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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
ALIEN ARMY ON
UNITED STATES SOIL

That there are 100000 able.bodied
men in the United States who owe
allegiance to European nations, was
disclosed last week in Labor Depart
ment statistics. These naturalization
bureau figures showed 100000 for
eign-born persons in the country who
have not acquired citizenship.
OF the 100000 able-bodied males,
most of whom are said to have had
military training, approximately $780,
900 were given as Germans and Aus
trians. OF the remaining 5,500,000
records indicated that approximately
100000 owe allegiance to entente al
lies.
Emphasizing their claim that these
men would only need equipment to
constitute a formidable hostile force
on American soil without the neces-
sity for invasion, preparedness advo.
Gates were said to be planning to
make the most Of these figures in
connection with their coming military
expansion program.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
SIOUX INDIANS WOULD
BAN DIVORCES

Congress will be asked to pass
measures looking to the abolition Of
the divorce question on United States
Indian reservations, as a result of q
decision reached by a congress Of
Catholic Sioux Indians of America at
the Fort Totten mission, northwest of
Fargo, N. D., just closed.
More than 1000 Sioux Indians rep.
resenting tribes in Northern Mime.
sofa, North and South Dakota, Mon
tana, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
were present. 1t was the twenty-fifth
meeting of the Sioux and proved to
be the largest Indian religious con-
gress ever held in America. Under
the direction of the missionaries and
the Right Rev. James O'Reilly, bishop
of North Dakota, the Indians dis
cussed many topics, the chief Of
which was divorce.
The divorce evil, according to the
speakers, has spread to an alarming
extent among the Indians, despite the
efforts of Federal and district courts
in the Northwest to force the Indians
to respect their marriage vows. These
courts, it was said. are not fully en-
powered to deal with the situation.
With or without legal justification, In
dians leave their sQuaws in increas.
ing numbers each year. Stringent
measures will be recommended as q
remedy.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
REFUSE LARGE WAR ORDER

St. Louis, Mo.,-A large metal COM
pany here has refused all orders to
make ammunition for the British
army. To the British purchasing agent
c. F. Blancke, president of the COM
pany wrote:
"We are equipped to make war am
munition, but when we stop to con-
slider that this ammunition will be
used in the killing of men who through
no choice Of their own are forced into
this war, and that our large output
can be used to cause the death of
thousands, we realize the condemna-
tion that could be meted out to US by
other neutral and right-thinking
American citizens who are praying for
the end Of this bloody war. So we
would not care to enter into contract
to furnish ammunition to help continue
this war, no matter how profitable
in financial way such a contract
would be-"
War Munitions for U. s. Only.
Mr.. Henry Ford of the great Detroit
plant when asked: Couldn't you sub.
stantially increase your fortune by
turning your factories over to the man.
ufacturing of munitions for the AL
lies?" replied, II could, but want
none of that money. I will make nc
war munitions for any country excep,
the United States. l would make guns
and ammunition for this country the
same as I would build roof over my
house. But I don't think it will be
necessary for me to do that. At any
rate, let me repeat, don't want tt
make money that comes through the
manufacturing Of war munitions"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
FRENCH BISHOP PROTESTS.

A French Bishop over in Canada is
reported to have written pastoral Wig
orously denouncing the practice of
priests quitting their parishes in this
country and answering the call to the
colors in France. He says they should
stay in their parishes and defy the
blasphemous government that would
put deadly weapons in their hands for
the slaughter of their fellowmen. That
is the way we felt about it in the be-
ginning, but we refrained from speak
ing out because we were not French
priest, says the Western Watchman.
Rome has given a sort of tacit assent
to the voluntary return of priests to
regiments from which they were pa
rolled for time. It certainly supplied
a good case of perplexed conscience.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL RITES FOR 0D0N0vAN ROSA

