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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07
his own, withdrew the appointment of
Mai. Schaeffer for chief of notice and

Maj. Schaeffer for chief of police and
named James G. Doyle, a thoroughly
competent man, in his stead. The mere
fact that the new mayor rescinded his
action in his first choice for head of the
police department and invited adverse
criticism by so doing is to us con-
vincing evidence Of his singleness of
purpose in giving Minneapolis the best
service of which he is capable The
press of the city, irrespective of politics.
has kindly feeling for Mr.. Gray and
wishes him every success in his mag
isterial position.
The new city council commenced it's
partisan tactics by sweeping change in
under it's control. Every Democrat was
turned out and a Republican got his
place. If the Republican appointed was
as competent in the discharge Of duty as
the Democrat supplanted, perhaps the
change may be all right from a political
standpoint. For the interest of the city,
however, Chief Stetson of the fire depart
ment, who has given universal satisfac-
ton in the discharge of his duty, should
not be removed to make room for an in
ferior officer. We have no disposition
to find fault with his successor, ]. R.
Canterbury. We are willing to give him
fair trial before we shall utter any
unkind word of him, and If he shows his
efficiency and acts for the best interests
of the city, without being influenced by
partisan prejudice he shall receive full
credit at our hands.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07
REvIvlNG THE IRISH TONGUE.

The Chicago Tribune, one of the most
rampant organs of Anglo Saxonism in
the United States, does not like the idea
of holding in Dublin a pan-Celtic con-
gress, with representatives from the
Gaelic-speaking remnants of the Celtic
race in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle
of Man, and Brittany" In last Sun
days issue it attempts to show from an
Anglo-American standpoint how foolish
1t is to revive and preserve the Gaelic
tongue, and how detrimental it would be
for the true interests Of the Celtic peo-
pie. The Anglo-Saxon scribbler who
penned the article insquestion says: "The
Gaelic League, of (which there Is a branch
IN Chicago, appears to have wandered
farthest into the region of impractical
nonsense by advocating the teaching of
Gaelic the same ,as English in the ma
tional schools of Ireland and of other
Celtic countries. ~ The fact is that Celtic
has been taught in the national schools
of Ireland for several years with crafty
Ing success, and the teachers who are
competent to communicate knowledge
of 1t to their pupils from books are paid
extra compensation for their labor. The
writer in the Tribune proceeds to say:
What Irish children need most Of al! IN
order to give them fair chance in the
world Is sound and correct knowledge Of
English. To divide their time and energies
by teaching them to delve in old Celtic liter
allure would be to handicap them cruelty.
1t would be far more worldly wise for the
Gaels to learn more English instead Of less,
and to abandon totally their almost dead
Celtic tongue rather than to re-ac1uire it
at the expense of even a quarter Of their
present knowledge Of English. Irishmen
will do we'll to let the dead past bury its
dead. and not let their hatred of their Eng
lish rulers blind them to the fact that their
future success depends upon a good knowl-
edge of the English language.
What the Gaelic League Of Chicago
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The San Francisco Monitor says: Mr.
Dooley Of Chicago, is very funny and
very clever, but there is danger of his
becoming a nuisance. Like all great
men he has imitators 1t is poor paper
that has not somebody on its staff who
fancies he can write as we'll as Mr..
Dooley in the Irish language. And so
we are treated to letters a In Dooley that
are vulgar and stupid, and most annoy
ing to every decent lrishman. One ap-
peared in a city paper the other day that
beat anything of the kind ever printed.
The man who would have an Irishman
say lathe for teeth" richly deserves
heroic blackthorn treatment. Very few
can write the Irish language correctly.
To do so more is required than a COM
mon music-hall education. 1t Is a beau
tiful language but difficult one to mas
ter. There whose genius urges them to
write in dialect should try Scotch. AS
nobody understands the modern Scottish
tongue as 1t is written no errors can be
made. But with Irish the case Is differ
ent. Mr.. Dooley should give us his views
on this burning question. He is admit
teddy an authority on Irish.
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IRISH ATHLETES.

