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The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
An Informer's Grave.

Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, M. p,
was recently in South Africa where he
saw the grave of James Carey, the
Irish informer, whom O'Donnell slew
in his patriotic wrath. This is what
Sir Thomas says of the last resting
place of the miscreant:
James Carey lies near Port Eliza
beth. We visited the spot. A more
awful lesson was never read, nor in
more awful eloquence, than the moral
of that far off grave. 1t would even
seem as if the very earth refused to
harbor his wretched clay; and as if
Nature herself We're imbued with the
sentiment of his countrymen towards
this poor, weak, desperate and dishon-
ored tool and victim of Dublin Castle
officialism. 1t would tax the power of
Dante's pen to record the horrors of
that grave. Mine is miserably in
adequate to the task. Upon the bare,
leafless breast Of sandhill, where
the whirlwinds eddy round like evil
genii, and where the scorching, scoring,
noisome desert blast sweeps across to
the sea with the wall and Shrek of a
banshee, lies heap of blood-red
stones. Upon one of these stones some
passer-by has scratched with a rusty
nail "Carey, the informer!' Nothing
more. Such is the tomb, and such the
epitaph. Around lies the bones of
negro convicts who have suffered the
extreme penalty of the law, while the
only shade that ever stays over that
grave comes as the setting sun sinks
to his fiery couch behind the grim and
ghastly structure Of the adjoining jail.
In that company, amid such surround
ings, the body of the Irishman who
1ured his countrymen to crime and sold
them to barbarous death for English
gold, awaits the last trumpets sound.
Was ever awful lesson read in more
awful Way--an epitome of English rule
in Ireland? The informer's deadliest
foe could wish him no worse fate. Let
us hope that his poor soul has found
more mercy and less justice at
Mercy's fountain head"
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
A PERENNIAL QUESTION.

The Irish question, though old, is
ever new and interesting. That is why
the magazines and newspapers devote
so much space to it's discussion. The
latest man of letters to write on the
subject is Mr.. Goodwin Smith who was
for eight years professor of modern
history at Oxford, three years pro-
fcssor Of English and constitutional his
tory at Cornell, and is now connected
with the Toronto University in some
capacity.
He is an Englishman who has writ
ten and spoken on variety of topics.
exciting frequent opposition by his ut
terances, but always commanding re-
spect by his intellectual ability.
Though seventy-eight years Of age his
mind is fresh and vigorous and hence
what he says attracts widespread at
tention on both sides of the Atlantic.
Though an Anglo-Saxon himself he
sometimes says of the "rrling race
some unpalatable things that are not
easily swallowed by his English, Cana
dian and American readers.
Ina recent letter to the New York Sun
he asks: GLOW much of the pure blood
of the followers Of Hengist and Horsa
can be supposed now to run in the
veins of the people who style them
selves Anglo-SaXon? Then he goes on
to say: '"This idea Of the superiority
of the Anglo Saxon and the selection Of
him by Providence to dominate over
other races and mold them after his
own image seems likely to give the
world some trouble. 1t has it's source
apparently in the belief of the Jews re-
speeding the Providential supremacy
Of their race. There is Il sect of
o-Israclites Which imagines that
the Englishman is the lineal descen-
dant of the Jew, and the heir to his
promised domination. Many hands and
brains have gone to the making of the
American commonwealth besides those
of the Anglo-Saxon. The new world
is the heritage and the hope, not of
any special race or tribe, but of hui,
manity."
| 10 the credit of Goodwin Smith it
may be said he was among the few
Englishmen of prominence who during
the Civil war defended the Union with
the late john Bright. With that elo-
quent statesman he frequently pleaded
for Ireland in the British press, but
when Gladstone took up the cause of
Home Rule for Ireland he followed
Bright into the Unionist camp and de-
serted the great Liberal leader. With
strange inconsistency, this English pro-
fessor who spent three years at Cornell
university, without taking the initial
step to become Americanized, now ia
vors the annexation Of Canada to the
! United States.
In his article ON the Irish question
in the North American Review for
June. Professor Goodwin Smith by a
peculiar process of reasoning tries to
convince his readers that Ireland has
no serious grievance at present.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
The Richest Copper Mine.

