The Irish standard., 1898-03-05
JoTTiAGS FROM The ZENITH CITY.

J0TTiAGS FROM The ZENITH CITY.
| Here is a precious state of affairs in
this highly moral A. z. A. city of Duluth.
A few years ago the citizens of that
burgh voted to send Satolli out of this
country-put Catholics out of office wher-
ever they could and damned the Pope to
their hearts content, and now at meet
ing of nearly all the churches, held at
the First Methodist church the conclu-
sion comes:
! Gambling houses, houses Of assigna-
ton, saloons, blind pigs and so on and
so on ad nauseam are all wide open. We
are the prey of gamblers and harlots.
One speaker, summer from the SUM-
miest holes in New York, gives Duluth
not the palm-but the skunk cabbage, for
downright rascality. Duluth is as rot
ten morally as the worst city in the
country" Talk about the wickedest
man-now we have the wickedest city,
that beautiful, pure, cold and very
school-covered literary city to be called
morally rotten"
An anxious mother stood up and spoke
and said it was not the mayor, nor yet
the police who were the blameworthy,
but the manhood" Of the city. The
manhood" of the city! Why. the man
hood of the city used to think that
Catholic was the devil and the woman
hood of the city turned poor servant girls
out of employment when they found they
were Papists. Nice city! nice people
The advance agent of Mr.. Marion
Crawford thinks of sending Mr.. G. to Du-
luth for a lecture. Barring few Catho-
lies, that genial novelist would not have
the ghost of an audience. A Catholic
lecturer in Duluth would talk to empty
benches, but send us runaway nun, or
Judas priest and we can fill the house.
Leg business, smutty illusions or pro-
nounced bigotry will draw congenial
souls here at any time and their hate of
Catholicity will draw money from even
scant purses.
Lent is the season of Irish drama. Sea
during these forty days if we don't have
Kathleen Mavourneen," Arrah-no-
Pogue" and all the rest of 1t in full fling.
Singular how they come to the surface at
this time of year.
| There are agents now going around al
most forcing on the people cheap history
| books got up at immense cost and an
nounced with great blare of trumpets az
the greatest literary works of the nine
teenth century. Inasmuch as Catholicity
fares badly at the hands of these learn
ed historians, because they write and
hand down shameful lies about the Cath
Ole church, 1t will be advisable to pause
while before making any contract and
insist on an Endorsement Of good
Catholic newspaper or an examination
by the nearest priest. The Irish Stan
dard has done excellent work in driving
out one base book; now, your cor
respondent would ask what do you think
Of "Ridpath's Library of Universal Lit
erature?"
Lord! How this world is
given to lying! Every news
paper Is taken up either with lies
or contradicting lies about Spain and
the unfortunate battleship Maine. So
close do the lies run on each other that
the falsehood and the contradictions
are sometimes in the same column. This
we call news. literary enterprise and yell
low journalism. Some faoetious journals
say 1t was the yellow kid" who did it;
but we know better in Duluth. at was
1t was the Pope" There ought to be a
patent right on that opinion. 1t was the
Pontiff Leo who inspired Dreyfus. who
| fined and Jailed lola and finally blew up
the Maine. But we are not to have war
| after all, for has not President Mckinley
! advised with Archbishop ireland and
asked him on Bonded knees to win the
Pope to peace and give his godson, the
young king of Spain, word of advice?
Here is newspaper enterprise.
Glow many Catholics in Duluth take q
| Catholic paper? How many Hibernians
| take the Irish Standard? When good
| people are leaving the Catholic churches
on Sundays, Immediately after mass, the
newspaper boys do thriving trade: do
any of them sell the Irish Standard?
What beautiful and lofty criticisms we
hear about Catholic literature and what
shameful neglect goes with the criticism,
One man who decently subscribes for a
Catholic paper and keeps paid up to date
does more for the support of sound Jour-
nalism than dozen praters about what
Catholic journal ought to be- Talk is
| cheap.
Demise of Mrs. WooIse
In the death of Mrs. ]. u. Woolsey.
which occurred in this city last Sunday