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The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

Harvard Yale and other universities
have leng-standing feuds with the
townspeople at their doors. The doubt
full feelings with which these antagon-
lists regard each other eliminate now
and then in what are known as town
and gown" riots. During certain an
nual rites held the other day by Har-
ward students to celebrate rowing and
baseball victories the roughs of Cam
bridge attacked the students with
stones and knocked one Of their num-
Der insensible. When the Harvard
men went after their foes the latter
fed ANONYMOUSLY, and the promptness
OF the police alone prevented a serious
riot. With tradition to back him up
and the fierce fighting tyrannical blood
to urge him on, the student, as years
pass by, does not seem inclined TO fore
go the physical pleasure OF exercising
his fists on his natural enemy, the
town "hoodlum." II seems pity that
learning, notwithstanding the old say
ing. does not soften the warlike feel
ings of the natural man when in the
presence of his foe. The recent war
experiences are likely to perpetuate
human savagery for many years to
come.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

According to Colonel Wrlght's stud
les OF the census, "the rich are grow
Ing richer; many more people than
formerly are growing rich; and
the poor are growing better
of. Statistics prove that while
the proportion CT parsons engaged in
urskilled and poorly paid labor re-
mains nearly stationary, the proper
tion employed in skilled and semi-pro-
fossioual pursuits, which bring higher
wages. steadily advances. He Illus
trates from Boston the improved dis
tribution OF wealth. In that city the
rich men Of 1924 were relatively richer
than ROW. Then nine large taxpayers
owned eight per cent Of the property;
now the nine largest own less than
four per cent. In 1916 the three hun
dred and thirty-three richest men own
cd q larger proportion than twelve
hundred Of the richest citizens Of to-
day. This is good as far as it goes
and we can stand some more of it.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

The late craze for arresting people
who have escaped imprisonment for
crimes committed about twenty years
ago suggests the idea that that must
have been rather a bad epoch.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

Rudyard Kipling is ont in another
editorial in verse on current topic
that OF Admiral Dewey's return. II
the admiral had turned upon his course
as often as Kipllng turns upon the
words work, kings, best, etc, he would
not have entered New York harbor un-
I'll some time next year.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27
Porsn,hinr the Dog.

Before you take hair of the dog
that bit you, you must induce the dos
that bit you, but that's easy" said the
man with the ruby headlight.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

The Cleveland Plain Dealer says that
the best counting days of the year are
at the threshold. Does the Plain Dealer
speak officially for the spinsters of that
region?
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

The language of gloves is now being
promulgated Young men have long
understood with fear and trembling the
language of the mitten.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

Most people have more curiosity
than sympathy for the troubles OF
others.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

4 clock keeps right on working when
1t gees on a strike; that's where it gets
the bulge On q man.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

A preacher often labors with men,
but the confidence man is the one who
works them.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

Shots from the pulpit usually pass
over the heads of the sinners in the
front row.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

The motives OF men are to be judged
moro by their actions than by their
words.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

A bachelor says that matrimony is
one OF the blanks in the lottery Of
love.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

There are some truths that never get
too old for men to learn.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE DEER HUNT LAST SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT.

From the Bible Text; Psalms, Chapter
KILL. Verso 1, as Follows: AS the
Hart Panteth After the water
Brooks"
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

Incredibly robs US Of many pleas.
ures and gives us nothing in RETURN
Lowell.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

All the world can see through men
who make spectacles Of themselves.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

We are told In Revelation, 22:15:
without are dogs" by which / con-
clude there is whole kennel OF
hounds outside the gate OF heaven, or.
as when master gees in a door, his
dog lies on the steps waiting for him
TO come out. so the troubles of this life
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

The mildest kind Of lying is bound
to injure a mans standing.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

A4os. ,....ss co4Av 10 chose who hus-
tie while Shey wait.
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

into Upper saranac. can you realize
how much David had suffered from
his troubles. and how much he wanted
God when he expressed himself in the
words: "As the hart panteth after
the water brooks, SO panteth my soul
after thee. o God"
The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

