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The Irish standard., 1911-09-09
Catholic Press Advertising.


A recent number of Printers Ink
has this to say of the value of the
Catholic press from the advertisers
point of view:
sit is worth while to give a little
attention to the Catholic field. About
one-sixth of the country's total popu-
Iation is Catholic. and the following
facts about the vast system of insti-
buttons controlled by them are inter-
esting: Clergymen, 16,003; churches,
1928; seminaries, 80; students, ST.
1877; colleges for boys, 215; academies
for girls, 70S; parcchial schools, 4,703;
children attending, 1,197,S13; orphan
asylums, 500; orphans cared for, A.
966; charitable institutions, 1904; to-
tai children in Catholic institutions,
1,397,34s; total of Catholic institutions,
235,O11; Catholic population, 1926
545. .t
THE growth and activities of Cath.
olics is evidenced by the fact that in
1908 were erected 40 churches, 1856
colleges, academies and schools, and
g. asylums and charitable institutions
The huge amount of purchasing done
for these activities alone is formid-
able"
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09
A PROGRESSIVE HEARD FROM.

Senator Cummins of Iowa has given
specific statement of his attitude to-
ward President Taft and his reasons
for the position he has taken. The
first reason he gives for opposing Mr..
Tafts nomination Is the attitude he
took on the Payne Aldrich tariff bill.
Another reason is the conservation
policy of the administration. Senator
Cummins says: ''All that 1 care to
say is that he seems to be out of har-
mony with those who were recognized
before his advent into Office as the best
opponents of the conservation policy,
and so far as know his appointment
of Mr.. Fisher as secretary of the in
terror was about the first act of his
administration which commanded the
approval OF progressives throughout
the country"
Regarding Reciprocity Senator Cum
minis does not take an extreme view.
He says that Reciprocity Is a progress
sive term but that he thinks the bill
as passed will not do what is claimed
for II. His most significant statement
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SOCIAL REFORMS.

1t is not an uncommon thing to hear
people complain about the existence of
conditions in which they are interest
ed but which, for some unknown rea-
son, they do not feel bound to use
their own influence in altering. Com
planning about an abuse Will not
change it. Counter activity is what is
wanted. In his address at the Fedora
ton convention, Bishop Muldoon ex-
pressed this idea we'll in the follow
ing words:
I'VE have seen from the report of
the president and the secretary that
great work has been done in combat
ing the public evils of the day; the
immoral theater, bad literature, at
lacks upon our missionary work, and
other pressing public questions, but
we must go farther, we must go to
the bottom of these evils and make
our reforms work upwards. We hear
much of proselytisn1. and the cry that
through that and other means they
are taking our children from u.s. La
dies and gentlemen we have no right
to criticize until we get into the same
work ourselves.
THAT is the way to combat perni-
cious activities of that kind. 1t is true
that our separated brethren may be
taking poor Bohemian. perhaps, Pol
ish. and perhaps Indian children, and
those of other nationalities away from
us by such methods, but no Italian, or
Irish, or German child will go from
the priests and Sisters to lose their
faith through Protestant social activi-
ties if the priests and the Sisters are
engaged in doing the same work. The
day is past in America when we can
afford to overlook this fact. Some of
our people say they buy our children
We should make that impossible, and
we should recognize the fact that we
must buy souls with something more
than the Gospel of Jesus Christ
alone"
If more people would get into the
habit of considering these matters per-
sonal rather than being the concern
of their neighbors more would be ac-
complished in the way of social re-
forms. 1t is individual efforts taken in
the aggregate that count.
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THE NEW STATES.

