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The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

are still in urgent need of betterment.
Collectively, thousands of our own sell
dom see priest and are in danger
of losing the faith.
To our mind there is substitute
and an excellent substitute. 1t is a
good Catholic paper. Furthermore, we
feel safe in the assertion that where
regularly read it is a preservative OF
the faith under the most adverse con-
ditions. There is little danger of loss
OF faith in the homes into which it
goes and is read faithfully, even if
these homes be absolutely isolated
from church and priestly visitation.
No one knows this better than the
priest of many and greatly scattered
missions.
But its influence in the populous
parish of the metropolis is in nowise
different. Here it lightens the labors
of pastors and keeps the people in
closer touch with their many duties.
The late holy father, of most happy
memory, called it perpetual mission
in every parish. Hence further proof
that it is an excellent aid to the
priest. In the light of such facts is it
not strange that the Catholic paper
receives such scant Endorsement and
such little encouragement from the
altar?
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27
THE ISSUE IN PHILADELPHIA.

Philadelphia has for many years
been considered the worst governed
of all American cities. 1t is a re-
markable fact that of all the large
cities in the United States, Phiadel-
phia has the largest percentage OF
native born American citizens. Not
long ago Lincoln Steffens who has
made speciality of graft in municipal
politics wrote of Philadelphia and
Philadelphians. He contends that
the majority of the citizens of Phil
adelphia are for the ring and that the
government of Philadelphia is corrupt
to the core. The citizens of Phila-
delphia for the most part neglect to
perform the duties of citizenship and
allow the ringsters to run affairs to
their own liking. Graft is not con-
fined ii the ring but permeates
through all classes of people. The
proportion of citizens born of Amer
lean parentage is larger than any
other of our great cities so that is not
possible to blame the political cor
ruption and ignorance to the foreign
born. Philadelphia is an old city and
its people constitute the aristocracy
of the country if there is such thing.
They are to blame for the conditions
which exist in that city. They are
intelligent, they are native and they
have it easily within their power to
right matters. 1t has been spoken of
as a sleepy city but it is wide awake
today Something has happened to
cause the people to really take notice
of what is going on around them. The
city council has actually had the tem-
Gritty in the face of a united protest
on the part of the people to vote away
the gas plant which belongs to the
city to private corporation known
leasehold the United Gas Improve
ment Company. Philadelphia now
owns its own gas works, which
are leased to an operating com.
pany. The city has been deriving
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

and seminaries are primarily for the
teaching of specific religion, while
the primary purpose of the Protestant
institutions, as also of the wholly Sec
ularized, is rather education apart
from religion.
| He did not go to the extreme of
Stephen Girard, who left about $S,OOO,-
900 in 1881 to found the institution at
Philadelphia bearing his name, with
the condition that no minister or &C.
clesiastic of any sect or church should
have any connection with the college
or be allowed to visit its premises;
but he showed an indisposition to
further any sort of distinctively re-
ligious instruction. His theory seems
to have been that colleges other than
Roman Catholic and Jewish are Sec
ular institutions; and practically they
may now be called secular. Sectari-
an influences may have entered into
their foundation, but the theory that
religion should be the basis of their
instruction no longer prevails in them.
In their faculties the preponderating
opinion is on the side of religious
scepticism, as expressed in contem-
porary criticism of the historical valid
ity of the Scriptural basis of religion.
Mr. Carnegie's distinction as made
in his deed of gift is unquestionably
arbitrary and is open to the criticism
of the Catholic Citizen, but he had
right to make it. The improperly Of
looking gift horse in the mouth is
proverbial. Moreover, the Roman
Catholic and Jewish institutions will
better conserve the ends for which
they were established if they are sup
ported by vital religious faith rather
than assisted by religious infidelity
radically opposed to those ends. They
can console themselves by drawing
the inference from the exclusion of
their colleges and the. inclusion of
Protestant institutions that in the
mind of the giver of the fund the latter
are outside of the sphere OF religion;
that their education is scientific rather
than religious; natural rather than
supernatural in it's Dasis.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

Tammany Hall has extended to
Governor Johnson an invitation to ad-
dress that society on July 4th next.
1t is marked distinction to be so hon.
ored. Tammany is very old organ
ization and consists of at least two
distinct societies within one organiZa-
ton. Readers are familiar with Tam
many, the political organization which
controls the city of New York, but
many are not so familiar with the
Tammany society, which was organ
lied more than century ago, as a
patriotic and charitable society. Tam
many Hall, the political organization,
is but one feature of the Tamnany
society. Tammany Hall is always
in evidence as political power, but
the Tammany society has but one
public function in each year, and that
on the 4th of July. To these meet
ings some one or more of the most
distinguished Democratic orators OF
the country is invited. Politics mu-
nicipal, state and national, are forgot
ten and the members of the society
indulge in reflections upon those
broader lines of patriotism upon
which the organization was at first
built.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