An Invincible Team to Visit This
Country Next Summer.
An athletic team will be in America
next summer that will make the hereto
fore invincible aggregation of the New
York Athletic club work hard to retain
its laurels. On this team will be a gal
axy of record breakers that may be ex-
pected to take the breath from the
American athletic fraternity.
The troupe from the Emerald Isle will
be purely amateur. They are expected to
arrive in New York about June /, and
will remain during the summer and fall.
A big athletic tournament will be held
In their honor in Celtic Park, Laurel
Hill, Long Island. The travellers will
participate in the American and Canadi-
an championships.
Perhaps the most famous man on the
team will be w. J. M. Newburn, the won
derful broad jumper. He only took up
this game about IS months ago, yet today
he holds the worlds record. He won the
lllle OIL pnenom' on his third public
appearance, when he cleared % feet. He
subsequently Won the Irish champion
ship with leap of % feet four inches.
and the English championship with a
performance of % feet seven inches. He
topped this off by breaking the world s
record last August at the Balls Bridge
sports. held in Dublin. He put the fig
ures at % feet nine inches. One month
later he electrified the world with a
jump of "a feet six and three-uuarters
inches, and before the amateur authori-
ties had recovered from their astonish-
ment he made jump of Is feet inches.
He is credited with the almost unbeliey-
able performance of 25 feet II inches in
practice. He stands six feet six and a
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07
NEW HANDS AT THE HELM.

Last Monday afternoon Mayor Gray
and the newly elected city council as
sumed charge of municipal affairs for the
next two years. The retiring mayor read
his farewell address and the new mayor
delivered his inaugural. Being an ex-
perienced newspaper man Mayor Gray
knew the value Of brevity and made his
address reasonably short to enable a
busy people to persue 1t from beginning
to end. He avoided verbosity and said
what he had to say In plain and simple
language. In the Introductory para
graph he referred to his predecessor in
a courteous manner, and then hit the
nail on the head by saying: 1T is fairly
deducible from the mixed results of the
recent election that the people did not
desire extreme craftsmanship in their
municipal government. The results of
the voting for aldermen is nearly all of
tho wards was a plain invitation to the
peoples servants to drop politics and
get down to business"
But Mayor Gray's words produced no
visible effect whatever on the Republican
aldermen as their subsequent proceedings
demonstrated. Though elected for
municipal reform they proved beyond
doubt that they were intense partisans,
who intend to run things high-handed
and without regard to public sentiment.
Mr.. Gray proceeded to point out the ne
cessity for economy and retrenchment in
the city government, but he might as
we'll whistle jigs to n mile post as to ad-
dress the Republican majority in the new
council with the expectation of carrying
out his suggestions. or one thing Mr.
Gray can feel assured, and that is that
he will obtain but slight cooperation
from the new council in giving the people
who elected them and him an economi-
cal, business administration. From every
indication the present council will be no
Improvement upon the old 1t may not
produce boodlers, but nothing good can
be expected from it. Instead of being in
sympathy with the mayor the Repub-
licans show u disposition to antagonize
him from the start.
The Irish Standard believes that Mayor
Gray possesses the characteristic stub
bornness of the Scottish race from which
he has sprung. If he does, we hope he
will adopt for his motto in his dealing
with the council the expressive words:
Lay on, Macduff, and ID be he who
first cries hold, enough" He will have
the hearty support of the citizens of Min
neapolis outside the Republican ma
chine" in his every encounter with the
"city fathers" in the cause of an honest,
efficient and economical government. He
has been elected by citizens Of all parties
as a rebuke to Republican corruption,
and he will be backed up by them to the
end of his term If he devotes his ener-
gies to correcting abuses and giving the
people the kind Of administration they
have long sought in vain.
Mayor Gray, for some good reasons of
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

