1,000,000 In beautifying the Protestant
cathedral that was stolen from the
Catholics. And another Ness, distiller
spent another million in ornamcntine
Grace church that was originally built
| by St. Patrick" Continuing the Revcr-
end Father said. "'rhcre ia not onc