The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-01-08

! IN PASSING
Ii II

4 in PASSING i
Governor Eberhart of Minnesota is
opposed to the death penalty on the
ground that it is relic of bar.
barous penal code, and would substi.
tute life Imprisonment as in the case
of the Mortified robbers, who killed
e banker of that city. So long as
there is pardoning board in this
state, hanging Of murderers will con-
tinue.
| In ali address to the people, the Ma
tional Liberal Federation of England
| says: "In the fight forced upon us,
the electors will have to decide wheth-
er they wish to govern themselves or
hundred hereditary peers, who have
! thrown the Constitution into the melt
ing pot in order to shift the burden
of taxation from wealth, land and
liquor to food and the necessaries of
life"
Red Cloud, the last war chief Of the
Sioux, has shuffled of the mortal coil
and gone to the happy hunting grounds
where This faithful dog shall bear him
company" according to the poet But
Red Cloud embraced Christianity years
ago and his latter days were spent
peacefully in the midst Of the civiliza-
ton which almost exter1ninated his
warltke race. OF all the savage races,
the North American Indian was the
highest type. The British in the Rev.
dictionary War employed the noble
red man to fight tho Americans, to
the eternal disgrace of the 'mother
country" The days Of tho aborigines
Of the North American continent are
numbered. Only a few Of their de-
scendants remain and they are becom-
ing Americanized by adopting the
worst traits Of the conquering whites.
Red Clouds name will live for eges to
come.
At a meeting in Wicklow the Very
Rev. Canon Staples said: When the
Crusaders under Godfrey Bouillon
forced their way until they got in
sight Of Jerusalem, though they knew
that they yet had many a hard battle
to fight before they entered its walls,
they cried out "All hail! Jerusalem!
Jerusalem! All hail! They in Irsland
might now say in somewhat the Ian
guage that Tasso had put into the
mouths Of the Crusaders, "All hail!
Home Rule! Home Rule! All hall"
(Applause). They were at the very
threshold Of it; it was within their
grasp; it was within sight. And would
it not be a terrible thing If through
any fault Of their own, il through
faction, or spleen, or some such feel
ing, they did anything to prevent the
fruition of their hopes? Imagine the
terrible responsibility of the man who
now did anything to retard Home Rule.
His name would go down to posterity
as traitor to his country, because
any man who tried to import faction
into the country at the present time
was traitor to his native land.
After spending ten years in the Phil
ippines as Director of Education, DR..
David P. Barrows has resigned apd
is succeeded by his assistant. Mr..
Francis White, graduate of the Chi
cago University. In DR.. Barrows' re-
port, issued June 80 of last year, he
states that under the Spanish govern
ment a primary school for boys and
girls, separately, had been established
In every pueblo since 1860. He says
the policy of educating the natives in
the English language is not to Amer
icanize or Anglo-Saxonize them, but to
make them better Filipinos. They will
not become American and cannot be
assimilated. The natives fear that the
learning Of the English language is a
preliminary to the loss Of their relig-
ion. Strange to say, the Americans in
the archipelago do not want to educate
the natives, and their organ, the Man
lila Times, is vehemently opposing in
sular appropriations for school pur-
poses. DR.. Barrows got tired of his
Job and is coming home in a lugubri.
GUS state of mind, completely disgust.
ed with American rule in the Orient.
Those who know Richard Kerns, of
st. Louis, recently appointed ambassa-
dor to Austria Hungary. speak highly
of him. His patriotism 10 beyond
question, for he served the Union in
the Civil War and became colonel of