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The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Irish Leader.

OF John Redmond, the leader of the
Irish Parliamentary party, the West
minister Gazette said recently: In a
sense, his parliamentary career has
hardly more than begun, since he has
not yet had the opportunity that fell
to his predecessor Of showing how he
can hold the balance of political power"
At this writing, however, it seems
abundant1y clear that at last the OPP
portunity in question has come to Mr..
! Redmond-that upon him will depend
! the continuance of the Liberal party
in power or their speedy overthrow.
! This circumstance lends an additional
! interest to the following sketch of the
| Irish leaders personality as noted by the
London periodical just mentioned:
Mr.. Redmond's speech in the House
| of Commons may be taken as affOrding
a test of those qualities which make for
mastery in an Independent assembly.
His oratorical power is one of the most
precious possessions of the House; and
his persistence, courage and energy in
pursuit of a great ideal have long since
given him that commanding position
which belongs alone to men of charac-
ter No one doubts that if he had
chosen any other career-that if, for in
stance, he had gone to the bar-he
would have been one of the leading adj
vocates of his day. Had he entered
politics as a member of either of the
great parties, he would have attained
position Of eminence on the front
bench. He might have well hoped some
day to be prime minister of this coun
try. But as a leader of the Irish party
he can hope for no emoluments or re-
wards beyond the gratitude of his coun-
trymen; and in politics gratitude is a
varying quantity, that may altogether
disappear before the gust of popular
passions.
The House. therefore. takes off its hat,
so to speak, when it thinks of the lead
er of the Irish party and his refusal to
accept any of those rewards which other
men tumble over one another to win.
His own road is, of course, the highest
road of all for patriotic Irishman: but
it is a road that few men would care
to tread who had any thought for their
own repose. or for the good things of the
political world
Mr.. Redmond and his party, by the
way, receive a high compliment from
our Quebec contemporary. L'Action
Sociale. THE Irish holding the balance
of power" it says, nothing need be
feared from the attacks of the Radicals
on the Catholic schools. Ave Maria
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Home thoughts From Europe.

On, it's home again, and home again
America for mel
My heart is turning home again tc
Gods countrie,
To the land of youth and freedom, be-
yond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunshine and
the flag is full of stars
1t is good to see the Gold World, and
travel up and down
Among the famous countries and the
cities of renown,
To admire the chrumbly castles, and the
monuments and kings,
But soon or late you have enough of
Anticipated things,
So it's home again, and home again,
etc.
Oh, London is a mans town, there's
power in the air,
And Paris is womans town, with
flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to loaf in Venice, and
it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is
no place like home.
So it's home again, and home again.
etc.
Inc Tic ISIIlldn IlI-NOOuS, III green
battalions drilled;
1 like the gardens of Versailles with
flashing fountains filled
But, oh, to take your hand, my dear,
and ramble for a day
In the friendly western woodland where
Nature has her wayi
So it's home again, and home again,
etc.
Oh, Europe is a fine place, yet some
thing seems to lack.
The past is too much with her, and the
people looking back
But life is in the present, and the VI
ture must be free;
We love our land for what she is, and
what she is to be.
So it's home again, and home again,
America for me!
My heart is turning home again to
Gods countrie
To the blessed land of Room Enough,
beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunshine and
the flag is full of stars.
-Henryl Van Dyke,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Holds Fast to Moral Code.

Father Bernard Vaughan, in recent
sermon, said: You and 1, thank God,
belong to the church which for more
than a thousand years has taught the
Divinity of Christ The Catholic
church is the only church that has been
loyal to the person of Christ, to His
teaching. and which has never yielded
one jot or little of her moral code The
Catholic church is the only church that
can face the scientific man and tell
him she will hold to every particle of
her Christian dogma. She is the only
church that dares to utter her mind in
language formulated, clear, definite and
unmistakable. 1t is the only church
that can support the weak and comfort
the sad and the only church that
teaches with definite authority. She is
the one church and the only church of
the poor man, to my thinking she is the
one and only church for a gentleman"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Irish GIeaninqs.

