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pARKER'S LETTER.

Judge Parker's letter of acceptance
has stirred the country even more pro-
foundly than his famous telegram. If
the Democracy of the union needed
any additional inspiration for cam
paisn work, they got it in plenty in
the admirable letter Of acceptance. L
is calm and dignified, but no less pow
erful for that reason. 1t contains none
Of the over-boasting which character
lie the utterances of his opponent.
The letter stamps Judge Parker as
a leader of great capacity. If any
one wants to know what the issues
of this campaign are let him read
Judge Parker's letter. No matter
how many speeches may be made be-
tween now and election day, and no
matter how many editorials written,
there will be no more powerful and
concise statement Of Democratic doc
trine than Judge Parker's letter af-
fords
No Democrat can read it without
feeling of pride that his party has SO
great n leader. 1t is calm and digni-
fed appeal to the sober sense of the
country. 1t has drawn forth the high
est praise from the independent press
of the country. If Judge Parker
needed any votes to carry the great
pivotal state of New York, this appeal
to the intelligent Independent vote will
furnish them in abundance. For these
voters perhaps the New York Herald
speaks more powerfully than any
other of the great metropolitan papers.
1t says:
"As a great but conservative tribune
of the people which the author of this
statesmanlike letter now shows HIM
self to be. his strong protests against
the oppression of monopoly and the
subversion of constitutional govern
, ment and law by audacious and AFRO
CANT extremists of Imperialism will
have immensely greater weight with all
independent voters because the state
ments evidently emanate from man
who soberly weighs his words in the
nice balances of judicial accuracy and
are supported by irrefutable facts.
He backs up his exposition of the enor-
nous burdens of Republican taxation
by adducing from the governments
own statistics the frightful increase Of
taxation during the last four years of
Republican rule. And his arraign.
ment of the Roosevelt administration
for its revel of extravaganza and its
I mammoth expenditures must arouse
the most torpid voter to the perils of
imperialism, militarism and an ever
growing centralism that drain heavily
upon the earnings of labor and of all
classes of the people.
Ellis arraignment also adds immense
emphasis to what he says of the Op-
pressive tariff and the tariff bountied
trusts. 1t is an Indictment, temperate
in tone, but as whitening as that which
Governor Tilden delivered in 1876
against the gigantic" Republican ex-
travagance and taxation of that period,
which was the keynote of his cele-
brated campaign, paralyzed his oppo-
nents and rallied the Democracy to
make its desperate fight for reform.
! By forcing the issue Of tariff reform
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Catholic Advertising.

Catholics who desire to contribute
their full share to the success of Cath
Ole journalism should patronize those
business firms whose advertisements
appear in their Catholic paper. says an
exchange And they should make it
known that this is one of the consider
ations of their trading. 1t may be
put down as rule that the houses
which do not advertise in your Catho-
lie paper are unfriendly to it.
Catholics as rule are not aware of
this fact. but it is true. nevertheless.
The business principle upon which
these firms work is that they will get
your trade anyway. They want your
money, but they have no use or respect
for your Catholic paper. And they
openly say so, and they do not seem to
care who knows it. Yet they would
not have their names found in the
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The Gaelic league has done wonders
toward the resuscitation of the Irish
language, but it is so rich in honor
properly belonging to it that it need
not appropriate what properly belongs
to others. What good the Gaelic
league has already done for the revival
of the Irish language is thus stated by
Mr.. Seamus McNIanus in the "World's
Work." 1T has fought and overcome
the hostile national board of education,
with the result that 5000 of the ma
tional schools are teaching the Ian
guage to-day to $4,000 pupils, as
against few schools that taught it to
1913 pupils thirteen years ago. In ad-
dition to this. Gaelic is taught to 100.-
600 others in the remaining primary
schools. night scho pls, intermediate
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The Ancient Order of Hibernia,

