The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-03-25

yneVer LOOK water II ne could help 1t.
1t is Bill Nye who says he looks as IL
! he had just discovered a glue factory
on the other side of the Delaware.
His whole personality is one of
Iaugust strut and nux vomica, ana pre-
bono publico, "See me do it," and even
his cloak is thrown back so the red
lining shows. do not believe the
lartist was there when he made the
Ipicture. Quite likely George is not
truthfnlly represented. He more than
likely had on a coonskin cap instead of
the three-cornered hat, and had his
earlappers down, had his feet tied up
in straw and piece Of pork rind and
a flannel shirt sleeve around his neck,
and instead Of locking majestic as he
stood up i'll the boat, was in the other
end looking as if he had chilblains on
the balls of his feet
Valley Forge was another incident
that helped George out good deal.
1T must have been a tough place, too.
Il never go to the opera house in
Sault Ste. Marie in the winter months
that l do not think of George Wash
ington at Valley Forge. His feet must
have been very cold. AS cold as mine
We're last Friday night at. the enter
tainment. Yet am always greatly
moved with compassion when 1 think
of those continental soldiers skittering
up and down the snowbanks leaving
red marks on the beautiful" I have
never shed my blood for my country
in that way, and hope 1 never shall.
There isn't blood enough in my feet to
stand this climate anyway. Then it is
said they starved at Valley Forge. 1
never sit down to a boarding house
dinner that do not remember that
perhaps the fare at the Valley was as
meagre, if not even worse.
! l admire George as all true, loyal,
| liberty-loving people do. He has made
me lot Of trouble, but freely for
| give him, for the place he has kept in
history. George has managed to be "it''
longer than any other man 1 know of,
and he deserves to succeed. 1 have
often seen his picture in out Of the way
places shedding truth and patriotism
on the surroundings. He had 96S orig
inal portraits of himself. In all of
them he is the same harmless looking
man with an expression Of quiet upon
his face and an attitude as if he was
keeping still to let his wings sprout
! am glad he went away before some
things were discovered in this country
of which he was the father. If he
knew how much whisky we drank
now, how many people we murdered
ANNUALLY with Lydia Pinkham's pills,
how many more we ran over with au-
tomobiles, and how cold it was last
winter he would be glad he was gone
hope he is where it is warm now.
| In letter to The Irish Standard
DIR. O'Neill of Sault Ste. Marie takes
Rev. Mr.. Hawks to task for his utter
ances as follows:
Editor Irish Standard:
| Dear Sir-Tn response to an article
in the 'Sault Evening News of Febru-
airy %, entitled George Washington"
written by the Rev. DR.. M. G. Hawks,
in which he has offered every loyal
American citizen a rather unsavory
repast, which displays conclusively the
caliber of the man, and the nature Of
his loyalty to this country if he is a
citizen, and his contempt for this coun-
try and its institutions if he is not q
citizen of it. But these remarks may
be too severe upon him, for verify he
| hath some cause for disappointment
and resentment against the Americans
| of this community, as he has insinu-
ated in his article Of the 22d, viz:
That we have not accorded to him the
honors which we delight in bestowing
on our beloved Washington. Just
| think of it-Washington merely gave
freedom to this country-freed it from
the iron heel Of the oppressor-and
! was the direct cause of changing it
from being number of unimportant
colonies, to be the greatest nation on
earth!-mere trifie, eh? While the
Rev. DR.. Hawks has come here, o.
tensibly at least, to civilize and Chris
| tianize all Of us poor benighted, sinful
creatures of the Sault. Your reverence
also stated, in the same article, that
| Georges birthday was arranged for
! him by man named Augustine Wash
ington and woman named Mary Ball!
Well, sir, as clergyman, you have
likely performed the marriage cere-
mony, or at least, have seen one per-
| formed. Was she Mary Ball after she
I was married to Augustine Washing
| ton? You must be either glaringly in
nocent, or glaringly vulgar. Do you
| also endeavor to SANDER the fair name
| Of both Washington and his mother,
! and try to inculcate such ideas into
the young people of your congregation?
Shame! Infamy! While you confined
your chief energies to wrangling with
the keepers of saloons and grogshops-
though we doubted the wisdom of your
conduct in that affair, still we thought