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The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
Bibles for Hotels.
Minneapolis, Jan. 4, 1911.

A shipment of 1879 Bibles, weigh.
ing nearly ton and a half, received
by the Gideons, is being distributed
in Minneapolis and it is aimed that
every individual room in every COM
mercial hotel in the city be furnished
with a Gideon Bible.
Recently 400 Bibles were placed in
the hotels. The total amount now
reaches 2,270 and more is expected.
F. e. Reynolds, president of the F. IT,
Reynolds Lumber comuany and pres
ident Of the state organization of the
Gideons, has charge of the distribu-
ton in Minneapolis.
The shipment was delayed nearly
six months.
1t is said fully 5000 Bibles have
been placed in hotel rooms in Mime
sofa. About $4,000 have been placed
in rooms of nearly every hotel in
large cities in the United States.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

A cablegram of the week records
that the most interesting discovery for
G. long time has been made recently at
Pompeii, says the Catholic Sentinel
(Portland). Workmen who were dig
ging for the foundation of new build
ing outside of the area of the buried
city found the body OF woman who
had been petrified. Both hands were
fl IL Of jewels. Evidently the woman
had fled from the eruption that over
whelmed Pompeii, carrying her val
uables, and was buried in the down.
pour. The woman in this newspaper
account has had lots of imitators
throughout the ages. Death over
whelms many who have their hands
full of jewels and other evidences Of
material Well-being.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
AN INGENIOUS RIGAMlsr.

A novel defense to a charge of big
amy was heard in the Court of Grim
inal Appeal, London, q short time ago.
The prisoner, who pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to six months hard la.
Dor, declared after the sentence was
passed that he made his plea under a
misrepresentation and that he really
had an excellent defense. The reason
he pleaded guilty, he declared, was
because his counsel advised him to do
so that he might get off easily, but
in view of the severe sentence he now
proposed to fight his case.
According to his story the prisoner
first married in 1876 Fills wife died
in 1886 but before her death he mar
ried second woman, which mar
r!age, of course, was bigamous. After
the death of his wife he married Il
third woman which marriage he con-
sidered legal, since his second mar
rfage was bigamous, and his true
spouse was now dead, leaving him free
to contract second marriage. He
soon learned, however, that the third
lady whom he married had a hus-
band living which made that mar
riage illegal, though by no fault of
his. In 1910 he took fourth spouse
to himself and it was this marriage
that proved the foundation of the
charge against him and for which he
was sentenced. The prisoners con-
tention was that he had been wrong
ly sentenced, for while he did commit
bigamy when he married the second
time, his fourth marriage, in which
the charge was brought against him,
was not a bigamous marriage.
The court, however, dismissed the
appeal and the ingenious bigamist
will have six months at hard labor
to think it over.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

government as they are now. Bribery
and the other evils of government will
last while men are prone to those
Weaknesses and Socialism is not 60
ing to purge the flesh of the evils to
which it is heir.
Socialism thrives by offering to the
working man beautiful pictures of
days Of peace and plenty with all the
ills of government healed and nothing
for him to do but dote in the prosper
ity that is thrust upon him-a Utopian
dream that Socialism is helpless to
realize. 1t aims to take the people
into it's confidence by grasping at the
opportunity of offering means for pub
lie amusement and then insinuating
that churches are the foes of progress
or those things would have existed be-
fore.
All along, the Catholic Church has
opposed it because it is fundamentally
wrong, because it would abolish re-
ligion and dissolve the home. 1t cares
not for the sanctity OF marriage. For
it nothing is sacred-everything is
material and common to all. Protest
ant churches have not seen fit to op-
pose it, save only the Episcopal Church
of America Some time ago it sound
ed the alarm and declared Socialism
to be menace to the country. Tbs,
time has come when all Christian
churches should unite with the Cath
Ole Church in its stand against Social
ism and the disintegration of the fam
lily tie and low morality which must
follow in its wake.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
PRorEsTANTs AND HOME RULE

