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The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
APPEAL TO IRISH WOMEN.

Some time since the Irish Standard
published the wording that was used
on the posters and placards sent
throughout Ireland and published in
the press. These posters and pla-
cards were appeals to the women of
Ireland to send their nobelest and
best to the front and urging the man
ly sons of the Gael not to neglect their
duty to ireland" But :Ireland"
meant England and there is the rub.
The husband, the son, the brother and
the lover Of the women of Ireland
were the individuals that the English
government asked the Irish women to
send to the war; Cruel irony of fate
that an Irish woman should be thus
addressed. What mockery Of men,
cries sorrowful. What an insult to
unforgetting minds who remember un-
forgivable torture and suffering. The
appeal is mockery to all that was
ever held sacred by the women of
Ireland.
The Vital ISSUE" quoting from the
New York Freeman's Journal, in com.
ment upon this appeal to the Irish
woman gives place to the Free.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
of active service he has had duty at
sea and on shore in all parts of the
world.
GIFTS TO CATHOLIC CHARITABLE
AND MISSIONARY
INSTITUTIONS.

Mr.. James F. Brennan, prominent
Knight of Columbus of the City of
Washington, has recently made valu-
able gifts in real estate and in cash
to Catholic charitable and mission
airy institutions.
Those benefited by Mr.. Brennan's
generosity are the following: Wash
ington real estate to the Propagation
of the Faith; The Bureau of Catholic
Indian Missions; The Commission for
the Catholic Missions among Colored
People and the Indians; the House of
the Good Shepherd, Washington, d.
c.; Little Sisters of the Poor, Wash.
ington, d. c.; and to st. Vincent's
Home for Friendless Boys, Brooklyn,
New York, $1,000 in cash.
This is an example that might well
be followed by others, as there CEN
tainly is a distinct advantage, in
some instances at least, in making
gifts before ones death, rather than
trusting to requests which material
ize after.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
GOSSIP.

If all of us would ask ourselves four
questions before making comments
about our acquaintances and then con.
scientiously try to follow out the les
son implied in those questions. gossip
would be given a death blow. The
first question is: els this story true?"
Inc second: "Am I placing the cor
rect Interpretation on it," The third
question is: "Would be ready to
tell 1t to his facet" And fourth:
Have l a definite good purpose in
telling it to others?" If all four of
these questions can be answered with
YES" then we should have no fear
OF being guilty of gossip.
If we stop to reflect on how much
suffering has been caused, how many
friendships have been broken, how
many good regulations have been
spoiled by idle and silly gossip, we
will endeavor to put into practice in
our daily life the spirit of these four
rules. F. X.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
A SCOTTISH VIEW.

From the viewpoint of the author of
an article which recently appeared in
the Scottish Review it is not easy to
determine whether or not the author
looked upon the attention now being
given to the Irish with a jealous eye
or whether he saw the humor and the
sarcasm of the situation which he
sums up SO we'll in the following para
graph:
Eat this moment when his services
are sorely needed, the Gael is fairly
lionized. He is fattered, coddled, and
made to think that he is a man of
some importance. wonder what his
srecompense will be, when the war and
the danger of conquest are over and
the sword is returned to its scabbard
Will he be forced to continue to make
u scanty and precarious living on
small, barren, ungrateful patches of
land, while all the fertile and cultivat-
sed areas are devoted to the raising of
dumb animals? Unless the friends of
the people are vigilant and alert, this
IA exactly what will happen. With
as with some lowlier
spe0ple, gratitude is often sense of
szaYors to come. Public memory is
snroyerbially short, and government
memory is known to be the shortest
RI AlI.,'
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08