The Ancient Order of Hibernians
are vigorously pushing the movement
lnaugurated some time ago, to boy
colt all theaters and places of amuse-
ment where plays are produced. or
songs are sung, in which Ireland and
the Irish are misrepresented, or in
which individual characters are intro
duced, calculated to caricature our
people, says the Irish-American. The
movement has taken definite form in
Paterson, N. j., where the members
OF the local branch of the Ancient Or
der have decided, at their regular
meeting, that, henceforward, neither
they nor any member of their fam
lilies will enter any theater or place
of amusement where the Irish char
acter has been or is being presented,
III an invidious or exaggerated form,
before the public. This is the right
way to deal with what has too long
been disgrace to the American
stage. When theatrical managers find
that it does not pay to present such
caricatures. they will be dropped very
quickly. and will perish of their own
innate rottenness and vulgarity. Nor
is there the slightest excuse for their
presentation: for there are available
plenty of high class Irish dramas and
musical productions, in which all the
lights and shadows of Irish life are
portrayed in a manner to suit, at once,
the most fastidious and the most fun
loving assemblages. The caricatures
against which the Ancient Order has
protested are the invention of the
caterers to the lowest type of the Lon
don music halls: and it is unnecessary
to say that nothing good, or even toler-
able. could emanate from such a quar-
for
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The Habit of Treating.
The notion that the possession

The notion that the possession or
generous nature is best proved by fill
ing ones guests or ones friends
stomachs, whether they are hungry or
thirsty or not, has fourished instead
of decayed in the sunlight of civiliza-
ton. says the Chicago Tribune.
Treating was formerly a prerogative
of man only. Even if women were
permitted to stay and see their lord
and his friends feast, they usually had
to retire when the flowing bowl be-
gan to circulate. Now, however, wo-
men are treaters on large scale. Each
season they give innumerable recep-
tons and dinner parties. and every
woman who accepts invitations to So
cial functions is required by inviolable
conventions also to give them. But
men, especially American men, are
still the most generous treaters. Does
a man want to get business from an
other man? He gives him drink.
Does he wish to cultivate another's
friendship or show himself "good
fellow?" He gives him drink-per-
haps two drinks. If six men, or a
dozen, all acquaintance, happen to
enter a drinking place together, it is
not unlikely that each will buy drink
for the crowd before they leave, and
that all will go forth more or less
wabbly in their underpinning.
If men treated one another as
women do. to punch salad and ice
cream. or if. like women. they did not
reciprocate their treats for week or
for several weeks. they would, like
women. suffer no worse effects from
them than occasional attacks of in
digestion. But the treating habit as it
! prevails among men is one of the ma
TONS principal manufacturers Of
! spendthrifts and drunkards.
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SITUATION sRow,Ne BETTER.