PROTESTANTS AND HOME RULE,
| Strange as it may seem the Prot
estants OF Ireland are almost to a
man opposed to Home Rule. This
condition has grown out OF historical
causes which are obvious to every
one at all familiar with Irish history
When Catholicity was for hundreds
of years prescribed in Ireland the
religious differences naturally caused
marked estrangement between Prot
estants and Catholics. Though times
have changed the barrier has never
been wholly swept away and many
of the Professionals of today continue
to mistrust the motives of their Cath.
Ollie brethren. The Catholics are OF
course in the majority and the Pres.
byterians of the north of Ireland fear
even now that the establishment OF
Home Rule parliament means Cath.
| olic ascendancy and the establish.
ment of Catholicity as the national re.
| ligion. which Church they would then
have to support.
Not all the Professionals of Ireland
! however, are inimical to Home Rule,
There are those who believe that the
Union has been the cause Of the sad
conditions that exist in Ireland today
Rev. J. NJ. Robinson, Protestant
minister OF County Wicklow, voices a
sentiment which should find favor
with his brethren when he says:
"The parliamentary union between
Great Britain and Ireland has now
existed for over one hundred years
and with what result? The popula.
ton of Ireland has been reduced one.
half; the taxation has increased enor.
mously; the cost of governing is the
highest on record in the world; and
the hope of any improvement should
| the present state of things continue
! Is as far off as ever. There is still
the same bitter feeling, still the same
sense of wrong, still the same wish
to undo the past. The union was eff.
fected by bribery and fraud which
every honest man should repudiate,
and these one hundred years have
reaped crop Of bitterness, strife and
| crime. There are many in Ireland
! who would welcome change, if any
proper and fair platform could be got
ON which misunderstanding and
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

When Mrs. Eddy left the bulk of he1
wealth-some three or four millions
of dollars-to the mother church, in
Boston, her legal adviser overlooked
an old state law which forbade any
church organization to receive any be-
quest the annual income from which
would be more than two thousand dol
lars, says the True Voice. So the
Christian Scientists and Mrs. Eddy's
relatives are to have merry wal
over her fortune. We are not inter
ested in it, but we note that the I'M
materially of Mrs. Eddy's millions
has not yet been raised by the Scien
lists.
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greatest service the English people
could render the Empire.

Commodore Sims of the battleship
Minnesota in a spasm of eloquence
and generosity at banquet in Lon
don not long ago told his English
audience that in his opinion Of the
time ever came when they were in
need they could count On every man.
every dollar and every drop Of blood
of their kinsmen across the sea.
Strange rumblings, indeed, those ban
quet rotations cause. 1t must be de-
lightful for an audience to listen to
such delightful feasts of reason and
flow of Sims.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

The American farmer of today ia
better off with his small crops than
he was with the bumper crops of a
decade ago. It is not many years
since the finest grades of barley in
Minnesota sold for less than twenty
five cents per bushel. Now the same
farmer gets as high as seventy-five
and eighty cents. per bushel for an
inferior grade. Back to the farm
means back to prosperity.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
A Young Girls Room.

A blue room is always pretty for a
young girl. There are many beautiful
figured papers that would be charm
ing to the walls. The rugs should
Be blue and the furniture white or
mahogany. The thing to avoid in
such room is GOODNESS. Pink may
be introduced into the furnishings ef-
fectively and either green or tan
would look we'll also.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
THE ULSTER COMEDY.

