The Irish standard., 1906-04-07
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A Mistake and a Misstatennent.
Virginia, Mimi, april 3. 100,

Mistake and Misstatement.
Virginia. Mimi. April 8. 1906.
Editor Irish Standards:
Under the above headingI wish you
10 insert the following correction to
insert the following correction to
some remarks made in an article in
your last issue by M. b." whoever
that may be.
Let justice be done though the
heavens fall is Il proverb, but /
make a little change and say let truth
be told even though the heavens should
fall, and l intend to do so here.
1t might look all right to a certain
class of incipient rhetoricians to gush
off a few sentences and a few slangy
expressions. and they may think it fine
to see their initials on paper, but they
should not attempt to violate sacred
truth.
Your correspondent wrote: car
though we in Virginia had IL grand
time, still we must admit Eveleth out
A.
o. H. being organized there, and
every member is Il real hustler" /
shall not comment on the young
rhetorcian's rhetoric neither shall 1
speak of the grammar used, though
the tiashlight of criticism would not
hurt the writer by exposing with its
rays delinquincies in both; but in the
above quotation there are two mis-
takes which are also misstatements
of the real facts.
Eveleth did not beat Virginia or out
do it in the celebration Of st. Pat
rick's Day. It could only do so either
financially, or by way of public dis
play, and in either way it did not do
so. The opera house, or that which
goes by that name at Virginia, was
taxed to its capacity. And with its
gallery and auditorium, it can seat as
many as Eve'eth. The net results of
the financial side of the question to the
Virginia Golfer exceeded by some $4,000
that Of Eveleth. as I have reason to
know, having heard the announcement
Of both.
Again, the success Of the Eveleth
entertainment, or it's so-called out
doing of Virginia, was not due to the
A. o. H., but mainly to the enterpris-
ing efforts and the ability Of the pas
tor, Father Hugh Arthur Floyd. He
1t was who planned the programme.
He it was who invited and introduced
the orator on the occasion. He it was
who sent out the tickets and collected
the receipts.
The programme itself, gotten up as it
was by the trained clerical mind, could
not and did not exceed or equal the
programme at Virginia.
Mr.. David Evans Of Duluth is q
trained singer of ability and known to
fame for the inimitable touch of
"brogue" or, as they would say in Ire
land, the "gra," which he throws into
those rare Irish melodies or ditties
which he so sang as to be called back
three and even four times. Much, too,
might be said of our local talent, Miss
Hannah Bonner, Mrs. E. I. O'Rourke:
and A. L. Bickford, all accomplished in
the musical art.
There is always a friendly rivalry
between the two sturdy towns Of Eve
leth and Virginia, but I feel that it is
only just to your subscribers here, to
those who took part in our entertain
ment, to those who are capable of
judging the merits of the case, and to
all the good Irish of this quarter as
well, indeed, as to the people Of Eve
leth, to have them hear the truth.
IN. b." to use street phrase. talks
good deal through his hat; If he
knows Irish, will say through his
caubeen. And it makes it all the
worse that he. citizen Of the neat
and up-to-datc town Of Virginia,
should go out OF his way to represent
such an important item in the history
Of Virginia to be what it is not. I
hope he will apologize or mend his
statement.
I wish to say to the A. o. H. that l
don't want either to disparage them
or retard their progress by my re-
marks, but merely to correct a mis-
take which the manifestly youthful
imagination Of M. B." led him to
gush off without previously rejecting
that there are many who look with
critics eyes upon everything indiffer-
ent.
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