The warning to young men in the
sad death of Herbert V. Croker, which
occurred last week on western
bound train, after spree in Kansas
City, cannot be passed lightly by,
says the Catholic Register. The scion
Of a noble father, who amassed wealth
that his children may enjoy the bless
ings of heaven without the unremit-
ting toll known to him, a mother
whose pious teachings and loving ad-
vice were crowded out OF a once ten,
der heart by evil companions, with
with strong fraternal affection-this
wayward boy, casting aside all that
was good in him, brings deep sorrow
by an untimely death on all who loved
him and, most pitiful of all, the loving
father and dcting mother, whose pride
he was. will go down to graves with
hearts broken and bleeding because of
a wayward son. Oh that our youth
and those who perhaps have started
on the pace that kills, would but stop
and reflect. While saying a prayer for
the soul of poor Herbert Croker, let
them also take to heart the lesson of
his sad death and the warning to be
found in it,
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27
Our Common Humanity,

The Russians have a score of prov
erbs intended to show that the Car
is only a man. In this way the ami
NAL instinct of human kinship mani
tests itself among an unlettered peo~
pie. You may scratch the veneer OF.
social convention in any country, and
beneath it you will find the primal hui.
man animal, careless OF artificial and
accidental distinctions of birth or OF
wealth or of training. A man is
man and woman is a woman. All
else is surplusage. The feeling that
this is true lies back of all our think
ing, even when we are insisting OH
the propriety of marriage between
young men and young women of SINH
lar social experience and similar
tastes and similar ideals.
No more striking illustration of the
persistence of this feeling has been
seen in many day than the wide
spread interest in the approaching
marriage of the son of an old and
rich New York family with young
Russian Jewess who worked in a ci-
gar factory until within two or three
years, when she became able to sup
port the family of her widowed moth
er by writing for Jewish newspaper.
1t is the fairy story of Cinderella and
the prince, or the repetition of the his,
tory of Ruth and Boaz, or what every
one wishes might have been the end.
ing of the episode of Maud Muller and
the judge.
| The theme occurs over and over
again in literature. The beggar maid
was astonished when King Cophetua
raised her to the throne, but she was
not surprised. She was woman, and
she knew, as every woman today
knows, that it is her womanhood that
! draws men to her, not her education
nor her dress, nor anything superficial
or accidental or external. When that
womanhood surmounts all obstacles.
the world approves, because it sees
that the great simplicities of life still
WELD their potent influence,
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27
IN LABoR'S CAUSE.
A Large Audience Listens to an Ad
dress by Samuel Gompers.

dress by Samuel Gompers.
On Tuesday evening last Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, delivered an ad-
dress on the labor problem to an audi
ence of over $500 people at the Audi
torium.
1T is one of the sad commentaries
on the thought of our time," said Mr.
Gompers. in his address, that the
question is frequently to be heard. Is
there labor problem? There are
men, and men, too, who are considered
intelligent observers of the social and
industrial conditions of the day, who
declare that the labor problem exists
only in the vaporings of the modern
labor agitator.
go to our great modern Industrial
centers. Glance into the sweat-shops,
and see old men, frail women and chill
dren, poring over their work, every
stitch drawing out their hearts blood.
See their pinched cheeks, their dwarf
ed figures and their premature signs
of old age. Then see the strong men
out of employment standing idly at
the doors of the factories, and say, If
you can, that there is no labor problem.
This will not be the verdict, but
there will come in thunder tones the
declaration that the labor problem is
the living, burning question of the day
and hour. The industrial problem
overshadows all other problems. Of our
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

Sill Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Can,
ada, is frequently referred to as per.
haps the greatest statesman in all the
British empire, regarded either as
leader of the people, public speaker
or authority on parliamentary usage.
Tall, thin and straight as an arrow,
with countenance mild, serious and
sympathetic and large, well-devel,
oped brow, indicative of strength of
mind and resourcefulness of purpose,
the Canadian prime minister, when he
rises to address public gathering, at
once commands attention. His father
was poor surveyor in the parish of
St. Lin, where Sir Wilfrid was born
in 1S41. This is Schotch settlement
and from schoolmaster and mer-
chant of that nationality the youth
learned regarding the achievements of
the Liberal party in Great Britain. He
frequently declares that much of his
success is due to the lessons drawn
from what he heard from these two
men in his boyhood days.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27
Woman's Humor.

Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman was
discussing, at her home in Metuchen,
the popular fallacy that woman has no
sense Of humor.
Woman" said this powerful writer,
has keen sense of humor, and of
this fact am continually hearing ex-
cellent proofs. Often it is sad and
bitter humor But l do not like it
less on that account.
From friend in Exeter 1 heard
a good specimen of woman's humor,,
the other day.
"An old bachelor of Exeter had adj
vertised for a maid of all work. A
robust woman of middle age answered
his advertisement. The bachelor told
her that her appearance, her look of
strength, pleased him, and then he
proceeded to enumerate the duties
that would be required of a maid Of
all work in his house."
"'To suit me- he said, "a maid will
have to do the cooking, the washing
and ironing, the sweeping, the clean
ing and the marketing. She will have
to tend to the garden. She will have
to look after my clothes, pressing my
trousers once a week, sewing on my
buttons, mending my shirts, darning
my stockings, and so on. She must
pay all the bills. She must keep an
account book to show where the
money goes. She must
But the woman of middle age held
up her hand to interrupt the ola
bachelor, and his flow of talk ceased.
"'Well?' he asked.
"You,' said the woman, don't want
a hired girl. You want wife,
End with grim smile-the smile,
maybe, of a widow who knew whereof
she spoke-she walked away"
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

a handsome annual revenue based on
the percentage of gross receipts, a
revenue which last year amounted to
100000. By the terms of the present
lease the consumers OF gas are enti-
tied to gradual reduction of the price
of gas and at the expiration of the
! lease hold the United Gas Improve
ment Company was bound to return
the plant to the municipality free OF
charge together with all improve
ments and extensions made during the
period of the lease. This present lease,
with all it's advantages, with an ag-
gregate value at the expiration of rs
years estimated at something like
$15O,O00,0O0 with it's privilege of re-
version to municipal ownership in 23
years, and with it's compulsory reduc.
tions of the cost of gas to the people
the partisan bosses of Philadelphia
have resolved to dispose of to a pri-
vate corporation for the lump sum of
$25, 100000. This deal wah made in or
der that the bosses who consummated
the deal with the private corporation
might be able to reap the benefit of
contract pickings and other advan-
tages attendant upon the transfer OF
the plant to the corporation. They
were willing to dispose of property
immensely valuable for about one
sixth of its value without any regard
to the future cost of gas to the con-
sumers in order that they might reap
advantages to themselves. Unless
this iniquity is prevented by the city's
mayor Philadelphia will be deprived
of property of immense value and a
yearly revenue which now amounts to
100000, thus adding at least that
much to the taxation of it's citizens
and increasing the cost of gas to the
consumer, how much, nobody knows.
The enemies of municipal ownership
have been in the habit of pointing at
Philadelphia and it's gas plant as
dreadful example of municipal owner
ship. The friends of municipal own
ership may look with considerable
hope to the manner in which the
proposition to dispose of this utility
has been received by the people of
that CITY,
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27
Baseball.

Minneapolis fans will be able to wit
mes splendid article of base BALI
during the next few days. The Col
umbus club, leaders of the American
Association is here and will cross bats
with the Millers this afternoon at
Nicollet Park. Tomorrow the same
teams will play at Minnehaha Park at
$3.50. Both clubs are playing gilt
edged ball and both are determined to-
win the present series.
st. Thomas College won from
Manchester Wednesday, II to 8. This
practically cinches the pennant for the
st. Thomas boys, with the remarkable.
record of nine straight games WOE
and none lost. The clubs in the col
lege league are st. Thomas, st. Olaf,
Hamline, Manchester, Shattuck and
Carleton. ssg ia-
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

"Mr. Hyde seems to have been liv
ing a strenuous life with the money
that people of the simple life have
been pouring into the Equitable Life
says The Commoner. Unless we are
greatly mistaken there have been a
great many more people of the simple
life paying money into insurance com
panies than there will be in the i'm
mediate future. Messrs. Hyde and
Alexander, by their inability to keep
the lid down in the scandal of the
Equitable Life, have done more to dis
courage life insurance than an army
of bright agents can undo in the next
five years.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

The sermon delivered by Archbish-
op Ireland at st. Louis on the occas-
sion of the comforting of the Pallium
upon Archbishop Glennon, was mas
terpiece of eloquence and concise
though exhaustive exposition of the
hierarchical subdivision of authority
in the church. 1t is subject about
which Catholics would like to under
stand more. The sermon of the Arch
bishop should be printed and distrib-
uted.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