Although the Arizona-New Mexico
Statehood bill was vetoed by the Pres
ident in the original form in which it
was passed by Congress and presented
to him, the clause on which Mr.. Taft
based his veto was subsequently
struck out and the bill passed in
modified form. It Is probable, how
ever, even under these circumstances
that the territories, will acquiesce and
become states. The change which the
President demanded should be made
in the constitutions before he would
sign them, namely the striking out Of
the clause providing for the recall of
judges, can easily be reversed if the
majority of the people of the new
states see At to do so after the terri
tories have been admitted.
The new states will be the fifth ant
sixth in size in the Union. New Mex
leo has an area which is surpassed
only by Texas, California and Mon
tana. Arizona comes next in size with
its area of a little less than 114,Onn
square miles. New Mexico has a. pop
ulation of $4,000. Arizona, 100000.
Neither state will, however, have more
than one congressman in the begin
ming. So far as the politics of the new
states are concerned they will not
have any appreciable effect on the
complexion of Congress. According to
the districting it is believed that Ari-
IONA will send Democrats to the ma
tional Congress and New Mexico will
send Republicans: Each will. there
fore. heutralze the other.
With the admission of Arizona and
New Mexico the number of states will
be increased to forty-eight and all the
contiguous territory in the United
States will have the same rights in
the national Congress. Alaska will be
the only territorial possession Of the
United States on the American CONT
nentS,
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WHAT ULSTER LOYALTY MEANS.

Recently meeting was held in
Londonderry and Glendermott to well
come Kew. w. A. Parks, newly in
stalled Presbyterian minister. AS
might be expected the meeting was
the signal for an outburst of Ulster
loyalty. Rev. Thomas Thompson. the
retiring minister was called upon for a
teW not shots about the policy of Ul-
ster and he delivered some of the
choicest bits of the buncomb for which
the province Is famous. He referred
to the statement circulated some time
ago that the King would help Prime
Minister Asquith pass Home Rule
Dill for Ireland and added that if the
King had made up his mind to help
the passage Of such bill by force he
should be resisted by force. He fur
Their added that they were loyal to the
Protestant constitution and the
Throne but he would prefer not to say
what would become of their loyalty
should the King take sides with the
Irish Nationalist. He reviewed the
struggle of 1858 and made the very
popular if meaningless, statement that
he would do his utmost to resist the
Kings evil Vaccinations should he
use his influence to establish an Irish
Parliament. The speaker further
stated that they were willing to be
governed by the Imperial Parliament
80 long as they remained part of the
United Kingdom" but that no King
had any right to sell Ulster Protest.
ants into slavery worse than that
which the children of Israel had to
endure in Egypt"
OF course this is all tommy-rot
prompted by the enthusiasm Of an as
semblage that delights in such stuff
But note what Ulster loyalty means.
The people of that province will be
loyal to the Throne so long as the King
uses their Judgment in preference to
his own But once he sets out to do
what his ministers chosen by the peo-
pie advise him to do Ulster will re.
sist the tyranny. Now that is Ulster
loyalty as we are given to understand
it by the spokesman of the province.
The King should be proud of it in
deed
The whole affair is not deserving of
half the attention 1t is receiving. Prac-
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concerns the Presidents veto Of the
Free List bill and the Woo, bill He
says: With regard to the wooden bill
ana the free list bill, l have only to
say that have not heard of anv pro.
sressive rejoicing over the veto which
Killed them. l predict that these bills
gave the President the only chance he
VIII ever have to sign an act of Con-
gress reducing the ubiquitous duties Of
the Payne-Aldrich law, but preserving
system of protection In waiting for
the tariff report he lost an opportunity
which the Democrats will not give him
again. He is likely to close his adj
ministration so far as the tariff is
concerned with but two achievements
first, free farm products, and, sec
ond, free print paper. If, under these
circumstances which surround him,
his victories constitute a progressive
revision of tariff We must revise gen.
orally the accepted progressive pro-
gram.
my general conclusion is, therefore,
that In every struggle which has taken
place since Mr.. Taft became president,
upon vital things his allies and sup
porters have been the senators and
members of the House, who, however
honest they may be, are known from
one border of the country to the other
as reactionaries or standpatters and
not progressives. If the voters of the
Republican party believe that the old
leadership would be perpetuated they
can find no better nominee than Mr..
| Taft. do not believe it ought to be
continued, and therefore. without any
personal disparagement of the Presi-
dent, 1 am hoping that a progressive
Republican will be nominated and
elected next year."
Senator Cummins is probably right
in his statement that Mr.. Taft will not
have another chance to sign a Wool
bill and Free List bill. His uncere-
monious handling of the recent meas
ures that were passed by both houses
with such large majorities will react
against him when the time comes for
him to recommend to Congress the
findings Of his Tariff Commission. At
least Mr.. Taft is rapidly finding out
where he stands in popular favor.
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09
Everybody'a Gift.