Two recent events have served to
strengthen the Democratic campaign:
one was the nomination of particu-
larly strong ticket in the state of New
York and the other was the publica-
ton of Judge Parker's letter.
Out of a seemingly irretrievable sit
uation the fighting factions in New
York have put forward a strong state
ticket. Judge Herrick, the nominee
for governor, is man of great ability
and unquestioned character. He has
been Il Judge for many years, but, like
Judge Parker, he had good political
training before he went upon the
bench. Best Of all, he has been recog-
nized for twenty years as the i'm
placable enemy of David B. Hill. 1t
will, therefore, be impossible for the
Republicans to continue the faction
alism that has for many years existed
i'll New York between the Hill and
anti-Hill men. Hill showed his great
desire for Democratic harmony by
himself placing in nomination his old
enemy and close friend of Grover
Cleveland. The nomination was made
without a dissenting voice. The re
mainder of the ticket is equally
strong. Against this strong ticket,
backed by united Democratic party.
the Republicans at the sole dictation
of Coy. Odell, who is in complete con-
troll of his party. nominated Il wealthy
The present administration of Gov.
Odell has been such as to produce
much scandal. and Mr.. Higgins. who
is OdellS candidate. will have to Shout
der the responsibility. Already the
Republicans. while claiming the state
for Roosevelt. admit that the state
ticket is in Il desperate way. They
look to Roosevelt to carry them
through. 1t is more probable that
Odell and his machine-made ticket
has destroyed whatever chance there
was for Roosevelt in New York. 1t
is true that in 1888 Harrison carried
the state by 10000. while on the same
day David b. Hill was elected gov
ernor by 10000 majority. In that
year, however. the state was desper-
ately close and there was Il bitter feel
ing between the Cleveland and Hill
wings of the party. This presented an
opportunity for Quay, who was in
charge of the Republican campaign,
to make deal whereby the state
ticket was traded for the national.
The situation this year is entirely diff
ferent. Herrick is said to be Parker's
choice for head Of the state ticket,
and while the state ticket may be
stronger than the national ticket be-
cause Of the weakness of the Repub-
lican state, it is not at all likely that
Roosevelt can carry the state and a
Democratic governor be elected.
Whatever may be the chances of Dem
ocrntic success in the nation it looks
Mt this time as though New York were
certainly Democratic.
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We believe that the Irish Americans
supporting President Roosevelt will
number more than twice Is per cent
They do not like the idea of free trade
and they have no sympathy with
"Anglo-Saxon" domination, on the
color line or any other line, says the
Boston Pilot. We know of no place
better calculated to test the prophecy
Of the Pilot than Boston. If thirty per
cent of the Irish-Americans support
Roosevelt, Boston will give him an
overwhelming majority. Notwith-
standing the Pilots advantage of stu
alton we timidly venture to remark
that the majority of Boston's vote will
be cast for Judge Parker, who stands
for law as opposed to militarism and
imperialism.
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One of the good signs of this political
year is the excellent state tickets
which the Democrats are naming
throughout the country. In Washing
ton ex-senator Turner is the Demo-
cratic candidate for governor and
seems certain Of election, although the
state will probably go to Roosevelt. In
Colorado the Democrats have nomi-
mated Ex-Governor Adams, who is very
popular in the state and will poll more
than his party vote. In Montana
Gov. Toole is conceded by the Republi-
cans to be the strongest man in that
state. Fortunately in this state we
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schools and colleges" The fact u.s. the
fight was half won before the league
was formed, says the Catholic Stand
ard and Times. 1t began several
years previously, between the Society
for the Preservation of the Irish Ian
guage and the board; the society wrung
many concessions from that reluctant
body and prepared the ground, all over
the country, that the league is now so
commercially tilling. 1t did it's work
quietly and unostentatiously, but none
the less effectually; and it continues
to do it still. In these days of the
universal press there ought to be no
wearing Of borrowed plumes. Honor
to whom honor is due; there is surely
enough for all proper claimants.
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WE CAN WIN MINNESOTA.

We have not until the present time
had reason to express the belief that
the Democrats of Minnesota could this
year hope to elect its state ticket or
any part Of it. The admirable impress
sion which John A. Johnson is making
throughout the state and the growing
dissatisfaction with the Republican
ticket leads us to believe that even in
this presidential year the Democrats of
Minnesota have an excellent chance
Of electing ut least their candidate for
governor. Not only is there nothing
against the Democratic candidate for
governor. but on the other hand he
has proven to he a man of good abil-
ity and very popular wherever he has
come in contact with the voters. In
addition to the admirable personnel of
the Democratic state ticket, the Re-
publicans themselves are giving con-
elusive evidence why there should be
a change in administrations. With
the open charges that have been made
by prominent Republicans against
their candidate for governor and the
shameless way in which the conven-
ton that nominated him descended to
trading off positions on the highest
court of the state, there ought not to
he any doubt of the result even in
this state. But we arc not forgetful
of the regularity with which the aver
age Minnesota Republican votes his
ticket straight. The tendency, how
ever. to vote intelligently has been ac-
centuated by the primary law, one of
the few good results of that law,
Republican voters have been taught to
select as between Republicans. In
doing so they have naturally come to
the conclusion that some Republicans
are better than others. In fact if what
we hear is true great many Republi-
cans in Minneapolis are convinced that
some Republicans who have been NOM
mated are not fit to hold any Office. Now
that makes good beginning, and it
will not take great deal of proof to
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Iowa soldiers are wroth because due
credit was not given to them in the
department records, for their brave
stand at the battle of Shiloh, says the
Omaha True Voice Notwithstanding
the proof offered that they had held n
position for hours and lost one-third
Of their number, the department re-
fuses to recognize their services be-
cause they were not regularly brigad-
ed before the battle. The veterans
may console themselves with the
thought that seldom is bravery re-
warded as it should be. 1t is the man
who can get his name before the pub
lie, not the man who does the fight
ing, that history honors.
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The military secretary at the n.

