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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09
THE BEST CATHOLIC PAPER.

L
In glancing over the columns of the
Northwestern Chronicle we find the fol-
lowing brief paragraph: 'In the last
issue of the Immaculate Conception
Church Calendar, Father Keane speaks
of the necessity Of having Il good Cath
Ollie paper in every Catholic home, and
says that, in his opinion, two of the
best, if not the very best, Catholic pa
pers in America are the Northwestern
Chronicle of st. Paul and the Catholic
Citizen Of Milwaukee,"
OF course, Father keane is entitled
to express his opinion of anything and
everything in the pages of his own lit
tie publication, and had he used the
distinctive instead of the copulative
conjunction in reference to the papers
in question we would not have word
to say on the matter. Is it possible
that Father Keane does not know that
''the Northwestern Chronicle of St.
PAUL. is not published in st. Paul at
all and has no legal habitation in that
city since it's subscription list was pur-
chased by the Milwaukee Citizen? The
Northwestern Chronicle, notwithstand-
ing its date line, is not simultaneously
published in Milwaukee and st. Paul
Not Il line of type in it's pages is set
up in st. Paul. 1t is issued in Mil
waukee and is an exact duplicate or
transcript of the Citizen with the OK
ccption of the headings Of articles and
a column under the caption of "The
Archdiocese of st. Paul." which gives
items written by its agent in the
Sanity city and clippings from North
western exchanges, principally from
the Northwestern Catholic and the
Irish Standard without any due ac-
acknowledgement.
The late John Brennan, of Sioux
City. bitterly complained that the Mil.
waullce Citizen and it's duplicate We're
guilty of printing news taken from
his paper without the slightest credit
The Irish Standard has never COM
planned and hereby checrfully grants
permission to it's enterprising contem-
porary or contemporaries to appropri-
ate everything in it's columns. Though
somewhat stale when it appears in it
or them. the news from the Irish
Standard will always prove interest
ing to it or their readers.
AS to whether the Citizen and Chron-
icle are two of the best, if not the
very best, Catholic papers in America, y
that, of course, is only matter Of
opinion.
Perhaps if Father Keane We're better
acquainted with such Catholic papers
as the Boston Pilot, the Boston Repub-
lie, the New York Freeman's Journal,
| the Philadelphia Standard and Times,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

A young lady Journalist of New
York named Grace White will start
paper called The Reasoner to combat
the principles advocated by William j.
Bryan in The Commoner. She says:
Il shall take up his arguments for free
silver, and by cold reason and logic
dash them into atoms." If her 'rea-
son and logic" can be kept cool and
do not get to the boiling point, she
may succeed in knocking out his argyll
ments, though that feat has not yet
been accomplished by Journalists of
the masculine gender. But lay on, Mac.
duff!
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Consul General Goodnow, in his adj
dress on Protestant missionaries in
China at the Wesley M. Il. church in
Minneapolis the other evening, omitted
to say anything about the Catholic
missionaries in the Celestial kingdom.
The present status of the Catholic
church in China, as summarized by
the London Tablet from the Katho-
lisce Mission, is as follows: "There
are 80 vicariates apostolic among some
454 100000 of heather. The number
of Catholics is 762,75S, excluding the
catechumens, of whom the Jesuits
have 1875, the Franciscans Is, 1G2, the
Dominicans 10000. The clergy COM
prises 942 European and AS native
priests. There are, besides, 80 Euro
pean and 20 native lay brothers and
teaching brothers, 800 native cate
chists and school teachers, $50 Euro
pean and 72O native sisters, besides at
least 2,396 women consecrated to God.
though living in different missions, like
the virgins of the early Christian
church. OF churches and chapels there
are 4.34S, of elementary schools 4,O54,
with G5,99O pupils; also numerous agri-
cultural and trade schools With 2,2G3
pupils; $50 orphanages with 26,S35 Or
phans; Al seminaries with $50 stu
dents; Al colleges and boys high
schools. Other departments of Chris
tian charity are represented by 395 hos
pitfalls and dispensaries, great num-
Der Of homes and asylums for the
aged poor, for lepers, etc. Finally,
seven printing presses. These brief
statistics give some idea of the Catho-
lie interests at stake in China" Mel
Their Ii Hung Chang nor any other
"heathen Chinee" in high or low sta
ton has ever accused Catholic mission
aries of looting during the Boxer dis
turbance.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Lady Rachael Charlotte Fitzgerald
wife of Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin, and
eldest daughter of the Earl of Dunra-
ven of American Cup" fame, died re-
Gently at Adare Castle, county Lime
rick. She was one of the Geraldines.
and ought to have been a patriotic
Irish woman. Her father, Dunraven
of the Valkyrie, though of the ancient
stock of the O'Gradys, at one period.
among the leading Old Irish septs in:
Munster, has lost the national spirit
for which his forefathers were remark
able.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The Catholic Citizen and Northwest
ern Chronicle, of Milwaukee. Wis, are.
being advertised by an Irish-American
priest in Minneapolis as ''the very best
Catholic papers in America" Perhaps,
they are, but at the same time it is
well for the Irish members Of his con-,
gregation to remember that the papers:
aforesaid contain no news from Ire
land like that in the present issue Of
the Irish Standard. They are Ameri-
can papers Of the "Cawtholic" type.
but their agents will take subscriptions.
from the generous Irish just the same.
if they get them. Thiggin thu?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The Inauguration of President Nc
kinley is going to be the most gor-.
geous ever attempted in our history.
The general drift is towards imperial.
display and the making of deity of
the individual holding Il little power.
st. Paul Globe: What J. J. Hills.
personal organ says is too true, but
why, it may be asked, did the Globe
prefer Mckinley to Bryan last fall :?
Was it not because of his Philippine.
policy in the interest of railroads ana
steamship companies?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

