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The Irish standard., 1900-10-06
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS.

A new parliament will convene at
Westminster on the first of November.
The electors Of Great Britain and Ire
land are now in the throes Of a gen.
eral election. The Tories are likely to
be returned to power by q reduced
majority. The temperature of the
war fever is gradually cooling of and
the Tories will not carry the Kingdom
as anticipated some months ago. Tile
Liberals, however, are not in good
fighting trim, but they will more than
hold their own.
The Irish people, though UMPIRE
pared for n general election, are
marshalling their forces in an energet-
ic manner SO that their representa-
tives will have the numerical strength
to act as the balance Of power In the
new parliament. Thanks to the Unit
ed Irish League the Nationalists are
united almost to a man.
There is one notable exception.
however, among the Irish leaders, and
that is Timothy NJ. Hea!y. Though.
perhaps. the ablest parliamentarian
among them all and the cleverest de-
batter in Ireland he is sulking in his
tent and is a veritable recalcitranr.
He is jealous of Redmond, Dillon, Da-
Witt and O'Brien because they are
more popular than he is. He will not
cooperate with them in furthering
the national cause but casts reflections
OH their patriotism and rnisrepresents
their motives.
Notwithstanding the fact that Healy
is a malcontent he deserves to be sent
to the British parliament. There Is
no Irishman in the House Of Com
mons whom the English fear so much
as Tim Healy. His terrific arraign-
ment of the Tory party on the South
African war has endeared him to
thousands of his countrymen In Amer.
lea. Though at swords point with
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place for Investment.

try to find place for Investment.
Applausel"
On Imperialism in Porto Rico and
the Philippines, Mr.. Bryan spoke with
great force. He reminded the Repub-
Leans that the two senators from Min
nesota voted against the Porto Rican
bill which denies to the people of the
island the protection of our constitu-
ton. "a power arose behind the
throne" exclaimed Mr.. Bryal, "a
power greater than congress or the
president, and that power forced it
through the house, the senate and the
White House." He asked Repub-
licans to read the bill and they would
find that underlying it is "a principle
as dangerous and rs damnable as any
despot or tyrant ever advocated or ex-
ercised."
The last part of his discourse was
devoted to the Philippine question,
and he still addressed himself to Re
publicans. 1t is stated that many Re
publicans who heard and read his re-
markable speech have been convinced
by him that the Mckinley policy of
Imperialism is wrong and should be
abandoned. Some of them will vote
for Bryan on election day. He has
risen in their estimation and they be-
lieve in his sincerity and patriotism.
Since the delivery of his mastery ad-
dress the Republican papers have
been unable to break the force of his
logic. He will certainly receive Il
much larger vote in Minnesota than
he did in 1896, and perhaps he may
carry the state.
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In dispatch from London, Arch.
bishop Ireland is quoted rs saying:
'sIn one of the audiences which lie
granted Inc, the Pope said: We are
well pleased with the relations of the
American government with the church
in Cuba and the Philippines. The
American government gives proof Of
good will and exhibits a spirit of jus.
tice and respect for the liberty and
rights Of the church. You will thank.
in my name, the president of the re-
public, for what is being done
'.When I repeated to Cardinal Ram
polla (the papal secretary of state) my
interview with the Pope, the cardinal
declared such statements we're what
he personally believed and knew to be
true and that was at liberty to re-
peat them to the American people,"
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During the past year 100000 sill.

