The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-09-11

IN PASSING !

That such a wideawake newspaper
as the Pioneer Press was caught
mapping by an artful reporter who
palmed off as genuine bogus tele-
gram from President Taft is a maj
vel, indeed. The reporter lost his
job and went to Chicago to work IN
a Hearst paper. Hearst would adj
vance the reporters salary for pos
sessing such a b&lliant Imagination.
He would never think Of discharging
q reporter for doing. such a thing
especially when he forged the name
of the President of the United States
to a fictitious telegram.
Milaca Times: Governor Johnson
shouting defiance of the west to the
east probably sounded good to some
people, but we fear the west will still
need the east for some time to come"
The speech made by the governor ut
Seattle was Just what the people
wanted to hear. It's all right to have
a crack at the east once in willis.
When the governor talks in the east
later on, he will explain that he had
spoken in Seattle in a Piokwickia1
sense. The governors utterances
should not be taken too seriously. M
danger Of the east and the west get
ting at loggerheads over that speech
at Seattle.
We draw attention to the COLOMBIA
ton scheme of Bishop McGolrick, ..s
outlined in another column. Splendid
Inducements are offered to ambitious
mon of families who are eking out
but mere existence in Eastern cities.
This is the best chance they will
ever have Of becoming Independent III
few years, and they should not let
it pass by. Any movement with which
Bishop McGolrick is connected is all
right. He certainly does not want to
make a cent for himself. He has
spent his whole life in attempting to
promote the spiritual and material
interests Of his fellow man, regard
less of creed, and he is not yet tired
of the work. Success to the move
ment! .45 ...--
Senator ,Knute Nelson delivered
very interesting address on farming
matters on the opening day of the
State Fair. Though Senator Nelson
is statesman of / national reputa-
ton, he understands farming life
thoroughly and il right at home with
the tillers Of the soil. When he was
q poor Norwegian immigrant boy
without a word of English, he did
chores on a farm so that he could 20
to school to acquire an education. He
was fortunate in having kindly
Irish woman for his teacher. SHE
encouraged him and helped him Oh
when graphing with foreign la..-
guage. The Irishwoman lived to see
her pupil famous and he never forgot
her. Only. q short time before her
death she spent several months as
his guest at Alexandria, and thcy
talked over old times.
Every newspaper finds it's para
graphs appropriated, once in while,
by some enterprising contemporaries
which pass them off for their own
without giving an acknowledgment.
Referring to this piracy" the VET
eran editor Of the Princeton Union
says: Occasionally one editor calls
down another for failing to give prop.
er credit for an item. An editor who
can pen paragraph that is worthy
Of being stolen should feel highly
complimented." That Is the right way
to look at the matter. Lord Byron
admits that he appropriated every.
thing of literary merit, and Lowell
says there is nothing original ANY,
way. Clergymen, as well as edl-
tors. have often been charged with
plagiarism or literary theft. It may
be all right to reproduce the ideas of
others, but when such q man DIS
Mark Twain gives whole passages
verbatim. without referring to the
original writer, he goes too far. But
then Twain is humorist u
Recently at fete arranged at Uni
versity college, London, the expert
ment was made Of pronouncing Shake
speare's words as nearly as possible as
they were pronounced In his own day.
The result of this attempt to repro
duce English as it was spoken Ill
Shakespeare's time was to give rs
something like what has been sneered
at as Irish brogue" in this our own