'Stevey, my boy" said Uncle Hiram,
"one man may have more courage or
more money, but there is one thing
that no man on earth can have any
more of than you have, and that is
time
Did you ever stop to think of that?
Or maybe you haven't come to it vet,
that of the most precious thing of all,
inc same being, I repeat, time, no.
body, no matter who he is, can have
any more than you have. There can't
be any favoritism or special privilege
CT gouging or monopoly in time. You
get what's coming to you, and no
man on earth can take it away from
you.
And isn't this something to be
cheerful over? Why, stevey, it's the
grandest thing going to think that Of
the most valuable thing of all we've
as much as the man that rides by us
in $4,000 automobile. But, and
now I'm getting down to the sermon,
Stevey, this most precious thing of
all is the thing of which we are most
Wasteful.
I'VE get our full share of it sure,
but we waste it ourselves shockingly.
Don't waste time, Stevey, please
don't. AS you feel now you've got
million years ahead of you, more or
less, plenty of time; but time is one
of those things that once lost can
never be recovered. Don't waste q
minute of it. When you play, play;
sink the shop; forget it utterly; but
when you work utilize all your time.
Don't dawdle it away."-New York
Sun.
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09
Abandons Wealth for Convent.

Social leadership, luxury and wealth
are being abandoned by Mrs. Gertrude
Halle Lanman, a wealthy widow of
Norwich, Conn.,. and a recent convert
to Catholicism, who, after three weeks
of prayer and meditation entered the
novitiate preparatory to becoming a
member of the Sisters of the Repara
ton. in West Twenty-ninth street.
The final orders will be bestowed on
her two years hence.
Mrs. Lanman, who is the widow Of
William Camp Lanman, and a daugh-
ter of DR.. A. B. Halle, has for many
years been one of the social leaders
of Connecticut. She has entertained
on sumptuous scale in her handsome
residence in Norwich, which she re-
Gently sold. For years she enjoyed all
the luxuries that wealth could afford,
but renounces all these that she may
devote her efforts to helping mankind.
II have tried all the pleasures that
the world has to OFFER" Mrs. Lanman
said in parting with one of her dear
est friends. "All are unsatisfying. My
happiness henceforth will lie in fol-
lowing in our Lords footsteps and in
humbly trying to do His work in la
boring for others
Five years ago Mrs. Lanman be-
came actively interested in church
work. She became impressed with
certain Catholic undertakings, and
aided them, and was soon converted
to the faith. She established the Halle
Club FOR Girls, in which working girls
are able to secure excellent quarters
for very moderate terms.
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nony should be gsven in detail. es-

mony should be gzven in detail, e.
pecially in a newspaper which did not
have space to publish Champ Clark's
reply to President Taft, a matter
which should interest every citizen of
the United States? Surely the per-
sons implicated in the Beattie murder
case are of no Importance except that
they once held social rank in their
own limited circle Is it because the
evidence in the trial teens with refer
ences to filth that certain papers are
feeding their readers on it? Those
papers will no doubt say that they
are giving the people what they want.
Are they justified in feeding their VIC
tins poison because the victims in
question relish the morsel in which
the poison is hidden? Have not the
publishers Of these papers sufficient
interest in public morality to use the
influence which is theirs to safeguard
it? If they have not, leaving the mat.
ter of religion entirely out of the ques.
ton, they are poor American citizens
For them to contend that they are
justified in circulating filth, is to say
with Cain that they are not their
brothers keeper.
There is one effective way in which
this tendency to circulate immoral lit
erature can be curbed and that is by
concerted action on the part of the
readers of offensive publications. De-
stroy the argument that the people
want rot by supporting the papers
that don't publish it and the whole
difficulty is settled.
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09