During the past year 100000 sill
YER dollars have been issued from the
minis at the coinage ratio of IL to !.
They are marked Zone dollar" Some
Republicans say they are only Fifty
cent dollars" because the silver ii,
them is worth only fifty cents in gold.
If that is SO, what is a paper dollar
worth? Any Republican who be.
lieves that the dollar piece issued by
the United States is worth only fifty
cents can get five-dollar gold piece
at this office for five of them. And,
by the way, why is there SO little gold
in circulation since we have gone on
a gold standard basis? 1t is the
money of the rich and is too precious
to be handled by the class which Me
Kinley plutocrats call the 'proleta-
riats.''
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The Republican party has levied a
tariff of 40 cents ton OH coal i'm
ported from Nova Scotia and British
Columbia. Why? To enable Ameri-
can coal barons to pay good wages to
the miners? Not at all. The miners
of Pennsylvania derive No benefits
from the duty. 1t is to enable the
operators to ship coal to foreign mar
kets, to pay freight on it, and make a
reasonable profit, and then charge the
domestic consumer two prices instead
Of one. The coal trust, Of which J..
Pierpont Morgan is the head, con-
tributes heavily to the Republican
campaign fund out Of the pockets Of
the American citizens.
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some of the leading Nationalist on
minor matters he is with them on the
main question of self-government for
Ireland. We believe VIM. O'Brien to
be one Of the most unselfish of pa
triots and yet we think lie is too Sc
we're on Healy when he writes as fol-
lows:
There is to be no fair play for any
Irishman who has tried honestly to
serve his country. He is to be as
sailed-his wife even is to be as
sailed-by Mr.. Healy's dirty tongue.
Even man like Mr.. Sexton, who re-
tired from public life five years ago,
and who has never interfered in poll
tics since, has been subjected to
daily torrent of abuse and SANDER, al
though If the Nationalist of Ireland
We're polled at this moment they
would unanimously proclaim him to
be the one man of all others in whose
political sagacity and craftsmanship
they would be prepared unreservedly
to trust. Men like Davitt and Dillon
have spent their lives in the service
Of Ireland. They are to receive with
smiles the contents of the familiar
utensil which is the chief weapon in
MI. Healy's armory. The one man
for whom liberation is to exist, ac-
cording to the new doctrine which we
have heard expounded in few quar-
tiers for the past week, is the author of
all the calumnies the one who stands
aside from the rest of the Nation,
and who takes his stand calmly ON
the platform that the rest of the Irish
representatives are either traitors or
fools.
All Irishmen are, we feel sure, pre-
pared to make sacrifices for Unity.
But it surely is an intolerable demand
to ask us to take to our 5csoms man
who will not accept the National
Policy-who opposes the National
Fund-who ISLANDERS the National Or
ganization-and, instead of showing
any desire to act cordially with the
rest of his countrymen, SEXES the oc-
casion Of his very last speech, deliv-
cred since the general election was
announced, to repeat all his ISLANDERS,
and then coolly proceeds to lay down
the conditions upon which his ALE
glance can be secured. Surely, the
country would be mad that would go
any further lengths to make Mr..
Healy sensible Of his duty! Disunion
and dissension follow him wherever
he goes.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

President Mckinley will make no
speech during the campaign. Mark
Hanna says there are reasons known
to him and not to ba made public why
Mac shall not make any speech this
year. The principal reason is that he
cannot explain his official course to
the satisfaction Of the people. 1t
would be awkward for him to explain
why he changed his mind, for in
stance, over the Porto Rican tariff,
and did not perform his plain duty
to the condding and betrayed island
ers. 1t is better for Mac to keep his
mouth shut and Mark knows it.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

The German-Americans of the coun-
try are falling into line with Bryan rs
the campaign progresses. The Re
publican press is we'll aware of the
fact and vet it says the majority of
them favor the reelection of McKin-
lev. Jacob Mueller of Cleveland, O.,
ex-lieutenant governor of that state
and ex-consul general to Frankfort
says he will vote for Bryan on a cop
per basis of 16 to / in preference to
Mckinley and Imperialism. The Ger,
man-Americans are loyal citizens who
want a republic instead of a mon
archy
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

John Hay, the Anglomaniac, is back
in Washington after a two months
vacation to take charge of affairs of
state. During his absence from his
post of duty the British flag was
raised in the Porcup1ne district of
Alaska, and who shall dare to haul it
down? On Sept. II, American miners
were notified that their claims were
on British soil and that they should
Immediately appear before the British
commission to confirm their titles to
them. Secretary Hay deserves a
knighthood from her gracious mai
esty, the empress of India. ..
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