from which we refuse to be divorced.
Every other wound we seek to heal;
every other affliction to forget, but
this we consider it duty to keep
open-this affliction we cherish and
brood over" Else indeed it were diff
cult to interpret in the fullest sense
the completely whole-hearted assimila-
ton of mind of those thousands who
regard the name and memory as q
heritage to be treasured for all time.
It is always one of the most diff.
cult things to describe within mea-
sured language scene such as that
which was presented when the fu-
neral left Cork Hill. The coffin laden
with wreaths, the widow and her
daughter in that sad mourning coach,
the big mass Of able men in the uni
form of the volunteers, the city repre-
sentatives, through their head or To-
cum tenens, the trades, the country
contingents, the national societies and
delegates, these and many other ele-
ments went, each in its way, to fill up
the picture and make it intensely in
teresting and impressive. AS the pro-
cession moved, the strains of the Dead
March from Saul we're heard, and
it was pathetic note in the incident
that all the people within reach of its
melancholy sounds uncovered and
bowed their heads, the volunteers, re-
versed their rifles, and hardly a sound
could be heard except the slow foot
falls.
1t was good arrangement, by the
way, by which. after the immediate
start of the procession none of the
bands played slow or solemn music
until the cemetery was being reached.
The idea was that the funeral was Eat
once funeral and triumphal march
the funeral Of O'Donovan Rosa and
the celebration of his principles" /"
There was a further effect accom-.
plished by this plan. namely, that the
playing of the national airs in quick
march greatly facilitated the progress
of the procession, which would other.
wise have been very many more hours
prolonged. Along the route from Dame
street to the cemetery the paths were
crowded with people, and at such
centers as Trinity College, Grattans
Statue, O'Connell street, the Parnell
Statue, and the Rotunda there was a
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
vErEaAsSaze o. st R. ARE GIVEN
President Wilson COZ >e<t, 4 an ex-

President Wilson lfo1 q. I an ex-
ecutive order grantinga> pay
to all veterans of the civil IN the
service of the federal government,
who desire to attend the Grand Army
encampment, to be held in Washing
ton from September 9th to October
2. The executive order grants the G..
A. R. men leave from September 26
to October 3, with additional time to
journey to and from Washington. The
order reads as follows:
1T is hereby ordered that all vet
Grams of the civil war in the service of
the government of the United States,
who desire to attend the Grand Army
encampment, to be held in Washing
ton, D. c., September 81 to Octo-
ber 2, shall be granted leave of alb
sence with pay, in addition to Octo-
ber inclusive, that they may have
the opportunity to attend the encamp-
ment, and that they be granted as
many more days additional leave, with
pay in each case, as are necessary
for the journey to Washington and
return to their posts of duty.
WOODROW WILSON,"
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Dublin Freeman Journal }

Dublin Freeman Journal.)
The obsequies of jeremiah O'Don-
ovan Rosa, which took place on Sun
day, August 4, formed one of the
most memorial incidents which has
marked the history of the Irish CAPT.
tai. Around the ceremonies attached
to the great public funeral unQuestion-
ably were centered the thoughts of
all Irishmen the world over. There
has certainly never been in our own
generation a more remarkable demon
stration of feeling, one deeper or more
powerful in the sentiments which its
proportions and character made so
abundantly manifest. During the pre-.
ceding days of preparation, the cere-
monies at the Pro- Cathedral, and the
extraordinary tributes paid to the dead
patriot by the crowds that waited pa
tiently and passed around his coffin
in the City Hall, bore wonderful testi-
mony to thoughts that actuated the
breasts of so many thousands of our
citizens. Yesterday the sequence was
one that can never leave the memory
of those who were there to take part
in, or to witness it. The very vastness
of the numbers who gathered together
to do honor to the memory of Rosa,
was in itself tribute of almost un-
precedented suggestiveness. But it
was made all the more memorable by
reason of the fact that the concourse
comprehended every section of nation
alist thought and patriotic activity. 1t
must, indeed, have been no easy task
to arrange the due ordering of so
many details as the demonstration in
volved, and it is certainly a tribute
to all concerned in the discharge of
that most responsible duty that every
thing was carried out in way so en-
inently befitting the greatness and so.
lemnity of the occasion.
From all the railway termini repre-.
sentatives from each quarter of the
country arrived during the morning,
and the bright sun never shone more
brilliantly on a grander or more rep.
resentative assemblage of mourners
than those who constituted the length.
ened and imposing procession.
The gathering partook of an almost
universal expression, and recalled the
words Of Washington Irving, "The
sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28