"Expectations based on the result of
the election have not been realized"
says Gen. Macarthur in dispatch to
the war department. During the cleo
ton a dispatch from the Taft Commis-
sion was published to the effect that
II Mckinley were reelected the war
in the Philippines would be at an end
In sixty days. More than ninety days
have passed away since Macs re-clec-
ton, and the war appears to be only
beginning.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Not one foreigner in the service of
the Bocrs has been a mercenary or
paid soldier. The men who went from
Europe and America to assist the
burghers of South Africa We're the
friends of freedom and fought without
pay. They were men imbued with the
spirit of liberty like Lafayette, Kosci-
usko, De Kalb and De Steuben, who
volunteered their services in the cause
Of American independence in the days
of Washington.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Mark Twain, the American humorist,
is opposed to McKinley's benevolent
policy" in the Philippines. In an arti-
Gle in the North American Review he
says: Dewey should have sailed away
from Manila as soon rs he had de-
stroycd the Spanish tleet-after putting
up Il sign guaranteeing foreign proper
ty and life against damage by the Fili-
pinos and warning the powers that in
reference with the rmancipatcd patri-
OTIS would be regarded as an act un-
friendly to the United States. Dewey
could have gone about his affairs else
where and left the competent Filipino
army to starvc out the little Spanish
garrison and send it home. and the
Filipino citizens to set up the form of
government they might prefer and deal
with the friars and their doubtful ac-
questions according to Filipino ideas
Of fairness and justice.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

We notice in our Irish exchanges;
that the Right Rev. Bishop Sheehan-
of the diocese of Waterford and Lis
more, Ireland, is likely to be appoint
ed assistant to His Grace the Arch
bishop of Cashel, with right of success
sion. Bishop Sheehan is amongst the
most learned of the Irish prelates and
is brother of the Very Rev. Father
Sheehan Of the Sioux Falls diocese,
South Dakota.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Business in congress is being blocked
Dy Mark Hanna's ship-subsidy bill, and
there is talk Of an extra session. The
chief beneficiaries of Hanna's bill will
be a few large and wealthy railroad
companies and steamship lines. The
Republicans are FESTIVE under Hanna's
lash, but they will fall into line and
vote as he directs them. Mckinley is
impatiently waiting to attach his sig
nature to the bill in return for favors
received at the hands of his boss.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Quoth our e. G., the Boston Pilot:
Murray Hamilton Hall, who died late
~ in New York, had passed for a man
during fifty years, being married. talk
ing mans part in politics and bust
ness and doing mans share of hard
living and strenuous fighting Mt times
After death she was discovered to be a
woman. She was native Of Dundee,
Scotland, and in all probability was the
original and only "Scotch-Irishman.' -
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