The Ulster Orangemen are staging
q comedy which is well worth the
price of admission AS the prospects
of that awful menace to their well
mite form they grow more and more
frantic and their mirth-provoking pro-
clivittes grow in proportion. The lat
est ruse of the managers of the
Orange comedy has been to have in
serted in German papers advertise
ments for cheap military equipment.
Thus is the "resistance' growing
apace, and thus is the future Irish
parliament house confronted with the
gloomy prospects Of being rddle1
with bullets from "out of the North"
Here is the way they are going to
do it: The old Unionist clubs are to
be reconstructed all over Ulster Us
rallying points for the warning hosts.
Arms and ammunition are to be Sc
cured and all things gotten in readi-
ness for war to the last ditch. Then
when an Irish Home Rule parliament
levies taxes it will exercise this func-
ton over all Ireland The other prov
inces. Leinster, Munster and Con-
naught, will not be able TO supply
money enough for carrying on the
government. Ulster will then be
ralJod ,nop IN l,,ta ite. .ba ~,
to the nations treasury, and then the
brawny forces of Ulster, armed to
the teeth, will utter Il bold, defiant
refusal--the rest the historian will
chronicle in the due course of events.
The most amusing thing about the
situation is that the Ulster men can
not appreciate their own joke. The
Right Honorable Thomas Andrews,
Privy Councillor and Deputy Lieuten-
ant, says: 81 am able to say unhesi-
tatingly that know OF my own knowl-
edge that tenders for arms and am
munition have been asked for and
that a large sum of money has been
already contributed in order to pay
for them l will say further that, if
We are driven to it, these arms will
be used" And the Rev. DR.. McDer-
mott eX-NIoderator of the Presbyter-
ian Church in Ireland, adds: II can
not take exception to what Mr. An
drews has said. | know the feeling
and the determination of our people
and their passionate antagonism to
being ruled by Il Nationalist Parlia-
ment sitting in Dublin
This is the usual Ulster threat it
was made before when Catholic eman.
cipation was granted and later when
the disestabishment of the Irish
Church was proposed and now it is
propounde1 again with judicial gray
ity. The whole thing means nothing
more than cheap scare. 1t is Il
weak, raltry attempt to incite honest
men to unbecoming deeds. In all like
lihood the men of Ulster do not intend
TO prepare for civil war. 1t would be
foolhardy on their part if they did.
They want to give vent to their feel
ings of opposition and they instinc-
lively fall back into the habit they
contracted long ago, of threatening to
use armed resistance
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

William F. Houk, for many years
day foreman of the composing room
of the Minneapolis Tribune, has been
appointed by Governor Eberhart state
labor commissioner to succeed w. E.
McEWen. The Irish Standard extends
its earnest congratulations. Faith
full in the performance of duty, honest,
reliable and unassuming, Mr.. Houk
has the metal in him to make one
of the best labor commissioners the
state has yet had.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
The Kaiser and ReIiaion.

The Italian papers have occupied
themselves good deal for some days
past with the interest in religion
shown in the address Of the Emperor
of Germany to the Benedictine Fa-
theirs of Beuron. 1t is worthy of re-
mark that the honor which William
of Germany showed to Pope Leo XIII
on the occasion of his visit to Rome
good many years ago is still remem-
bered as it was evident the Emperor
went out of his way on the occasion
to pay respect to the aged Pontiff.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
HOW To REDUCE
THE TARIFF
Thomas P. Dwyer, the Boiler Maker
Gives His Views on This
Vital Question.
Suggests General Reduction of Ten
Per Cent on All Articles as
Best Procedure.

EulCOf Irish Standard.
Dear Sir-Being one of your sub
scribers for the past twenty-five years
have found that you have always
advocated the Democratic cause. l
therefore kindly request you to pub
lish in your valuable paper my hum
BILE view as to how to reduce the
tariff.
The next Congress will be Demo-
cratic as far as the lower house is
concerned. Failure of the Republi-
can party to revise the tariff down.
ward in the interest of the consumer
is responsible for the change. 1t is
now up to the Democratic party to
do what the Republican party failed
to do. There are three much talked
of propositions as to how that end
may be reached. First, to revise
schedule by schedule; second, to en-
act a law that will equa1ize the cost
of production between home and
abroad; and third, there is Bryan's
suggested plan, to reduce all duties
over 100 per cent to 100 per cent and
all duties between SO and 100 per
cent to SO per cent and all duties be-
tween rs and SO per cent to 25 per
cent, etc, until we reached revenue
basis. l favor a tariff for revenue
only, but am opposed to all three of
these propositions as means to
reaching that end. I am opposed to
the first because 1 think that one
schedule is all that any one Congress
could revise, in addition to their 9TH
er duties, and as there are fourteen
schedules, it would take twenty-eight
years (unless extra sessions be call
ed) before they would reach the last
one; and We must take it for granted
that protective tariff law is much
as board of equalization would have
it, with about the same amount of
plumber for all the protected interests
Therefore, to revise downward one
schedule at time, would be discrimi-
mating against the one selected and
in favor of all the rest of them until
they came to the fourteenth schedule
l admit I have no faith in tariff at
all, but would be fair and reduce
all schedules less at the same time
rather than make target of any
one schedule at one time. Further
more Congress will change from one
party to another in the future, as it
has in the past, and should this Con-
gress adopt the schedule by schedule
method, the next one might go no
further with it, then the schedule that
would not have been reached could
laugh at the expense of those already
revised.
am opposed to the second propo-
sition because l know that it is not
possible to frame a tariff law that
would equalize the cost of production
between home and abroad and give
every section of our country an equal
benefit. There are scarcely any two
states in the union where wages are
the same in the same line of indus
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

