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The Irish standard., 1915-09-04
SENATOR HOLLIS OF ALABAMA
SEEKS TO INVADE PRIVACY
OF CONVERTS.

(from Mobile Tribune, July BID
We are not personally acquainted
with Senator Hollis, of Choctaw, but
judging from certain legislation
which he is seeking to obtain, we are
of the opinion that he arrived on
earth just about fifteen centuries
after his time. AS a ring master for
Nero, when the Coliseum ran Grim
son with the blood of Christian mar
tyrs. he would have been an unquali-
fled success. He would have made
a most able master Of ceremonies at
a Roman holiday, when kind-heart-
ed Caesar amused his people by burn
ing Christians at the stake, having
them devoured by Numidian lions, or
crucified.
To Senator Hollis nothing is sacred.
He believes that the holy shades of
the cloister should be invaded by a
horde of deputy sheriffs.
The retreat Of sanity women, who
have voluntarily foresworn the world
to devote themselves to the service
Of Jesus, according to Senator HoI-
lie, should be raided, in the manner
Of sinking blind tiger or a Niger
dance hall.
While nuns are at vespers, engaged
In worshiping their God, he would
hammer down the doors of a con.
vent, give the mother superior the
third degree, defile the privacy of a
penitent sinner seeking pardon from
on High, and track the spotless cor
ridors with the mud-bespattered feet
OF gang of deputies fresh from a
raid on bawdy house or gambling
Fden.
Senator Hollis, the medieval law
maker from choctaw, wants to vest
sheriffs with the right Of search with
out warning and at any time any de-
nominational school or convent to
determine whether or not children
are held there against their will"
This means that in the dead of
night a mob of whisky-swilling dep
uties, many of whom hold their office
because of political services, may
burst open the doors of house filled
with religious and sanity women, in.
wade their bed chambers, insult the
inmates with disgusting INQUIRIES and
foul suspicious, and drag out any
woman at their own discretion.
The masters of the Spanish Inqui.
sition, Torquemada in Latin-America,
and the Count de Lara in Flanders.
are ministering angels compared with
this latter.day barbarian from Choc.
taw.
There have been many wicked
kings who reisnsd back In the Dark
Ages, and who ruled with an iron
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04
OF Texas; Miss Jane Adams of Chi
cago, and many divines and scholars
of national reputation.
NO DIFFERENT ELSEWHERE.

The situation confronting the city
of Cleveland in providing class rooms
enough for the children is raising a
vexing problem for the Board of Edu-
cation In that city. The Board of
Education In Cleveland may be re-
minded, however, that their problem
is no different from the problem of
any other city with large population
like that of Cleveland. The parish
school has relieved the burden of
Cleveland in measure that they lit.
tie realized, and it is only when in
stances like this occur that public
attention is drawn to the extensive
educational work that is done by the
Catholic Church and the burden which
Is removed from Boards of Education
In every community by the self-im-
posed sacrifices of Catholics. If there
is any one thing that is serious while
at the same time unappreciated, it is
the relative value of educational views
taken by those who pay taxes for edu-
cational purposes and others who pay
taxes, and, at the same time, assume
private burden-that of maintain
ing schools where education may be
combined with religious training. The
remarks of the Cleveland papers are
quite in order.
According to the closest estimate
that can be made the enrolment of
school children next fall will pass the
100000 mark. This means that &C.
commodations will be needed for 1000
more pupils than were cared for dur
ing the last school year. Only 3,40O
children can be taken into the new
buildings which will be completed by
the time the next term opens. What
the board of education must do is to
afford proper schoolrooms for the re-
naming $500 children for whom there
now is none. and it hasn't much
money to do it with. either"
There are already fifty-four parochi-
al and number of private schools in
the city of Cleveland, maintained free
of all cost to the city by the Cath
Ollie citizens. These schools care for
the education Of some 10000 children
while at the same time the
Catholic citizens are paying their
share of the taxes for the building and
upkeep of public schools.
Were it not for the Catholic parish
schools, Cleveland and other cities
would find 1t very serious problem
indeed to furnish an education for our
children. %
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04