who talks of benevolent assimilation"
when he sanctions the indiscriminate
slaughter by his imperial soldiers of
non-combatants in the islands.
Later news from London 1eaves no
doubt of the Cromwellian policy of
Kitchener. A cablegram or Feb.
says that Kitchener has begun an Of
fensive movement designed to sweep
the Beers out of the whole eastern
half of the Transvaal, and his scheme
is thus outlined:
"Seven columns will operate in a
wide fan-shaped order from bases ex-
tending from the Delagoa railway on
the north to the Natal railway OH the
south. BY keeping in constant COM
munication with one another the col
umns will advance as a huge, concert
ed force along battle front more than
100 miles in width. Their work will
consist not only in driving the enemy
before them, but also in denuding the
country traversed of every vestige of
supplies capable of supporting guerilla
warfare, which has harried the British
so increasingly since last summer"
1t is exactly copying Cromwell's tao
tics in Ireland in the seventeenth cen
tury. The troopers of that bloody mon
ster pillaged, destroyed and murdered
everything in their path, saving Meth
er age nor sex. Having killed the cat
tie, they burned the crops, and the I'M
fortunate non-combatants who escaped
with their lives finally died of starva-
ton. After Cromwell had finished his
bloody work there remained not more
than half a million people in the whole
island.
The British, however, will not have
things their own way in South Africa
When they destroy the food they may
be Fastening their own destruction
The Beers will capture their supplies
and ultimately starve them out AL
ready they have blocked. traffic on the
Delagoa Bay railroad by blowing up
the bridges with dynamite, and Colonel
Blake, Of the Boer Irish Brigade, is
marching on Lorenzo Marquee to pun
ish the Portuguese officials for deliver
ing up Boer refugees to the British in
violation of the laws Of neutrality. The
British had better carry on their war
fare according to civilized methods or
| they may rue the day when they
adopted McKinley's barbaric policy in
the Orient. The Beers are amply able
to take care of themselves, and if ever
Kitchener resorts to the massacre of
the Boer troops and of the defenseless
non-combatants on the farms, he ought
to be visited by terrible retribution
il he falls into De Vets hands. He
had narrow escape few weeks ago,
and some months ago he was forced to
fly in his night shirt. When he is
caught, as he is likely to be before
long, he ought to be hanged. for he
does not deserve soldiers death.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The 123d anniversary of the birth of
Robert Emmett will be celebrated I'M
der the auspices of the United Irish
societies Of Chicago at Central Music
Hall, on Monday evening, March 4.
One Of the principal speakers will be
Christopher a. Gallagher, the eloquent
oils.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The Sampson-Schley controversy is
up again before the United States SEN
ate, and Secretary Long has been criti-
cised for attacking congress. When
Long, in 1890 at the Minneapolis Ok
position building, referred to Sampson
as "the hero Of Santiago" he was in
terrupted by chorus of Schley!
Schley! Schley! from all parts of the
auditorium.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Samuel Clemens, alias Mark Twain,
has brought upon himself the wrath of
the Minneapolis Journal for ironically
reviewing McKinley's Philippine policy
in the February number of the North
American Review. 1t is pleasant for
Mark Twain that he does not read the
local organ of Mark Hanna.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09
Says a London correspondent:

Says a London correspondent: A
funny story is going the rounds about
a chapel in Belgravia, where, two Sun
days ago, there was prayer that the
queens health be restored. But the
parson went on to say that If this was
impossible he prayed that Providence
would turn the heart Of the Prince of
Wales and make him n better man
and that he might lead more moral
life.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

John Goodnow, consulgeneral at
Shanghai, says that the trouble in
China was confined to three out of the
nineteen provinces. The other sixteen
were quiet. Had the entire empire
met the invaders there would have
been less looting by the civilized eau
casians.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Says the Providence Visitor: The
stories about the wholesale conversions
of Fllipinos to Professionalism with
which the secular journals have been
absolutely incredible. We hope our
readers will give no crcdence to these
mad reports until Archbishop Chap
pelle has been heard from.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Miss Mary Conger Pierce, niece of
the American minister at Pekin, writes
home to Il friend about looting in the
Chinese capital after the flight Of the
government. She naively says: "Stacks
Of silver have been found in Pekin,
but we have found very little" "There
We're lots of storerooms," she contin-
ues, "but they will be empty in a
short time" Again: 1--WE followed
their the looters) example. and
brought home u few little things.
Though small they are very fine, be-
sides the fact that they are right from
the palace" The I've includes "the
daughter and two sons of the Russian
general, Uncle Ed, Aunt Sarah and
me-" No comment is necessary. Loot
ing is an epidemic, as Ii Hung Chang
said to the American reporter.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The British captured a one-legged
Boer general named Pretorius last
week and they are growing over the
victory. The crippled Boer. however,
scared his captors by telling them
that the burghers We're determined new
er to surrender, their motto being Lib
erty or Death"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Mrs. Nation shows no symptoms of
letter to the people Of Chicago: 'Pcace,
prosperity, and the pursuit of happi-
ness are guaranteed by the constitu-
ton of the United States. The saloon,
be it found in Chicago or Kansas, is Il
conspiracy against this guarantee"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The Minneapolis Tribune Of last
Sunday published long and inter
esting contribution from Michael Da-
witt on '"rhe Doom of the British En-
pre-" which appears to be fast APP
preaching
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The Pioneer Press consumes over a
column of editorial space in trying to
1efute the arguments employed by Mr..
Towne N his famous speech on the
Philippine question in the United
States senate.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