Mr.. Dooley, the Chicago humorist, tells
Henncssey of the wonderful inventions
during the Victorian era in the follow
ing style: ''Think of the steam engine,
the printing press and the cotton gin and
the gin sour, and the bicycle, and the
flying machine, and the nckel-in-the-
slot machine, and the soda fountain, and
browning work of our civilization, the
cash register. What great advances has
science made in my time and Victorias
for when we entered public life it took
three men to watch the barkeep, while
today you can tell within eight dollars
an hour what he has taken in"
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advocates is "a national system OF bilin-
quail instruction In tho national schools
and other institutions Of learning in
Ireland. Every experienced teacher
knows that children who speak the Irish
language can learn English quicker and
better through the medium of the moth
er tongue, and acquire a knowledge Of
Irish from books very easily when they
know how to speak 1t already. Take
children in other countries where two
languages are spoken, and they are like
ly to have knowledge sufficient not only
to speak but to read and write both Ian
guages. The Irish boy who has learned
Celtic on his mothers knee and goes to
an English school without a word of
English will learn the latter with greater
facility and rapidity If the teacher in
structs him in the vernacular. An
American or an English boy learns
French or German through the English
tongue, and why should not an Irish boy
learn English through his native Ian
guage? 1t is, therefore, nonsensical for
the Tribune writer to say that "to teach
Gaelic in the Irish schools would be as
harmful as to take up the children's time
teaching them ancient Chaldean." He Is
laboring under the impression that Eng
lish would be discarded altogether, for
further on he says:
"Parnell in his day did not hesitate to go
nfn} 1c
English and Irish ot1iceseekers, especially
after the British had adopted the civil SER
vice system, which admitted tens of thous-
ands Of clever Irishmen into British offices,
not only in the United Kingdom, but IN
India. South Africa, Australia and Canada,
to say nothing Of the United States De-
prive the Irish of their knowledge of the
English tongue when they arrive in this
country, and they would be at as great
disadvantage in securing offices and con-
tracts and fat spoils of party politics as
are the Italians, Hungarians, Bohe:nians,
Poles and Swedes Even the Germans, who
are twice as numerous as the Irish in the
United States do not get half as many Of
fees
This Johnny Bull must not be alarmed
There is no danger Of the Irish giving up
the English language. They are too
smart for that But in addition to their
hOOWlCuSO VI ZIG d hUOWlCUSC u
the Irish will be useful to them, and Is
essentially necessary If they desire to
retain their separate nationality. The
Irish are not yet Britons, and though
they speak the language of their task
masters they will never abandon their
own and allow it to perish without max
ing strenuous effort to save 1t from de-
struction. With two languages they will
succeed in the world better than with
one which is alien to their soil. This
world is still young, and in ages to come
strange things may happen in the Brit
ish islands, The Celt may renew his youth
like the eagle and cast off the chains
of the Saxon. Then the language of the
Gael may get "a boom" in Erin and be
used again as of yore in the Irish par
lament. A country that has preserved
its faith and nationality during centuries
of oppression will not allow its ancient
language to die for want of patriotism.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