They we'll understand their best in
terests' are best conserved by main
tanning neutral position. The inter
ests of Italy can neither by advanced
nor her prestige increased by aiding
the allied nations. Her power in the
Mediterranean is undisputed, a posi-
tion Of far more Importance than any.
thing she may seek to gain by entering
into the war. Italy realizes that she
has much to lose if Germany loses
She realizes more keenly than she
cares to advertise that Russia's sue.
cess would mean control of the Oar.
danelles, in which event Italy would be
removed from her position to one of
the minor powers. German and Aus.
trian success means that Italy's com.
mercial integrity in the Mediterranean
is assured. While at the same time,
Italy might look forward to replacing
England in Egypt. Viewed from any
angle 1taly's only hope lies in her neu-
trality even while she may harbor a
sincere desire that the arms of Ger
many and Austria be victorious. The
allied nations are well aware of the
Importance of the situation and hence
are using all tactics, and have brought
all arguments to bear and are straining
every point to force Italy into the war.
Would anyone for moment suspect
that when England sent an embassa-
dor to the vatican recently, an action
undreamed of, and when France sent
a diplomatic agent, that it was for any
other purpose than threat to Italy to
restore the temporal power of the Pa
pacy against the present government
of Italy, and thus force Italy to take a
hand in the war. There is no doubt
but the pressure had its effect in caus-
Ing Italy to break her agreement with
the Triple Alliance. Press dispatches
contain lengthy accounts of the hatred
of Austria among the Italians and argu-
ments tending to justify Italy's
reputation of her agreement with
Germany and Austria. Italy has been
seriously concerned with her own bust
ness. Her preservation has dominated
her actions. Her neutrality is wise,
but 1t is far from pleasing the allied
nations.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
TO STOP RECRUITING.

Rather than continue policy which
has made the British Isles a laughing
stock and which has been unsuccessful
from the start, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer Lloyd George, announces
that England's attempt to further re-
cruiting would be curtailed in
marked degree. The English soldiers
have not won any particular renown on
the battle fields of France. The an
nouncement made some months ago
that England's sweeping campaign
would begin in the spring has come to
naught. The Britons realize more and
more that they are never to drive the
Germans out of their positions. Real
izing this England now maintains that
her attempt to keep the seas clear and
lend financial aid is all that can be
justly expected of England. England
has decided that Englishmen are not
to be slaughtered, that her male popu-
latfon is to be conserved to build up
the English nation. But who will
praise this policy. Will it be those
who, out of the goodness of their
hearts and their loyalty to the cause of
the allies declared that the young men
of Ireland should die in the trenches?
The Mistress of the Seas" declares
that the male population of England is
not to be slaughtered in a fight against
the Germans. What answer will be
made by those who have contended
from the first 1t was proper for Irish
men to submit themselves as victims.
But what is good for England appears
not to be good for Ireland. The an
nouncement of the Chancellor of the
ExcheQuer is the most important an
nouncement concerning the conduct of
the war that has been made since Eng
land Joined the allies. Briton seems to
be coming to the conclusion that Ger
many cannot be overwhelmed. At
tempts to break through the German
lines have been unsuccessful. Great
Britain wants her supremacy of the
seas and maintains that England is
satisfied. Come what may upon the
land, England's naval and commercial
supremacy must be maintained. And
now the Chancellor of the Exchequer
announces that England will bow her.
self gracefully out of the conflict on
land, maintaining among the allied ar
mics small force, limit recruiting for
the English army and leave the allied
nations to battle as best they can,
while the supremacy of England upon
the seas, the beginning and the end
of England's interest in the war is
maintained. Further than this she
careth not.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08