This is, inbrief, the story of the
richest copper mine in the world.
The mine is the United Verde, located
near the little town of Jerome. Ari-
iona. 1t is owned by Senator w. A.
Clark of Montana, and earns $4,000
600 year profits, equal to 6 per cent
on an investment of $2OO.OO0OOO.
Clark bought the mine from two wo-
men for 100000. This was the way
it came about: Two ranchers in the
Verde Valley located the property.
They sold out for $4,000 to William
Murray and former Governor Trittle
of Arizona. One of the ranchers
promptly proceeded to drink himself
into delirium tremens with his share
of the money. Murray and Trittle in
duced two New York women of indie
pendent fortune to back them to the
extent of 100000 in the development
of the mine. This money was nearly
all spent and the prospects We're blue
when the miners struck Il pocket of
silver ore that paid $4,000. ;,
Murray died. and Trittle failed to
get any more profit out of the mine
1t was abandoned for several years
Clark with his foreman came down
from Montana looking for mining
property. They examined the Verde
mine. liked it, Went to New York,
found the women only too glad to
sell their stock for it's face value and
got possession.
Clark proceeded to develop the mine
scientifically and soon found that he
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
Lambert in the New York Freeman's

But not only was Catholic opinion
not consulted, so far as is publicly
known, but the commissioners, all non
Catholic, began very soon after their ar
rival in the islands to give proof of
strong antiCatholic animus. They
were not long ut their work when
much fault was found with the friars,
and little later there was much talk
about the large amount of property in
real estate they were alleged to pos
sess. Still later it was plainly sug-
gested by some Americans, in America
as we'll as in the Philippines, that that
property-the property Of the Catholic
religious orders in the islands-should
be confiscated.
Here was nice idea coming from
people who professed, as they still pro-
fess, to be actuated solely by a desire
to extend the blessings of good gov
eminent to all the Nilipinos. Truly, a
s,.3dge way to inaugurate good gov
tFnment-to rob citizens of their prop.
erty. Needless to say, the real estate
owned by the friars or by the Catholic
church in the Philippines, be the
amount great or small, is as much pri-
waite property as, for example, the real
estate owned by the Trinity Church
Corporation in New York city, and the
United States government has as much
right to the one as to the other. What
would be said if President Mckinley
appointed a commission to 'investi-
gate" the real estate held by the
Methodists in the South or North, or by
the Baptists or any other religious
body in the country? The thing is so
ridiculous that it is outside the limit
of conception by sane men. Why, then,
should there be thought of anything in
that direction in connection with the
private property of a religious body in
the Philippines? Why, except that the
religious body is Catholic and that there
is still amongst us section of intol-
Grant bigots who are ready to go to the
length of ignoring the moral law when
ut is question of assailing the rights
of Catholics?
Now, there is one way, and only one
way, to meet and defeat all such at
tempts on the rights of Catholics, and
that is for Catholics to combine and
organize for self-defense to the extent
of claiming and demanding and insist
ing upon having the full and complete
measure of their rights as citizens-not
asking for anything as Catholics, but
as citizens asking for and taking steps
to compel the cession to them of all the
citizen rights enjoyed by Americans
of any other religious denomination.
That is the whole program of the
claim of Catholics as citizens All this
no more, no less-they are entitled
to have, and may and can have by
combination and organization, and by
no other means; hence the high impor-
tance of the proposal for federation of
Catholic societies as proposed and
urged by Bishop McFaul, and hence
the strong claim of such scheme on
the earnest consideration and attention
of all American Catholics.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
The Protestant Bible societies ar,

