The Irish standard., 1904-04-23
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In this month-April Z, 1S6S-thirty-
six years ago, Thomas Darcy MCGEE
was assassinated at Ottawa, Canada
After all there isn't much difference
between reorganizer and q disor-
ganiZer.
About ninety out of every hundred
Irishmen in Ireland, it has been said
take the name Of Joseph in confirma-
ton. Next to st. Patrick, St. Joseph
seems to be the favorite saint in the
"old land"
In the last issue of the Perham En-
terprise appears the following: 1.-THE
Irish Standard of Minneapolis seems
to have been the original Parker paper
in Minnesota. If Parker should occu-
Ply the White House the latch-string
ought to be on the outside for the
O'Briens."
Rev. Father Colbert, chaplain of the
United States troops that went to the
Philippines and Alaska, has been al
lowed a months leave of absence or
more and is now visiting at the home
of his mother and other relatives at
Assumption, Carver county, this state.
The Irish section for the st. Louis
Exposition is now on the way from
Queenstown. The exhibit, of great
variety, is accompanied by seventy-five
persons and the lace alone is valued
at $2,5O0,000. Even the soil of the
green isle-several tons of it from the
four provinces-is included. The Irish
exhibit at st. Louis in every way will
far surpass that of the Worlds Fair
at Chicago.
A clock, at one time owned by the
Irish liberator, will be one of the ex-
hibits at the Worlds Fair at st. Louis.
For years in the home of Dublin
merchant, it bears this inscription:
''The property of the late Daniel O'Con-
nell, Ireland's liberator, in his family
over a century. 1t is one of the first
clocks invented and supposed to be
near 300 years old"
Seattle, the thriving Puget Sound
city, made the best of it during the
Alaskan gold excitement. About to re-
sumo it's normal condition, gold is
suddenly found this time in the heart
of the city limits This is more di-
rect way of getting the business than
before. In keeping well before the
public view, Seattle stands at the head
Of the class.
The editor of the Norwood Times, J..
w. Craven, has been mentioned as dis
trct delegate to the Democratic nation
al convention. We differ Il little with
our friend Craven as to who should be
the nominee in the coming contest. but
that matters not. Never Il bolter, fair
and frank and Il Democrat all the time.
The Irish Standard will be pleased to
hear of Mr.. Craven's success.
According to statistics furnished of
Legitimate births in Great Britain and
Ireland during 1901. the last year for
which figures have been given, the
Emerald Isle has a splendid record
In Scotland the rate was GO to 1000
i'll England and Wales it was IS pei
1000, While in Ireland it was only &c
per LOCO. Protestant Ulster in Ireland
had 81 per 1000. while statistics fol
Catholic Connaught showed only Del
LOCO
TO say that any man should be fol
Mr.. Hearst because he had been a sup
porter of Mr.. Bryan is puerile, to say
the least, and again to say that mar
should oppose Mr.. Parker because he
was opposed to Mr.. Cleveland is on the
same plane. Beyond everything else tc
say that any man may bolt because his
choice for the nomination has not beer
recognized is to put selfishness and con
ceit entirely above fealty to party or
ganiZatiOn. This is dangerous and
, unsafe man whose influence in any
community is of a most limited nature
Mayor Haynes, it is given out has
secured the cooperation Of President
Francis of the Worlds Fair and has
arranged to have the old Liberty Bell
of Philadelphia come by way of Mime.
upolis when it is sent west for exhibit
ton at st. Louis. Now the mayor can
have anything he wants if he will but
extend his good offices a little further
and assist in the effort now being made
to secure the ancient harp of Ireland
used in the days of King Brian Boru
for exhibition at the Worlds Fair. It's
now in the museum of Trinity College
Dublin.