THE Holy Father is deeply grateful
for the filial homage of the members
of the newly organized Catholic Press
Association of the United States and
Canada Thanks them for their at
testations of loyalty and affectionate-
ly sends his blessing.
cardinal MERRY DEL VAL"
The Catholic press convention voted
to hold its next meeting at Louisville,
ny, during the annual meeting of the
Federation of Catholic Societies
After pledging his untiring support
to the compaign for the upbuilding OF
the Catholic press and the organiza-
ton of a Catholic News Bureau, Right
Rev. Bishop Hartley donated $500 to
the movement.
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09

the celebrated, torpedo, and Marconi,
son of an Irish mother; in the brew
ing and shipping industries, through
the Guinnesses of Dublin, and Harland
and Waffle of Belfast.
Irish successes in the drama, in mu-
sic. in literature and in journalism are
very conspicuous. but perhaps the rul-
ing force of these is not Immediately
apparent. We all know, however, that
every one of the professions above
noted has been made to serve the
prominence of the Irish i'll the more
obviously dominant places.
The head-liner in a Boston neWspa-
per introduces Mr.. Redmond Howard's
article as "a handsome tribute to the
most modest of races" The irony isn't
offensive, but merely amusing. Irish
blood is self -assertive. Self-assertion
is in every fibre Of every great race.
If the Irish had not this quality in a
high degree no one would have word
W say dUOQC lllClll IlON. AlC SP0
would be extinct.
1t is want of modesty to claim more
than ones due; and also a want of
honesty. But it is weakness to un-
derrate capabilities, personal or ma
tional, or willingly to surrender ones
rights in such fashion as to encour-
age tyranny in neighbor being or
neighbor nation. Irishmen, in Ireland,
men of Irish blood in America or any
where else, have been notably self
assertive, to the worlds exceeding
great benefit They have jumped the
ranks Of the social order from the low
est to the highest place, and have been
most at home in the highest. They
have ,aspired to govern; for they have
within them the powers of good gov
errors. Can they govern their own
land? Why they have had the best
apprenticeship possible in governing
throughout the British Empire.
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09
AN ABUSE AND A REMEDY

Since the Beattie murder trial began
at Chesterfield, Virginia, the Associ-
ated Press has furnished the papers
employing it's service with page after
page of the details of the proceedings
including the nauseating and salacious
testimony that has formed SO large
part OF the evidence in this case.
While the Associated Press deserves
public censure for circulating such
demoralizing filth, it Is not entirely to
blame for the appearance of it's re.
ports in the individual papers using it's
service. Each paper is free to use
its own discretion in suppressing what
ever it considers bad policy to publish.
Hence the blame for the appearance
Of salacious matter in the columns of
paper rests remotely with the agency
which furnished the story and i'm
mediately with the publication that
used it,
In this regard the Minneapolis Trib.
une is showing itself to be eminently
unmindful of it's power to elevate or
degrade public morality. Day after
day 1t has run solid columns of the
court testimony in the Beattie case.
On Tuesday it published sufficient
stuff relating to this trial to make
1ull page or more of reading matter,
and some Of the testimony was so
fllthy that no respectable parent would
knowingly allow 1t to be read by his
children. To the credit of the Mime
aroils Journal, be 1t said, that on the
same day it gave less than forty lines
to the Beattie trial which contained
not an Objectionable clause and was
given position on an inside page.
Why should this trial be considered
OF such Importance that at distance
OF about two thousand miles from
where 1t is being held the court testi.
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Approval Of the Holy Father.

