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Julian Ralph, the Anglomaniac VIII

Julian Ralph, the Anglomaniac who
slandered the Beers in his letters from
South Africa, writes of England's dis
tress in Golfers Weekly as follows:
The English are in panic over the
invasion of their fields of industry
and commerce by us Americans. You
see everywhere the signs of a panic.
'Our steel trade is gone" says one
"Our leather, beef, locomotives, boots,
drugs, even our candies and ices are
now supplied to us from America"
says another. sour shop windows are
filled with American razors, watches,
desks, books, silverware, patent foods,
patent medicines, jewelry, patent
brooms: our streets are getting into
the hands of American electric tramcar
companies, our best rapid transit line
is the American twopenny tube, our
railways are using American engines
where on earth do we stand? To
what degree Of ruin are we drifting?"
Panic, doubt, confusion, surprise rings
in every sentence one reads, and you
cannot be in an English down day
without hearing the cutlery of the peo-
pie and noting THE very remarkable
reasons there are why such cry
should spring forth.
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for vengeance; but with all her bar
barity the Beers are still in the field
and acting on the offensive in guerilla
style.
Twelve months ago the Boer war
was declared on British authority to
be practically over, but the losses of
the British army in the field from
bullets, disease and invaliding average
about 1000 monthly. On May 1 the
strength of the British army in South
Africa was given at 249,416 From
the beginning Of hostillties 347,661
were shipped from England and her
colonies to fight 10000 farmers. Ac-
cording to these figures nearly 100000
British have been knocked out in one
way or another in the course Of two
years, and the Beers have today half
the number they started with. What
terrible lesson has been taught to the
arrogant Anglo-Saxons by Dutch peas
antry! Nothing like it is recorded in
the annals Of history since the dawn
Of time.
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A Ur0P1AN SCHEME.

a man in San Francisco named Jos.
eph a. O'Donoghue has succeeded in
getting lot of free advertising in THE
leading papers Of the country. He re.
Gently addressed a curious letter to a
captain John Kerwin, Of New York,
relative to the purchase of four islands
in the Pacific ocean to be settled Inv
irish emigrants, and he says he. has
obtained concession Of them from "a
certain nation after Great Britain and
the United States had failed in acouir-
ing possession. The price of the islands
IS not very much-how much he does
not say-and he wants Captain Ker-
win to bring the matter to the atten-
ton OF some wealthy Irishman or
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

Referring ito the high death rate in
the Boer camp at Pretoria, the Duluth
Herald says: The present concentra-
ton camp at Pretoria, where the Boer
non-combatants are kept, is on the race
course, the precise place where the
Beers stockaded the captured British
soldiers. Among those soldiers the
death rate was never one tenth as high
rs that among the Beers kept there by
Kitchener. The evidence is thus all
on the side Of the Beers as to the hui
manity and the care taken of their
prisoners with the additional discretlit
to the Kitchener administration that it
Is principally women and children who
are now the sufferers. 1t is disgrace
to Great Britain.
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The new Elijah who has appeared
In Chicago in the person of John Alex
ander Dowie made speech to his fol-
lowers last Sunday and said among
other Things: ''nhe Scripture says that
those God had Joined together let no
man put asunder. 1t matters nothing
what the law says on the matter. We
must obey God. You have no right to
put aside your wife, and you have nc
right to put aside your husband, Judge
Tuthill or any one else to the contrary
Forget about the law. You are Chris
tians first, citizens afterward. You
are Christians first and Americana
afterward."
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cut up the British companies with ter