If the trusts can succeed in getting
a big standing army industrial slavery
can whistle for emancipation. Bryan
is right when he says one of the OBJ
jects of a large standing army is to
put down discomfort by force instead
of removing it by legislation. Every
working man who consults his own in
terests should vote against imperial
ism and militarism next month.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

There is one Irish-American news
paper in the country that Is booming
Mckinley for revenue only. 1t is pub,
lished in New York and edited by a
Hibernian Hessian who attaches LII.
ID. aud PHI. ID. to his Norman cogno-
men. The fellow ought to have re-
n,ained in Ireland to back up the Brit
ish government for cash.-Irish Stand
ard
This is cruel blow and would cal
most kill" less sensitive man than
DIR. Walsh. But the Standard should
remember that while the doctor edits
one paper in favor Of Ton Platt and
William McKinley-the American
Herald-he publishes another the
Sunday Democrat-that religiollsly
supports Richard Croker and Tam
many Hall. Besides being great
editor and Gaelic scholar, tile doctor
has long head for business.--Inter-
mountain Catholic.
According to our esteemed con-
temporary DIR. Walsh is another Theo-
dore Hook. The Englishman edited a
Tory and Il Wing paper simultaneous,
ly in London, and what he said III one
he opposed in the other. We did not
know that the New York Irislman
was employing his talents, i'll that
way. He evidently has u long head
for business, but man of principle
would not do such despicable work for
filthy lucre.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

Marcus A. Hanna says that Bryan
is Il demagogue who has never done
anything for humanity except with his
mouth. James Anthony Froude said
the same thing of O'Connell. The
English historian was liar and Han
ma is his imitator. 1t is only at rare
intervals that great men like O'Con-
nell and Bryan appear on the earth
to plead with marvellous eloquence the
cause of justice and freedom for all
mankind.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

The Beers are still annoying their
enemy in South Africa. On Oct. 2
they captured a convoy of twenty-five
wagons. escorted by GO mounted
men. only twelve of whom escaped to
tell the tale. The day before five
Coldstrealn Guards were killed and
nineteen injured. The foregoing in
formation is given by Lord Roberts in
a dispatch to the British war office.
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Hauling Down the Flag.

"Would you pull down the fag?''
asked Republican of Democrat in
a discussion about the Philippines In
front of the state house ut st. Paul Il
few days ago. =
"Would you take down old glory
when once it has been hoisted by an
American soldier?"
Then the Republican paused with q
smile of triumph and looked around
at the crowd like he had said some
thing.
The Democrat gave his opponent
reproachful stare for moment,
without speaking word. Then he
said:
''Now, my friend, you are too old
man to use such an argument as that
You ought to know that this pulling
down the flag cry Of the Republican
party is too silly for ten-year-old
child to use in the name of argll-
ment. =
Hasn't the flag been pulled down
again and again and brought home?
Isn't the flag. to be pulled down in
China? Hasn't old glory foated in
victory over the capital of the Chi
nese empire? Now if there is par
ticle of reason in your plea for keep
ing the flag floating in the Philip.
pines then all China should be held
as conquered territory. Why not give
China Il stable government?
"You remember, also, that our flag
has been unfurled in several places.
where it does not float today. When
the United States whipped the AL.
gerian pirates soon after the repub-
lie was established the flag was,
hoisted over the African continent.
Did we pull it down or hold all the
country from the Mediterranean sea
to the Cape Of Good Hope as the
spoils of war?
TELL me whether old glory floats
in Africa or was brough home after
it's mission there had been accom-
plished?
you have heard that the stars
stripes once crossed the Rio Grand
and was carried in triumph to the.
capital of Mexico. Did General Scott
leave it there or bring the flag nome
with him after the war? Who ever.
said the flag was dishonored when.
the heroes of Beuna Vista and Cerro
Gorda brought it back home.
You will find that the flag has.
been away from home several times
and returned without claiminy anp
right to stay where it has been hoist
ed in battle.
: Nobody but the imperialists Of
this campaign ever thought of at
tempting to justify the greed of con.
quest by such u childish plea as this.
nonsense about pulling the flag down.
You had better try to find some bet
ter excuse for your policy of con-
quest and subjugation."
When the Democrat got throug,,
with the flag champion the Repub.i-
can had that sickly, cowed express
sion Of the human countenance th.t
for lack of Il better name has been
called "sheepish." The crowd saw
that the cuticle of the imperialist had
been perforated by the steel of his
adversary and nobody else had any
inclination to take up the fight.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