The military secretary at the ma
tonal capital was informed last
Monday that First Lieut.. Thomas
DevereuX, of the medical department,
died at Manila, P. l., September p
from acute tuberculosis. Lieut.. Dew
ereuX was graduate of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota, the Minneapolis
college of physicians and surgeons,
and of the army medical school, and
was appointed an assistant surgeon in
the army from Minnesota in June,
1902.
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The Last Packet.

After the terrible steamship and
railway accidents which made the
asst season memorable. it is pleasant
to read of an affair so delightful for
its victims as the recent sinking of the
Mississippi river steamer Chalmette
proved to be. The Chalmette was the
last of the old-time cotton packets
on the Mississippi. There are many
big stern-wheel cotton-carriers and
several side-wheel passenger boats,
but the Chalmette was a relic of the
old st. Louis-New Orleans trade. She
was the City Of Vicksburg, of the An
Choir line. but was rebuilt some Years
ago to carry cotton to the port of
Chalmette, below New Orleans. She
could stow $500 bales on her spacious
deck, and with her guards awash and
the cotton stacked high above her
cabin deck. was a spectacle once COM
mon, hencefOrth to be unknown. on the
river. When the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition opened she was put on as
a through boat from New Dreams to
the fair. and thus opened trade
which had been dead for some years.
On Saturday in July she started
north with about forty passengers and
lot of freight. Late Thursday after
noon she was within thirty-five miles
of Natchez when in backing out from
Il landing she struck snag and
knocked a hole in the stern. She
swung round With both ends resting
on the bank in a little eddy. but with
seventy feet of water under her amid
ships. and began to fill.
The passengers We're quickly noti-
fled. the gang-plank was run ashore,
and everybody walked out and found
Il seat on the gently sloping, grassy
levee, to watch the spectacular death
OF the last of the packets. The crew
hastily brought the passengers bag
gage ashore, then brought the furnaces
from the gallery and all the provisions
from the pantry and the tables from
the saloon.
In half an hour the steamer broke
in two and sank. Then as darkness
settled over the river the passengers
OH the levee began a picnic supper,
prepared by the darby cooks over the
rescued furnaces. There was no lack
of supplies: the even was gloriously
cool and still. A more beautiful loca-
ton for picnic could hardly have
been selected. A skiff had been sent
up to Natchez for help, and until an
other steamer came to get them the
girls of the party, grouped on the
levee. sang the old songs, and listened
in turn to the roustabouts and the
cook room darkies singing-not the old
plantation melodies, for few of the
river hands know them, but the mod
ern "rag-time' songs which come
South to them from the vaudeville
stage. Under the Bamboo Tree" and
all the rest of them made the night
melodious, and at last, when the pic
mic was beginning to pail, the rescu-
ing steamer came and took all on
board for Natchez, whence they went
OIL their way by rail to their destina-
ton.
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Republicans are again insulting the
intelligence Of Irish Democrats by as
sorting that the Irish are going to
vote for Dunn for the sole reason that
he is Irish. The Irish Democrats of
Minnesota are made of different stuff
from what our Republican friends be-
lieve. You will have to give them
some better reason than the nation
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GERMAN CATHOLICS.
Annual Convention of State Fedora
ton at New Ulm.