hand, but we can recall none who
was so lost to shame and decency az
to contemplate the violation Of con-
vent.
When men drank the blood of their
enemies, impaled them on stakes,
nailed them to the Cross, and drew
and quartered them, even in those
days of dismal ignorance and bestial-
ity, men, to say nothing of women.
were granted sanctuary in the House
Of God.
It remained for citizen Of free
Alabama, in democratic America, in
the year Of the Christian era, 1915, to
stand in the highest councils Of the
State, and unbIushinsIy ask author
ity to violate the privacy Of free.born
womanhood.
The bill stinks to high heaven with
religious bigotry and fanaticism. It
is aimed directly at Catholic insti-
tutions, and no decent, clean.minded
Protestant will give it support. 1t
was born of an evil mind, befoulei
with beastly suspicious. It is un-
clean, leprous, and filthy. 1t is vile
and arrogant insult to the entire
Catholic clergy, gratuitous affront
to pure and chaste womanhood. It
is an insult to the intelligence of the
law-making body of the common
wealth. Its Prescriptions and intima-
tions are obscene.
It is the most damnabIy imperti-
nent and abominabIy brutal piece Of
attempted legislation which ever be-
smtrehed the records Of an Alabama
legislature. It is un.Amerfcan, un-
patriotic, unmanIy and unclean..
Does Mr.. Hollis imagine for a
single instant that the great army of
Catholic voters in Alabama will toll.
crate his iniquitious proposition? Or
that it will receive the support of
clean-minded Protestants? If he does
he is fool. Religious wars have
famed into life for less than this.
Thrones have been overthrow.
kings hurled from power, and the
world has run red with blood for
less than this. The legislature will
never dare pass any such detestable
law. It is doomed to die in commit
tee. So great will be the protest
against it that it will never emerge
from the committee on education.
Senator Hollis must be stark, raw
Ing crazy to father such measure. A
commission should be appointed to
inquire into his sanity and fitness to
represent the people Of choctaw az
their senator.
This bill will be engulfed in an OBJ
security blacker than midnight on the
River Styx, and the misguided indi-
vtdual who had the imbecile temerity
to introduce it will follow it into the
limbo of dead or forgotten things.
(The bill was killed in committee.)
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04
RETREAT FOR WOMEN.

A retreat for the Catholic laywomen
of Washington is to be given from
Sept. 7th to Sept. 18th, under the aus
pieces of the Catholic Women's Lit
erary Guild of Washington, of which
Rev. Augustus ]. Duarte, ST., is presi-
dent.
This Retreat will be conducted by
Rev. Owen A. Hill, ST., professor of
philosophy at Fordham University, N.
Y, and given at the immaculate Con-
vent, which is under the direction of
the Sisters of Divine Providence of
st. Mary-of-the- Woods, Terre Haute,
Indiana.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04

A clubhouse for Catholic young
men will be opened at the beginning
of the fall semester of the Oregon
Agricultural College at Corvallis. 1t
will be modern and comfortable in
every detail. The local council of
Knights of Columbus has hit upon
this plan of keeping Catholic stu.
dents together and diminishing ex-
penses. Parents, guardians or stu
dents who desire further information
should address Corvallis Council, X.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04
ENeLAhps EXCUSE GONE.

