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to take some oupho
Montmoreroy, Algei
non. Claren &c or
Percy Ambition and
a dress sui, are also
essential.
Let us follow MIR
Percy D'Pew, now
supporting Mr..
Whytelad Payntor,
through his part.
When The signal ~
given Mr. D'pew leads
the gentlemen Of the
chorus in their mad
rush to the front of
the stage. and, look
ing the audience
square in the face.
waves his hand three
times aud shouts
Hurray." right out
loud.
TN Summation mug
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18
oLNEY ON THE COAL BARoNs.

In remarkable speech at Boston Il
week ago. Richard Olney, attorney
general and secretary Of state under
Grover Cleveland. stignmtzed the coal
operators of Pennsylvania as law
breakers and criminals. That is eX-
actly what the modern feudal barons
are. In defiance and violation of the
law they have been importing 1.-The
pauper labor of Europe" for years into
the coal regions.
One of the arguments used by the
advocates of Il high protective tariff In
former campaigns was that the Ameri-
can lnborer would receive higher wages
than before to enable him to compete
with 1.-The pauper labor Of Europe"
Such sophistry had it's effect. No
tariff was placed OH immigrants as on
foreign products, and though the law
prohibited the importation Of contract
labOrers, the coal barons of Pennsyl-
vania, who succeeded in getting tariff
on anthracite in the Dingley bill, have
been importing Italians. Croatians.
Hungarians and Poles into the Key
stone State to make serfs of them Mt
starvation wages.
The worm will turn, and oppressed
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

country to the other within three
months. In fact, he has already gained
Il national reputation us a statesman of
the first magnitude.
Fletcher stands for the Dingley tariff
on everything, but especially OH lum-
Der, though Tom Shevlin, the local
baron, is willing that the tariff on lum-
Der be taken off. Fletcher is against
Canadian and Cuban reciprocity, while
Lind is for them. Those at the meet
ing knew Fletcher far better than
Fairbanks did, and hence they did not
punctuate the Holsters eulogy with
deafening applause. Fletcher himself
made no speech on the plea that he is
Il business man and not a politician,
and Hay and Peterson did not feel like
complimenting him on his services to
the public. Fletcher is not Il fit and
proper person to represent this district
any longer at the national capital, and
there is every Indication that he has
served his last term. Last Saturday
nights meeting was IL damper OH his
aspirations. 1t was flat failure in
every particular, and nobody knows it
better than the astute gentleman HIM
self
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

An interesting sketch of John Nor
ley was contributed by Justice Nc
Carthy to the Outlook" of October 4.
Referring to the Great Englishman
when chief secretary for Ireland, Mr..
Mccarthy says: Il have no doubt
whatever that success could have been
easily and completely accomplished if
John Morley had been allowed his own
way i'll dealing with the whole Irish
question-if, for instance, he had been
placed in such position of dictator
ship as that which was given to Lord
Durham when Durham was sent out
to deal with the rebellion in Canada
Durham saw but one remedy for the
long discontents and troubles of the
Canadian populations, and that remedy
he found in the system of Home Rule.
which has since made Canada peaceful.
prosperous and well content with the
place she holds in the British empire.
If John Morley could have been in
vested with such powers as those given
to Lord Durham he might have made
of Ireland another prosperous and con-
tented Canada"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

At recent meeting of Baptist min
listers in New York in memory of the
late Gen. L. j. Morgan, the ex-Indian
Commissioner and Secretary Of the
Home Mission Society, Rev. DR.. r. S.
McArthur, notorious bigot, said that
he knew Of his own personal knowledge
that lat one time Gen. AIorgan's life
was in danger, and Roman Catholics
hated him with hatred as causeless
as it was bitter" Nobody pays any
attention to McArthur's mouthings.
Catholics do not hate such men as
Morgan and Macarthur; they despise
them for their intolerance.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18
anthracite coal found it's way somehow

