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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

The supreme court of the United
States in a unanimous decision against
the Beef Trust has given the most
clear cut and thorough-going assur-
ance that congress has the power to
break the combination in restraint Of
trade. The validity and efficiency of
the antitrust act sweepingly upheld.
The decision broadly declares that such
combinations as the Beef Trust, used
to stifle competition and bring about
noncompetition can be destroyed by
the existing federal statutes. AS JUS
tice Holmes said, "a court does not
and can not direct the individual pack
ers to compete with each other, but it
does bring them within reach of the
penalty Of the law if they substitute
monopoly for competition. The Off
GERS of the government now have the
fullest judicial warrant for proceeding
with the utmost decision and rigor
against every similar combination.
Attorney General Moody thinks the de-
cision sustains the government in all
particulars. 1t was known before the
decision that the question which lay
ut the basis of the act against the
planned of constituted interstate COM
merce. If they did not there was no
violation Of the Sherman antitrust
law. Mr.. Moody understands the deci-
sion to mean that traffic in live stock
transported from the state or territory
Of it's origin to another state for sale,
and held there for sale, is interstate
commerce, and that those engaged in
buying and selling such stock are en-
gagged in interstate commerce. This
seems to be supported by the follow
ing extract from the opinion rendered
by Justice Holmes, who said, when
cattle are sent for sale from place
in one state with the expectation that
they will end their transit, after pur-
chase in another and when in effect
lAcy uO So Will OulS lu0
! to find purchaser at the stockyards,
when this is typical, constantly re-
| curing course, the current thus exist
ing is a current of commerce among
the states, and the purchase Of the
cattle is part and incident Of such
commerce" 1t is apparent that the
decision has gone against the trusts
and that it may be punished for con-
tempt Of the courts. The question
now arises as to whether or not the
present antitrust law is sufficient to
meet the question Of railroad regula.
ton. Congress is now endeavoring to
pass measure intended to regulate
railroad rates and rebates. 1t is now
a fair question whether the govern.
ment has not already in its hands the
needed weapons. The trouble seems
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

Congressman Lind, it is reported
from Washington, will retire from
public and political life after the 4th
Of March. Referring to the view of
some men that service in congress un-
fits them for any other work in the
future, Mr.. Lind is credited with hav-
ing said: ut is true, that man loses
a large share of his law practice when
in congress and that he can only keen
in slight touch with former clients,
But If he does not stay in congress too
long, and returns to his profession, he
can soon recover his practice. know
that my congressional experience has
been good thing for me. 1t broadens
a man, gives him wider range of
vision, and better understanding of
all the great questions that come be.
fore the country
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

The death of Anthony M. Kelley,
former Chief Justice of the Court of
International Appeals at Cairo. Egypt,
and the brother of Bishop Benjamin
Kelley Of the Catholic Diocese of
Savannah, Georgia, recalls long and
remarkable career. He was Virgin
in by birth and held many political
offices in his state and home city of
Richmond. He was appointed in 1885
by president Cleveland as minister to
Italy. and little later as minister to
Vienna. Both governments declared
Mr.. Kelley, PERSONA non grata, and
1t is said that the chief reason on the
part Of Austria and Italy was the fact
that Mr.. Keiley's wife was a Jewess
Mr.. Kelley relieved the situation in
which the president was placed by
resiening, and was later appointed tc
the National Court at Cairo where he
served with great ability.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

Every little while some jaundiced
outsider endeavors to poison the Law
Catholic mind by referring to the
wealth of the hierarchy, says the New
World. Even writer's in the daily
press from time to time make such
effort, and the average secular Rome
correspondent now and then descants
on the great wealth of the Papacy,
with obvious intention of cutting off
the revenues of the Church. 1t is silly
to speak Of American bishops and arch
bishops as holders of great wealth per-
sonally. The church property of their
dioceses is vested in their name, but
when they die it passes on to their
successors, and, as rule, they 90 be-
fore God comparatively penniless.
Nowadays with a number of living
spirits abroad it is well for Catholics
to have the real facts recalled to men,
DRY.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

Volume 1, No 1 of the st. Thomas
Collegian is at hand. 1t is a neat,
we'll edited publication and starts out
with an excellent patronage. Judging
from the January number of this
magazine there is a bright future be-
fore it. Published by the students,
The Collegian enters the field as a
quarterly publication, though it is
more than likely that ere another
year rolls round it will find it's way
to it's patrons monthly. We hope this
will become necessary and it will if
it only meets with the encouragement
it deserves. Success to the st. Thomas
Collegian.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

because Of his close connection with
the royal houses of Europe by mar
rage. The wife Of Sergius is sister
OF the Czarinna, she is the princess
Elizabeth Of Hesse, while the Czarinna
was the Princess Alix Of Hesse. She
is also a sister Of Princess Louise of
Battenburg and Princess Henry of
Prussia, thus being a sister-in-law Of
Emperor William. Sergius now holds
the position Of encouragement Of
Moscow.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