cut up the British companies with ter
rible severity, and so great was the
carnage that the English columns, a
few moments before so proud and firm,
were disconnected and broken to pieces
Stark was everywhere among his
men. He led their cheers when their
foes fell back, and was among the last
to leave the works. Near him was a
company Of Charlestown volunteers, a
portion of Colonel Gardeners regiment
from Middlesex under Captain Harris.
Their hearts were filled with a wilder
hate, for they could see their homes
burning as they fought, and the perils
of their loved ones left behind to the
mercy Of the British maddened them.
In the words of Colonel Sweet ''They
were fighting at their own doors, on
their own natal soil. They stood, like
the Greeks at Thermopylae, and they
kept their pass until the enemy hao
discovered another
AAC NthaAAAS SOuluSC VI ullc aulcll-
can troops drove the British back re-
peatedly, and would in all probability
have carried the day, had not the sup
ply Of ammunition given out, when
they were finally forced to retreat. 1t
was to all practical purposes, however,
a victory. The British had lost in
killed and wounded 1854 men, includ-
ing seventy commissioned officers
wounded and thirteen killed, while
the loss to the Americans was only 40
killed and 3O1 wounded and captured.
The granite shaft erected ito commem-
crate the scene is one of the most i'm
pressive historic monuments in Amer
lea, as the battle was one Of the most
important in the struggle for liberty.
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ther of the Confederation" He was
always opposed to the physical force
Irish party and hence an opponent Of
the Fenian movement, which he had
the courage to denounce both by pen
and voice; and this caused his assassi-
nation.
He was going home one night in the
city of Ottawa from a late night ses-
sion of parliament when he was shot
at the door of his hotel by man
named Whelan, and it has always been
supposed that the murder was COM
mitted on account of his pronounced
views concerning the Fenian move
ment. The saddest part of it all was
that he should meet his death at the
hands of one of his own countrymen,
for whom he had, not only in Ireland
and England, but in the United States
and Canada, devoted all his talents
and energies. No work was too great,
no labor too toilsome for the manly
heart of Darcy MCGEE, when it was
question of doing anything for the,
sons and daughters of Erin.
The literary world as we'll as his DO
litical friends mourned his untimely
death, and Europe and America We're
as much shocked as if some great
ruler had been murdered. He wrote
and published numerous books, among
them, History of Irish Settlers in
North America" "Catholic History of
America" History of Attempts to
Establish the Protestant Reformation
in Ireland" and a Popular History of
Ireland" all of them replete with in
terest and instruction. MCGEE was no
mean poet and after his death his po-
ems Were published with an introduce
tion by Mrs. Sadlier One of his fugi-
tive pieces often quoted is 1.-THE Peni-
tent Raven" in which occur these
lines:
"The Ravens house is built with
reeds,-
Sing woe, and alas is me!
And the Ravens couch is spread with
weeds,
High on the hollow tree;
And the Raven himself, telling his
beads
In penance for his past misdeeds
Upon the top I see."
MCGEE was one of the innumerable
host of Celts, who have left their mark
on the pages of American history and
literature and in many ways was much
like one who in after years succeeded
O'Reilly.
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Knights Of columbus.

Rev. Michael Joseph Mckinney,
founder of this order, was born at Wa
terbury, Conn.,, Aug -, 1852. In his;
early youth he gave Indication Of his
disposition toward the sacred profess
sion of the priesthood, and, after a
common school education, he entered
st. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, for
his theological course. Among his fell
low students there were Father Rich
ard S. Foley and Father Melia, both
of whom We're ordained with Father
Mckinney by Cardinal Gibbons on De-
cember %. 1877.
Soon after his ordination, Father Nc
Givney was appointed by the Right
Rev. Lawrence McAIahon, bishop of
the diocese of Hartford, as curate at
st. Mary's church, New Haven, and
he laborel in that parish for seven
years.
1t was there that he conceived the
idea of a great Catholic society, to be.
restricted to it's membership to prac-
teal Catholics, and to include Catholics
Of all nationalities. He had seen many
Catholics fall away from the faith
through connection with secret socie-
ties that were antagonistic to all reli-
gion, so he resolved to organize So
ciety that Catholics could join with
the free sanction and Endorsement of
the ecclesiastical authorities. He asso-
ciated with him in the new enterprise
such men as Mathew O'Connor, Cor
nelius T. Driscoll (the present mayor
of New Haven), James T. Mullen,
John T. Kerrigan, Daniel Colwen and
William NJ. Geary, and with them or
ganized and incorporated the knights
Of Columbus, March 2, 1882.
Father Mckinney lived long enough
to see the order take root and spread
in the diocese of Hartford. He saw it
increase in numbers and influence, and
many Of his fellow-priests supported
him in his great work of uniting the
Catholic laity in a fraternal insurance
and social organization that combined
the best features of the older fraternal
orders, with the additional and indis-
pensable feature to Catholics of being
In accord with the laws Of the church.
In 1885 Father Mckinney was pro-
NOTED to the passionate of st. Thomas
parish, Thomaston, Conn. There he
instituted Atlantic Council No. 1S. X.
of G. But death carried him away in
the midst of his noble labors and in
the prime of life. First attacked with
the grip and then pneumonia, he never
recovered from the effects of both. and
he died August IA, 1890. His remains
were inferred in the family plot in st,
Joseph's cemetery, Waterbury. The
grave of the founder of the knights of
Columbus stands near the entrance
and is marked only by the family
stone.
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Thomas D. Aroy MCGEE.