cling buildings and laying fields
waste. Ships near the Irish coast
were wrecked and their cargoes sunk
in the sea.
No doubt it was the night of the
Big Wind that Dickens had in mind
when he wrote that vivid picture of
fearful wind and wreck at sea in
David Copperfeld. The description of
the storm corresponds closely with
the descriptions given by eye wit
nesses of the storm in Ireland.
Many an event of Importance has
taken place in Ireland since but it is
safe to say that none is known so
we'll as the Big Wind.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

On Christmas Day Pope Plus re-
ceived messages and greetings from
sovereigns and members of the HER
archy in all parts of the world His
Holiness read all these messages and
replied to many Of them personally.
Surely Christmas is an appropriate
time to greet the Father of Christen-
dom.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
|, The Hon. Charles Doherty, c.

s-, The Hon. Charles Doherty, Con-
servative and Imperialist, and one of
the most distinguished lawyers in
Canada, contributed to the Irish Ma
tionalist funds, says the Irish Am
serican. The DAILY MAIL" doubling
the assertion that he did, telegraphed
TO himsAnd has received reply say
Ing he did subscribe and thinks the
granting of Home Rule would be the
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

1.-THE line of least resistance for
u.s. wrote Bishop Spalding, "is the
common highway of money-getters
and place-winners; and the moment
a man gives evidence OF ability, the
whole world urges him to put it to
immediate use"
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
The new governors have read the

The new governors have read their
messages to their state legislatures,
instructing the gentlemen who consti-
tute those bodies how conditions may
be bettered. If the good laws passed
would only accumulate and remain in
force instead of becoming dead-let-
ters We would soon reach the golden
age legislation.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

selves, while they would squeal, it
would be an equal dose for them all.
But now we must consider what eff
feet such reduction would have upon
necessary revenue to defray the ex-
pense of government We must adj
NIT that upon any given amount os
imports, in any one year, it would ut
less revenue, but there would be far
more imported articles to collect
from, as 10 per cent reduction would
admit articles that are now shut out
altogether. Here, of course, is where
the foreigner would get the benefit
OF the sales and the consumer here
would get the benefit of the goods. It
would also tend to lower the cost OF
all goods in this country, so that the
foreigner could and would buy more
from us, so that We would offset in
creased imports by exporting more,
than We do now, and it would be bet
ter for business all along the line!
True, should any member propose
this 10 per cent reduction, others
would move to amend, to strike out
10 and insert 8, Z, 6; or some so weak
kneed as to insert or less, while
others again would move to insert 12.
Is or perhaps 20. I would favor the
! latter as quick as any man if I
thought that We could go so far in
one Jump without affecting business
that we all depend upon, but 1 real
lie that, as the saying is, we have our
hand in the lions mouth and it is
better to pull away as careful as pos
sible. I believe that our protective
policy is the DEVILS right bower, and
that the people of the world would be
better off if there was no such tax
at all; but it requires about $375, OOO,-
600 each year, in addition to internal
revenue, to run our government, and
that amount must be derived from a,
tax on imports until some substitute
Is enacted to raise that amount.
am not tied to this 10 per cent reduc-
ton, but it ought not to be below
per cent and I think such a uniform
reduction, would stand good chance
in passing the senate, as I believe
Senators Nelson and Clapp and many
other Republicans would vote for it,
Then it would be up to the President.
II he should veto such law passed
by a Democratic house and a Repub-
lican senate, the people would veto
him In 1912; but should he sign it
his prospects would be brighter for
reelection. All would depend upon
what stand he would take as to fur
ther reduction.
In conclusion I will say that the
Democratic party is the hope of the
nation. We are confronted between
two extremes, standpatism and social
ism. Special privilege laws are MAX
ing Socialists as fast as horse can
eat oats, and the standpatters are as
firmly welded to those laws as two
pieces of iron are that are welded by
blacksmith. If our party will now
make good 1t will be in power for so
years, but if it gets weakened, look
out for the Socialists
Yours truly,
THOS. ?. DWYER,
Minneapolis, Jan. 4, 1911.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

a comparison Of figures for the
past few years shows that the price
of automobiles is coming down. How.
ever, that is one instance where the
speed ordinance is not likely TO be
violated
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