Catholic soldiers. am not one of
those who have ever taken pride or
felt that genuine Irishman could
take much pride in that testimony of
the Duke of Wellington's. In those
days the Irish had no cause to fight
for England, and if thousands of SOL
diers did fight for England, there were
thousands also to be found fighting in
the armies of her enemies. But so
great was the fighting spirit of the
Irish race that even in those dark
days, when England had no claim on
the friendship of Ireland, we find that
this is an admitted fact of history.
In those days Ireland had teeming
peasant population-probably the best
fighting material the world has ever
seen, and has there ever been a great
er tragedy in history, or a greater
condemnation of a government than
that Of the British government, which
owed so much to Irish Catholic SOL
diers, should throughout the greater
part of the Nineteenth century have
occupied itself in exterminating the
population from which those mag
nificent troops were drawn? Today
there is great anxiety to secure
more Irish recruits Of the type which
have made SO illustrious the names
of the Irish regiments which are now
at the front, and for my part hope
the attempt will be successful. But
how easy it would have been to Sc
cure not one hundred thousand, but
three or four hundred thousand of the
best troops in Europe from the Irish
race if the policy of England had been
changed, not yesterday, but one hun
dred and twenty years ago, and Ire
land had been left the splendid popu-
lation which evil laws have so cruel
ly reduced"
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
THE CHOIR.

Why is it often so bad? We shall
soon give the chief cause, after regret
ting that so beautiful an accompani-
ment to public worship should fire.
quently be so woefully beneath it's
proper standard. 1t is just as unworthy
to have ugly singing for the church as
it would be to have ugly painting or
ugly building or ugly decorating.
Sound, healthy, song-producing throats
are not lacking in any parish, neither
is young music-loving talent which
could be trained. What is the reason
there is not more plentiful and more
intelligent application of the material
at hand?
The chief reason,-let us venture to
whisper it ever so faintly,-is that the
pastor-profoundly learned as he may
be in theology,-really has very hazy
guesses as to what music really is
Perhaps he has never actually learned
that musical appreciation is something
that any intelligent person can study,
with no view to becoming performer.
If Shakespeare were never studied ex-
cept by prospective actors what loss
the world would undergo. And in the
same way Catholic worship suffers by
having the wealth of musical literature
totally ignored by people perfectly cap
able of compromising it, by taking it
as they might any other study. 1t is a
delightful study. None other is so
self-rewarding. Nobody is too old to
begin it. Nor need it be expensive, for
public library could supply the
books to be read and as the mental
training were acquired it would itself
seek out occasions for exercise. Rec
ords of good music can be heard in any
music store simply for the asking. The
acquisition of such trained sense
would give pastor powerful means
of direct control over the young mem
bers of his flock. And it would cost
him far less time and trouble than the
worry and difficulty and expense of
keeping up poor work that pleases no
one. How can it? Pensioners of
real taste avoid it by going to un-
musical masses. Those without taste
find it bore. The unmusical pastor
regards it as necessary evil. The
singers are often at such dagger's ends
that they can't enjoy it. 1t is often
such a hot bed of jealousy that the
Almighty must be more offended than
honored. Whom can it please, except
Satan, for whom public worship was
never meant? But trained directive
ability would cure all this.
&C. H. K.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
A SUICIDAL POLICY.

Forceful object lessons have been
pointed out at periods in English his
tory, but in no instance has the sui
cidal policy of Great Britain, and the
frank admission that England's diff
ficulties should be Ireland's oppor-
tunity, been pointed out with greater
clearness and frankness than in a
recent speech delivered by John Dill
lon, a member of the British parlia-
ment from Ireland, in an address at
Claremorris. 1t was forcefully point
ed out that the good will of Ireland
would have been in times past, and
at the present time could be a re-
markable source of strength to Eng
land. England now we'll realizes that
the rancor which has prevailed in
the hearts of every sincere Irishman
as race of centuries of unhappiness
In Ireland, has had its effect in the
present war. Even the Dublin Week
ly Freeman is forced to acknowledge
that thousands would now be enlist
ed under the English flag to fight
against the Germans, had England
not pursued suicidal policy in Ire
land in years gone by. Even the
pro-British papers in Ireland are
forced to acknowledge that Ireland
has no heart in the war. They be-
moan the fact that the real leaders
of Irish sympathy are not content
with England's promises and will new
er be satisfied to contemplate sim
gle 1rishman fighting under British
colors. The acknowledgement made
by Mr.. Dillon is a great exposition of
the fruit of England's policy, and,
while he attempts to conclude that
because of their supposed change in
policy there should come a change of
heart in Ireland, this he asks for
without anything more timely than a
promise held out to them. His ad.
dress is clear exposition of the latter
day result of Englands policy in Ire.
land. This sire of England's policy
was far more agreeable to Britain
than any penance that any British
ministry will ever be pleased to make
and this is one of the most impor.
tant facts in connection with the
whole affair. Well might a king of
England have sworn when he saw the
columns Of France advancing with
lrishmen in the lead against the army
Of England at famed Fontenoy,
Cursed. be the laws that deprived
any of such subjects" Deep and sig.
nificant was the speech of Mr.. Dillon.
1T has often been pointed out re.
Gently" said he, that In all the great
European wars of the early part of the
last century-in the Peninsula and at
Waterloo = Wellington himself con.
fessed he could not have won a sin.
gle battle had 1t not been for his Irish
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
That there are 100000 Catholic 70