Ten Irish centenarians figure in the
annual list of persons over 100 years
old just published. Their ages range
from 1O1 to 1O9. Eight of these cen
tenarians died during the year. The
other two still living are set forth as
follows: Peggy McGurk of Carrick-
more, County Tyrone, who, it is said, is
1O9 years old, still acts as caretaker
of the local courthouse. At the weekly
meeting of the Ballycastle, County An
trim, board Of guardians. an application
was made for outdoor relief for Nancy
Mcmillan, whose age was given as 105
years. 1t will be small comfort to the
temperance people to know that each of
these aged folk have taken their wee
drap for a great many years. Temper
ance advocates, however, can take heart
when they study the revenue returns
for the past year just issued, which
show total receipts of almost three and
a quarter millions, Notwithstanding the
fact that the drop in whisky receipts is
over G160,000. There is a general in
crease of almost G103O 900, but this is due
to the enormous increase of 100000 in
tobacco alone, the receipts from the lat
ter being almost one and three-quarters
millions
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Results of British Election.

The general elections for members of
the new parliament are at an end and
the tripartite coalition of Liberals, La
borites and Irish Nationalist will find
themselves in the majority with an ad-
vantage of 122 seats. The position of
the parties is: Liberals, 272; Irish Ma
tionalists, so; Laborites, 40; total gov
eminent, 1872. Opposition: Unionists,
271. The final figures, which will not be
available before February II, doubtless
will give the Unionists pa seats, the
Liberals 273. the Nationalist 50 and the
Laborites Il.
The Conservative papers propose that
a joint cabinet be chosen from the most
moderate men of both parties to carry
on the country for about two years
and that a truce be declared on party
questions in the meantime. A royal
commission to investigate the country's
fiscal policy and to make recommended
tons regarding tariff reform is pro-
posed. The newspaper scheme of coali-
ton government is not taken seriously
by the Liberals, who having a victory,
object to having their opponents die
tate the program.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
outIook for Homo Rule.

The parliamentary strength of the
Nationalist representatives is the same
as before the election The fact that
six successive elections left their status
practically. unchanged, prompts an En-
glish paper to remark that while the
stable English vary at the polls, the
tickle Irish remain invariably solid.
However, they might have increased
their numbers. Derry was lost by a few
votes, a Nationalist seat was presented
to Mr.. Barry, attorney general for Ire
land, another which might have been
won by a Nationalist was lost by T. w.
Russell, on account of his doubtful at
titude on Catholic questions and home
rule. and in North Tyrone, the Nation
alist member. Mr.. NJ. Murnaghan, was
defeated by a Unionist because, con-
trary to the advice of the clergy, the
party council set up another Nationalist
against him. The arbitrary methods
of the central council in disregarding
local sentiments was resented in several
constituencies. with the result that ten
independent Nationalists We're elected.
Most of these are able men. and. Mr..
O'Brfen excepted, had generally the
sympathy of the clergy, who, however,
took no prominent part. Cardinal Logue
wrote a strong Endorsement of Mr..
Healy and Archbishop Walsh tele-
graphed his congratulations. The i'm
mediate result viii be to stiffen the at
titude of the entire body in regard to
the budget and home rule. 1t is thought
that a working unity will soon be eff
fected as their differences are on policy
and methods. not in principles. The
Liberals. with a few exceptions, seem
to be in a receptive mood. Messrs. Bir-
rell and Lloyd-George have declared
for a generous policy of Irish selfgov-
eminent. Mr.. Churchill attributed his
victory in Dundee and the Liberal sue
cesses in the industrial centres to the
Irish vote, and declared that they will
not fail to make return. Mr. Asquith,
before leaving for the continent repeat
ed his prediction pledge of full self
government for Ireland. and said that
he had not specified further, because he
could promise no legislation of any kind
until we have settled conclusions with
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Charles Reade's Method Of Work.