Governor Johnson announced the
appointment of nearly all of the deputy
state boiler inspectors on Monday last.
The list contained the following
names: First district, Herbert Smith,
Houston: Second district, J. A. Carney,
Winona; Third district. John Heating,
Wabasha; Fourth district, William
Fitzgerald, Olmsted; Fifth district,
George Renner, Fillmore; Sixth dis
trict, NJ. ]. Mayer, Mower; Seventh dis
trict, Thomas Cater, Dodge; Eighth
district, Albert Panzer, Steele; Ninth
district. Charles Nelson, Freeborn;
Twelfth district, Charles Hessler, Fart
bault; Thirteenth district, William r.
Boyce, Martin; Fourteenth district, f.
d. Day, Jackson and Cottonwood; Fiji
teenth district, James J. Gustoss, Muir
ray and Mobiles; Sixteenth district, G..
II. Henton, Rock and Pipestone; Sew
enteenth district, Ole Anderson, Yellow
Medicine; Eighteenth district, George
r. Van Strum, Lac qui Parle; Nine
teenth district, o. X. Bhore. Red Wing;
Twentieth district, Andrew Young,
Nicollet; Twenty-first district, Niels
Frither, Sibley; Twenty-second district
E. G.. Haquist, Renville; Twenty-sixth
district, James H. Stratton, Scott;
Twenty-seventh district, Charles
SchwarZ, LIE Sueur; Twenty eighth dis
trict, w. Fl. Cody, Rice; Twenty ninth
district, X. l.. Anderson, Goodhue;
Thirtieth district, Charles A. Small,
Dakota; Thirty-second district. John
r. Dickinson, Chisago; Forty sixth dis
trict, Leroy Richie, Wright; Fifty-sec-
ond district, w. G. Richie, Cass; Fifty
fifth district, Andrew Riegstad, Kandi-
yohi; Fifty-seventh district, N. A.
Dempsie, Traverse; Sixtieth district, N.
E. Wilson, Becker; Sixty-second dis
trict, James E. Morrissey, Polk; Sixty
third district, Niels johnson, Marshall.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

If the daily press of the country has
it figured out right, the losses of the
Russians since the war began in killed
and wounded has long since passed
the million mark. During the same
period it is admitted, in round num-
bers, that some fifty thousand Japs
have been lost in the shuttle, though
half this number are found to be alive
and well-enjoying the hospitality of
Russian prisons. One more year of
this awful warfare on the part of the
daily press will wipe Russia complete
ly from the map.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04
Former residents of Minnesota now

Former residents of Minnesota now
living at Portland, Ore, have organized
Il Minnesota Society of Oregon to en-
terrain and induce NIinnesotans to 90
to the Lewis and Clark exposition.
Over $50 people attended the meeting
for organization. The officers elected
We're: Isaac Staples, president; R. V.
Pratt, vice president; Mrs. T. ]. Cole,
secretary; H. l.. Chaplin, corresponding
secretary; Father Watt, treasurer; DR..
H. r. Biersdorf, chairman of executive
committee; J. T. Chinook, chairman of
finance committee; Mrs. A. Gilbert,
chairman of entertainment committee,
and Isaac Grey, chairman of reception
committee.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04