Sold by Grant Holden. YpIo
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22
WERE THEY PROMISED INDEPENDENCE

1t is quite natural to suppose that the
Philippine rebels hailed with delight
the appearance of the American troops
after the Spanish feet in Manila bay
was destroyed by Admiral Dewey. 1t
never entered their heads that the SOL
diers of the mighty republic of the
West, who had volunteered to free the
Cubans from the oppressive yoke OF
Spain, had gone to the Philippines to
deny them the rights for which they had
fought for many years almost to sue
cessful finish. By conspicuous bravery
and valor they had driven the Span
iards before them and had them cooped
up in Manila.
After Dewey had destroyed the Span
ish fleet he RETAINED from bombarding
the city Until the American troops ar
rived 10 capture and occupy it. In the
meantime. tile most friendly relations
were maintained with the rebels. They
were armed with rifles by Dewey, and
they acted as allies with the American
troops untl the Spaniards surrendered
Aguinaldo was treated with the highest
respect and was addressed as "your ex-
cellency' by our military officers.
When the city of Manila was in the
possession OF the American troops, the
Filipino leaders observed a studied
GOODNESS on the part of the Americans
in command. They wanted to know
what the Americans intended to do, but
could get no satisfactory information.
ENJOYS were dispatched to the seat OF
government at Washington, but Nc
Kinley would not grant them an audi
ence. His subsidized press stigmatized
them as spies and they soon left the
country to escape arrest. The Paris
commissioners had purchased the is
lands from Spain and the rebels were
entirely ignored, The new military
governor at Manila issued a proclama-
ton apprising the rebels that the United
States had bought their islands and
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

calling upon them to lay down their
arms Internationally. For refusing to
comply, the American troops under
took to conquer them, but have not vet
succeeded.
Now comes letter to the Mime
apolis Times from its war correspond
ent who gives an interview with one
of the Filipino officers named Lorenzo
l.. Zialcita, who has travelled in Amer
lea and is highly educated. He de-
clares that the Americans started the
fight with the rebels after they had
promised them independence. EIe says.
that Consul Wildman told the Filipino
leaders in Hongkong that if they would
go back and take the islands from
Spain they would be given their indie
pendence by the United States. He
says that Gen. Anderson in a speech at
Cavite told them the same thing and
assured them that the Americans had
not come to take permanent possession
of one foot OF their territory Gen. An
derson denies that he made any state
ment Of the kind attributed to him
and that he had no authority to do so.
Perhaps, he did not, but it is certain
that the Filipinos were led to believe
that this country would act generously
with them.
When asked by the correspondent
what the Filipinos would have been
willing to give in return for American
protection, the intelligent native re-
piled: 81 cannot say what would be
granted, but certainly anything reason
able. When the United States was
struggling for independence, France
came to her assistance. I do not re-
call how much the United States paid
for this good act. But the Filipino
government certainly would have been
willing to do anything reasonable"
Further on in the long interview
when reference was made by the corre-
spondent to the incapacity of the Fill
PAAAOo III oSll-SOVS1ulilCil, lllC lllllltdly
officer sensibly Remarked: GLOW could
we prove our fitness or unftness for
self-government until we had been
given an opportunity to show what we
could do?"
There is no doubt whatever OF the
fact that the Filipinos have been griev-
ously wronged by the Mckinley admin
istration. Had they been treated fairly
in the beginning there would have been
no conflict. The American people, or
the majority OF them, believe that they
have been abominably abused. and at
the first opportunity they will be sure
to redress their wrongs, and give them
what Lincoln called ga government Of
the people, by the people and for the
people" and not a government OF the
bayonet and by the bayonet for the
benefit of American and British syndi-
Gates and capitalists.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22
AMERICANS IN THE TRANsvAAL.