Reade's literary work was, Sir Rob
ert Anderson remarks, rare combina-
ton of genius and plodding. A brass
scuttle which stood by the fireplace
held the illustrated and other papers
which reached him week by week
From these he culled anything that
took his fancy, and the cuttings were
thrown into companion scuttle, to
be afterward inserted in scrap books
and duly indexed. Materials for his
novels and plays were thus supplied
or suggested. The accuracy of his
descriptions Of events and places was
phenomenal
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Another British Alarm.

Another British scare in which, how
ever, Ireland will take particular inter-
est, is likely to be promoted after the
general election. England is to take
alarm at her deficiency of horses in the
event of war. A census has been taken
of the horses available, and the num-
Der has been found to be far short of
what would be required if hostilities
broke out. The best animals, it is al
legged. are being bought up on behalf of
France and Germany, whose represen-
tatives are prepared to give bigger
prices than English army agents who
buy for the cavalry and artillery. The
allegations of the alarmists are dis
counted in some quarters, but it is sug-
gested that Mr.. Haldane will, when
parliament meets, formulate a scheme
under which a certain number of horses
will be held at the disposal of the war
office by farmers and breeders in con-
sideration of the payment to the latter
of a small bounty
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Inquiry Into Flax Industry.

The appointment by the department
of agriculture of a committee to inquire
into the present state of the flax-grow-
ing industry in Ireland is to be well
comed,. and it may be hoped that the
committee as the result of its inquiries
may be able to recommend some meas
ures which will arrest the steady de-
cline of this once fiourishing Irish in
dustry. The decrease first became no.
ticeable after 1881. when the area under
fax was 147,145 acres of which 1883
were in Ulster. In 1891 it had dropped
to 1865 acres for all Ireland, and the
decrease continued steadily down to last
year, when the total area under flax
was only 1876 acres. of which Ulster
contributed all but 240 acres. There
must be some special explanation for
this extraordinary decline in the guam
tity of flax grown in Ireland, especially
in view of the fact that flax to the
value of &1,381479 was last year i'm
ported into Ireland. At present the in
dustry, such as it is, appears almost
confined to Ulster. but there seems to
be no reason why flaX-growing should
have practically died out in the other
provinces, and some suggestions have
been made to revive the industry in the
south,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
LARGE Land Sale in Kilkenny,

What is believed to be the first sale
under the new land act was successfully
negotiated in County Kilkenny last
week, when the legal representatives of
Lady Annaly met the tenants of what
was formerly Meredyth's estate in the
neighborhood of Castlecomer. Some
months ago Lady Analy made an offer
to the tenants, which has been accepted
by all of them. There are forty hold
ings on the estate, and first term and
non-judicial tenants have got a reduc-
ton of Is in the pound, and second
term tenants a reduction of 5s in the
pound. Lady Annaly accepted one and
a half years rent to February 1 in lieu
of the substantial arrears that had ac-
INFLATED, and agreed to forego all rent
up to February l next, when the for
mai agreements are to be signed.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12

giving scandal to those within or with
out the fold by any words or actions
unworthy of a Christian. In a COM
munity containing a number of nom
catholics he is particularly mindful OF
showing to them, suspicious of the
church as they usually are, that the Ca
tholic church is a teacher of the most
exalted morality; and as the spirit of
any organization is judged by it's eX-
preston in the lives of its members. he
is Watchful of his doings and says that
re avoids even the appearance of evil
1t seems undeniable that a great
many non-Catholics who admire the
church for her attitude on this or that
question, are kept from entering the
fold by the irregular and Un-Christian
lives OF many who represent the church
to them A Catholic layman speaking
the other night on this subject said
truly:
That so many men who admire the
church in the abstract refrain from
uniting with her is often due to the
convincing proofs which we in our own
persons give-that the faith we pro-
claim as ours is not a living guiding
faith, but thing merely of form. How
can we believe in the Real Presecne,
they reason. when from our lips fall in
professions the living lie? How can we
believe in the God of charity and love
when our thoughts and words and deeds
breathe only hatred and envy and i'll
Will? How can we believe in a God Of
Justice when we cheat and defraud our
fellow men and rob our laborers Of
their due? How can we believe that
our church leads us nearer to God and
to righteousness when so often our peo-
pie arc found aiders and abettOrs. OPEN
IL or coVertly, as instruments or prin-
cipals of the new form of treason to the
Republtc-these terrible crimes against
the purity of the ballot?'
OF great Importance is this matter
to every one who wishes to be con-
sidered a child Of the church in every
truth. to every one who wishes to think
himself in true union with the spirit OF
the church. For while it is undeniable
that the church Is not a society of
saints, but includes the sinner as well,
none of us can personally fall back on
that fact to excuse the WTOngdOing with
which We may have stained our own
souls and given scandal to those who
but for us might have seen and ac-
cepted the truth and beauty of the Ca
tholic churCh.-SacTed Heart Review.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Saints and Sinners.