anthracite coal found it's way somehow
i have yet to find the man who knows
how-into the Dingley law, there had
been no tariff on anthracite coal"
This kind of talk from Senator Spoon
er, who is perhaps the ablest Republi-
can in Congress, reminds us of how sill
! YER was demOnetized in amending the
coinage laws in 1873. Nobody knew
who did or how it was done. james A.
Garfield, James G. Blaine, William Nc
Kinley and other famous Republicans
did not know how it occurred but they
all acknowledged that silver was de-
monetized, and it has remained so to
this day for the benefit of the Ameri-
can goldbugs.
Senator Spooner thinks that g. cents
a ton is "a small duty" and says he
has not yet found any man who knows
how it got into the Dingley bill Well
perhaps he has not searched very hard
for man to enlighten him on the mat
ter. We shall try to do so.
The Dingley bill imposes Il tax of
81 cents Il ton on all coal containing
less than 92 per cent. of fixed carbon.
This taxes bituminous and softer
grades of anthracite coal. All coal
containing 81 per cent. or more of fixed
carbon may enter free, but it is hard
to find coal that will grade up to that.
If Senator Spooner examines the Con-
gressional Record, he will find that
Senator Vest, of Missouri, at the time
the Dingley bill was under considera-
ton, opposed the levying of a tax upon
coal containing less than 90 per cent.
OF carbon and declared that the real
purpose of the trainers of the bill was
to perpetuate the monopoly Of the
anthracite trust of Pennsylvania.
The Welsh coal imported to heat the
public schools of Philadelphia does not
contain 90 per cent. of carbon and is
therefore subject to a tariff of G. cents
a ton; but it appears that, contrary to
the Dingley law, the Republican Off
Gals are letting it in free for the past
ten days. The hardest anthracite Of
Pennsylvania contains 81 per cent. of
fixed carbon, while the soft anthracite
of the same region contains 81 per cent.
The anthracite of New England con-
tains 80 per cent. and that Of the
Rocky Mountains 74.37 per cent. The
camel coal of West Virginia contains
81 per cent.
In view of these facts, there is no
excuse for Senator Spooner and other
Republican leaders in being ignorant of
having 67 cents ton OH anthracite
coal. All foreign fuel is below the
prohibitive standard, and the intention
of Congress at the time the Dingley
law was passed was to place duty Oh
anthracite for the benefit of the coal
barons of Pennsylvania. And if the
people do not keep Republican con-
gressmen and senators at home, the
tariff will be kept on for the benefit of
these grasping monopolists for an in
definite period.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

Students of the Irish language are
in high glee over the O'Keane- Din
neen wedding in London because the
marriage was solemnized by Rev.
Michael Mooney in the Celtic tongue
wherever the ritual permitted the use
of the vernacular. The Gael, in re-
ferring to the ceremony, says that
"from the Gaelic to the solemn and
sonorous Latin of the nuptia!- 1nass
seemed natural transition So it
did. Taaffe, the great linguist, de-
clares that one who understood Irish
thoroughly could have talked Latin
to Cicero. 1t is said by Henry
Giles in one of his essays that the
cowboys Of Kerry once talked Latin
like natives of Italy.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

President Roosevelt may soon again
hear another protest from the follow
ers Of Wesley. 1t was not enough for
him to make Archbishop Ryan a men,
Der of the Indian Commission, but he
has appointed Charles J. Bonaparte,
of Baltimore, one of the most promi-
nent lay Catholics of the United States,
as associate member. Not only that
but he has transferred Bellamy Storer
from Madrid to Vienna in recognition
of his ability, though he is convert
to 'Romanism." If he succeeds in Sc
curing a red hat for Archbishop Ire
land from the Pope, the cup of his
iniquity will be filled to the brim.
He must be hypnotized by Cardinal
Gibbons.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

Rev. Peter Yorke in his personal organ
of vituperation refers to John Bowie
O'Reilly and Archbishop Ireland in
connection with the American Catholic
Congress of 1889 (Which he enormously
says was held ''some fifteen years
ago. and does injustice to both the
living and the dead. OF the noble
O'Reilly he says: 1.-THE Puritans did
well when they took up O'Reilly and
patronized him. He did more than
Cromwell to un-Irish the Irish. He
may not have meant it, but his eyes
were closed to the fact that Anglo
lrishism is kind of Englishism, not
kind of Irishism." What chaptrap!
a few years ago we expected better
things of Father Yorke than attacking
the best men of the Irish race.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