The fact that Rear Admiral Howison
is visiting Pretoria, the capital OF the
South African republic, is another evil
dence of the cordial relations existing
between the United States and Great
Britain under the Mckinley administra-
ton. The American naval officer and
his subordinates proceeded overland
from Delagoa bay to the capital OF a
friendly nation which is ready to defend
its territory from British aggression, and
instead of calling on Paul Kruger they
went direct to Sir Alfred Miner, the
British representative, from whom they
received grand ovation.
1t is said that the Admiral was in
structed to make the journey at the in
stance of the state department in order
to ascertain, the status of American cit
liens in the'ofransvaal. AS there has
been no protest or complaint made by
Americans,agSinst the laws OF the Boer
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

Bishop Foss, of the Methodist
Church, is being hauled over the Goals
by Philadelphia Catholic for using
the words bachelor priests" in refer
ence to missionaries in India. The
Bishop denies that he meant Catholic
priests, and declares that he has said ap-
preciative things about Catholic priests
and bishops. So he has. During sew
eral years residence in Minneapolis,
Bishop Foss never uttered word
against the Catholic Church, and was
very popular with the Irish people.
He appeared at Land League meetings
and raised his voice in behalf of Irish
nationality. The writer of this para
graph reported the pulpit utterances of
Bishop Foss for the daily papers and
has always considered him one OF the
most broad-minded bishops in the
Protestant denominations. He may
have referred to the Anglican clergy
who call themselves priests" ...
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

Archbishop Ryan, OF Philadelphia,
and Archbishop Hennessy, OF Dubuque,
have gone to Ireland together to revisit
the scenes OF their boyhood days. The
former is native OF Tipperary, and the
latter OF Limerick. We hope Arch
bishop Ireland will visit his native land
before he returns home. He halls
from the County OF Kilkenny. No
country can boast OF producing three
greater church dgnitaries than Ryan,
Hennessy and Ireland. They are emf
nent orators either in the pulpit or on
tie platform and could WELD tremen-
dous influence in their native country in
the interest of harmony among irish po-
litical factions.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

Bishop Stanley, OF North Dakota,
recently delivered an address at Devils
Lake in reply to vicious attack made
on the Catholic Church before the
Chautauqua Assembly at that place, by
one Bishop Edsall, OF the Episcopalian
Church. The eloquent bishop OF Far
so was at his best, and literally hayed
the Church OF England divine. Those
who listened to him report that his adj
dress was magnificent sample of ex-
coriating rhetoric. In his peroration
the bishop exclaimed: LET this be a
warning to lecturers on this Chautau-
qua platform to refrain from assaulting
Gods church, Peters church, Leo's
church, my church." And his delight
ed audience shouted "Amen."
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22
Good Advice to Young writers.

James Jeffrey Roche, in the "Holy
Cross Purple" offers the following use
full advice to young persons wishing to
write for the newspapers:
I. Don't begin by asking busy ed
itor for place on his paper, without
showing him samples of your work.
2. Don't expect him to read them if
he does not need an assistant.
8. Don't invite sudden death by
asking him for an opinion or criticism of
your prose or poetry. He has thou
sand other things to do.
4. Don't forget that journalism is
trade and requires at least as much ap-
premiership as any other trade. You
wouldn't ask an Atlantic liners captain
to give you mates berth just because
you had taste for yachting.
So much for the preliminary
"Dont's." If you aspire. to succeed as
a newspaper, writer it is essential to bear
in mind that the rules of rhetoric are the
rules of all good writing, whether it be
the editorial, reporting or any other
branch. No doubt I violate several or
all of them every day-especially when
l write advice to Young Writer'S"
which, Laus Dec! I do not do every day
or every year.
I. Be brief. When you have boiled
down your article to the smallest di-
mensionss boil it again.
2. Avoid "fne writing" and, equally.
hackneyed phrases, and, above all,
slang, which is language in its shirt
sleeves and stocl<ing-feet and vulgar
beyond-alas no!-not beyond express
sion"
+ s.. Say whatever you have to say
plainly, succinctly and with every es-
sential detail of date, place and person.
4. Don't take it for granted that
your reader knows all about any of the
matter until you have briefly recapitu-.
lated it. Then, if you must turn your
pen loose and burst into metaphors and
other fireworks, do So The editor will
cross it all out, and admire you not at
all for giving him the trouble.
S.. Always respect your readers in
tellect. You are in no danger of ever
writing above it if you humbly endeavor
to write after the manner of the best
masters. Shakespeare is not above the
understanding of the wayfaring man;
and the literary merits of the Bible are
second only to its religious value.
I think I began this hasty essay by
saying, "Be concise" You see that I
have disobeyed my own injunction; but
I have this excuse: That I have not
had time to 1'boil it down. twice or
even once. Therefore, you may take
me for an awful example, if not wise.
model. Finally, if you contemplate
embarking on the sea of literature" and
ii that is the way that you are tempted
to express your intention-DON'T!
The ocean is crowded with polysyllabic
derelicts; but there is room enough still
for modest little one-masted shallops.
which may grow up to be full-rigged
ships if they sail prudently on their
early voyages. -
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22