The Catholic church is not an exclu-
sive club of the select and the respect
able. The Catholic church includes the
sinner as well as the saint 1t was so
from the beginnings it will be so till
the end. Yet, the effort of the church
will always be directed toward making
the members perfect-toward SO fill
ing them with the strength and sweet
ness Of her Divine Founder that they
may glorify Him by their lives lived in
accordance with His teachings.
The true Catholic is he who has such
a lively sense of the blessing of being
a member of the church of Jesus Christ
that he guards himself carefully against
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
The Irish Vote in ENGLAND.

Concerning the Irish vote in England,
the London Daily Telegraph says: In
many places where Radicals or Labor
men are in by small majorities, they owe
it entirely to the docile battalions of
John Redmond's supporters settled in
this country. This, then, is what we
are to take for the voice Of the country
"a majority of one-half per cent Sc
cured by the Irish in Great Britain, in
spite of the fact that the greater num-
Der of English voters so far pOlled have
declared for tariff reform" The Lon
don Daily Express says: 1.-The nation
is awake. 1t knows the dangers of the
Socialist alliance, it perceives the perils
of the home rule which Mr.. Asquith has
promised, and which the Liberal whip
vainlY and feeblY repels.''
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Where Rain Is Unknown.

There is at least one spot where rain
has never been known to fall, if we
may trust to statistics Between the
two lower falls of the River Nile there
is nothing to show that the soil has
even been blessed with fall of rain.
1t is known as the dryest spot on the
earth and that not without reason.
When traveller tells the natives
about the wonderful transforms he has
seen elsewhere they Immediately put
him down as charter member of the
Ananias club. They positively refuse
to believe that the clouds can weep.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
For Hioher Education.

With home rule in sight, Ireland is
awaking to the necessity of wider and
higher education. Mr.. Thomas O'Don-
nell, NJ. P, struck the keynote in a re-
cent speech. in which he declared that
land purchase, and even self-gOvern-
ment, would be most disappointing in
their results if they did not as ma
ton concentrate their energy and spend
their money freely in placing the high
est form of education within reach of
all who had ambition and brains. Edu
cation would, he said, sweep away many
of the artificial barriers that now di-
vided them, and instead of wasting their
energies or losing their tempers in OPP
posite camps fighting fancies, the ma
TONS united energies would be concen-
trated on national deYeIopment.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
In Land Leauue DAYS.

Thirty years ago about the greatest
Irish meeting Buffalo ever had was
held in the Academy Of Music. 1t was
a combined meeting for the Irish party
and the starving poor. Charles Stewart
Parnell and John Dillon were the guests
of honor and chief speakers An ad-
mission of two dollars was charged and
hundreds were turned away unable to
gain entrance. 1t would take the whole
parliamentary party to crowd a Buffalo
theatre at two dollars admission for a
similar meeting in these less enthusi-
astic days. Alexander Brush, then
mayor. was anything but a friend of
Ireland. He was asked to preside. but
pleaded an engagement in New York,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
For Country Colonization.