On Thursday, August "a, Bishop
Hartley sent the following cablegram
to Rome.
columbus, Ohio, August "a
Cardinal Merry del Val, Vatican,
Rome. Italy:
"The Catholic Press Association Of
the United States and Canada, just or
ganized, in convention assembled I'M
der the protection of the Bishop of
Columbus. sends it's greetings of un-
dying fidelity to the Holy Father and
humbly asks his blessing upon the
new organization.
- JAMES J. HARTLEY,
Bishop of Columbus"
The following reply was received
from Cardinal Merry del Val on Sat
urday by Bishop Hartley:
Rome, August 26.
Fright Rev. Bishop Hartley, Column
bus:
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09

that consistory is imminent. He says
the Pope is determined not to appoint
any cardinals in the year when the
celebration of Italian unity and the
usurpation of Rome is being held and
he has decided to delay the consistory
until the festivities are concluded. The
Pope further said that the present
number of cardinals would be sufi-
Gent for the election of his success
sor should he die before increasing
the Sacred College"
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09
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President Taft's itinerary has just
been completed. He will start from
Boston September Is, on trip of
thirteen thousand miles which he is
scheduled to complete November l..
During his trip the President will
GIe will endeavor to justify his posi-
ton on the tariff, reciprocity, arbitra-
ton and conservation questions.
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09
DONEGAL CATHOLICS
Though in the Far North Of ireland
Is Catholic County,

~0OuSys
The August number of THE Holy
Cross Magazine" (P. e., contains a
letter from a correspondent travelling
in Ireland, Who, among other things.
has this to say OF Catholicity in Done.
gal:
Donegal, though in the far north
of Ireland, is a strongly Catholic
county. IS s. *. was much struol
with the class of Roman priests we
met; such fine, broad minded, pro-
gressive men,. 81.
I'VE went first TO an out the
world little village called Gottahawk,
getting there in time for Mass. It was
Trinity Sunday, and the church was
; packed with the most reverent congre-
cation l have ever seen. The priest
read the acts of faith, hope and char
ity, first in Irish, then in English. He
! also read the Gospel and epistle for
the day in Irish and English, but
preached in Irish. Of course, the Mass
was celebrated in Latin the people
all, following. in double courned
books. Mass over, we went into the
, graveyard and watched the curious
| ceremony of "keening the dead" Old
men and maidens, old women and
children, knelt down by the graves,
burying their faces in the earth and
wailng in the most blood curdlins
manner. saying their prayers for the
| beloved dead in this weird chant 1t
was most impressive and unique
| From Gottahawk we went to Doom
we'll. sacred we'll blessed by St. CO.
lunba and near his birthplace There
we saw the touching picture of the
Pool of Bethseda-nothing revolving
! or saddening as at other miracle
working places, where profit is made
| by interruptions religious or sharp
business men. At Doonwell it was so
simple! A few people in bare feet
praying or kneeling in prayer at "a
little distance; while others brought
their manned and halt and blind to
wash them in the holy waters There
were hundreds of crutches stuck in
the ground and bandages floating from
trees: but it all looked SO peaceful, so
hushed and reverent in Gods pure air,
with the mountains closing it in like
hands raised in benediction.
1--WE came home by wonderful moon
light, appearing and disappearing in
fairy mists, singing stirring ballads
and patriotic songs. 1t is the country
of Red Hugh O'Donnell the last chief
tain to surrender; it is the land of the
great Abbey of 1nniskill, the ruins of
which we passed; it is the coast off
which the most of the Armada was
sunk; and it is in County Donegal
where one may look in vain for the
obsessing sex problem of sadder
lands. For there the people are chaste
and happy and dozen rosy children
burst out of the cabin doors, with
hardly ever a one looking degenerate
or defective. 1t is in County Donegal
where one finds pure religion and un-
defiled, priest and people working to.
gether for the salvation of Ireland"
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09

4 Following the announcement of
President Taft's itinerary comes the
news from Washington that Senator
La Toilette may follow in his trail
TO put damper on the enthusiasm
he will arouse. Should this plan be
carried out there is no doubt but that
both men would receive hearing.
But 1t is question whether La Fol-
slette would profit by it. A policy of
iantagonism is seldom popular.
The Irish standard., 1911-09-09
THE IRISH STANDARD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1911

tically half Of the representatives Of
Ulster in the Imperial Parliament are
Nationalist which goes to show that
the province is divided against itself
and, consequently, could make but a
feeble resistance if the people were
foolhardy enough to go to that en-
treme