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The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

The inventor of the Holland torpedo
boat was born in Cork fifty-nine years
ago, and is the son of Dennis Holland.
a famous London correspondent, who
came to America in the early 7O's and
published the Emerald" in New York
city. Mr.. Holland had many reyers-
es and disappointments in bringing
his submarine boat to perfection. The
first boat was built in 1895. 1t was
sold to the government in 1899, when
congress approved an order for eight
additional boats to cost $4,000 each.
He is now reaping the fruits of his i'm.
ventive genius and is in buoyant spir-
it's Mr. Holland never tried to in.
terest the British. government in his
torpedo boat. II was an Irishman "
he says, 'and though 1 had never
taken part i'll political agitation, nv
symMthies We're with my country. and
l had no mind to do anything that
would make John Bull any stronger
and more domineering than we had
already found him. Perhaps tho
Holland boats may yet play havoc
with England's iron clad ships.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28
UNITED IRISH LEAGUE.

The great practical outcome of the
mission to America is accomplished
by the establishment of the United
Irish League on the other side of the
Atlantic, says the Dublin Freeman.
At great conference held at the
Hoffman House, New York, an in
fluential Executive Committee was ap-
pointed to spread the organization
throughout the United States and
Canada. The enthusiasm that marked
the progress of the ENJOYS from the
opening of their mission is an absolute
guarantee for the success Of the new
organization. The delegates have been
received with honor by the president
of the United States and the premier
of Canada. They have been honored
by the great representative assemblies
of the republic and Of the dominion.
But its chief triumph is the enthusi-
asm with which the tidings of reunion
ana renewed activity at home have
been received by the friends of Ire
land on the other side of the Atlantic.
On Wednesday that enthusiasm found
it's consummation in the establishment
of the Irish National League in Ameri-
ca. There are many views amongst
the Irish-Americans as to how the
cause of Irish liberty may be best
served. But the adoption of the con-
stitution and programme of the United
Irish League was frank confession
of the justice of the claim that Irish
men at home must judge and must
decide what form the campaign shall
take, what weapons for the time are
the most effective, and that the work
ers Mt home are entitled to claim
hearty cooperation from Irishmen
abroad. The result was final tri-
umph for the United Irish League.
1t has. in the face of innumerable diff
culties, dominated in turn Ireland and
Great Britain, and, true to its name,
it has everywhere carried unity in it's
train. Under it's magical influence fac
ton has sunk out Of sight, and the
spirit of the people has revived in
united, active, and organized agita-
ton.
The change it has already wrought
in the hopes and prospects of the Irish
movement seems like a beneficent
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

The publishers of Harpers Maga-
zine have apologiZed to Catholics for
a poem entitled Margaret of Cortona"
which appeared in it's columns from
the pen of one Mrs. Edith Wharton,
"one of Americas foremost authors" !"
The poem in question is characterized
as "blasphemous and immorally sug-
gcstive' by the Boston Pilot. In the
days of Nash and Eugene Lawrence
the elder Harpers would not apologize
for anything offensive to Catholics.
1t appears that the younger Harpers
are more liberal. They promise to
make amends in the January number
for the offense given to their Catholic
readers by the puritanical poetess.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