tremendous congestion of spectators.
Nothing could have been more impress
sive than the appearance of the pro-
cession as it passed through O'Connell
street. The guard of honor around
the hearse, the delegates and repre-
sentatives Of cities and public bodies,
the trade and labor bodies, the mount
ed men-all formed singularly nota-
BILE combination. England, Wales and
Scotland we're represented. and there
were many Irish-Americans who filled
the ranks Of the mourners.
The military element was very ef-
fectively conspicuous. Nothing could
have been finer than the appearance
and equipment Of the National Volun-
teers and the Irish Volunteers, who
preliminary to the start occupied the
streets from Lord Edward street to
James Gate, the head of the column
resting on Cork Hill. Many divergent,
or rather sectional, elements we're on
this occasion Joined together as one
man over the coffin of one to whose
memory they all gloried in paying a
tribute and whose remains they met
in sadness yet in enthusiasm to honor.
1t should have been mentioned as an
indication of the desire of those in
the provinces and country districts to
share in the demonstration that, from
the various districts to the country,
no less than seventeen special trains
came to Dublin, each carrying its full
freight Of mOurners. In speaking of
the actual proportions of such a vast
mass Of people difficulty always ex-
lists in any effort to at all ac-
curately estimate numbers. But an as
certained fact or two gives some help
in reaching such a result. The pro-
cession, four deep, occupied just an
hour and five minutes to pass a given
point. and from a fairly good average
estimate it would certainly not be
over the mark to say that there were
at least twenty thousand people who
formed the procession in all it's com.
bined sections. The progress of this
great gathering of humanity to Glas.
nevin Cemetery was unmarked by any
incident save its deep and all-pervad.
ing impressiveness. And when the
end was reached and the remains OF
the great patriot we're laid to rest un
Continued on page ~
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
THE CITY OF WARSAW.

In the city of Warsaw there are
415,O00 Catholics; in the Archdiocese
1,415,000. Its Cathedral dates from
the 18th century; its parish churches
have large congregations ranging
from $4,000 to 10000 souls each. The
religious orders represented there are
many. Its seminary of higher studies
was formerly the University of War
saw.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
CONFESSIONS ARE HEARD IN
MANY TONGUES.

In London, England, there are two
churches or chapels where confessions
are heard in Chinese, five where they
are heard in Dutch, forty where one
may confess in Flemish, eighty-eight
in French, three in Gaelic, twenty.
four in German, one in Greek, one in
Hungarian, one in Lithuanian, one in
Russian, two in Maltese, two in Pol.
ish, two in Portuguese, sixteen in
Spanish and thirty eight in Italian.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
TEACHING OF HATRED BARRED.

A campaign against Ernest Lii
seauer's song expressing hatred for
England has been started by the Co.
logne Volkszeitung, a Catholic organ,
which demands the exclusion of the
song from books intended for the
young. The paper declares it would
be a portentous condition if at time
of international bitterness even the
youth of nation were taught to
cherish hatred. The Berliner Tage-
blatt and other influential newspapers
have indorsed the demand voiced by
the Volkszeitung.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28