Cardinal Rampollo, papal secretary of
state, has cabled to the New York World
denying an alleged interview with the
Pope which appeared in the New York
Journal of Dec. 10. He declares that the
purported interview is absolutely false
and ridiculous, and that the Pope never
received the Journal correspondent nor
any other Journalist. cit makes the Pope
speak of things to Journalist" says the
secretary, which he would not even
contide to a cardinal, and 1 pray the
World to deny the invention" The Ro-
man intelligence through the Associated
Press and the yellow journals is per-
fectly unreliable, and frequently manu.
featured out of whole cloth.
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Horace Plunkett. NJ P. who was re-
Gently the guest of Hon. C. D. O'Brien, of
st. Paul, had stormy voyage across
the Atlantic on the steamship Ger
mania. 1t was the biggest sea he wit
messed in some 40 voyages on the ocean.
Il was glad" he says, ito see an Irish
built ship, under an Irish commander.
showing splendid seagoing qualities, and
to witness the perfection of discipline
above and below" His friends in the
Northwest congratulate him on arriving
safely at home to resume his industrial
scheme.
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half inches in height and weighs, in con.
dition, 1S9 pounds. He is % years Of
age and student at the Dublin univer,
sity.
D. J. Leahy will uphold the prestige Of
the Harp" in the high jump. Like New
burn, he stands head and shoulders
above every other amateur on this planet
at this speciality. He is the holder of
the present worlds record of feet SIX
inches. When he made this great lean
at the Bauteer sports in the county of
Cork he also attempted six feet seven
inches, without success. Leahy is good
for 10k seconds in the hundred and %
seconds for the furlong. He is another
six-footer, weighing 1853 pounds.
The shot-putter of the aggregation
will be D. Horgan, who holds the present
worlds record of 4S feet one-half inch.
He has won the English and Irish cham
pionships five times in succession, and no
man at this end of the cable can COM
pare with him. Horgan holds another
worlds record of SO feet 3 inches for
the 2S-pound shot. He can throw the 16-
pound hammer about 145 feet and has
cleared over six feet in the high jump
He is S feet 1O1s inches in height, and
tips the scales at 2O4 pounds.
T. ]. Kelly, the captain of the team.
will be depended upon to defeat the
great John Flanagan of the New York
tn
Kelly hoe fA- fish record of 157
feet II inches. which is within five
inches of the worlds record, held by
Flanagan. Kelly, however, holds the
planets figures for tossing the 56-pound
missile, having done 80 feet with unlim-
tied run and follow. He is the only man
credited with capturing seven champion
ships in one day. He did this at Dub
lin in 1895. The Irish captain has won
the all-round championship Of the Brit
ish Isles several times, and is after the
American title. He stands 6 feet 2 inches
in height, and possesses 1876 pounds of
avordupois.
The Beau Brummel of the invading
"Harps" will be Hugh Welsh, the crack
mile runner of Watsons college, Edin-
burgh. Welsh was, like Sir Thomas Lip
ton, the yachtsman, born in Scotland of
Irish parents: He, therefore, calls him
self an Irishman, and has been declared
eligible for the Irish team He won the
English one-mile championship at SIAM
ford Bridge, London, last July, in the
clinking time of four minutes II Is Sec
onds.
H. M. Mcnamara, the sprinter, is a
reliable 10-second man. He has done even
time frequently on grass tracks, which
are considered at least yard slower
than the American cinder paths.
S. @. Meredith, who will essay the
quarter-mile, is a Trinity college man,
with record of so second flat on grass
course. He once defeated Fitz Herbert.
the English flyer, who represented the
London Athletic club in the dual games
with the New York Athletic club in 1895.
In the face of a gale, Meredith won the
quarter at the English championships in
81 seconds
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

The Philadelphia Standard and Times
thinks there is no reason for the I'M
measured abuse the Northwestern Chron-
icle pours out on Catholics as a class, in
connection with politics. 1t truly adds
that political corruption is not altogeth-
and the press of the country have con-
spired to fasten such corruption upon
members of other denominations"
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Stand.

The chief of the imperial secret service
was assured that he might tell all, without
fear of getting the federal machine down on
him
The foreign dogs" the chief of the I'M
per1al Secret Service thereupon announced,
are saying your highness stands for medi-
aeval barbarity!'
We'll. we don't stand for fear of bagsinR
our trousers. like some people" sneered the
sultan, heatedly, thus Indicating that he
was aware. In despite of the censor of the
tail fashions for enlightened men.-Detroit
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with Mr.. Mckinley when he delivered
the bellicose speech commented on, and
undoubtedly large number of Amer
leans entertain the same idea. In any
event, it is to the interest of Canadians
to preserve friendly relations with the
United States both in the Klondike re-
gion and everywhere else. Uncle Sam Is
in fighting mood since he licked the
Spaniards and any irritation on the part
of Canada may result in its annexation.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

The New York Sun is at it's wits ends
to quote any American statesman of the
past in favor of territorial expansion. 1t
thinks the following far-fetched quota
ton from speech of Abraham Lincoln.
in reply to Stephen A. Douglas, is peril
nent to the grabbing of territory on the
eastern continent: Il am not opposed to
honest acquisition of territory and in any
given case | would or would not oppose
such acquisition according as l might
think such acquisition would or would
not aggravate the slavery question
among ourselves" Lincoln was discuss
ing the slavery question, as is evident
from the quotation, and were he alive
today he would DO as strongly opposed
to dishonest acquisition of territory in
the Orient as are Col. Bryan, Senator
Hoar and Gov. Lind.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07
Death of the Old Year.