miracle. 1t is hard to recall and
realize how quickly and in the face of
what difficulties this work was accom-
plished. In the midst of disunion and
dissension, when unity seemed a hope
less dream very few years ago, the
United Irish League, which has now
spread far and wide to every corner
of the globe where Irishmen have
found home, was established by Mr..
William O'Brien in Westport. 1t grew
and f1ourished, and was soon honored
by the hatred and denunciation of the
coercionists on the one hand and of
the wreckers OH the other. But it
went on it's way rejoicing, while the
Castle prosecuted, the wreckers re-
viled. On the one hand the League
branches were denounced by the Chief
Secretary and by the lord Lieutenant
as dangerous assemblies; and on the
other hand, they We're ridiculed by
Mr.. Healy and his newspaper press
as :'ten men in a tap-room." But the
League did it's work. in spite Of per-
secution and of abuse. 1t united first
the people and then the party. In
spite of threats of disruption. it
cleansed the party of the convicted
wreckers at the general election. and
the two who had eluded the voters
were expelled by the convention.
The League has indeed abundantly
justified it's action against the proph-
cts of evil and the makers Of mischief.
1t has sent to the House of Com
mons united party which has al
ready left it's mark on the Unionist
government. 1t has collected funds
to support that party. 1t has organic
ed the country in a determined. crime
less agitation which is the terror of
the Castle, the evictor, the rack-renter.
and the land-grabber. Finally. in the
Hoffman House conference it has ex-
| tended it's influence to the friends of
Ireland in America. Once again the
Irish at home and abroad have clasp
ed hands of friendship across the At
lantic. Once again the moral and fl
nancial support of the American
friends of Ireland, who so long stood
aside disgusted by dissension, is pledg-
ed to the Irish people. We trust that
the home directory will speedily COM
ply with the request for delegates to
aid in the completion of the work.
Truly the Irish movement has passed
from the shadow into the light. The
old proverb holds good: "England's
difficulty is Irelands opportunity"
Never were her difficulties greater
and never We're the forces of Irish
nationality at home and abroad
stronger or more united to convert the
opportunity into triumph.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

Rev. DIR. Parkhurst, the New York
reformer, has high opinion of John
%. Redmond. In an editorial in the:
Christian Work he says of the Irish
leader: Although an Irishman, and
full-blooded one, and a man who is n
chronic perpleXity to the British par
lament, he nevertheless carries HIM
self as gentleman and a Christian.
and exercises his exceptional gifts Of
oratcry with courtesy, consideration
and self-control fitted to be an ex-
ample to many platform speaker
whose veins are filled with cooler Say
on blood that naturally throbs with
less frequency and intensity" And so
Redmond carries himself like gen.
tleman and a Christian despite the
fact that he is full-blooded Irish
man! Such phrase as that stamps
farkhurst as an Anglo-Saxon iackass.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

from New York to Chicago, Grated for
the German pro-Boer sympathizers of
the windy city and stirred their un-
emotional natures by his mastery
Celtic eloquence until they leaped
from their seats and shouted salvos
of applause. Who will say the world
does not move when a genuinely
Americanized Corkonian Irishman
rules the destiny of the old Puritan
ical city of Boston, and son of Gal
way stirs to fever heat the blood of
the sons of the Rhine in the cause of
human liberty? This serves to show
that the man of brains is today al
most a cosmopolitan and that the old
prejudices of nationality and religion
are fast disappearing forever.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

Danny Maher, tile American Jockey.
who has just returned from the Eng-
lish turf, is said to have been engaged
TO ride the. racehorses of King Ed
ward VII. of England, next year.
Maher is the first Yankee boy who has
ever enjoyed that privilege. He will
get $4,000 for handling the Kings
horses. and if nothing happens to him
with two or three other engagements
which he has for year, will net him
over $4,000 more money than the
PRESIDENT of the United States re-
ceives or that is earned by any other
jockey who has ever thrown a leg
over horse. And Danny is not an
Anglo-Saxon but pure Celt of Hi
bernian extraction.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28
should play the part of an informer,
if we rightly understand what he says.