istence Of such a regiment and was not
represents in Congress. Such ignor-
ance was ineXcusable and man
should be sent i'll his place who keeps
better posted. Mr.. NIcGhee forgot to
say that Loren Fletcher knows the
officers of the white regiment now sta
toned at Smelling, for he feted them
at banquet about two weeks ago.
Attorney McGhee declared that Re-
publican lawmakers have discriminat-
ed against the negro. He instanced
the law on Chinese immigration. When
Chinaman goes home from here to the
Flowery Kingdom and returns to
America he cannot land until a white
American citizen swears that he had
known him before his departure for
China. The oath of black American
citizen will not be taken. That is IL
Republican law against which Demo-
Gratis protested. 1t makes the black
man inferior to the white man and is
an insult to the AfrO-American citizens
who have been supporting the Repub-
lican party for years.
Mr.. McGhee informed his colored au-
dience that more Democrats than Re
publicans fought to free their fore
fathers from Southern slavery and that
it was time for them to display their
gratitude. The Republican party Of
Lincoln, Phillips and Sumner had
changed. 1t is now the party of
Hanna, Quay and Platt. 1t was the
part of wisdom for them to vote for all
Democrats on the fourth of next
month.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

y dispatch from Dubuque says that
Archbishop Keane has appointed lay
men to take charge of the financial
affairs of the Cathedral parish so that
the priests can contine themselves
strictly to their spiritual duties. The
clergy are glad of the innovation. In
some dioceseS more is thought of ii
priest who is good tinancier than of
one who is IL good theologian and
preacher, and when promotions are in
order, the tinancier usually takes pre-
cedence OF all others. TO IL man up Il
tree it looks as if it We're better for /;
young man intended for the priesthood
to attend Il business college before 60
ing to Il theological seminary. if he
expects promotion in the church.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

Eleven Tipperary farmers have been
twice tried and acquitted OH the charge
of cheering Mr.. J. A. O'Sullivan on the
occasion of his arrest in Templemore
on Aug. &. The government is bound
to convict them by hook OF by crook.
The accused are now charged with
''riotous and indecent behavior OH the
public streets of Templemore, to the
annoyance of residents and passen-
gers" The prosecution is conducted
by district inspector of the r. 1. c.,
who is determined to land the cheering
farmers in Jail. What a farce is Brit
ish law and justice in Ireland!
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

as these poor people We're at home,
they refused to become slaves to their
American taskmasters and went on a
strike that has lasted five months. The
poor creatures We're fortunate in hav-
ing such men as Mitchell, Fallon and
Fahy to look after their interests, and
now justice will be done to them in
spite of the modern feudal barons who
held them in bondage worse than
African slavery.
| But the coal magnates trampled on
other laws of the United States and of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Let Richard Olney speak OH the ques-
ton. He knows the laws just as we'll
as Attorney General Knox, and had he
been in the latters place he would fear
lessly enforce them and prosecute the
magnates who have persistently
trampled upon them with impunity.
He says:
who are they that are so insistent
upon the suppression of lawlessness
in the mining regions? Why, the most
unblushing and persistent of lawbreak-
ers!
For years they have defied the law
of Pennsylvania which forbids common
carriers engaging in the business of
mining.
"For years they have Disseminated
between customers in the freight
charges Oh their railroads, in violation
of the Interstate Commerce law.
"For years they have unlawfully
monopolized interstate commerce in
violation OF the Sherman Antitrust
law.
Indeed, the very best excuse and
explanation of their astonishing arti-
tude at the Washington conference is
that having violated so many laws for
SO long and so many times, they may
rightfully think they are wholly i'm
mune from either punishment or re-
proach.''
Though the coal strike is at an end,
these bold brigands and w-breakers
should be prosecuted. Magnates and
mOnOpOlistS must observe the law or
suffer the consequences. No dstinc-
ton must be made between the rich
and the poor in the administration of
justice. Such breeders of anarchy as
the coal barons must not escape scot
free. Let them be Immediately arrest
ed and tried for violating the laws,
and, if found guilty, let them be pun
ished like ordinary criminals. In the
words of Richard Olney: Law, SUI
preme and equal for all men, is to the
American people what the ark of the
covenant was to the Jews of old
While we have it, we need not fear for
our safety-when we lose it, we are fan.
advanced on the road to ruin"
President Roosevelt should instruct
his attorney general to institute Grim
inal proceedings against the railroad
presidents and coal operators, and if
Knox lesitates he should get rid of
him. Ii such guilty men escape we
may expect socialism and anarchy to
flourish throughout the land.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18
THE AFRO-AMERICANS,