A third Of century ago, the literary
and political world was startled by the
assassination of Darcy MCGEE, writes
r. G. Cleaner in the Catholic Column
bian. His life, work and tragic death
are recalled by press dispatch under
date of June 1 from Ottawa. Cam,
which states that "laborers engaged
in excavating for the foundation of a
new building to be erected next to
Brtterworth's foundry ON Queen street,
located the long lost stone flmught with
SO much historic interest which marked
the scene of the assassination of Hon.
T. Darcy MCGEE, one of the fathers
of the confederation. One surface of
the stone was polished and on it was
inscribed: "April z, 1s6S-Here fell
Darcy McGee."
Darcy McGee was an alf-round ge-
MUS, poet, lecturer, journalist, and
statesman. Born in Ireland in 1926,
he came 10 America when II years of
age, locating in the city of Boston,
where he found friend in the late
Patrick Donahoe. He soon became a
contributor to the Boston Pilot and
finally editor. He returned to ireland
after few years, going on the staff
of the Dublin Freeman, and made his
mark in Irish journalism by his reports
Of the doings of parliament, later be-
coming chief editorial writer on the
Dublin Nation.
He again returned to this country
and for about ten years published and
managed the New York Nation, after
wards called The American Celt, pa
pers devoted to the interests of Cath
olic 1rishmen. While conducting these
papers he found time to give many
lectures on varied topics in the larger
centers Of population and met. with
great success SO that he became very
popular platform speaker. He was al
SO instrumental in forming and direct
ting many organizations for promoting
the emigration and colonization of his
countrymen and in the decade of years
from 1850 to 1860 no name was better
known among Catholic people of this
country than that of Darcy MCGEE.
After disposing of his newspaper
property in New York city, he went to
Montreal, Can, establishing there n
paper, The New Era, that became a
power, ultimately leading to his cleo
ton as member of the Canadian par
lament, in which body he at once be-
came powerful figure. holding his
place by successive elections until his
untimely death in 1868.
From the first day of his taking his
seat in the provincial parliament he
became an ardent advocate of the early
confederation of the British American
colonies, and framed the plan of union
which after his death was substan-
TALLY carried into effect. earning for
him among Canadians the title of "Fa-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

A Philadelphia teacher recently gave
class of boys ranging from 10 to -
years some written exercises in falls.
syntax, and this sentence, among
number of others. was given for cor
rection: 'The horse and the COW is
in the field"
One lad of IL corrected II To road.
The COW and horse is in the feld;"
and appended this as his reason: at
is more polite to put ladies first"
Visitor-"You and your brother ore
WINS are you not. my boy ?"-s'Yes,
sir, It's hard to be twins" Visitor
FLOW is that?" Boy-"When father
don't know which of us does thing
he thrashes both"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

In his lecture entitled "From Can
terbury to Rome" DIR. B. II. De Costa
says: "The journey from Canterbury
to Rome is peculiar one. More than
500 clergymen of the English church
have taken that journey, and such men
as Manning, Newman, Wilberforce in
England, and Brownson, Hecker, HUI
let. Deshon and Ives in this country
have all marched from Canterbury to
coming into the Catholic
church.
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In an interview published in the San
Francisco Examiner, DR.. De Costa
says: eff the Catholic church is not
the true church, then Jesus Christ is
an impostor. If Christ is true, the
Catholic church is true. I abandoned
the Episcopalian church and entered
the Catholic church because l believe
the former is wrong and the latter the
only true church. 1 have been drifting
toward the Catholic church for four
teen years in my search after the TRUTH
My conscience and judgment led me
into it,
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In view of the fact that Ireland's
population is yearly decreasing and
that the Irish priests have taken no
active steps to check emigration, the
ChicagoCitizen recommends that hence
forward no Irish-American Catholic
should contribute dollar toward the
building or repairing of a Catholic
church in Ireland until the population
reaches at least five millions.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

Ex-Governor Pingree, of Michigan,
whose letter on South Africa appears
elsewhere in this issue of the Irish
Standard, died in London last Tuesday
night. Among the doctors who attend
ed him was Sir Thomas Barlow, ply
stefan to the king. Hazen S. Pingree
was splendid type Of an American,
and his death after a brief illness has
brought sorrow to the common people,
whose friend he was during his politi-
cal career.
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Dhe reporter Of the New York World
who accompanied Governor Beckham
and his wife to Gethsemane monastery,
Kentucky, on a recent occasion, is au-
thority for the statement that no wom-
an, except the wife Of president or
governor, is ever admitted by the Trap
pist monks. The imaginative reporter
contradicted his own story by naming
several other ladies who were admit
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