The State Federation of German
Catholic societies closed a very sue
cessful meeting at New Ulm Tuesday.
The most important resolution passed
was the favoring the distribution of
the taxes levied for the support of the
public schools for the use of the paro-
cllial schools in a proportionate share.
Nearly all the old officers were re-
elected. They are: President, P. NJ.
Kerst, st. Paul: financial secretary, w.
Eibner. New Ulm: corresponding Sec
rotary. Anton Anfang, st. Paul; treas
urer. Paul Kemp, Winona. The execu-
tive committee will be composed of
the president, secretary, treasurer and
Rev. ]. NJ. Solnce, st. Paul; Rev. p.
Wiesner, Saltwater; Iorenz NIitsch,
John S. erode and George Gerlach,
st. Paul. The vice president will be
selected from the place where the next
annual meeting is held, which is to
he determined later.
The delegates elected to the meet
ing of the central society of the
United States. which will be held in
Cincinnati next year are: P. NJ. Kerst,
Joseph Matt. John S. erode, George
Gerlach, st. Paul; Rev. H. B. Sand
meyer, w. Eibner, New Ulm; Rev. F..
Jaeger, George Stelzle. Minneapolis.
The thirty-third annual convention
of the German Catholic Aid Society
of Minnesota was called to order by
President Gerlach, of st. Paul, Tues
day afternoon. Pope Plus X. sent his
apostolic blessing and it was the first
time in the history of the society that
it was thus honored. The papel Sec
rotary sent to Rev. Max Wurst, of
Wabaslla. an excellent likeness of the
pope. which was also presented to the
society. There We're 2OG directors
present. representing 1874 societies.
President Gerlach appointed commit
tees.
\ communication was received from
Archbishop Ireland, which urged all
members of the Catholic faith to join
Catholic insurance companies, and
congratulated the society for adopting
plan which has put it on solid
financial basis. The annual report of
Secretary John Q. Juenemann showed
that during the past year $35, 129.1G
were put into the reserve fund. The
receipts for the year were 3,267. 3S.
At the present time $1O4, 31S.7O is the
reserve fund. During the past ten
years the society has grown from
1900 members to 1894. The ladies'
auxiliary. which has the life insur-
ance feature, has fifty-four societies,
with membership Of 1880, eight So
cieties being organized during the
year.
The semi-annual meeting, which
has heretofore been held regularly in
st. Paul. will be dispensed with in the
future. An attempt was made to
change the annual meeting from Sep
TENDER to the first Tuesday in June,
but failed to carry. Rev. P. Wisner,
of Saltwater, made a plea to the So
ciety to use its best efforts in prohib-
iting the decoration of saloons during
convention time with the emblem of
the order.
To-day the way of the cross of st.
Alexander hospital was fittingly dedi-
Gated by Rev. Edmund, of Jordan. as
sisted by Revs. Liborius. of Jordan,
and Raimund. of Chaska. Rev. Alex
ander Berghold. of Newmarket, deliv-
cred the dedicatory address. The way
of the cross consists Of fifteen sta
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John Cuneen, of Buffalo, and Will
liam Muench, of Syracuse, the Demo-
cratic nominees for attorney general
and treasurer of New York state, are
both members of the knights of Col
umbus organization.
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have a candidate who is stronger than
his party. In Missouri the Democrats
have nominated a man whose name
spells Opposition to graft" Wisconsin
Democrats have nominated ex-Gover-
nor Peck. Such nominations as these
should greatly aid the party through
out the country.
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Those who find it impossible to vote
for either Parker or Roosevelt need
not stay at home. There are several
other national tickets, and the most
fastidious voter ought to find what
suits him out of that assortment.
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The Gar has called for another
army to send to Manchuria. 1t really
looks as though Russia will refuse to
please that portion of the American
public which so precipitately took
sides with the little brown men,
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tons, u grotto and chapel, which was
constructed at cost of $4,000, and is
the only one of its kind in the United
States. People from far and near
make pilgrimages to this place.