"iA hHoe-ueep lies me winter snow,
And the winter winds are YEARLY sigh
ing:
Toll We the church bell sad and slow,
And tread softly and speak low
For the old year lies a-dying
Old year, you must not die;
You came to us so readily,
You lived with us so steadily,
Old year, you shall not die.
He lieth still; he doth not move;
He Will not see the dawn of day.
He hath no other life above.
He gave me a friend, and true, true
love,
AND the new year will take 'em away.
Old year, you must not go;
so long as you have been with us.
SUCH Joy as you have seen with us,
Old year, you shall not go.
lie 1roth'd his bumpers to the brim;
A 1olller year we shall not see.
But tho his eyes are waxing dim.
And tho his foes speak ill of him.
He was friend to me.
Old year, you shall not die:
we did so laugh and cry with you.
I've half mind to die with you,
Old year, if you must die.
He was full of joke and Jest.
But all his merry quips are DER.
10 see him die, across the waste
His son and heir doth ride post-haste.
But he'll be dead before.
Every one for his own.
The night is starry and cold. nv
friend,
And the New Year blithe and bolA.
my friend.
Comes up to take his own.
HOW hard he breathes! over the snow
l heard just now the growing cock.
The shadows flicker to and fro:
Inc cricket chirps; the light burns low:
lis nearly twelve o'clock.
Shake hands before you die.
Old year, We'll dearly rue for you;
what is 1t we can do for you?
Speak out before you die,
His face is growing sharp and thin.
Alack! our friend is gone.
Close up his eyes; tie up his chin:
Step from the corpse, and let him in
That standeth there alone.
And waiteth at the door.
There's new foot on the floor. my
friend,
And new face at the door, my
friend.
new face at the door.
Alfred Tennyson.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

Says the New York World: England
is reported to be remarkably free from
Influenza" This shows that the Anglo
climax of cordially where John Bull
will sympathetically sneeze whenever
Uncle Sam has the grip.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

Senator G. G. Mccarthy, of Grand Rap
Ids, is the gentleman who nominated
Cushman X. Davis for reelection to the
United States senate at a Joint caucus
of the Republican members of the Min
nesota legislature. Mr.. Mccarthy is I'M
doubtedly Celt in name and tempera-
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man of the Democracy will not be dis
mayed nor deferred from raising his elo-
quent voice against the malign policy
of the plutocracys, and warning his coun-
trymen against the dangers that beset
the republic onte it departs from its
fundamental principles and embarks in
the confiscation sand conquest of foreign
lands. 4 dtI
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

Gen. Brooke, the civil and military
governor of Cuba, gives indications of
developing into Warren Hastings and
a Weyler if he is not restrained by the
administration. His power for good or
evil is absolute, and with troops at his
back, his will is law We hope he will
not rule as a military despot.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

The London Spectator sensibly says
for once in its Tory career: THE Eng
disappearing peoples may govern half
the world without graciousness or sys-
TEN. But if they try to govern it with
out justice and consideration for tho
rights Of others. their dominion will
some terrible day come crashing down."
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

B. H. Roberts, the congressman-elect
from Utah, says he will stand by his
three wives, and that the Mormon church
cannot take away from man the wives
it has already given him. He denies
that polygamy is adultery
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-01-07

Mcdonald, the tobacco manufacturer,
has been knghted. If the queen would
now knight every man who chews Nc
Donald's tobacco we would have an ari-
stOcracy in Canada in less than no time
Nelson Economist
Lord Ardilaun by her majesty, probably
because she likes to drink dublin
stout" II she now Lords" every Irish
man who drinks the beverage, there
of the shamrock as in the days of yore