Says the New York Sun: An attempt
has been made by certain English jour
nails to Justify THE burning of $50
farms in South Africa by the British
troops by the precedent furnished by
General Sheridan's destruction in the
Shenandoah valley during our Civil
war; but the likeness is made possible
only by perversion of the facts as
they appear indisputably in the official
reports of the union officers.
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financial syndicate in New York with
the view of raising the money. O'Do-
noghue says that the -four islands in
question will correspond to the four
provinces Of Ireland and that once more
Irish kings can rule their clans as in
the brave days of old. He modestly
omits any mention of himself as the
first chief monarch of the islands, but
he gives glowing description of their
soil and climate and says he is a
Fenian who wants resting place for
prosecuted patriots like Mullen and
Fitzharris.
O'Donoghue's visionary project de-
serves no serious consideration. Every
effort possible is being made by sensi-
BILE and patriotic Irishmen to stem the
tide of emigration which is fast de-
populating the Emerald Isle of its Gel
tic inhabitants. God created Innisfail
for the use and benefit of the ancient
race which has occupied it for thous-
ands of years, and there the race must
remain or lose its noble characteristics
by absorption. The Chicago Chronicle
refers to O'Donoghue's quixotic plan
as follows:
Mr.. O'Donoghue is enthusiastic, be-
cause here he sees an opportunity to
re-establish the old Irish Kingdoms.
There are four principal islands, one
each for Leinster, Munster, Ulster and
Connaught. He tries to be mysterious
about the islands, but he discloses GER
tain facts concerning them-namely,
that they are in the South Pacific; that
they are near Spanish-American re-
public; that they are not inhabited;
that they are unexplored; that they
have temperate climate and a produc-
tive soil, and that they are rich in
seals and turtles.
Mr.. O'Donoghue might about as we'll
have said he was talking about THE
Galapagos islands and left the parties
into whose hands he expected the lat
ter to fall to read up the particulars in
the encyclopedias. The description fits
that group fairly well, but no other.
The area of the Galapagos islands is
only $3.50 square miles. If they were
capable of supporting population as
dense as that of Belgium they would
accommodate only about 100000 peo-
pie. In fact, they probably would not
afford a subsistence to more than one
third of that number, or 100000 at the
outside.
Ireland loses more than that many
people to the United States every ten
years, or did until recently, and per-
haps as many more to all other parts
Of the world, including England, and
all without becoming depopulated.
ALI who could be induced to go to the
Galapagos islands and seek happiness
under new kings of the old royal stock
of Ireland would not make much of Il
hole in the present population of that
island.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

According to census returns the only
religious denominations that increased
In membership in Ireland during the
last decade are Methodists and Jews.
The former have now 81 1855 members
and the latter $3.50.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

Although there is no longer "war" in
South Africa, nor ''insurrection" in the
Philippines, the news that occasionally
gets past the military censors stationed
in each country shows that good deal
of fighting is still going on.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

Says William J. Bryan in the Com.
moner: American steel rails are sold
IN Great Britain in open competition
With British rails and at lower price
than they are sold at home. Yet we
must protect the "steel rail infant
from the competition Of the foreign
pauper-made rails. Protection logic
looks very much like Virginia rail
fence, or like the track of the famous
snake that
"Wriggled in and wriggled out
And left the people all in doubt
Whether the snake that made the track
Was going east or coming back"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

An English writer named John Eos
ter Frazer says that the Irish members
in the British parliament are ian emo
tional, tempestuous crowd of Celts."
The more "tempestuous'' they become
the better they will be liked by the
Irish race at home and in other lands.
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ted with Mrs. Beckham. There is no
sign on the porter's lodge "forbidding
women to enter on pain of excommuni-
cation" as alleged by the sensational
scribe, and the talk attributed to the
governor is made out of whole cloth.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

Perry Belmont is out in an inter
view against Bryan and Croker and
says both Of them must be deposed
from leadership by the national Dem
ocracy. Perry got back from Eu-
rope, and IL he had not spoken nobody
would know he was away.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

A dispatch from Lord Kitchener re-
ports a victory for the British on June
6. The butcher of Omdurman says:
'"Nhe Beers left seventeen killed and
three wounded on the field. Our cas-
sualties were three officers and seven
teen men killed and one officer and
twenty-four men wounded" What kind
of victory is that?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

An army of Yankee -pedagogues
or school-ma'ams is on its way to the
Philippines to teach McKinley's wards
the requirements of Anglo-Saxon civil
ization. God help the young Filipinos.
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.vlIA4lElNLHA
Of ROSf-On

lME4NANAENM!&ll
The park commissioners Of Boston
have refused Mayor Hart and Captain
Hobson to speak in any of the public
parks to their fellow citizens on the
Fourth of July. They will not allow
public speaking in the public parks on
any occasion. They are more despotic
than the British officials of Dublin
Castle who allow meetings in the Phoe-
nix park.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

Since the supreme court of the Unit
ed States divorced the Constitution
from the Flag the number Of divorces
granted to American husbands and
courts of the land.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

There is Il political prophet in Den
yer who says: Theodore Roosevelt
will be the next president of the Unit
ed States. He will serve two full
terms. His immediate successor will
be a Republican and will serve one
full term" We wonder what Mark
Hanna will think of this prediction.