should play the part or an 1nfOrmer,
if we rightly understand what he says.
The priest should not be punished for
not revealing secrets confided to him
in the confessional and neither should
he be punished for not betraying his
countrymen. He should be hanged
like the other three if he was
''chief agent" in the crime, or impris-
oned for life if participator in the
conspiracy. The attention of Presi-
dent Roosevelt should be drawn to the
case of this apparently innocent man
whose crime appears to be that he
is a Catholic priest who would not
violate sacred VOW or become an
infOrmer, for the American army of
occupation, against his own people.
Gen. Chaffee is copying after Crom-
we'll in Ireland, Weyler in Cuba, and
Kitchener in Souh Africa. He is a
military satrap who wants to rule by
force people struggling for liberty.
His own men have been guilty of the
greatest cruelty to the Filipinos. The
correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ledger at Manila, says of Chaffee's
soldiers:
"Our men have been relentless, have
killed to eNterminate men, women and
children, prisoners and captives. ac-
tive insurgents and suspected people,
rom lads of 10 up, an idea prevailing
that the Filipino, as such, was little
better than a dog, a noisome reptile, in
some instances, whose best disposition
was the rubbish heap.
''Our soldiers have pumped salt wa
ter into men to make them talk have
made prisoners of people who held up
their hands and peacefully surrend-
cred, and an hour later, without an
atom of evidence to show they were
even insurrectos, stood them on a
bridge and shot them down one by
one, to drop into the water below and
float down, as examples to those who
found their bullet loaded corpses.
at is not civilized warfare, but we
are not so dealing with a civilized peo-
pie. The only thing they know and
fear is force, violence, brutality, and
we give it to Them"
And Chaffee calls the insurgents
TRAITORS in war; for retaliating upon
American murderers. His conduct in
the Philippines is unbecoming an
American officer He ought to be
courtmartialed, or impeached by Con-
gress after the manner of Warren
Hastings for his atrocities in India.
Chaffee's treatment of the Filipinos is
Infamous, and the future historian
will describe him as the most san
culinary monster that America has
produced. He is slaughtering men,
women and children in cold blood,
and the American people utter not a
protest against such inhumanity. How
degenerate they have become in the
role of imperialists in less than three
years!
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

n Yankee spinster who writes for
the Boston Herald under the name of
"Chatterer" asks if Mayor-elect Col
lins will insist on "our speaking to him
in lrish.' The Republic answers he1
as follows: ''No. dear, he will not
ask You to speak to him at all. He
has little use for vinegary bigots of
any race or sex or age. Keep your
spit curls smooth and don't worrit
yourself. Only if you must address
his honor, please do it in good Eng
lish-better than that in which yo,,
chatter. He is somewhat particular
on that point"
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

In letter addressed to well-mean-
ing Englishmen, in the London Chron-
tcle, Michael Davitt says: Don't talk
about your success in ruling Canada
and Australia. The people there are
largely of your own race, and they only
tolerate your suzerainty because you
do not tax them, or intlict House of
Lords, an Established church, or a
landlord caste upon them. If you
did any of these things to-day your
suzerainty would be kicked into the
1 sea in a month.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28
LORD RoSHBERY HAS SPOKEN.

The mountain labored and brought
forth a small rodent. The much
heralded speech of Lord Rosebery was
delivered by that British aristocrat
at Chesterfield on the 10th inst. A
synopsis of it appears on the first page
of today's issue. 1t is quite disap-
pointing from every point of view. A
perusal Of it will convince our read
ers that Ireland may expect no relief
from the Liberal party if Rosebery is
chosen as it's leader. That party is
now broken up into three fragments
the Liberal Home Rulers, the Liberal
Unionists and the Liberal Imperialists.
Rosebery belongs to the last men-
toned. He opened his speech by
repudiating any alliance with the Irish
party, on the ground that it's members
had ranged themselves with the ell
emies of England-the brave Beers of
South Africa. He indorsed the war
policy of Chamberlain and Miner and
spoke like a tory-willat he is in all
but the name.
Sixty years ago O'Connell referred
to the Wings as "base, brutal and
bloody" Redmond could fittingly ap-
ply the same epithets to the section of
the, Liberal party represented by Rose
berry. 1t appears to us that Ireland
can never obtain any redress Of griev-
ances from the disintegrated Liberal
party of today. The late Lord Russell
Of Killowen was right when he told
his biographer, r. Barry O'Brien, that
the Irish were likely to receive Home
Rule from the Tories as complement
of local government already granted
to them. He knew the Liberals and
took no stock in their professions.
The English people are already sick
and tired of Salisbury, Chamberlain
& Co., and at the next general election
may return the Liberals to office; but
if man entertaining Rosebery's
views on the Irish question is elected
as the leader, the Liberals will not
rule long. When Rosebery succeeded
Gladstone as prime minister he proved
himself to be an utter failure. He
discarded Home Rule from the Lib
eral programme, and by his action
alienated the Irish party In conse-
quence of Rosebery's attitude on the
Home Rule question the Irish party
made a formal declaration to the ef-
feet that thenceforward it would act
independently of both British parties
1t has done so to this day and will do
so in the future.
If Roseberry were a statesman or a
practical politician he would not have
referred deprecatingly to the Irish
party in his Chesterfield speech With
out the aid of the Irish party he can
accomplish nothing unless with large
majority over the Tories. The Irish
party of eighty can vote with the
Tories at any time to defeat any
measure proposed by the Liberals. He
ought to have followed John Morley's
conciliatory example and retained the
friendship of the Irish party which
he has slapped in the face for symp-
athizing with the Beers. The Irish
party asks no favors of Rosebery and
his followers. 1t will simply wait for
| an opportunity to chastise him for his
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28
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The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