That there are 100000 Catholic for
eigners in the diocese of Pittsburg
who speak II different languages was
the statement made by Rev. DIR. Thos.
F. Coakley, secretary to Bishop J. F..
Regis Canevin, in an address before
200 women at the sixth of series
of round table talks given under the
auspices of the Catholic Women's
league. DR.. Coakley said that among
the 100000 Catholic foreigners in the
diocese there are 10000 Italians, 65,.
900 Poles, $4,000 slovaks. 5000 Lith-
uanians. 5000 Croatians, 5000 Sloven.
ians, 1000 Magyars. 1000 Bohemians,
1000 Belgians and French, 1000 Ru-
manians, 1900 Syrians, and 10000
Greek Ruthenians.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
RETIREMENT OF REAR ADMIRAL
DOYLE.

The Navy Department issued orders
relieving Rear Admiral Robert Morris
Doyle, one of the best known Catholic
officers in the service from the com.
mand of the Pacific Reserve Fleet, to
his home and await orders.
This means that on May 5, Rear
Admiral Doyle was retired from active
service, for on that date he reached
the compulsory age for retirement, 62,
having been born on May s, 1853.
Rear Admiral Doyle is native of
tennessee, and was appointed to the
Naval Academy on September 30,
1870, and during his forty-five years
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
AMONG THEMSELVES.

SOCIALISTS and their press speak and
write most disparagngly of all those
holding power in the present society
which is said to breed tyrants and
bosses who abuse their prerogatives.
The inference, more or less implied.
of course is this; in socialistic society
there can be no bosses, since liberty,
equality, and fraternity are supposed
to prevail, as also Justice and har-
mony. But in spite of such Utopian
claims, tyrannous men and tyrannous
methods may be observed, in socialistic
colonies as we'll as outside of them
The accusations which Gustavus N.Y.
ers, leading socialistic writer, au-
thor of such works as "Great Amer
lean Fortunes" has just hurled at
Morris Hillquit, known to our read
ers through his controversy with DR..
J. Ryan, land his satellites" certain
ly does not prove that the comrades"
through Socialism have freed them
selves from the vices of those they
are so anxious to lead into a prom
Used land.
Referring to the Discipline" prac-
ticed by the German Socialist party,
Myers writes in the international So
cialist Review:
Have we not seen it in the United
States used to punish members or boy
colt and blacklist Socialist publica-
lions? To antogonize the machine
has been equivalent to the crime of
high treason, and to offend any of
It's leaders equal to the enormity of
lese majestic.
ut may be excusable for me to
point out at this time that it is now
nearly three years ago since I deliber-
ately chose to set an example of de-
flying this sacred Discipline and
treating it with justifiable and pub
licly-expressed disdain. Mr.. Hillquit
and his satellites in local New York
no doubt have not forgotten that
crime of having effectively retorted
to Mr.. Hillduit's cheap sneers, an an
cient pretext, some years old at the
time, was suddenly trumped up
against me, and | was summoned to
appear at the bar. This trick was
sprung at time. too, when 1 was
absent in Canada, absorbed in writing
my History Of Canadian Wealth. l
not only showed my supreme con-
tempt for the whole proceeding but
exposed it, and the Canadian Socialist
party, with a full knowledge Of the
facts, at once invited me to member
ship" n.
"This," Myers continues, "is per-
sonal note, but it we'll illustrated anew
the point that you have so we'll raised
of the abuses, degeneracy. paralysis,
and even petrification that this sys-
tenn of Discipline has brought about.
Who can withhold scorn for a .Disci-
pine under cover of which trickeries,
subterfuges, compromises and con-
temptible and cowardly actions have
been brazenly done?"
The pagans We're wont to say of
the first Christians: "How they love
each other!" The virtues of Christian
slaves won proud Roman mobiles for
the Nazarene. The example of So
cialists accusing each other of trick
cry and boss.methods will not, to
most of us, seem like an augury of
that harmonious or perfect society
promised by Socialists as sequel to
their ultimate triumph.
G. B. of G. v.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08