AT the Missouri Land and Industrial
congress, held last week at Springfield,
Ill, an address on the advantages of
country living was delivered by Arch
bishop Glennon. The Archbishop is in
terested in the back to the land move
ment," as he has shown in his efforts
for the material and spiritual develop
ment of the Ozark region. Father Tes-
selaar, a Holland priest. has been over
looking Dunklin county, Mo, with the
intention of permanently locating there
colony of Hollanders, and Archbishop
Glennon is taking steps for the estab-
lishment of school and church in the
region.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
ouebec's Catholic Governor.

Sir Charles A. P. Pelletier, governor
of the province of Quebec, has written
an open letter to Archbishop Bruche=i
withdrawing from the Alliance Scien-
tiffque Universelle," of which he had
been elected honorary president. He
found, he says, that the society, which
he had at first supposed to be intended
merely for the spread of science. is
really an instrument for propagating
anti-Christian ideas.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Always Safe Investment,

Benjamin Franklin said: IF a man
empties his purse into his head no man
can take it from him. An investment
in knowledge always pays the best in
terest" Home, friends, education,
health, honor and religion. these are the
ministering angels that alone are wor-
thy to wait upon the soul crowned with
the sapphire glow Of Immortality
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
independent NationaIists Elected.

Timothy Healy, independent nation
alist, has been elected to parliament
from North Louth over the regular ma
tionalist candidate, Mr. Hazleton.
Press dispatches also indicate the
election of William O'Brien in Cork
About a year ago Mr.. O'Brien resigned
his seat and retired from politics, it was
supposed, permanently.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12

Languages of the World.

Statisticians who have delved into the
subject of languages, tell US that there
are approximately 2.750 now in use
throughout the world To give abso-
lutely the number of tongues would be
manifestly impossible, for the reason
that there are still UNEMPLOYED parts of
the world where tribes are known to
exist.
Until chronological surveys are made
of every nook and Granny of this old
world, it will be impossible to classify
all Of the languages emnlnved-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
seumas Macmanus III.

Ann Arbor Mich, Jan. 29.-Seumas
MacManus, the Irish story teller. who
appeared here last night in lecture to
the students at Michigan university,
was unable to finish his address, owing
to Illness.
He was taken to hospital, where
physicians diagnosed his case as in
cipient pneumonia.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12

and is said to have slipped down to
Niagara Falls until the trouble blew
over. Judge George Clinton, as fine a
man as Buffalo ever claimed for citi-
zen, gladly acceded to a call to preside,
and he made a rousing speech. A fund
running upwards of fifteen thousand
dollars was raised in Buffalo and vicin-
ity. Father Cronin was the chief factor
in bringing about the meeting and max
ing it the tremendous success.-Buffaio
Union and Times
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Disease in Mail Sacks.

At a conference of Irish postofffce
clerks in Dublin on Saturday, Mr.,
Lynch Dublin) said the germs of con-
sumption and other diseases were in
mail bags by thousands, and a resolu-
ton was passed that all mail bags
should be washed and disinfected fort
nightly
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
CONNIUGHT.

Rev. John A Carr, who was recently
appointed administrator of the parish
of Abraham, was on January pre-
scented by the people Of Gort with an
illuminated address as a token Of the
esteem in which he was held by them
during the six years he was amongst
them as CIITate
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
Curran's Sarcasm.

Lord Chancellor Clare, in a discus
sion with Curran in court one day on
some law point, exclaimed sharply in
reply to some legal point urged by Cur
ran: ooh. of that be law, Mr. Curran,
I may burn my law books You had
better read them, my lord" was the
reioinder.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-02-12
T. p. o'connor's Brilliant Victory.

In the vote for the Liverpool (Scot-
land) division, T. P. O'Connor (N.), re-
ceived a vote of 2,943 against 776 votes
cast for Moy (U), Nationalist's ma
jority of 2.157. In the election held in
1906, Mr.. O'Connor received 2,S0S votes
against LILY cast for A. A. Tobn CU.).
While Mr.. O'ConnOr received a majority
of ], O91 in 1906 out of 1925 votes, he re-
ceived in the last election a majority of
2157 out OF 3.71e votes.