The Catholic papers of the country
object to Allan G. Thurman as Bryan's
running mate in the campaign of 1900.
At the Chicago convention of 1896 he
opposed the nomination of Richard P.
Bland for the presidency because his
wife and children were Catholics. That
is enough to cook his goose. A man
like Thurman would be a veritable
Burchard to the gallant Nebraskan.
The son of the s'Old Roman made the
biggest mistake of his life when he
dragged religion into politics, and if his
name is presented at a Democratic
National Convention it will be vigor-
ously Kissed.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

1t is announced that an alliance has
been formed between the British and
Chinese railway corporation and the
Americana China Development COM
pany. The stock of the latter is owned
by such men as ]. Pierepont Morgan,
the Rockefellers, the Manhattan Trust
Company and the Vanderbilts. The
other corporation has its headquarters
in London. The United States is asked
by the American syndicate to protect
its interests in the Flowery Kingdom,
and its engineer, Gen. Parsons, has
called upon John Hay to request him
to inform the Chinese government that
the contract between the Chinese am
bassador and the late Senator Calvin S.
Brice must be lived UP to. Undoubt-
eddy Secretary Hay will do as requested.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

Captain Coughlan, Of the Raleigh, is
responsible for the following story:
Dewey sailed into Manila harbor,
fought his battle, and then cut the cable.
The English admiral wanted to help
him, and didn't dare But he thought
that Dewey might take hint. So the
English admiral sailed over to Dewey
and said: "Ah, see. you have cut a
cable" eyes," answered Dewey.
(Which one?" asked the innocent. Eng
lish admiral. And then Dewey, know
ing for the first time there were two
cables, rastled back, grappled for the
second cable, and cut it.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

DR.. J. K. Ingram, the well-known au-
thor of ''Who Fears to Speak of Ninety
eighth" and Vice-Provost of Trinity
College, Dublin, has resigned his fell
lowslip in the college, and retires with
pensionD from the governing board.
Prof. Mahaffy succeeds him on that
body, and his promotion further implies
his resignation OF the chair of Ancient
History, which he has held for nearly
thirty years.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

The talented editor of the Pioneer
Press informs correspondent that the
United States came into possession of
the Philippines, not by right of pur-
chase, but by right of conquest, and that
Spain received $2o 100000 as an act of
magnanimity to conquered and bank
rupt nation. Why not display little
more magnaimity and give the
bankrupt nation few millions for COB
bling up Porto Rico in the name of
humanity?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