Samuel Gompers the President of
American Federation of Labor who
delivered an address in this city on
last Tuesday, is striking example of
success attained through native ability
and energy. 1t is doubtful whether
there is any man living who has exer-
cised such a powerful influence upon
the industrial life of this country as
Samuel Gompers. To him more than
to any other man is due all that is
good in labor organizations. He has
stood for the conservative element
and his influence has been against
violence. He views the growth of
labor organizations in a philosophical
way, looking upon labor organizations
as only one phase of the process OF
Capitalization which has been taking
place in all things in the last twenty.
five years. He believes in labor or
ganizations, but he is broad-minled
enough to know that these organiZa
tions have their faults. He frankly
admits that when men join labor
unions they do not put away human
nature, and that selfishness is a con
trolling influence between members OF
these organizations notwithstanding
the fact that they call each Other
brothers. 1t is we'll that there are
in the ranks of organized labor sucf
leaders as Samuel Compers. 1t wouli
be better if there were more like him
It is because labor has had such lead
/ ers as Gompers and John Mitchell an,
/: Powderly, that the organization o.
labor has been so successful as it has
been.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

Mayor Dunno of Chicago is not prov
ing satisfactory to the preachers says
the Catholic Union ana Times. One
of the brethren in lurid sermon the
other Sunday said: 1.-The mayor and
others are too absorbed in municipal
ownership to give attention to the
boys and girls" If the chief execu-
tive of Chicago succeeds in bringing
up his own ten or a dozen as they
should be brought up, he will have
done his full duty. When children
are permitted to go wrong the fault
lies with the parents, not with the
municipality.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

The labor riots in Russia which oc-
cupied so large a share OF the public
attention in this country have appar-
emily suffered an eclipse, says the
Omaha True Voice. Chicago can equal
Russia any day in labor disturbances,
and it is question whether the city
by the lake cannot furnish more real
1t is at least nearer home and inter
ests us more.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

Last week we took pleasure in COM
menting upon the successful test of a
wireless telegraphic system invented
by a Catholic priest. Now we hear of
gratifyingly successful test of hy-
ing machine invented by a professor
IN q Jesuit college in Santa Clara, Cali
1ornia. It is predicted that this aero
plane will be in general use within
Ave years. Yet it is safe to presume
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

Il d. Percy Jones has made the dis
covery that there are no honest gamb-
,lers, which reminds us of the remark
which the late Thomas b. Reed made
about Roosevelt when he referred to
the latter as "enthusiastic over his
discovery of the ten commandments. -
Mayor Jones is liable to make a few
everybody else before his term of Of
fee expires.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

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The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

Last year Socialism in Massachu,
setts was strong among the mill oper-
atives, says the Columbian. This year
it seems to have lost considerable
ground. If all Catholics clerical and
lay lived more in accordance with the
Church's teaching Socialism would
lose whatever little excuse it has for
existing in communities where Cath
Olics are strong.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

It is said that ]. Edward Addicks,
the man who has corrupted the voters
of Delaware is no longer political
power. He has met with financial
reverses and as a result is a bank
rupt. AS his political power consist
ed entirely in his ability to purchase
votes it is easy to understand why
Addicks no longer runs Delaware.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27
SH 9!sn
GnA6LS SssSs eovtsclI
NIISII

If ability to avoid fight constitutes
naval strategy Rojestvensky and Togo
are strategists of the highest order.
The Japanese do not seem to be as
anxious for fight as they have been
represented. The opinion is growing
that Togo will not have the same
easy time with the Baltic fleet that
he had with the Porth Arthur fleet.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

that ten years hence there will be
found men to solemnly declare that
the Catholic church should be sup.
pressed because she is the implacable
foe of progress, says the Denver In
termountain Catholic.
The Irish standard., 1905-05-27

The above rates include cost Of postage
- any part Of the United States, Canada
q Mexico. To foreign countries the post
sge will be soc per year additional.
The Bourbon news., 1905-08-18

MARRIAGES.

MIR. George S. Mcdaniel, living
near Leeslick, Harrison county, and
Miss Alice Zumwalt, of Scott county,
were married at the home of Mr.. Nc
Daniel was on his way to call upon
Miss Zumwalt he was suddenly taken
i'll with hemmorage of the lungs, and
was compelled to return home and
summon medical assistance. He was
too i'll to leave his bed and the mar
riage ceremony was performed at his
bedside. 1t had been the intention to
marry at the home of the bride.