The Irish standard., 1909-10-02
In PASSING

said President Taft from the pulpit Of
the Mormon tabernacle at Salt Lake
City. He did not say who the Ans.o-
Saxons are, but presumably he meant !
the English and their descendants in
this country. When his predecessor,
Z theodore Roosevelt, was once intro
duced in Boston as "a noble specimen
Of the Anglo Saxon race" he began
his address by saying: Il am half Irish
and half Dutch and If that constitutes
an Anglo-saxon am proud to be
one" Ethnologically, there are few
Anglo Saxons among the Mormona Of
Utah.
The HALEY comet. called after Ed.
mund Haley the astronomer, who first
saw it in 1856 from Paris, just as
the Turks had become masters Of Con-
statinople, is again making it's perio-
dical visit in the heavens after the
lapse Of rs years. Its first appearance
was in the year 24o B. c. 1t is the
to have issued a bull. In another place
will be found an article relating 10
that historical fabrication which Drap-
er, the American chemist and ply
siologist, revived in his work on
Science and Religion" Draper was
an agnostic and opposed to Christian
ity. He is the same writer who placed
the Crescent above the Cross in his
praise of Moslem civilization. He IS
quoted by skeptics.
The late Governor Johnson left his
Catholic wife an estate valued at s37,-
430. That is considerably more property
than he was supposed to possess. The
largest item is $4,000 in stocks. Judge
Thomas D. O'Brien. of the state SUI
preme court, and Frederick B. Lynch,
his political manager in the last CAM
paign, were appointed general admins
traitors by his widow. Many friends
Of Governor johnson think that his be-
reaved wife should receive his salary
for the unexired term-anounting to
about $4,000. Being the first native
governor of the state, his statue NAV
he placed in the hall of fame at Wasn-
ington, d. c.. or at the capitol in st.
Paul. His townsmen Of st. Peter will
erect monument over his grave in the
local cemetery.
| In his speech in Waterford, which
appears on the front page, John F.
Redmond declares that If Birrell's land
bill is mutilated or rejected by the
Lords, the Irish will take to the hill
sides and he will be with them. That
means disturbance in Ireland during
the coming winter. Redmond does not
mean there will be civil war, but lie
means that things will be made 50 hot
for the landlords that they will be glad
! to sell their estates to tho tenantry
and get out of the country. Feudal
tenure has already received its death
blow and the finishing touches will he
given by a united people determined
to own the soil Of their own country.
There may be arrests, imprisonmenrs
and the shedding of blood before land
lordism is disposed of, but go 1t must,
and the 600 boobies of the House of
Lords cannot prolong its existence.
Following the third defeat Of VIM. J.
Bryan for the presidency, his onicial
organ, the Commoner, published many
letters from correspondents who claim
ed that Taft was elected by Catholic
votes. We believe that Taft received
large vote from Catholic citizens b.
cause of his observation-disclosures in deal
ing with the question Of the friar's
lands in the Philippines. A decade of
years previously when Judge, he re-
ferred to the unjust taxation OF his
Catholic -citizens in Cincinnati
Catholics are constrained every year,
on conscientious grounds. to yield TO
others their right to third Of the
school money, about 100000 year.
That is to say, these people are pun
ished every year for believing as t.,ey
| do. What shame for non Catholics
! tc have their children educated with
money robbed from catholics!" 81
that time Taft was comparatively i'm.
known outside Of Ohio and was not
thought of for the presidency.
An extraordinary story of the credul-
ity of country folk comes from the
little town of Borrisoleigh, about seven
miles from Thurles, Co. Tipperary, Ire
land. There is q legend in circulation
among the people Of the district that