mas editorial upon the subject
which is worthy of the attention Of
every woman of Irish birth or descent.
The one great nursery of Irish ma
tionality is the same as the one great
nursery of the Race-IRISH WOMAN
HOOD" says the Freeman's Journal.
1t was a woman, Scotia, who first
raised our pioneer flag on the shores
of Hibernia long ago in the misty ages
of our past. 1t was woman's hands
who wove, in the full freedom of Bre-
hon law, the shining strands of Ire
lands Golden Age. It was women
who supported Patrick's mission to
the Gaels and who, like Brigid of Kill
dare, carried on this glorious work
among the people after he had been
called to rest.
Who inspired the O'Neills and
O'Donnells to hold Ulster against a
Saxon foothold? Who stood on the
walls of Limerick and fought to the
last even when Sarsfield had yield
ed to superior numbers? Who helped
to forge and hide the steel of '98 and
48 and 81 and never knew traitor
in their anks?-The women of Ire
land, God bless them!-the women to
whom the hated enemy of their coun-
try and race, England, sends out a
call today for aid in her great struggle
against the sure retribution that Gods
justice is sending upon her.
Will they answer that call? Yes,
they will answer it as Anne Devlin an
swered the British soldiers who came
seeking Robert Emmett. With a rope
around her neck and death before her,
this humble heroine flung out her de-
fiance in words that should be craven
in letters Of gold on her tombstone,
Il know nothing, but if l did l would
not tell you"
No one knows what English rule
means to Ireland and what destruc.
tion it has brought to their country
better than Irish women do. It is in
their blood, you see.
Men go out into the world and, striv-
ing with the world, forget many
things, but women stay at home and
remember.
The agony of AZ is as black in the
heart of Ireland's daughters today and
will be hundred years from now as
the Rosary is sacred to them as it was
to their foremothers in penal days.
The little Irish girl trudging over long
field paths to school can tell more
stories about the "trouble times"
heard at her mothers knee than a
book can convey, and these little girls
carry that knowledge with them wher-
ever fat may lead their feet.
Men may do the fighting of the
world, but, again we say, women do
the remembering, and the women that
England looks to now to further her
recruiting campaign in Ireland are
women who remember things that
England forgets or tries to forget.
The sequel will prove that though
"cherchez la femme" is generally q
logical move it is not always a wise
one. Least of all is 1t wise among a
people whose women remember the
past and have set their capable hands
to the upbuilding of an unfettered fu.
ture for children yet to be born.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
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our friends at the new address.
The Irish standard., 1915-05-08
lTALY,s POSITION.

IN Italy as eager to Join the enemies
etmany as the British press makes
56ye7 Very doubtful indeed. The
eps are born diplomats and are
from being fools in matters polite.
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Summary ompoan effecng service occurring in
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fields such information will the Christian order
OF society and to promote industrial peace prosperity
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Pleurisy

What may the public learn re-
garding such an apparently uninter-
esting subject as the death rate of an
insurance company from pleurisy?
They may learn that the deaths from