The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-07-09

of the narrow national section in the
hall, and introduce international ideas
into their skulls. The police did their
best that day; they do not seem to
have succeeded quite.
The international exhibition project
is now tagging. The national exhibi-
tion project, on the other hand, has
been taken up eagerly and hopefully,
and under the presidency of Lord
Mayor Hutchinson, of Dublin, seems
as if it would go ahead.
AS proof of the necessity of en-
couraging our own national industries
the Cork Industrial association has
just published some Cork statistics
that are striking.
There is starch factory in Cork,
yet 243 tons of starch were imported
from abroad last year. There are two
candle manufacturers in Cork, but $40
| tons of candles were imported last
year.
Although Cork has it's own soap fac
tories, SSS tons of soap were imported
i'll the same period. Cork has tobacco
factories, yet 176 tons of tobacco
were imported.
1t has it's biscuit manufacturers.
yet 242 tons of biscuits were imported
in the year. 1t makes boots, but it
also imported 637 tons of them in the
twelve months.
These imports were chiefly from
England and Scotland, and thinking
people know well that if Mr.. Cham
berlain's tariff scheme were adopted,
the English and Scotch manufacturers
would reap the benefit that Chamber
lain is fond of telling us would ac-
crue to our country.
In view of the above figures, the
men who would ask us to support any
further international exhibition in Ire
land have brass in their face which,
could it be transmitted to their pock-
cts, might well enrich them for all
time.
Miss Agnes O'Farrelly, M. A., one
OF the most active members of the
| executive committee of the Gaelic
| league. and one of the most ardent
Gaelic scolars in the country, has just
given us a remarkable memorial vol
unnc of Father Eugene O'Growney,
the man who by his Simple Lessons
in Irish'' gave the Gaelic revival such
an impetus, and the man to whose
body, brought home from California
last year. was given the greatest, most
remarkable funeral seen in this coun-
try of remarkable funerals since the
day that the Fenian Terence Rellew
MacManus, brought home from his
temporary grave in California also
was borne through the streets of Dub
lin with the young nation treading
behind.
Miss O'Farrelly's book is here the
most widely noticed book of the day.
and the critics give it high praise
Miss O'Farrelly's is truly charming
style, and were she not so entirely de-
voted to the Gaelic cause she would
make no mean mark in English.
Her devotion to the cause of her
country and her country's language,
however, leaves her no time to cult
vate an English audience.
The board of national eslucation
which after hanging on to an anti
quated system for an age with a per-
sistency almost admirable in it's dog
gcdness, and for the last three or four
years chasing it's tail around the
points of the compass, trying new
systems one day and dropping them
like hot potatoes next day, has this
summer again got out new program
of instruction in schools.
One marked improvement, how
ever, in the recent systems is the more
and more prominent place that is
given to Irish in the school curricu-
lum. and another valuable improve
ment is the insistence upon letter