A writer in the Living Church.
says: "Justin Mccarthy is brilliant
and dashing Irishman from Cork and
one of the. few Englishmen of note
who supported the Northern side in
the civil war;" How dashing Irish
man from Cork can be an Englishman
the writer does not explain. Perhaps
it is because he is brilliant. All Eng
lishmen are brilliant, you know.
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Maj. Hotchkiss, the venerable edit
or Of the Preston Republican, does not
think it an act of cowardice to haul
down the American flag from foreign
territory. He says: 1--WE were pres
ent at the taking down of the Ameri-
can flag from over the halls of the
Montezumas on the morning of the
18th day of June, 1S4s. Battery B
Third artillery, to which we belonged.
fred the salute honoring the act and
saluted the Mexican flag that was re-
turned to its place over the halls. 1t
was the browning act of peace be.
tween the nations"
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

William Mills WINS, New York
capitalist, comes out f1at-footed for
imperialism. He thinks there are
millions in it, Young Bradley Martin,
of the same city, also favors Hanna's
policy of spoliation and conquest in
the far east. 1t is needless to say
that neither of them will risk his life
in depriving the Filipinos of their
liberty. They are patriots for rev.
enue only.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

We publish on the first page of this
issue an article on McKiu!ey's policy
in the Philippines by Moortield Storey,
of Boston, ex-president Of the Ameli-
can Bar Association and the biog-
rapher of Charles Sumner. 1t is quite
long, but should he read from begin.
ming to end. Mr.. Storey was asked
by the National party to become Its
candidate for president. He declined
ami has announced his intention 10
vote for William J. Bryan.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

Quoth the Chicago Chronicle:
Who shall dare haul down the Amer
lean flag wherever it has been raised?
asks Mr.. Mckinley in one of his writ
ten apologies for Imperialism. Since
its honest acquisition from Russia by
the United States Alaska has been I'M
der the American flag. Now it is sub
jected to Acknowledgement in behalf of
Great Britain. The British flag
waves today over a portion of Alaska.
Who dared haul down the stars and
stripes, to make way for the union
jack? William Mckinley and his Sec
rotary of state, John Hay.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

Patrick MacCafferey, of Jersey
City, is Sc years old. He came to
America ten years ago, but it is with
in the last six months he has taken
out naturalization papers. He will
cast his first vote for president of the
United States next month, and it will
be for William J. Bryan.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

Andrew d. White, the American
ambassador at Berlin, has written to
this country saying that President
Mckinley has "only friendly feelings"
toward the Germans. His object is
to conciliate the German-Americau
citizens to vote for his master next
month. They will not forget, how
ever, how the fatherland was misrep-
resented and maligned by the McKin-
ley jingoes during the war with Spain.
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and integrity of John Lind and will
testify their appreciation of his SER
vices by Keeping him in Office for
two years more. But they must do
more If they expect reforms. They
must elect men for state Offices and
to the legislature who are in sympa-
thy with him and relegate such men
as Bob Dunn to private life.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

In Chicago, last Sunday, DR.. Julia
Holmes Smith delivered an address, a
synopsis of which appears elsewhere.
in which she said: ''The roster of
revolutionary officers and heroes con-
tains more names of Irishmen than
of any other nationality. In the civil
war, 100000 Irishmen took arms in
defense of the union, and history tells
us they We're ever to the iore.''
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

Said William ]. Bryan in his speech
at Fargo: '"There is not Repub-
lican in a position to defend the negro
question. The Republican party has
taken the negro for thirty years to an
Office door and then tied him on the
outside. The negro has bestowed
presidents on the Republican party
and the Republican party has given
to the negroes janitorships in return"
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06
Blesd-stalned Commercialism.

