The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-06-05
IN PASSING


| In his speech on the coronation
oath in parliament, T. M. Healy said
that Edward VII was head of the
Church and Defender of the Faith, as
they saw on all the halfpence. Read
his sarcastic speech in another part
Of this paper.
| George Meredith, the English novelist
and poet, who died recently at the adj
vanced age Of 81, was of Irish and
Welsh parentage. Like Thomas Davis,
born in Ireland of WEIGH father and
an Irish mother, Meredith loved Ire
land with intense devotion, though
born and educated in England. Bloo.l
will tell.
The Free Press, of Winnipeg, Man.,
is rampant Orange organ, judging
from its references to the Catholics OF
western Canada. Why do the knights
of Columbus. of that city, many OF
whom are business men, patronize
such a sheet? They should make
their influence felt by rebuking the
bigoted paper in a practical manner.
In other words, boycott it..
General Nelson A. Miles, the soldier;
and Prof. Long, the naturalist, art
shocked at the killing Of elephants
and other large game in Africa by tie
redoubtable hero of San Juan Hill
who prided himself on shooting
Spaniard in the back when fleeing
from American bullets. Miles anG
Long will be castigated by Teddy in
forthcoming issue of the Outlook il
he reads their interviews in the Darl
Continent.
Senator ELECT Dorimer Of Illinois
was bootblack when a boy. He il
Of English birth and married to ar
Irish Canadian Catholic woman whit
is the mother of eight children-twt
boys and six girls. Mrs. Dorimer says
that family ties are stronger thar
political honors and that she will no
sacrifice the girls training for the gay
social life at Washington.
Owing to squabbles over William
O'Brien in Cork, a Tory has beer
elected mayor in the second city Of
Nationalist Ireland. The present
mayor Of the city on the Lee is
pronounced anti Nationalist. Well did
Moore say: while our tyrants join
in hate, We never join in love-" And
yet the city was once known as "rebel
Cork" 1t stands alone today against
Redmond and his party.
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81 The other day in Chicago an up-to-
date Bostonian named John Moriarty
spat on the side walk as soon as he
had stepped from the train and found
himself at police station before
reaching his hotel. The Judge fined
him one dollar and costs for violating
did not save him, Though at tne depot
there was no sign warning strangers
against .expectorating on the side
walks of the Windy City. Such is the
atmosphere of Chicago that visitor
who breathes it for moment can
not help splitting, and hence it Is that
those who know that as a fact usual
ly carry with them pocket cuspidor
in which to deposit thei. saliva. So
they say. but we do not vouch for it,
At the general assembly of the Pres
byterian church held in Denver last
week, one Of the ministers introduced
a resolution beginning, "Whereas.
family worship being a thing Of the
past" He did not go any further
when interrupted, and half dozen
were on their feet objecting to the
preamble. Finally peace was restored
by the substitution Of the word me
elected" The Rev. DR.. James Frazer
of Baltimore, the author of the resolu-
ton. was not far astray. A Catholic
priest could have said the same thing
at a Catholic gathering without ex-
aggerating matters very much. The
youth of the goth century have no re-
fish for family prayers, and neither
have their parents. How many Catho-
lie families recite the Rosary every
night as in the olden times?
i President Cummings of the A. o. "A.
and Father O'Donnell have returned
from Ireland where they went by au-
thority of the Hibernians of America
to unite the two Irish wings Of the
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