The Irish standard., 1908-04-11
IN PASSING
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


or of Anoka on the 7st inst, defeating
j. w. Stead. John Casey was returned
to the council from the Second ward.
Charles Donahue was elected mayor
of New Richmond, Wis, on Tuesday
last. License carried i'll the two prn-
cipal cities of st. Croix county Hud-
son and New Richmond.
A local council of the knights of
Columbus in New Orleans, so the story
goes at least, has invented fifth de-
gree. We do not believe there is any
truth in this. Our southern friends
ought to be satisfied with what we al
| ready have. 1t is good and-enougl.
Bishop McFaul, of Trenton, n. j.,
addressing fourteen thousand menu
bers of the Holy Name Societies. said:
mo people can assert themselves un-
less they manufacture public opinion.
Read your Catholic publications. II
you don't support a Catholic paper.
how are you going to be abreast of
the times on Catholic qucstions?"
Reports from Winnipeg indicate a
large immigration to Canada at this
| time. Most Of the settlers are from
such states as Ohio, Illinois, Iowa. In
diana, Minnesota Nebraska, North and
South Dakota. Many of them are we'll
| to do and nearly all are experienced
farmers. They are ahead of the stars
and stripes but it will float over them
by and by.
The average Minneapolitan will
hardly point with pride to the divorce
calendar. Heretofore, with the opening
of the April term of court, one judge
has been able to dispose of all the di-
vorce cases, but not so now. This
term opens with the divorce docket so
large that all the judges will be
obliged to give their time to the work.
A most deplorable condition of soci-
ETY. is this and yet but little attention
is paid to it.
| The grapevine telegraph editors. To-
Gated at Minneapolis and ST. Paul,
who have been furnishing the Twin
City dailies, for months past, with
specials from Washington, D. c. New
York, Boston, Chicago and various
other points east and south. relative
to the Democratic presidential situa-
tion, have eased up somewhat recent
ly. While they have done their work
we'll, still it begins to dawn upon them,
no doubt, that the grapevine is being
overworked. rn
| jeff H. Irish is the name Of man
championed by the Detroit Record as
suitable candidate for the legislature
from Becker county on the Republican
| ticket. Mr.. Irish may be and un-
doubtedly is an excellent gentleman
| otherwise the Record would not
espouse his cause. But the idea Of
electing in Becker county a man with
such a Hibernian cognomen over a
competitor whose surname is Bjorge
is ridiculous, says the Princeton I'm
ion.
The wrestling match last week in
Chicago between George Hacken-
schmidt, the Russian, and Frank
Gotch, known as the American, was
but another instance marking the de-
generacy of genuine American sports
Ten thousand persons gave up their
money to witness what proved to be
fake, pure and simple. The promoter
and the wrestlers-those who played
the part of wrestlers---were about the
only ones to heartily endorse the pro-
ceeding. For them it was an over
whelming success-flnancially.
The attorney general of Minnesota
has again announced himself as a can
didate for Governor on the Republican
ticket. This second announcement be-
came necessary from the fact that his
first notice to this effect had fallen so
fiat with his party as to have left
him without any semblance Of support.
But Mr.. Young is resourceful Some
kind friend having advised him to
withdraw from the contest. he there
upon rushes into print with the charge
that the railroad and brewery interests
are conspiring to bring about his. de-
feat. The attorney general has reach
ed the limit. When there is no other
way Of attracting attention to lost
cause. the conspiracy cry is raised.
Mr.. Young is dead one.
| A writer in the Hebrew Standarn,
published in New York, commenting