George w. Smalley, the American
Tory who acts as correspondent of the
London Times, says of the new king of
England: "He likes very much to have
men about him who share his own
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Mrs. Carrie Nations fame has be-
come national since she began Il raid
on the saloons of Wichita, Kan, with
her little hatchct.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09
tastes" John l.. Sullivan, the Boston

tastes" John l.. Sullivan, the Boston
pugilist, says of him: "Albert Edward
is a man easily put at his ease. He
was polite to me, and as respectful in
meeting me as any man 1 ever dealt
with" After these testimonials from
eminent Americans King Edward VII.
cannot be rs black as he is painted.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09
G.st,s -, s3G.tT
&a.t..,v'

King Edward Of England is 100000
600 in debt and will ask parliament to
appropriate that amount to get square
with his creditors.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The classical editor of the Mime
apolis Tribune says: "It has seemed
to us for some time past that the Unit
ed States has needed Pompey in the
Philippines and Manilian law to give
him full scope to act" Was not Otis
Pompey, and is not Macarthur ditto?
They certainly have had full scope to
act, and have not succeeded in con-
quering the Filipinos. Chatfee will not
do any better. 1t will take long years
of bloodshed and slaughter before the
natives are "benevolently assimilated'
according to McKinley's Draconian
code, quoted by A. J. Balfour in the
British parliament.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09
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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The erudite editor of the NIinneap-
oils Times has the gumption of warn
ng President Mckinley against signing
the appropriation bills fathered by
Hanna and other plutocratic legisla-
tors. He says: 'Tt is the sworn duty
of MI. Mckinley to protect the people
Of this republic from injustice when it
is within his power to do so. Will he
do his duty?" We beg to inform our
brother of the Times that Mr.. McIxin-
ley Will perform his duty as Mark
Hanna dictates. Mark is his boss, and
the Times man ought to know it. He
is not only Macs boss, but the boss of
the Republican party, and his imperi-
GUS will is law to the man he helped
out of bankruptcy and twice elected
to the presidency Of the United States.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

Justice Harlan, Of the Supreme
Court, is reported to have made q
speech at the Loyal Legion banquet in
Washington last Saturday night, in
which he said: '"The fathers of the
republic never intended or desired that
congress should have any authority or
any power over any part of the sur
face of the earth free from the letter
and spirit Of the Constitution" Sen
ator Lodge says that Justice Harlan is
not likely to have used the words at
tributed to him, and we are inclined
to agree with Lodge, if Harlan obtain
ed his seat in the manner described by
Senator Chandler. The statement
ascribed to the judge is true, never
theless.
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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

The following hymn to the air of
America or of "God, Save the
Queen was sung last Sunday by
Anglomaniacs in Chicago at memorial
services in honor of the late Empress
Victoria:
''Two empires by the sea,
Two nations great and, free,
One anthem raise.
One faith, one tongue we claim,
One race of ancient fame,
One God whose glorious name
We love and praise"
One of the empires is vet repub-
lie, but it will not remain long SO if
the British-Americans can destroy it.
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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-04-24
a Novel Surprise.

A new idea in the way of surprise
party originated with Mrs. VIM. Peter
son, of 715 Third street south, and on
Wednesday evening last it was most
successfully carried out. 1t was the
anniversary of her birthday, and she
invited a few friends to spend the
evening at her home. Among the in
vited guests was their pastor, Rev.
Robert Larson. After spending some
time with the usual greetings and in
social chatting, imagine the reverend
gentleman's surprise when a beauti-
full parlor lamp was presented to him
In memory of the occasion. The lamp
had been lighted and was in plain
view of the guests the entire evening,
and to the great amusement of: the
company had been very much ad-
mired by the one who little thought he
would become the possessor of it,
Rev. Larson was so overcome by the
surprise that words could hardly ex-
press his thanks to the company who
had so successfully carried out their
plans. Refreshments were served and
the evening proved a most enjoyable
one throughout.