1t is now stated that the "royar
VISIT to Ireland has been indefinitely
postponed lowing to the disturbed
state of the country" ireland will not
suffer by the perpetual absence of
King Edward and his royal spouse.
The only disturbance in the country
is created by Dublin Castle in dis
persing meetings at which Irish griev-
ances are discussed. The right of free
speech is denied to the kings Irish
subjects at the present time.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

Prize money to American naval Of
ficers is relic of piracy and pillage,
and the antiquated custom should be
abolished. 1t is about time to do
away with it when Sampson and his
crew got the lions share for destroy
ing the Spanish feet at Santiago, and
they ten miles away when the battle
was fought and won by Schley and
the brave officers and gunners of his
flagship.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

The American Express Company
gave ten dollars as Christmas gift
to all employees who have been in it's
service for year or more. AS it has
10000 employees all over the United
States, from the smallest boy pasting
labels on packages up to the highest
salaried officer, it gave away in all
100000 in Christmas presents. Such
generosity deserves a paragraph in
these columns.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28
THE FILIPINO PRIEST AGAIN.

n dispatch from Washington says
that the war department is in receipt
of report of courtmartial cases in
the Philippine Islands from General
Chaffce. the military governor, in
Which he stigmatizes the natives as
''war traitors of the blackest dye.
He instances the treachery and dis
stimulation of seven insurgents at Tay-
tay. in the province of LuZon, who
abandoned all opposition to the Amer
leans after being defeated, but secret
ly organized bolo band to murder
the friendly natives. and while ap-
pearing loyal to the Americans they
We're at the same time helping the
rebels against the constituted author
tiles. In short, they We're acting a
double part, but terrible fate await
ed them
They We're discovered. Three of
them were hanged, three of them i'm
'prisoned for life and the other, Cath
olic priest named Leonardo de Posoy.
got twenty years in the penitentiary
at hard labor. This priest asked for
a separate trial and obtained it. He
is said to have been ringleader of
the gang of bolomen and 'the most in
fluential man in the community" The
dispatch further says of him:
Gle cultivated the good will of the
American officers. and promised to aid
them in keeping the peace. But when
the elections to American civil govern
ment offices were held, lie put for
ward and caused to be elected as pres
ident one Caledonia Javier, whom Gen.
Chaffee describes as an illiterate and
bigoted man, whom de Posoy well
knew was an officer of the insurgents
and whom he commended to the peo-
pie as the best man for the office be-
cause he was bold.
"At his trial de Posoy, who was
held to he the chief agent in the Tay-
tay murders, took advantage of the
loophole which appeared to be afforded
by his position as priest by contending
that, while the participators in the
wholesale murders in Taytay would
confess the same at confessional, he
was compelled by his sacred Office to
keep silence"
Gen. Chaffee considered the priests
defense Of no value and declared that
he had obtained his knowledge of the
murders outside the confessional. The
military governor is reported to have
said that ''the confessional does not
lay upon any man, priest or layman
the obligation of suppressing knowl-
edge of crimes being committed by
third parties, the consummation of
which could have been prevented with
out violating the secrecy Of the con-
fessional" Despite the fact that the
priest was found guilty Of being the
chief agent in the Taytay murders, he
was not hanged or imprisoned for life
like the others. He received lighter
though very severe, sentence of
twenty years in prison, 'out of re-
spcct for his calling and for the great
religious organization of which he is
a most unworthy member" as the
story goes.
We believe that the Filipino priest
is innocent of any crime and should
be released from prison instantly. AT
his trial he contended that while the
murderers might confess their crimes
in the confessional he was obliged b,
his sacred Office not to divulge them.
Chaffee appears to have queer notion
of the confessional and thinks priest
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

