The Irish standard., 1909-08-21
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Congressman Champ Clark, of Mis-
souri,, thinks that the progressive ele-
ment in the Republican party will favor
Roosevelt for the presidency in 1912.
The Republican insurgents" in Con-
gress are not particularly enamoured
of Taft's tactics, but 'he big golf play
er will have the backing of the inter-
I ests and may defeat Teddy for the
nomination.
1t looks to an outsider as if Richard
A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior
in Tafts cabinet, is the right man in
the right place for the gobblers of the
public domain Taft, however, will
back him up and Pinchot, the forestry
man, will walk the plank. The latter
is an appointee of Roosevelt and must
keep quiet or lose his job.
The new play Of Bernard Shaw Is
forbidden in England. but it will be
produced in Dublin under the auspices
of Lady Gregory and w. B. Yeats at
the Abbey theatre. Perhaps q Dublin
audience will treat skaw's play as it
did "The Playboy cf the Western
world"-hiss it off tine stage.
A Duluth paper says that 40 barrels
of distilled liquor from Austria has
arrived at the customs house in that
city and that the duty is about $751;
900. Had the liquor arrived week
earlier the importers would have saved
i almost $4,000 The Payne tariff is that
much higher than the Dingley tariff
The importers should have ordered tho
liquor sooner.
The young Indian student who killed
Lord Wyllie at London reception
some time ago was executed last week
and preserved the same calmness in 60
ing to the scaffold as he did during his
trial. He declared that his death would
serve to arouse greater hostility to
perfectly satisfied to Gle for his coun-
try.
A French historian Of Ireland, Rev.
Aug. j. Thebaud, denies that the an
cient Irish were barbarous, as some of
the English historians assert. He says
barbarians have no history, but the
Irish certainly had history long before
st. Patrick converted them. Until
of writer's on Ireland was adverse to
this assertion; but after the labors of
modern antiquar ians-of such men as
O'Donovan, Todd, O'Curry and Others
there can no longer be any doubt on
the subject.
Franklin McVeagh, of Chicago. who
is Secretary of the Treasury in Taft's
cabinet, says of his pedigree: 1.-THE Nc
veaghs were Scotch. They came across
the channel to the County of Donegal,
in Ireland, and settled near the Derry
veagh mountains. Some Of them re-
main there to this dey. My own for
bears, however, emigrated to America
within a generation" It will be seen
that Secretary Mcveagh does not call
himself Scotch Irish or Scottish
i American. He says that the McVeaghs
were Scotch" But originally, or be-
fore his ancestors went to North Brit
ain, the McVeaghs were Irish. AS
the Duke of Lorne once said: "We
Scotch are the Irish who settled in
Caledonia Why does not the Secre-
tary of the Treasury spell his name
Mcvey?
Senator Hale Of Maine says that it is
fallacy of the Democrats to say that
any tariff raises prices to the consum-
ers. The N. Y. World thinks other
wise and says: 1.-THE foreigner, it
seems, is no longer paying the tariff.
He used to, but that was before the
protectionists changed their arguments.
The consumer does nc. pay it, as Sena-
tor Hale has proved. There are no
consumers anyhow, tor Senator Lodge
says they are all producers. Naturally
the retailer does not pay 1t, for he robs
the consumer, who is a producer. Then
who does pay the tariff" It GER
tainly is not the importer who pays it
} at the customs house for he adds it to
the invoice price Of the goods. The
} ultimate consumer of the articles,
whether domestic or foreign, is the one
} who pays the tariff, and don't you for