statement. But, on the one hand, why
give all the credit and substantial re-
wards,to this man, while ignoring those
who helped to make his victory for him;
and, on the other hand, why talk about
him and his victory in exaggerated
terms, as Mr.. Balfour did in the debate?
Mr.. Balfour is an educated man who
ought to be ashamed of himself in
comparing Kitchener with the great
Carnot. The latter organized victory"
against the finest troops in Europe,
Kitchener against few naked barbar-
ians. Kitchener's troops simply pressed
the buttons of machine guns and the
barbarians fell before them. 1t was
flrst-class slaughter, but not real war
fare in the old sense of the word. Sup
pose the barbarians had had the ma
chine guns and Kitchener's forces had
not, should we have had the spectacle
of 10000 dead Soudanese and the
slaughterer himself in the gallery of the
house OF commons to see servile crew
voting him fortune for his life? The
truth is it is so long since England
fought any nation of her own size, and
we have done so much fighting with
barbarous tribes, that we have lost all
sense Of proportion and talk of people
like Kitchener as though they were in
the same category with Frederick the
Great, Marlborough or Napoleon.
We think that the riAing of tombs is
a disgraceful act, no matter whose re-
mains lie there. Death should mean
silence and reconciliation. IT do not
make war with the dead" said Charles
", and we ought not even appear to do
so. The military achievement of Kitch-
ener ought, in the eyes of parliament as
representing national sentiment, to have
been largely cancelled by his brutality,
which was emphasized by the horrible
acts he permitted to be done on the
field OF battle. Had the lesson been
read to him and to all others whose
moral feelings are as blunted as his it
would never have needed repetition.
Whereas now, every aspiring general
will be tempted to disgrace the moral
reputation of England by initiating
Kitchener's unhappy example.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

The Chicago platform has worried a
good many men, and it is not through
with worrying them. This, however, is
no indication of its soundness.-Peoria
Journal. 1t appears that it worries the
editor of the Journal among the rest,
though in 90 he was an ardent champion
of the Chicago platform from top to
bottom. He has since changed, but
the platform hasn't. If it was sound
then, it is sound now; and if he was
right then, he is wrong now.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

The New York Journal says: Mr..
Mckinley is standing at the cross roads.
He must choose, and choose at once,
whether he will give a fighting general
a chance to win reputation or whether
he will allow the Philippine war to be-
come a dismal, disgraceful, humiliating
failure, with his Administration buried
under the wrath of a people outraged,
betrayed and robbed of its best blood
for no purpose.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

The paragrapher of the Minneapolis
Journal says: General Otis is reported
to have said that he proposes to make all
the heroes in the Philippines. The gen
eral is putting himself to unnecessary
trouble. All he has to do is to stand one
side and the men now there will make
heroes of themselves. About the only
one who seems in danger of returning
to the United States without that hon.
orable distinction is General Otis.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

Says the Minneapolis Tribune: Gen.
Miles is said to be extremely anxious
to go to the Philippines, but very prop
erly he would decline to go unless
placed in supreme command. To this
the iron hand of Algerian and Corbin-
ism is opposed, for it is feared that if
Miles should make brilliant record
there he might become presidential
candidate.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

What has become OF the Ygorrotes,
who fought the Americans with bows
and arrows around Manila? 1t was
Otis who told how the big, barefooted,
naked savages were moved down" by
the score. The correspondents said
nothing about them, and the presump-
ton is that Otis told fairy tale to be-
little the character of the natives.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

The commissioners appointed to in
vestigate the internal affairs of Porto
Rico have made report to the retir-
ing secretary Of war, in which they say
that "the priesthood upon the island
belonged to the Romanist Church."
The commissioners must be either ig-
norant or intolerant, or both, or they
would not apply the offensive word
"Romanist' to the Catholic Church.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

The Irish Standard is indebted to the
Catholic Truth Society, of San Fran
cisco, for several valuable pamphlets,
among them being why l am Cath
olic," by Rev. Charles A. Ramm, and
THE Church in the Philippines" by
Rev. Joseph McQuade, who is now in
Manila with the Eighth Army Corps
Copies can be had from the Catholic
Truth Society, Flood Building, San
Francisco, Cal.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-07-22

The Oregon volunteers who have re-
turned home say that there isn't man
in the Philippines big enough for the
job of conducting a successful cam
paign against Aguinaldo. One of them
says that Aggy is bigger man than
Otis. The newspaper correspondents
are OF the same opinion.