The Protestant Bible societies are
translating the Scriptures into the Ian
guages Of the Philippine islands. 1t
may be news for them to learn that
the Filipinos have already received
the sacred volume in their own dialects
from the Catholic missionaries. The
archbishop of Manila so informed the
bigoted Taft commission. The qr1es-
ton arises: Are the Protestants capa-
BILE of TRANSMITTING the Bible correctly
into the various languages Of the
archipelago? They have not yet been
able to translate it intelligibly for the
Chinese. "The best TRANSACTIONS of for
eign Bibles issued by our Bible soci-
ety." says DR.. Wolf in his 'Travels
and Adventures" are reprints from
those made by the Propaganda at
Rome"
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

| Before penning his article of fifteen
pages in that magazine he evidently
had not read the severe indictment of
British rule in Ireland as contained in
the emigration statistics. Though Ire
land is bleeding to death by the exodus
of the youth Of the country, Mr.. Gold
win Smith thinks ''it is to partnership
in the United Kingdom that Ireland's
interest seems SO cleary to point" He
thinks, however, that Irish patriots are
justified in protesting against partner
ship Gin the great predatory empire to
which the lingo aspires," but he thinks
there should be no dissolution of the
union between Great Britain and Ire
land. He says nothing of the over
taxation of Ireland in violation of the
union compact, but believes the people
would shake off all discomfort if roy
al residence was established in Phoenix
Park! "The Irish, above all people,"
he says, ''need to see those by whom
they are governed"
Goodwin Smith pays a mixed COM
pliment to tine Irish clergy when he re-
fers to them as "a priesthood emnently
virtuous, and, by partnership in ages
of suffering, justly endeared to the
people, but trained at Maynooth under
an intensely sacerdotal system, and
turned out in an almost hide-bound
condition of imperviousness to the in
tellectual influences of the day."
The intellectual influences referred
to are the false teachings of modern
scientists and philosophers, and tho
Irish clergy have always preserved
their focks from being inoculated with
them. Mr.. Goodwin Smith does not
understand the character of the Irish
priesthood any better than he under
stands the Irish question on which he
writes in such disconnected and dis
cursive manner.
When a man of such high literary
attachments as Goodwin Smith fails to
grasp the Irish question, what can be
expected of an ordinary Englishman
in treating of the relations between
Great Britain and Ireland? The To-
ronto professor appears to have formed
wrong opinions of Irishmen, their ma
tionality and creed, and he is now too
old to change them.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
King Edward has done one thing

King Edward has done one thing
which merits approval. He has recent
ly deprived two dozen royal chaplains
of their sipecures. The leeches were
on the payroll for years by the grace
Of Victoria and drew their salaries
with punctuality without rendering
any equivalent to the royal household
in the way Of dispensing spiritual pab-
ulum to it's members. Hereafter Che
clerical parasites must earn their living
Like clergymen of the dissenting
churches. Edward has retained an
even dozen to attend to the salvation
Of his soul, and that is enough for any
potentate. Perhaps one chaplain
would suffice to keep him in the path
Of rectitude.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
The article on the Catholic church ir

The article on the Catholic church in
Norway, which appeared in last weeks
issue of this paper, was written from
Finmarken, Norway, on April IS,
1901, by Rev. Ferdinand Hartmann,
of Elvebakken, Lapland. The sub
heading Of the article should have
read Catholicism is now tolerated
in that country" The word mot was
enormously used for "now." and the
machine operator omitted to set the
preface to the article, which referred
to the writer thereof.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

In letter to a Cuban paper, w. A.
Croffut, the newspaper man, says:
"Your people need cherish no doubt
that it is the purpose Of our govern
ment or of the officials therein to sub
jugate and annex the island of Cuba
as a colony of the United States. The
appetite Of our people for plumber has
been whetted by the selling of Porto
Rico under hypocritical pretensions,
and by the murder, robbery and loot
in the Philippine archipelago. And it
will be satisfied with nothing less than
the savory morsel that lies at the
mouth of the Gulf of Mexico"
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