Reversal to Manchester" Type.
In letter which marks we'll the
attitude of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company and the other coal COM
panies in Colorado towards John R
Lawson and the entire Industrial sit.
uation, we find reference to an article
written by a Professor Stevenson, of
the faculty of Columbia University.
We didn't 60 into the source of that
article, whether Mr.. Stevenson was
paid for it or used it to get an old
age pension from the Carnegie fund.
When l asked Mr.. Carnegie the Ques-
tion as to whether or not he didn't
believe that the hope for pensions on
the part of the professors might warp
their minds toward the economic
theories of those who are going to
pay the pensions he cynically and joou.
larly said: why don't you ask El-
liott? He gets one of them" Well,
did happen to ask President Elliott,
and Mr.. Elliott said: "Oh yes, they
undoubtedly do influence US, but al.
ways for good"
! am not going to characterize Pro.
fessor Stevenson, but here is what
he said in his article. "That in the
state of Massachusetts an alleged
commission had the patience to listen
to man who said that in his indus.
try, working hard, he wasn't able to
make enough to support himself and
wife and one daughter" And Profess
sor Stevenson replied in answer to
that, that the man never should have
been married. In the state of ILL
nois, he said, before commission a
man had the hardihood to complain
that 1t took his entire family to earn
enough to get bread and butter for
himself and his wife and eight chill.
dren. Why" he said, that is moth.
ing, except an argument for limita.
tion of reproduction OF human beings
The man should not have had the
eight children. Women and children
are not to be taken into consideration
in fixing wage rates."
Further quoting Professor Steven
son:
ut has been said that seven hun
dred thousand children give up their
lives annually on account of the un
der nourishment of themselves OF
their parents, due to low wages in in
dustry. deny" said the professor
that the figures are correct, but as
suming that they are, it proves moth
ing except that the deaths of these
children are blessing. They ought
never to have been born" He said
further that the thing that prevents
the onward march of republican insti
tutions is the labor union, in its mem
bership and constituency. That the
members are worse than the thugs o
India and are usually srofessiona
murderers. That was the kindly com
ment of Professor Stevenson. On,
month later we have letter signe,
by Mr.. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., ad
dressed to Fay Lee, his publicity man
enclosing the article of Professo
Stevenson saying, "That is the sound
est and most splendid presentation
ever saw on the question of capita
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28

Bernard Montvid, of Taunton, Mass,
where he was an editor of a Lutheran
newspaper, forfeited his life at the
state prison at Wethersfield, Conn.,,
August s, for his part in the brutal
murder of the Rev. Joseph Zabris, a
Catholic priest of New Britain, and
his housekeeper, Miss Ada Gilman, on
February 8.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28

There are at present fifteen mis-
sionary bishops working in the for
eign field, who come from the single
province of Alsace. Besides these
prelates, over 400 missionary priests,
scattered all over the world, are ma
tives of the province.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28

Rev. Thomas Gavan Duffy, of Pondi-
cherry, India, will join the staff of the
mission seminary at Maryknoll, Ossin-
ing, N. Y, next year. He is a son of
the late Charles Gavan Duffy, the Irish
patriot who became Premier of Aus
tralia. Father Duffy has been in Indie
for the past four years. He is an alum
nus of the Paris Seminary for Foreign
Missions.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
GIVES FARM TO BOYS.

The boys at Father Dunnes News
boys Home, st. Louis, are to become
real truck farmers. Fifteen acres in
st. Louis county has been acquired
from Mrs. Hannah Duryee. The deed,
filed at Clayton, gave the considera-
tion as SIS, and it is understood the
ground is gift to the home.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28