No American father can wish for
his son a more honorable fate than to.
die for his native land, says the N. Y.
Daily News. 1t is quite different
matter to look forward to our children
being sent to various parts of the:
world-South Africa, Ashantee, India.
China, the Soudan, for instance-to
perish, as the sons of Great Britain
and Ireland are perishing, as victims.
to the Moloch of Empire. to the greet
of blood stained commercialism, to find
new fields for the Standard Oil Trust.
the Tin Plate Trust, the Steel Trust
and the various other trusts that look
upon the ordinary American as fit only
to be an Industrial slave in peace or
food for cannon in imperial wars.
That is not the future we want for our
boys, every one of whom has as much
right to be president of the United
States as if he were Vanderbilt, an
Astor, Roosevelt or Rockefeller.
They are Americans, and America
should give them their opportunity.
Mrs. Hemans well expressed the
thoughts Of an English mother, gen.
Grafton ago in those. touching lines:
They grew in beauty side by side.
They filled one house with glee;
Their graves are scattered far and
wide,
By mountain, plain and sea. 4
Twas one fond mother bent at night
Ger each fair sleeping brow;
She had each folded flower in sight
Where are those dreamers now?" =
Yes, where are they? Let the jun
giles of Ashantee, the deserts of the
Soudan, the kopjes of South Africasan-
swer- sacrificed to British imperial.
ism. American fathers and mothers
have better use for their sons than
this, and if the Anglo Republican poll
cy of Imperialism for the American Re
public shall be defeated in November,
and William Jennings Bryan elected
President of the United States, it is
certain that every American boy will
have a chance to prove what there is
in him, and he will not be compelled
to choose between fighting Cinnamon
] or shaving for trust.
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meets abroad. He says: The more
an American is an American, the
more prefer him or her. l no more
admire ,Europeanized Americans than
do, their own un-Europeanized coun-
trymen.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

In recent interview Governor Pin
gree of Michigan, said of our pluto,
cratic president: II have always con
tended that McKinley's backbone
didn't reach far enough toward his
neck to support his brains or his will
power" And yet Plngree will vote
for him with his fingers to his nose
because he is the nominee of the
party.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

AS many as $4,000 persons tried to
hear Bourke Cochran on Imperialism
in Chicago last Saturday night, but
only 5000 succeeded in getting into
the Coliseum building. His speech is
a masterpiece Of eloquence and logic
and stamps him as one of the great
est orators of the country.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

The Philadelphia Times comes out
for Bryan and repents of it's course in
supporting Mckinley in tie last CAM
paign. 1t declares that trusts and
imperialism are a menace to the ma
ton and that the only salvation for
the country is the election of Bryan,
whose ability, earnestness and integ-
rity no one questions or can question.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

1.-The Demagogue of Democracy is
what the st. Paul Pioneer Press calls
William J. Bryan. What is William
Mckinley? The Puppet Of the Plutoc-
racy.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

The British jingoes call the oppon-
ents of the South African war "litt!e
Englanders," and the Mcj<inleyites
echo the cry by calling the anti-im-
perialists ''little Americars.''
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

When Joe Wheelock of the st. Paul
Pioneer Press has exhausted argu-
ment he employees abuse. In recent
editorial he calls William J. Bryan an
ignoramus.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

All the monarchs of Europe are
guarded by detectives wherever they
go. No hand can be raised against
them without being seen by the
sleuths.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

James A. Rice, the mayor of Can
ton, Ohio, has taken the stump for
Bryan against his distinguished
townsman, the ruler of tile Philippine
Islands.
The Irish standard., 1900-10-06

Henry Labouchere prefers genuine
Americans who are proud of their
country to the Anglicized creatures he