That veracious authority, the Asso-
ciated Press, says that on June 2 the
Etruria arrived in New York with Rev.
Thomas Vincent Finn as one of it's
passengers. He represents himself as
Catholic priest who had officiated at
New Ross and Blackwater and resign
ed his charge and left the church be-
cause che could not preach peace when
he believed that only war would save
his country from being dcpopulated."
The Catholic directory for 1901 does
not include "Father Finn" among the
priests of the diocese of Ferns, which
embraces the parishes of New Ross and
Blackwater. In our opinion "Father
Finn is either a myth or an impostor.
The idea of an Irish Catholic priest de,
sorting his ministry and leaving the
cHdfch on such a pretext is quite alb
Nlrd.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

"Some of the Scoundrels Who Sold
Ireland" is the heading of an article
in the Michigan Catholic. The names
of all the scoundrels can be found in
the appendix to the History Of Ire
land' by John Mitchell. 1t is eminent
ly proper for our esteemed contempt
rary to stigmatize the betrayers of
their country as linen who would sell
their souls for a mess of pottage."
Their names will be eXecrated by pat
riotic Irishmen during time and eter-
nifty.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

The Royal Irish Constabulary are to
be armed with the Lee-NIetford maya
zine rifle to shoot down their own coun-
trymen for pay. The Irish ruffians
who derive their name from Sir Robert
Peel are destitute of every manly at
tribute. They are curse to the land
that bore them.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

The carpet-bagger from Massachus-
etts whom Mckinley has appointed
governor of Porto Rico recommends for
the island the adoption of British
colonial government like that in force
in the West Indies. Commenting on
Governor Aliens Recommendation the
Duluth Herald says: The British col
onies Of the West Indies have for years
been total failure. The burden of gov
eminent imposed upon them, the lack
of markets for their products and the
moral effect of a colonial government
wherein the workers have no voice has
paralyZed every industry and rendered
the garden spots of the Western hemis-
phere veritable desert
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
that sons of Erin accompanied Column
bus on his voyage of discovery.

The Chicago Record Herald. the erst-
while organ of President Mckinley, is
opposed to giving any man, no matter
how popular, three terms i'll the White
House. 1t says: "Twelve years is too
long time for any man, however
wise and great and good, to sit at the
head of the most democratic republic
on EARTH"
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
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The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

A special cablegram from London in
forms the American people that King
Edward is on the best of terms with
William Waldorf Astor, the New York
millionaire who renowned his allegi-
ance to become British subject. 1t
must be gratifying to the Goldfish aris-
tocracy of this country to learn such
good news. Astor's father made his
money in buying and selling furs, ana
town in Oregon is called after him.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

1t is said that n federation of all the
Catholic societies of the country will
be effected at the annual convention Of
the knights Of st. John, which will
be held in Cincinnati Oh June "a to %.
An attendance Of 10000 is expected at
the convention.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

Speaking of the recent killing and
eating of two missionaries by cann-
balls Of Fly River, Guinea, the Port,
land Oregonian says: ''These savages
do not eat missionaries because they
have any religious hostility for them
as preachers of new faith; they eat
them because, as non consumers of
rum and tobacco, their flesh is far more
palatable than that Of any other type
of white man. In the judgment of
cannibal, the meat of missionary is
better eating than anything else except
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
William J. Bryan. like Henry Cla,

William J. Bryan, like Henry Clay,
would rather be right than be pres,-
dent. He has recently been quoted as
saying: "My philosophy is that can
afford to be in the minority, but 1 can
not afford to be in the wrong" The
Nebraska editor is a man of fixed prin,
ciples and high ideals. who obeys the
dictates Of his conscience and holds
fast to the truths enunciated by the
founders of the republic.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

A council of the knights of Column
bus is said to have been instituted in
Dublin by Charles A. Weber, men,
Der of the national directory of the or:
der. We had thought that the organi-
zation was for Americans only. Per-
haps Irishmen are eligible from the fact
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

The London Chronicle consoles itself
with the reflection that during the past
year the number of railway employees
killed in England is greater than the
number of British soldiers killed in
South Africa.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