Brainerd Council No. 1891 Of the
Knights of Columbus will initiate a
class of rs candidates tomorrow
Sunday afternoon. In the neighbour
hood of 400 visiting delegates will be
present. Great preparations have
been made for the event.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
A Base MateriaIist.

she-I don't see why you should
hesitate to marry on $4,000 a year.
Papa says my gowns never cost more
than that.
He-But, my dear, we must have
something to eat.
She (petulantly)-Isn't that Just
like a mani! Always thinking Of his
stomach!
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

Governor Eberhart's message con-
tanned about $4,000 words. The other
twenty-five thousand (Which he did
not write), contain all his county op-
ton recommendations.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07
A YEARS AVIATION FATALITIES

Ou 1)ecemDGr 81, WlInln lew
hours of each other, two world IA
nous air men fell to death in avia-
ton meets on different fields. They
were Arch Hoxsey and John B. Mois-
ant, both natives of Illinois. Hoxsey,
though but little more than a year
had passed since the fortunes of the
aviator tempted him to learn the per-
ilous art, was at the time of his death
a world renowned airman. Just a
few days before his death Hoxsey
had made The record high flight of
11,474 feet in Los Angeles, California.
| It was while attempting to break this
record that the aviator met his death.
He assembled into the air until his
machine became motionless speck
in the sky and had again all but
reached the earth by series of dips
and glides when he was suddenly
caught up by treacherous air cur
rents which wrenched the control of
his machine from him and sent him
to his doom.
On the same day and almost the
same hour, John B. Moisant, a daring
and successful aviator of world fame,
was thrown from his machine while
circling about in high wind over
the aviation grounds in New Orleans.
He struck the ground head foremost,
breaking his neck and causing in
slant death. Moisant had often per-
formed daring flights. Only a few
, days before he had narrowly escaped
| death by his ,dexterity in manipulate
ing his machine while making a haz-
! ardous landing.
| The record OF aviation fatalities for
1910 was on the last day of the year
raised to fifty-one When the limited
number Of men who have taken part
in aerial contests is taken into con-
sideration this record is ominous
enough. But when the conditions un.
der which these men met death are
considered it becomes evident thai
the large percentage of fatalities is
not due so much to the backward
stage of aerial science as to the fool
hardness of the men in the game
Ever since aeroplanes began to be
successfully operated the demand for
exhibition flights has been so great
that the man who could successfully
manipulate the flimsy planes long
enough to circle round a field was
sure of a fortune. The sport soon
| attracted promoters who saw fortunes
awaiting themselves if they would
but arrange the contests. Fabulous
sums We're offered for exhibitions by
men who had made record flights
sums so vast that men who would
otherwise not think of flying dared
the elements when they knew that
almost certain death awaited them
A grave wrong is being done in ex-
plotting the commercial aspects of
aviation while the science is in such
a low state of development. Fitting
through the air is still a dangerous
art under the most favorable condi-
lions and probably will be for many
years to come. But add to this the
dangers which airmen knowingly risk
when they go into the teeth of gale
In craft which are by construction
an easy prey of the winds and the un-
certainties of getting back to earth
again are raised to the nth power, let
II be what It will.
The science of aerial navigation is
not protiting by these flights. More
could be accomplished if aerial coli.
tests We're prohibited under unfavor-
able weather conditions and purely
daring flights discouraged.
1.-THE BIG WIND"
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GA1pl lp !.s2r egEIlD
>etsad q haiaassa

Rev. Matthias Harmon, one OF the
most widely known of the pioneer
priests OF the Northwest, died in OAR
lington, Texas, December 20.
The Irish standard., 1911-01-07

A correspondent Of the Boston Cit
izen GA. p. Al says Taft "has Jesu-
tized the army and navy and is now
Romanizing the United States Sill
preme Court" We would strongly
recommend a change of breakfast
food for The above mentioned cores
pondent.