Judge McClanahan, of Grand Rap
ids, Minn., has set aside verdict of
guilty in the case of Bill Randolph
the first degree by a jury who had
consumed whiskey while delibernting
on the verdict. The attorneys for the
defendant set forth that the Jurors
were not in their normal state of mind
and that liquor had the effect of ex-
citing them. -Four empty whiskey
bottles We're found in the jury room.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

President Roosevelt has made a mis-
take in taking hand in the Schley-
Sampson controversy. He ordered
Secretary Root to reprimand General
Miles for expressing his opinion of the
Sampson clique and directed Secretary
Long to discharge Maclay, the histor-
ian, from the Brooklyn navy yard.
Teddy is too impulsive and belligerent,
and his interference with Miles has
not gained him any popularity.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

When leaving New York for Ire
land, John e. Redmond was asked:
"What about the physical force move
ment?'' His reply was that, no mat
ter what the methods We're, all were
working for the same end-the free
dom of Ireland, and that there were
different ways to accomplish an end.
He had no fault to find with any
method.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

insolence. He is false Liberal and
a Tory in disguise. He is destitute
of principle and Of backbone and can
never lead any party to victory. Rose
bery's ability is overrated by the Brit
ish press. He can make an ELOQUENT
speech with very little in it. Such ia
the address made by him at Chester
field.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

Article 10 of the blue laws of Con
necticut reads rs follows: mo priest
shall abide in this dominion; he shall
be banished, and suffer death upon his
return. Priests may be seized by any
one without warrant"
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

Father Firms story books for
boys are for sale at the Irish Standard
office. There are thirteen of them.
Any Catholic boy who reads them will
not relish the Observation-Disclosures dime
novels of the day which have sent
many promising youth to houses Of
correction and reform schools.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

The Irish Standard extends its
heartfelt coincidence to Mr.. Victor E.
Lawson, editor of the Willmar Trib-
une, upon the death Of his wife, who
passed away on December II at the
age of % years.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

Up to date, trade has not followed
the flag in the Philippine Islands.
According to official reports, the most
of the business during the past year
has been done by England, Germany
and France. America has only been
shooting, hanging and transporting the
natives.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

Says, the Faribault Pilot: Patrick
8A. Collins was recently elected mayor
OF Boston by the largest majority ever
given a mayor of the city of brown
bread and baked beans. Bourke
/ Cochran recently came all the way
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

The official crop statement of the
government of Manitoba shows that
the year 1901 was the Best in the
history of the province. The yield in
grain was over S5,OOO,OOO bushels.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

An American chiropodist boasts
that he has removed cOrns from all
the crowned heads Of Europe. He
ought to give them brains in place of
them. -,
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

The British are making peace over
lures to the Beers in Holland to end
the war; The losses inflicted in re-
cent engagements by Botha and De
Wet have made the Jingoes pause.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

There was a torchlight procession
in Dublin. followed by Il banquet at
the Mansion house. on the arrival in
that city of Redmond. McHugh and
O'DOnnell from America.
The Irish standard., 1901-12-28

Two more Irish members of parlia-'
ment spent Christmas Day in prison
for exercising the constitutional right
of addressing constituents at an open
meeting.