IL is SfatlTylnS TO state that the Re
publican party has no longer monopoly
OF the votes of the colored citizens of
the country. For whole generation
the black men Of the United States
have been taught to believe that South
ern slavery was abolished by Re-
publicans and therefore that they are
in duty bound to keep Republicans in
office all the time. So we'll have Re-
publicans succeeded in bamboozling the
negro that until within few years the
colored citizens have marched solidly
to the polls and voted the Republican
ticket.
The supremacy of the Republican
party in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and In
diana is largely due to the votes of the
colored citizens of those states. At
the polls the Republicans find them
very useful, but after the elections
their services are forgotten. A change
has come at last, and the colored citi-
zen has his eyes opened.
The other night in this city meet
ing of colored Democrats was held at
which Lawyer McGhee, of St. Paul,
spoke in eloquent and persuasive Ian
guage. He spoke heart to heart to his
brothers and told them that the party
of Jefferson and not the party of Ham
ilton is the best for the colored race.
The author Of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence declared that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain inalien-
able rights; that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi.
ness" That was Democracy, pure and
simple.
The same Jefferson advocated equal
rights to all; special privileges to
none." These were the cardinal prin-
ciples of the Democratic party of to,
day, and to that party all men of the
colored race should belong if they con-
suit their own interests. The Demo.
cratic party is the party of the plain,
common people, and when the common
white man rises or falls in the social
scale the black man rises or falls with
him.
Lawyer McGhee touched OH the con.
gressiOnal campaign in this district
and spoke eulogistically of John Lind
when governor of the state. He said
that Mr. Lind was the only white gov.
ernor in the United States land there
was no black governor) who ever at
tended Il negro convention in his official
capacity and brought his wife with
him. All the Republican governors of
Minnesota in the past We're invited to
colored meetings and sociables but not
= attended.
Besides. while governor John Lind
appointed colored man as delegate
to Southern convention and no Re.
publican governor of Minnesota did SO
before or since. When Il reception was
given to President Roosevelt in st.
Paul about a year ago, the only colored
man conspicuous thereat was a janitor
who was seating white ladies.
In the course of his interesting talk
Attorney McGhee referred to Loren
Fletcher in connection with the removal
Of the famous colored regiment from
Fort Snelling-the same regiment that
distinguished itself for its valor with
Roosevelt ut Ell Caney. Fletcher de
clared that he knew nothing of the ex
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

ed on fact. If he had not said so, we
would read no more of it. Lord Wall
brook brought misery and suffering
Oh innocent people and deserved IL VIC
lent death of some kind. The Judge
comedies that when he says: 1T was
curious that this man who had been a
tymnt. ~ debauchee, and monster, de-
tested for his expressions of the poor
his bed. under the hands of the best
physicians, and surrounded by a phal-
anN OF churchmen praying for the re-
pose of his soul. Verify. the ways of
Providence are past finding out" So
they are, Judge.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

Rowland B. NIahany, Of Buffalo, N.
Y, accompanied Father Cronin OH his
European trip. He is contributing
series of interesting articles to the
Union and Times on what he saw in
his travels. Though a nom Catholic,
Mr.. AIahany grows enthusiastic on
Catholic topics. His description of the
Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris is
superb. The two towers on it brought
to his mind the following lines from
Father prOut:
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

Chief of Police Patterson, of Glen
Falls, N. Y, arbitrarily ordered J. w.
Keetfe, a cripple, to close up his news
paper stand on street corner, in five
minutes. This was impossible for
Keeffe to do at such short notice. The
cripple sought counsel and learned he
could carry on his business as we'll as
any other merchant and he did not
close up, as ordered by the chief but is
doing business as usual Probably
Patterson, whose name may be Billy,
wanted to drive Keeffe to the poor
house. The workingmen of the city
may have helped to make Patterson
the despotic official he is.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18
At recent meeting of the Tuan

