The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-08-15
MANIFtST0LE1S
REV. MARTIN MAHONY


U. S, district court at Pittsburgh af-
ter having been IL months in this
country surprised the clerk by his
unusually good English, which he
accounted for by saying that when
he came he procured grammar and
began IL study of English Most of
the foreigners coming to this coun-
try" said he, begin with the bottle
instead of the book. 1 started with
the book and let the bottle alone"
The natives are pretty generally in.
the same boat, but on different decks
of it.
\ drink OF whiskey never did for
a man anything that sleep will not
do. And whiskey, While it seems to
rest you, hurts you. Sleep builds up
your brain. Look ut the man rolling
out of IL gin mill in the morning;
compare him with the fresh man go
ing to his work after natural sleep.
Compare their eyes. their gait, their
speech, their mental alertness. The
difference between two such men is
the difference between sleep and wills
key. Take sleep for your stimulant
Take good thoughts and the COM
partnership of good, sober men and
women for Your excitement.
BY the treaty OF San Stefans which,
concluded the war between Russia
and Turkey in 1877, Servia and Rou-
mania We're to be Independent king
doms and Bulgaria and Macedonia
Christian municipalities under the NOM
ilal suzerainty of the sultan. But
as this would leave i'll all this liberat-
ed territory too much Indebtedness
and gratitude to Russia, England,
with Germany and Austria objected
to it. and got substitutes for the
Treaty of San Stefans that of Berlin;
which denied to Macedonia the free
dom granted to Bulgaria, and has left
it ever since the scene of rebellious'
outbreaks and Turkish reprisals,
burnings. and massacres of men and
violations of women. That is all the
Christianity and civilization there is
in the toplofty diplomacies of strenu-
GUS statesmen, who call for more, and
still more, army corps and battle
ships.
About this wretched bigotry the
saddest thing is that it is here in the
United States, more live, more ram
and more mischievous than in
England. When Roosevelt was urg:
ing the peerless fitness of Archbishop
Ireland to represent this country in
the great Peace Conference at the
Hague. Il know. l Know" said Presis
dent Mckinley, but We're l to app
point him we should be smothered
With the protests of the Protestant
Before the outbreak of
the war with Spain. Il war so need
less. SO wanton. so fruitful Of moral
evils. drunkenness, debauclery, dis
ard the rest. IL W;lr that pre-
pared the way more than any other
public event for the later war of Eng
land with the Beers, with only } or
/ dissentients Methodist Conference
Of 400 protested against Pope Leo's
while the country gives thousands Of
men and women, and millions Of :
money to other lines of propaganda
and reform. not Il finger is raised to
axtirpate this Protestant bgotry.
Too often Il man, or even only
callow youth. will say as vehemently
as if you had nothing to do but be-
lieve him, religion is no good" Well,
some bright men think otherwise. For
instance Dr.. Washington GLADDEN., of
Columbus, having quoted Cardinal
Gibbons to this effect, "The only safe
guard for individual character, the
only bulwarlS Of public morality is the
religious life" added: Il commend to
all young men these earnest words.
No man who wishes to win success
that is real. to be true and genuine
man, to fulfill his calling as citizen,
can afford to neglect religion, or to
make it a subordinate interest in his
life" If this he so every man, and
every youth, who neglects religion
ought to be not at all cocky about it,
but very deeply ashamed of himself.
He is not only piling up trouble for
himself against the Day of Wrath,
hut he is right along. now. every day,
an evil-tloer. Il nuisance in his COM
muility ail instructor in crime. an
enemy to his country. \ country may
not really he much the worse off TO"
the loss of Il number of it's boys iu
llue. or in khaki. but is very much
worse Off for every one of it's sons
that is made a less true and genuine
man, less fit citizen. And thereto
tends the life and example of every
careless or irreligious man or youth.
He is bad egg, past the power of
any pothouse philosophy to make
otherwise.
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