and labor" you will proceed at once
to make use of it, both in the Colo
RADIO campaign and in our Union Edu-
cational Campaign"
To Destroy Union,sm.
Mr.. Rockefeller, you will remember.
testified before the Congressional
Committee that he was fighting for
the rights of the independent Ameri.
can workman and that he would sacri-
flee every dollar of his great fortune
and that Of his father rather than rec
ognize that organization. At least
that is in effect what he said. Mr..
Rockefeller sent this letter to Ivy Lee
! and asked him to make use of that in
his Union Educational Campaign. Al
ready they had published the so.called
Colorado Bulletins" setting forth the
alleged facts in Colorado, which, in
the main, were a collection of palpa-
bly, stupid ISLANDERS upon the men that
were fighting for economic freedom
and the union officers who were lead
ing their cause in the state Of Colo
RADIO. After many of the lies in them
had been exposed, after the president
of the company had testified before
the commission in Colorado. as to the
falsity of the bulletins, the publicity
agent who wrote them was made q
director in the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company, and paid six thousand dol
lars out of the personal account of
John d. Rockefeller, Sr.
And so runs the record in Colorado.
Not charged by any person connected
with organized labor. Not baselessly
charged by me from this platform or
elsewhere, but confessed in writing by
the owners and operators of the coal
companies of Colorado.
Juggling the Judiciary.
| In our endeavor to uncover the facts
in industry, we met gentleman from
Canada that many of you may have
remembered: Hon. Mackenzie King.
He was the Labor Commissioner Of
Canada. He is candidate for par
Lament in North Riding, York, On
tario, Canada. He is also the indus
trial expert Of the Rockefeller foun.
dation. We met him prior to the con-
viction of Lawson. He was in Colo
RADIO making investigations into what
had taken place in Colorado prior to
that time. Mr.. Lawson had given his
testimony. The work, so far as his
organization was concerned, of pre-
senting the facts, was closed, and he
went back to Colorado. There was !
gentleman named Hayden, a lawyer
for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Com.
pany, who was elected to the State
Senate of Colorado. Trials had beer
had in Trinidad. The cases against
the striking miners were very weak
and acquittals were resulting. It wa
impossible to get men unless in tn
employ of the Fuel company or mins
guards or other representatives 81
that company that would vote foi
convictions under the circumstances
Mr.. Hayden, however, introduced 4,
bill creating a new judiciary district
that called for an appointment Of Il,
Judge by the man elected in the prc
II Continued on page ~ 81
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28

Cardinal Benedict Lorenzelli, prefect
of the congregation of studies, is be-
lieved near death and has received
the last sacrament. Cardinal Loren
zelli was born at Badi, archdiocese OF
Bologna, May II, 1858; was appointed
a cardinal priest April is. 1907.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-08-28
national SHRINE IN washington, D. c.

resenting various titles by which the
Blessed Virgin is addressed in her
Litany.
The floor is to be of stone and mar
BILE, laid in a mosaic design. It is
proposed to erect no pews, feature
which frequently mars beautiful
churches, but chairs in their places,
which can be removed. Memorial
brasses, commemorating those who
have helped by their generosity to
raise the shrine, will decorate all
available vacant places.
The main entrance to the crypt or
basement is down a great stairway,
which passes beneath the south tran
sept. This stairway forms an impor-
tant and interesting feature of the
lateral elevation. Owing to the slope
in the ground, it is entered at level
halfway between the nave and the
crypt floor. The crypt has massive
stone vaults springing from circular
piers. It's greatest height is 80 feet
above the floor. In chapel, direct
ly opposite the entrance flight of steps
is the "Grotto of Lourdes."
The crypt will be mostly used as a
chapel for the students Of the uni
versity, for which there is at present
great need. Back Of the crypt is
it's sacristy and above this is the choir
room.
The stone has not yet been select
ed, but may be limestone or marble,
though the granite of the new uni
versity buildings is advocated. The
west or front elevation has two small
towers, surmounted by open belfries.
High up across the whole front is a
frieze of statues in inches, represent
ing the great women saints of the
church. There is single entrance
portal, the other entrances being in
the sides of the towers. This portal
is richly adorned with carving, and
above it is the great west window
with its rose of intricate tracery.
| Plans for the shrine were drawn
by Francis Burial Hoffman, and a
plaster model is now exhibited at the
Panama Exposition at San Francisco,
in the Palace Of Education, and at
tracts daily an increased number of
visitors. the installation of the ex-
quisite model was cared for by Mrs.
F. Burial Hoffman, president Of the
New York chapter Of the National Or
! ganization of Catholic Women. On
April oath a public meeting Of over
400 Catholic women took place in the
California building, when Archbishop
Hanna presided, and urged the Cath
olic women of the Archdiocese of Cal
ifornia to cooperate heartily in the
creation of this splendid monumental
church at the National capital.
The sum already reached has been
obtained in many ways, and barring
some large contributions, mostly
through the forming Of chapters in the
large cities Of the Union, where sub
scription books have been issued, and
sums from 10 cents to 81 collected.
The erection of this National Shrine
is the first work and main purpose of
the National Organization Of Cath.
olic Women, and the great church it.
self, once its towers dominate the
University Campus, will be the true
cornerstone of the associations fu
ture development.