The pantering that has taken place
between this government and Great
Britain has resulted in the same an
swer from the English government in
every instance, namely: the submarine
policy of Germany was taken as an
excuse. England awaited herself Of
the opportunity to disregard the
rights Of the United States in inter-
fering with shipments from this coun-
try which England declared were de-
stined to reach her enemy through
some route, direct or indirect This
excuse, which in the first place. was
never valid one, has been publicly
disposed Of by the answer which this
government has received from Ger
many in regard to the contentious our
government has with reference to
Germany's activities in the war zone.
The Britons are certainly placed be-
tween the devil and the deep sea. To
refrain from praising President Will
son for the success attained in his
negotiations with Germany would be
most rude. The English government
recognized that the negotiations were
carried on between this country and
Germany, and the demands made upon
the German government were favor.
ably met. England must now come
out in the open and state what posi-
ton will be taken In the future re.
garding American shipping interests.
Dispatches from London are to the
effect that the citizens of Germany do
not know the attitude of their gov
eminent concerning the sinking of the
Arabic. Press dispatches declare that
Germany decided to retain the friend
ship Of the United States. This fact
simply provokes the British press,
which had based their entire cam
paign upon the hope that the efforts
to convince the people of the United
States through the London press dis
patches, that Germany was an enemy
of the United States. England be-
lieved that she was making consid-
cradle Roadway in thus foisting such
distrust upon American people. The
desire to have the public believe that
the German government is animated
by a desire to cultivate Americas
friendship, is highly displeasing to the
British press. Such is the strange
result in London of having Germany
respect the contentious of the United
States.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04

Lord Clanricarde, known in Ireland
as the bitterest and most cunning op.
pressor of those Irish who were unfor-
tunate enough to be his tenants, has
finally been compelled to surrender
the land on an equitable purchase
basis. The power for working mis-
chief which this landlord vulture pos
sessed is at an end, thanks to a de-
cision of the Land Court which orders
the estate transferred to the Congest-
ed Districts Board for distribution to
the tenants.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04
AN INSULT TO THE lNTELLI
GENcE AND DEcENCY OF
GEORGIA.

(From Augusta Chronicle, July 17.)
The Chronicle feels like apologize
ing to its readers-all of them; of
whatever religious denomination
for referring, in its news columns
yesterday, to bill introduced, or
about to be introduced, in the Geor-
gia legislature by Representative
Weary, of Warren County, which the
author frankly admits has for it's pur-
pose 1.-The investigation of Catholic con-
vents by grand jury committees" from
time to time.
That this idiotic and deliberately in
sulting Observation-Disclosures in the
house without any hope of its passage,
or even serious consideration-is an
outcome of the vicious crusade
against Catholics which has been car
ried on for some years by that arch
apostle of SANDER and hate, Tom Wat
son-fOr what he gets out of it's
altogether apparent; thus doubly stig-
matizing both the bill and it's author.
OF course. anybody who happens to
break into the Georgia legislature can
introduce any sort of measure in that
body-and there have been "fool
bills" galore introduced at every ses-
sion for years past-but that any sort
of publicity should be given to mea-
sure whose sole purpose is to offend
large body of Georgians and DELHI.
erately insult and traduce large num-
bers of good women whose lives are a
daily sacrifice in behalf of religion
and humanity, is not to be tolerated.
These noble women need no defense
against such defamers as Tom Wat
son, because their work for ages
speaks for itself-so much so that
even hardened criminals and thugs
have enough of manhood in them to
regard them with reverence; and are
often brought back to better life
through their ministrations-but they
do deserve from the public, of all
races and creeds, prompt and crush
ing denunciation of all those who
would attempt to cast the slime of
SANDER upon them.
Men may fight men; but he who
lays his hand upon a woman is far
less than a man. What, then, may
be said of one who dares to defame
those noble women who, leaving fam.
lily and friends and the things that
life holds dear, even giving all of
their worldly possessions to the in.
stitutton which they enter, devote
their lives, in humility and prayer
and sacrifice, to the cause of God
and humanity?
Alas! that the intelligence and de-
cency of Georgia may be insulted by
the formal introduction into its
august legislative body of such a
measure as the Tom Watson-veazy
bill; measure not seriously intend.
ed for enactment but only to be
studfously and shamelessly offensive.
+ For itself, The Chronicle again
apologies to all it's readers for hav.
Ing inadvertently made any refer.
ence to 1t in its own columns.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04
THE WAY OUT.
(From The Literary Digest.)