At a recent meeting of the Tuam
town commissioners proposal was ac-
cepted from Mr. John MacPhilpin,
proprietor of the Tuam News, to pub
lish the advertisements OF the board in
Irish type for one year. That is the
way to spread Il knowledge of the
Irish language among the people,
Everybody in Tuam speaks Irish.
Archbishop NIcHale preached i'll it, and
so does Archbishop MacEvilly, his
successor. Editor MacPhilpin as pa
triotic Irishman who has been in Jail
several times for his denunciation of
British oppression. We know him well
and congratulate him Oh being the
first journalist in Ireland to publish
the proceedings Of town commissioners
i'll the native tongue.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18
END OF THE COAL STRIKE.

Before this issue of The Irish Stand
ard is i'll the hands of it's readers the
great coal strike in Pennsylvania which
has lasted over five months may be at
an end. 1t would have been at an end
before now had the operators been will
ling to accept the proposition made to
President Roosevelt by John Mitchell.
Baer spurned the offer of leaving to
the President of the United States the
appointment of Il board Of arbitration,
and he earned the contempt of the peo-
pie of the whole country by his insolent
and dsrespectful language to the head
of the nation
At the solicitation of ]. Pierpont
Morgan, Baer and his fellow barons
changed their minds and in statement
issued to the public last Monday de-
clared that they are not and never have
been unwilling to submit the matter to
fair tribunal for settlement. They
suggest Il commission to be appointed
by President Roosevelt to whom shall
be referred all questions at issue be-
tween the operators and the miners,
and they specified how the commission
was to be constituted.
In that they Went too far They
should have left the President the sole
power of selecting an impartial board
instead of debating any instructions
regarding it's composition. The officials
of the labor organization will insist
that the President be given plenary
/ powers i'll selecting the arbiters, and
that they shall not be men whose im-
partiality is in any way suspected by
the operatives in the coal regions.
AS Baer and his colleagues have come
off their high horse, it is probable that
they will so further and submit the
matter to the President, as suggested
by John Mitchell in his address of two
weeks ago. The sympathy of the peo-
! pie Is with the strikers, and they will
not be satisfied until full justice is done
to them. They do not desire another
strike to take place for years to come.
Something has developed during the
strike Of which the majority of the
people We're in blissful Ignorance In
deed, President Roosevelt himself did
not know that there is tariff Of G7
cents per ton on imported anthracite
coal for the benefit of the Pennsylvania,
baronS. Up to the time that the Ding
ley tariff bill passed, hard coal was ad-
mitted free Of duty. In his Cincinnati
speech President Roosevelt stated that
! anthracite coal was on the free list, but
he was mistaken. In a speech ut Madi-
son, Wis, the other evening, Secretary
Of the Navy Moody admitted that the
coal trust was benefited by tariff and
declared that the G. cents ton OH
anthracite was struggled into the
Dingley bill in "a sneaking and cow
ardly manner" and would have to get
out in the short session of Congress-
But Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin,
does not want any tinkering with the
tariff. In his Milwaukee speech of
last Monday he also admitted that
there was tariff on anthracite, but he
said: mo man can attribute the found
ing and continuance of the so-called
coal trust to national legislation. 1t
cannot be attributed to the tariff, for
until a duty, and small duty, on
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

Edward V. Murphy, chief of the staff
of reporters in the United States Sen
ate, recently visited Philadelphia his
native city to see about the erection of
a memorial to Thomas Floyd, who was
official stenographer of the Senate a
century and more ago. Lloyd was a
captain in the Revolutionary War and
is known as 'the father of American
shorthand" He was an exemplary
Catholic. as is Mr.. Murphy. and wrote
among other things a book entitled
THE Unerring Authority of the Cath
Ollie Church.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-18

The New York Sun, which is the
organ of the trusts, charges the de-
mOcracy of the Empire State with
declaring in the Saratoga platform
that 1--WE advocate the national owner
ship and operation of the anthracite
coal regions" The New York Democ,
racy does not care what the Sun says
Socialism is better than imperialism
and the Sun has been advocating the
latter for several years.