The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-12-11
IN PASSING

exiles who arrived in the United States
50 years ago. His parents were un-
able to read or write, thanks to the
rascally British government of that
time Though illiterate, they were no:
ignorant and considered a good edu-
cation one of the greatest blessings
they could bestow on their children
in a free land. Mr.. Murphy received
a fine education from his parents and
he is now wealthy man. He gave
$4,000 last year to the Irish cause and
is likely to give the same sum every
year until Ireland gets home rule. God
bless Michael Murphy and other Irish
Americans of the same breed.
The Republican candidate for Mayor
ct Boston is man named Storrow.
He is unknown to the vast majority
In his maiden speech of the campaign
he said: Il want the people of this
town to have a chance to look at me.
They can see through me as clearly
as they can through plate glass
window" Nothing Opaque about Stor-
row. He is a transparent body, if ne
himself is to be believed. But why
las he hitherto remained in obscurity
and now come forward for the high
est Office in the gift of his fellow citi-
z;ens, to whom he is personally UNI
known? If he knocks a letter from
Tim name he will come to sorrow. His
Democratic opponent is Fitzgerald. Il
man not only we'll known in Boston,
Tut throughout the whole nation.
William Watson the English poet
who wrote 1.-THE Woman With a Ser
penis Tongue is on a lecture tour in
the United States. We have read the
poetical effusion of this much adver-
,ised Englishman and see nothing i'll
it of high literary merit. He admits
that the originals Of his poem are tn.
wife and step daughter of Premier
Asquith, who invited him to their home
and told him that Mr.. Nash wrote
speeches for the late Mr. Campbell
Bannerman. Watson is evidently a
great admirer of the dead Scotchman,
for on his way from the Asquiths he
| improvised the following and sent it
to them: ''This was an honest may.
WHO spoke the truth, the hated truth.
| whether mer heard or no. He stood
for honor, justice, courage, truth. He
is gone-and they, too, CO." After
wards he penned the poem which is
Used by his agents for advertising p1r-
poses. American women ought to boy
! colt him for attacking English wo-
! men of high rank Nothing manly
about him.
Major McCrystal, one of the MAJ
! tional directors of the A. 0. H. under
the Cummings administra ton, AMI
| now one of the editors of the N. Y.
Irish American. is highly displeassl
with John E. Redmond for not voting
against the budget On it's last reading
in the Commons. ooh for a Parnell
or an OConnell in this momentous
hour" exclaims the military hero.
Were Parnell and O'Connell alive,
what would they have done if in Red
mond's place? The Major of the New
York militia does not know. The en-
tire Irish party, with the exception o.
Tim Healy and a few others, stood
hack of Redmond, ard Healy's constit-
uents in North Louth threaten to de-
feat him at the coming election for
voting against the budget and with
the Tories. Does the doughty Major
know of any better qualified man TO
lead Ireland at this crisis than "the
10y of Wexford" who represents the
city of Waterford? The esotistical
Major and his little clique are not
competent to judge the merits of such
statesmen as John z. Redmond. John
Joseph Devlin and other brainy men,
bers of the Irish party.
The Rev. w. B. Riley, local Bap-
fist minister bearing an Irish cogno-
men, expounds the Gospel in a pecul-
lar, pugnacious style Of his own. He
Is the same man who offered up Il
POLITICAL prayer at an anti-imperialist
meeting in this city during the Philip
pine troubles of ten years ago and
created q division in his congregation
as result of his Invocation to the
Deity. He is also the same man who
six years ago published book con-
tanning a fictitious letter Of Archbish-
op Ireland bristling with imprecations
borrowed from Sternes "Tristram