The Irish standard., 1909-08-14

the renewal Of the land bill debate
on Aug. 20.
Speaker Cannon praises the new
tariff and says it will prove itself In
the next ten years to be satisfactory
to most people. Ten years indeed!
He will be dead by that time, and a
better bill will have been passed for
the benefit of the people whom he
helped to betray.
Ambassador Reid wants to remain
in London for another year. Why not
stay there all the time, like Waldorf
Aston and other American flunkies?
He says that he wants to stay to in
troduce Roosevelt on his return from
Africa. A better representative of the
United States can be had to perform
that duty.
Women in the garb of the Catholic
Sisterhood are collecting money under
false pretenses out west. They may
come east after while. and it is we'll
to be ready for them. Catholics must
not permit themselves to become the
victims Of bogus priests and nuns who
appeal to them for money. Be sure
they are authorized to collect before
any financial aid is given.
A New York preacher named Rev.
DR.. John Wesley Hill spoke in London
last Sunday and declared that the re-
lationship between Great Britain and
the United States was like that exist
ing between mother and child. And
then he said: 1.-THE time is coming,
and it is not far distant, when the
Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes
floating together will make it impos-
sible for gun to throw a bullet be-
yond its muzzle, or for a soldier any,
where on the globe to lift his foot
against the peace Of the world un-
less the order Is given in the English
tongue" The Gotham preacher is off
on a vacation and spouting nonsense
to please the English.
Many travellers have kept away
from the Lakes Of Killarney since the
recent drowning of American and Eng
lish tourists. The boats used on the
lakes were old and unsafe, and the
winds are treacherous and shifting:
Good boats, we'll managed, are neces-
sity. and the hotelkeepers who depend
on the tourists for business are or
ganizing in self-defense to make ev-
erything safe and inviting at 1reland's
great pleasure resort. The old boats
are being replaced and better and
younger boatmen are employed for
rowing on the waters.
An Englishman named H. q. Wells
has written a letter to a London news
paper, asserting that England should
awake from lethargy and invent fly
ing machines like France and the
United States. He says foreigners
are away in advance of Englishmen
in every way. Frenchmen, Americans
and Germans fly in the air while John
Bull goes on foot. 1t is strange that
no Englishnan has yet been able to
invent a good aeroplane. Bleriots
flight across the Straits of Dover is
an object lesson to the slow going
Anglo saxons. What will become Of
them if they ever go to war with a
progressive nation?
Every immigrant who enters the
United States from this date will
have handed to him or her on land
ing a pamphlet issued by the depart
ment of Commerce and Labor contain
ing information about obtaining EN-
ployment and printed in twenty diff
ferent languages. Information as to
where settlers are needed and where
farm lands are for sale or to rent,
with prices and terms is also given.
The best thing for immigrants to do
is to come west if they have enough
money to pay transportation The
sooner they depart from the seaport
towns the better off will they be. If
they remain in New York they will
never realize the greatness and vast.
ness of the United States.
The fact that Atlantic steamships
bearing cargoes Of merchandise from
Europe were ordered to make all
haste to reach New York before the
new tariff law went into effect shows
that American importers understand
that tho Din1lev tariff was revised nm