The Dublin Imperial yeomanry,
which arrived from South Africa last
Tuesday met with hostile reception
in the Irish capital. They were re-
ceived with shouts Of derision by the
populace, who waved white flags in
allusion to the surrender of the yeo-
many to the Beers at Lindlcy.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

Visitors to the lakes of Killarney
will no longer see the eagles which
made their homes in the surrounding
hills. The royal birds have been all
exterminated by the landlords because
they preyed on the grouse and violated
the "game preservation" laws. When
will the landlords be exterminated?
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

A Celtic cross was recently erected
in Scotland to the memory of General
Wauchope, who was killed by the
Beers at Maagersfontein while gallant
ly leading the Highland Brigade. He
was a Roman Catholic, and one of his
forefathers fought for King James at
the battle of the Boyne.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

The Few York Christian Advocate,
Baptist publication, reluctantly con-
cedes t1at the largest gains in commu-
nicants between 1890 and 1900 were
made by the Catholics of the United
States. The increase was 2,5OS,212.
The Methodists come second and the
Baptists third, but both together fall
below the Catholics.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

the flesh of a young child, another nom
consumer of tobacco and ardent spir-
its. These cannibals not seldom spare
the lives of American and European
sailors, for the simple reason that their
flesh is so impregnated with the flavor
Of alcohol and tobacco rs to be us I'M
palatable as we find that of crows,
gulls, buZzards and other carbon con-
Stunning BIRDS"
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

Archbishop Kcanc, of Dubuque, has
gone to Ireland ut the request Of Bishop
O'Donnell, of Raphoe, to preach the
sermon at the opening of the new
egal. He breaches tomorrow.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

was right on the ore chute" as min
ers say. Then he built a hundred-ton
Smelter and set about taking out the
ore that has made him the copper king
of the world. There are but 5000
shares of stock in the mining COM
pany and Senator Clark owns them
all.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

Three illustrious Irishmen are buried
in st. Paul's churchyard on Broadway,
New York-Thomas Adds Emmett, DIR.
McNevin and Richard Montgomery.
On Decoration day the Irish Society of
New York placed Irish flags on their
monuments, but the emblems were re-
moved by an employe of Trinity Cor
poration. I.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

Says Father Phelan, the famous St.
Louis paragrapher: Last week two
prominent Catholic young ladies got
married before Protestant minister.
This week two Catholic ladies, who
were not prominent, committed suicide.
All four were headed in the same di-
rection. The latter two took short
cut
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

In recognition Of his gift to Scotch
educational Institutions, Andrew Car
negie will be dubbed LII d. by the
University Of Glasgow. The degree
has cost him S1O,OO0O0O, but that is Il
mere bagatelle to the Scottish-Ameri-
can multi-millionaire
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

1t is said that Yale university has
conferred the degree of LII. ID. Oh
Archbishop Ireland. The st. Paul
prelate says that beyond the press re-,
ports he knows nothing Of the mattcE
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

The Providence Visitor, one Of DIR
valued exchanges, has Il new editor IN
the person Of Rev. Cornelius Clifford,
who succeeds Rev. Il. l.. Kelly. We
wish the new editor every success.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

Mrs. Louis Botha, wife of the IA
nous Boer general, is described as "an
1rishwOman by birth. and grandniecc
of Robert Emmett, the Irish patriot"
She was educated in Ireland and
France, and is a highly cultured wom-
an. 1t has been denied that the lady
is blood relation of the Irish martyr.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

The Office of the Freeman, of st.
Johns, N. B., with it's counting and
composing rooms, was badly damaged
by fire last week. We extend our SYM
pathy to our esteemed contemporary.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

The Gael for June is a splendid
number. 1t contains several interest.
ing articles OH Irish subjects and is
beautifully illustrated.
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15
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The Chicago American is employing
l,ovelists for reporters.

Young Randolph Churchill is COM
ing to the front in British politics. 1t
will take him some time, however, be-
fore he becomes prime minister
The Irish standard., 1901-06-15

The total number of British troops
sent to Africa from the beginning of
hostilities is reported at 347,661.
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