UNNECESSARILY worse off than their
fellows elsewhere. Let us see what
light can be shed ON the question by
dispassionate statistics. The Russian
workingman was the subject of an in.
teresting discussion in the Techuologi.
cal Institute of st. Petersburg a few
days ago. One Of the speakers, an en-
gineer, laid before the meeting some
curious statistics showing that Russian
workmen produce relatively much less
for their wages than those of Germany,
America and England. The average
wages of Russian workman yearly is
24O roubles, and the annual value of
his work is on the average 462 roubles.
The corresponding figures in Germany
are 80 and 1000 roubles, in England
800 and 1920 and in the United States
600 and 3,77G
If we now had the respective rates
of wages in the different countries
named, together with the purchasing
power of each in their own country,
to exhibit the comparison in it's true
light, then we might find that the man
with the dollar works far harder than
he with the rouble, and is paid in
comparison really less. In the Phila-
delphia Record this week there ap-
peared some statistics of economic
conditions among the Russian peas
antry, and they show that the average
Russian peasant is in state Of CON-
parative aflluence, taking the condition
of the average Irish peasant as the
contrast. The Record says:
Investigations by the statistical COM
mittee of the province of Voronezh
showed that the average peasant fam
lily consisted of eight persons. Its an
nual gross revenue from all sources
amounted to S1O5.OS in money and
$1O7.12 in farm produce at it's market
value. OF the money earnings $4S.50
went for taxes and the rent of land
additional to the family's allotment,
which was quite insufficient for the
support of eight persons. Statistics
compiled by the Zemstvos of forty
nine provinces of European Russia in
1891 showed that s91, 900 families had
only nine acres of land per family,
and more than two million families
had only twenty-one acres each. These
areas include woodland and swamp
and mountain, and thousands of the
families consist, including grown sons
and their wives and children, of eight
to twenty-five persons.
In Ireland there are many families
starving on holdings of three and five
acres, while landlords are squeezing
rents from them, to spend in Monte
Carlo and Baden Baden at the faro
table. We have no more forcible pic
ture of human misery than that pre-
scented by Mr.. John q. Redmond, on
January - last, at a public meeting
in ROscOmmon.
If there are giant evils in the Rus
sian system. giant efforts have been
made from time to time to eradicate
them. The serfs were liberated there
without any civil war, and they were
given land on which to live. When
lid England ever do any like act Of
craftsmanship for the Irish landlords
serfs?
1t is the policy of England's apollo
"ists here to obscure the facts of the
case and blacllen Russia so that Eng
land may look white.
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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04
ENGLISH RULE vs.. RUSSIAN RULE.

The Catholic Standard and Times
pointedly shows that the condition of
the Irish peasants is worse than that
of the workingmen of Russia. In Ire
land distress is chronic condition,
while in Russia it is. but temporary.
Onerous conditions imposed upon Rus
slams are So imposed by their own
countrymen, while in Ireland the task
masters are foreigners. The Standard
and Times says:
There is much wild talk among
those whose knowledge is born of their
antipathy, about the comparative in
dustrial conditions of Russia and 9TH
err countries. Russian workmen and
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

The Irish-American nationalist so.
ciety was organized in GAINESVILLE
Ohio, Tuesday night at meeting of
leading Irish-Americans from various
parts of that state. The movement
which aims to be national one. has
for its object the defeat of the pending
arbitration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain. M. l.. Marry
of Columbus, was elected president of
the society.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

1t is reported now that Grand Duke
Sergius is the real ruler Of Russia.
Well, If the public press is right
Russia has large assortment of
%despots for rulers. There is the ad-
vantage at least Of having a change
for within the last month at least
three grand dukes have had chance
at ruling. At one time it was Alexes
again Vladimir and now Sergius. The
reason ascribed by the press for be.
s'ieying that Grand Duke sergius is
the real ruler Of Russia is, no doubt
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

1t is reported that former Governor
Taylor of Kentucky from his refuge
in Indiana has been defending himself
i'll mock trial which is taking place
in Moot Court in Drake University,
Iowa. The charge against Taylor is
the murder of William Goebel and it
is said that the friends and enemies
of the Ex-Governor in Kentucky are
displaying the keenest interest in the
result of the trial. Ex-Governor Taylor
is showing much concern in the out
come and evidently looks to the result
of the case to either aid him or hurt
him. Now the Ex-Governor would
show great deal more confidence in
his case and could do a great deal
more toward clearing his reputation by
going back to the state which formerly
honored him and submitting to be
tried for the crime with which he has
been charged by the citizens of his
own state before real court. 1t will
be sometime, however, before Taylor
shows any such confidence in proving
his innocence. He has refused for
years to return to Kentucky and give
himself up to the authorities of that
state, and his friends, and the Re-
publican Party in general, have exert
ed influence with the Governors of
Indiana to prevent the granting of re-
QUESTION papers. Since April, 1901,
Taylor has not set foot in Kentucky.
Every effort has been made by the
Kentucky authorities to obtain his
arrest and and extradition for trial in
kentucky, but Governor Mount of In
diana and later Governor Durbin of
the saem state refused to turn Taylor
over.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

Governor Johnson, it is said, is pre-
pairing a message, which he will send
to the legislature in short time, ask
ing for legislative appropriation for
the re-foresting of the congressional
grant of 10000 acres for forestry
purposes in st. Louis county.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

dispensation. "One of the purest ex-
amples Of Roman Catholic virtue
which this Western Continent has ever
seen," declares the historian, and it
might be added a rare example Of
human virtue for any land and any
time,
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

