The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-02-12
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| The number of Americans that emf
grated last year to Canada is 9o,14s.
according to the report of the U. S.
consul at Windsor, and they carried
away with them an average of $1,000
a piece. Quite loss to the United
States in men and money.
In another week or two the Irish
,, World will have raised the sum of s5,-
900 for the Irish parliamentary fund.
1t is not the first time that Mr.. Patrick
| Ford, proprietor of our excellent and
patriotic contemporary, threw open the
columns of his influential journal to
i help the cause of his own dear native
land. He certainly will be remembered
| in Erin for generations to come.
| One Of the public schools of Phila-
delphia has been named in honor Of
| Commodore John Barry, and marble
statue of the naval hero graces Fair
mount Park the largest and finest park
in the United States. Another statue
of Barry was erected by the Friendly
| Sons of st. Patrick on independence
Square. 1t ia well for Barry that Mar
tin I. J. Griffin lives in the City Of
Brotherly Love.
The British are alarmed over tho
scarcity of horses for the cavalry in the
event of war. It is said that the best
| equines in the British islands are be-
ing bought up by France and Germany,
whose agents are willing to pay bigger
prices than the English army agents.
| Napoleon said that the British cavalry
was inferior to the infantry, and that
the horses were not properly trained,
but the use for cavalry has gone in
these days of long-range rifles and
rapid-firing artillery In the Boer war.
the British cavalry was almost useless.
!
Dublin few months ago, has suspend
ed publication for lack of sufficient
support and will hereafter be issued
as a weekly. The editor says he sought
6 $4,000 to establish it on a firm f1nan-
| cial basis, but received only about half
( that sum and brought it up to point
where it's revenue was rs per cent of
its expenditure. There are four daily
papers published in Dublin, and "Sinn
Fem" could not compete with them
without better encouragement than it
received.
The little Englishman Binns was
eulogized to the skies in the daily press
for sticking to the sinking Republic
and issuing signals of distress by wire
! less telegraphy till aid arrived. Young
! McGinnis, an Irish boy of Duluth, dis
played equal bravery with Binns last
week when he held to his post until
the machine could work no longer and
saved the captain and crew of the
Kentucky by his intrepidity, but the
daily press made only mere mention
of his heroism. Perhaps it is owing
to the fact that bravery is an ordinary
thing among the Celts.
|
| At the annual banquet of the A. o.
H. in Chicago last week, Rev. F. G.
Kelley, of the Church Extension So
ciety said that the thing that makes
nation is not works of art or feats
of arms, but goodness. He called Ireland
| 'the sacerdotal nation" That is what
Ireland is. 1t was formerly known rs
the island of saints and scholars" and
in modern days it may appropriately
be called the nursery of priests and
nuns. No nation of it's size has con-
tributed more to the propagation Of the
faith than the little island with it's
back turned towards Britain and it's
face to the West.
| What ails the Minneapolis Tribune?
1t keeps on attacking John F. Fitz-
gerald, after his election as mayor of
Boston in spite of the united opposi-
ton of all the papers in that city,
What does the Tribune know person.
ally of Fitzgerald? 1t merely echoes
the ISLANDERS of it's Republican con-
temporaries of New England. The
day is past when newspapers can de-
feat any candidate for any position i'll
the gift of the people. The daily papers
are unreliable and the people have lost
confidence in them. When will the
| Tribune discover that fact for itself?
Such attacks on Fitzgerald or any other
Democrat comes with poor grace from
the organ of the special interests in the
Northwest