The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-10-23

] IN PASSING

lie church number 100000. All the
Protestant sects put together have g.
900 converts in the Flowery Kingdom.
Congressman Tawney says he has
no opponent yet in his district and
that he is not a bit alarmed about
his reelection. That may be so just
now, but it may be different in 1910.
Bishop Keane, of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
recently gave series of lectures to
non Catholics, in Milwaukee. The
meetings were held under the auspices
Of the Knights of Columbus and prov.
ed successful in every way.
A newly erected Chicago church
starts off with a unique record. It is
dedicated to Joan of Arc and was built
in six days. The structure is tenn
porary one and will yield to a state
ly edif1ce to cost between fifty and six
ty thousand dollars.
London's new lord mayor, Sir John
Knill, is a Catholic. His private chap
lain, Rev. Father sheehan is an Irish
man. The father of the new mayor
occupied the mayoral chair II years
ago. During his occupancy he visited
Dublin and the freedom of the city was
conferred upon him.
Joe Cannon says he agrees with
Taft on the Payne-Aldrich bill being
the very best ever passed by the Re-
publican party. It is-for the manu-
facturers, but where do the consumers
come in? They will find out in this
high latitude when they go to buy
clothing for a long, cold winter.
President Taft, is firm believer in
the figure four. He says it is his tails
man. There are four letters in his
NAME He is graduate of Yale, and
he took his degree in 1874. He had
four brothers. Most of his friends and
political supporters have, like his uni
versity four letters to their name
Blum, Hart, Hill, Ward Cade, and so
on. BY all these aids he has been
pushed to the great place Of president
of the United States for four years.
Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of
William j. Bryan, is not going to run
for Congress, after all. Mrs. Leavitt is
naturally interested in politics and is
president of the Jane Jefferson club,
but she has no ambition to go to the
nations capital to make laws. So she
says, and the young lady ought to
know. Some sensational reporter took
liberty with her name and said her
father would take the stump in her
behalf. The report has been contra
dlcted by the organs, and we give them
the benefit of this paragraph.
Bishop T. ]. Conaty, of Los Angeles
and Monterey, has recently returned
from Ireland, and was favorably i'm
pressed with what he observed there:
What impressed me most" says DR..
Conaty, was the grand spirit Of i'm
portance and self-respect and even of
dignity which has been born in the
peasantry of the country. One Sun
day morning we drove out from Dub
lin to Bray and as we entered the
town we met the people returning
from early Mass. never saw finer
set of people anywhere. Not even in
our own country Of America have I
met men and women looking better.
They were all neatly dressed, clean
shaven and erect and smart in their
carriage
One of the most awful periods in Ire
called in the present settlement of the
Lansdowne Estates committee. In his
so-called Realities of Irish Life" the
late Mr.. Stuart Trench. Lord Lans-
S~oSAAst
the state Of things in Kenmare union:
"At least 5000 people must have died
CT starvation within the Union OF Ken
mare. They died on the roads, and
they died in the fields; they died on
the mountains and they died in the
glens; they died at the relief works
and they died in their houses: so that
whole streets Of villages were left al
most without an inkabitant, and at
last some few, despairing Of help from
the country crawled into the town and
died at the doors Of the residents and
outside the union walls" No comment
| is necessary.
A socialist member Of the British
parliament named Victor Grayson
| made an incendiarv ad6ress' in Ira