An old lady, well known in the east
of Fife for her learning and for "tak-
ing down" conceited people gave an
evening party, where young man
was present who was about to leave
for an appointment in China, and he
formed the object of attraction during
the evening.
AS he was exceedingly extravagant
in his conversation about himself, the
old lady was all but silent during the
evening until he was leaving, when
she shook him heartily by the hand,
saying:
"Tak' gud care o. yourself when
we're AVA; for, mind ye, they eat
puppies in Cheena!"
One Sunday, as a certain Scottish
minister was returning homeward,
he was accosted by an old woman,
who said:
ooh, sir, we'll do I like the day
when you preach"
The minister was aware that he was
not very popular. and answered.:
"My good woman, am glad to hear
it. There are too few like you. And
why do you like it when 1 preach?"
ooh sir" she replied, when you.
preach I always get good seat"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

to be not so much in want of proper
remedies but in the lack of proper en-
forcement of already existing meas
ures. We suspect that the govern
ment has now the power to deal with
most of the evils connected with the
trusts and that the existing evils are
due to non-enforcemenl Of common law
and statute remedies.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

Alonzo j. Whiteman, an eX-Minne-
sotan, who served in the state SENATE
and in various other institutions out
side this commonwealth, is now in Jail
at Danville, N. Y. Forgery and grand
larceny is again the charge against
him.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04
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Iss ! ! $685.

When it isn't John Goodnow it's
Tams Bixby who is about to be in
vestigated for alleged Irregularities in
Office. And these two worthless are
from Minnesota.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

What's the use Of making so much
fuss about that wolf in St. Paul?
Wolves are not so uncommon, when
you come to think Of ii. There are
others.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04
HapDineSS A DUTY.

Be happy! Be happy in spite of
everything! When a person is not
happy, he is failure in life. To be
happy is to be normal, and the nor
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

Mr.. Thomas Lawson might vary his
subject little and speak Of the "Fren-
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-02-04

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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-07-14
DOGS AND DEER.
3 Mad Flight For Life In the WtIds
NJ Sihprin


The strength of he-elity both in wild
and in domesticatc1 animals is brought
INTO clear light by an incident related
in book. In Search of Il Siberian
hlondike" The authors of the book
were travelling by dog team through
the wildS Of Siberia.
At / O'Clock in the afternoon the dogs
suLt!cnly broke into Il swift run. and
we knew they had scented something
Jhat Interested them. We soon per
cciyGd thai we had struck deer trail
ana that we were nearing an encamp-
Mcut. We turned bend in the road,
and there Il hundred yards ahead of Us
we saw the cause of the dogs excite
:ucnt
y team of reindeer We're running for
their lives. Their fungus driver was
laShin@ them with the whip and was
Urging them with all his might for he
knew as well as we that if our dogs
overlook them before the camp was
reached we seven mon would he utter
" pOwcrlcS$ to prevent the dogs from
tearing the deer TO pieces. Our driver
put on the brake with all his might,
but it had not the least effect. The
fourteen dogs had become wolves in
the turn of hand, and no brake could
stop them. There were many stumps
and other distractions along our way,
and my driver had great difficulty in
preventing Il SlnaShup.
For 4 short time the deer held their
own and, in fact gained on us, but
before the yurta (villagel came in sight
we were gaining rapidly. While we
were still at some distance the people
of the village, warned Icy the cries Of
thc dogs. comprchcndCd what was the
matter and, armn% themselves with
sticks and spears. came running to-
ward IFS. As they came on they spread
ont i'll fanlike formation across the
trail. When the terrified deer reached
the line the men spread out and let the
team through and instantly closed
again to dispute the passage of our
dogs.
Our driver was nOwiSc minded to let
the natives club his dogs and perhaps
iniure the valuable animals, so he re-
sorted to the last eXpcdicnt. Giving Il
shout of warning to me, he suddenly
by Il def motion turned our sledge
completely over, landing me i'll Il snow
drift on my head In this position the
Slcdgc was all brake, and the dogs were
forced to stop. They We're lcaping in
their harness and yelling like fiends
incarnate.
l sat up in the snow bank and laugh
ed The other drivers had followed our
example and the struggling tangle of
sledScs. harness. dogs and men formed
q scene that. to the novice at least, was
highly ludicrouS. The drivers and the
village people were belaboring the dogs,
and the entire herd of reindeer belong
ing 10 the village was escaping i'll all
directions up the hills.
The reader may well ask how the ma
tives can use both dogs and reindeer if
the sight of Il deer has such Il madden
ing effect on the dogs. The cXplana-
ton is simple. The two never go to-
gcther. There is the dog country and
the deer country, but they do not over
caused by travelling with dogs through
deer country, but the natives do not
take it in i'll part, knowing that If they
themselves have to travel with deer
through Il dog country they will cause
quite us much Inconvenience.