\ETOm Inc Literary D1RoSt.)
There is way out, says the Chicago
Tribune: "the gate is open, but it is
the gate of compromise" And it con.
tinues:
"The question is whether the Uni
ted States stands ready to insist upon
the full measure of its rights as q
neutral and to enforce such rights to
the uttermost, or finds it consistent
with its honor, its duty, and it's inter-
ests to forego full enjoyment of its
legal rights in favor of an agreement
which in fact will protect its citizens
and avoid danger or certainty of a
resort to extreme measures.
The question is one which chal-
lenges both the pride and pacific in
tent Of the American people. There is
2 profound reluctance In the nation to
being drawn into the European vortex
on any pretext. There is, except
among minorities of ardent partisans,
4 = disposition to see rights and wrongs
ION both sides. There is a realization
that the rigors of desperate conflict
have tempted or forced all the belliger-
{ ents into breaches Of technical law and
even into infringement of right. There
~ profound revulsion against Ger.
imam submarine tactics on grounds Of
humanity. There is also resentment
Il Gainst England for its illegal inter-
q rence with our commerce. There is,
f&oweyer, Q sane recognition OF the
l51 q sure upon both combatants. and,
j51Il believe. IN equally sane sense Of
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04
WASHINGTON TRUTH SOCIETY
ASSAILS NATIONAL BOARD
0E HENS0Rc

The Washington Truth Society, of
which Rev. A. J. Duarte, ST., is presi-
dent, at meeting held recently to
discuss the compiling of white list
of moving picture houses in Washing
ton, took fling at the National Board
of Censors.
The cause of the criticism of the
board was the alleged adoption at a
recent meeting Of the general COM
mittee of the National Board of Cen
sorship of the following report:
"The National Board has never de-
MED that infidelity and sex problem
plays are legitimate subjects for the
motion picture, but has insisted that
they be treated with seriousness and
reserve. Infidelity to marriage ties
must not be treated Improperly or
suggestively as comedy theme. HUI
morous films which emphasize loose
marriage relations will be condemned
Where it is necessary to show immoral
advances between the sexes these
should be indicated rather than ex-
posed, in detail. Immoral advances
between the sexes bound by close
blood relationship will be condemned.
The board insists in all cases that there
be minimum of intimate and sensual
detail"
ITO complete the farce" reads a
statement issued by the Truth
Society's theater committee, "the cen.
sors should have added: And when
burning houses are shown care should
be taken to eliminate all color from
the flames and blackness from the
smoke
these are the men,, continues the
statement, Tin whose keeping is put
the entertainment of our children
censors who approve of infidelity and
sex problems and immoral advances
with minimum Of intimate and SEN
sual detail!' But then-ecstatic souls
they will condemn immoral advances
between sexes bound by close blood
relationship Happy America to pos
sess censors whose morality and
grammar are so perfect"
The question of a local board of
censors, matter which is to be
taken up at the next session. of Con-
gress by committees representing the
Authorization League Of America,
the Y.M.C.A., and the Truth Society
were discussed. 1t was pointed out
that Chicago and Boston have local
boards doing successful work, and that
board is needed in Washington to
pass not only on crime and salacious.
ness but on matters of good taste
alone.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04
THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS.

Recently the Georgia Legislature
adopted Resolutions demanding that
America shall force England to give
up her piratical warfare on our COM
merce. And of late many prominent
Americans have given utterances to
their indignation and demand that our
government shall greatly increase the
navy to enforce our rights upon the
seas.
Our government, knowing that we
cannot fight England and her Asiatic
ally, has sought to obtain relief by
persuasion and argument, but England
after letting us wait six months for
an answer, has not only absolutely re-
fused to stop her piratical warfare, but
has decided to punish us all for Geor-
gia's boldness, by putting cotton on the
contraband list. The English War
Lords are displeased with our lack of
loyalty, and find it necessary to adopt
severe measures and give us lessen
in humility.
England mas for centuries waged
piratical wars and has destroyed all
rival fleets of Importance, to gain and
hold the supremacy of the sea; and no
persuasion nor argument will ever
cause her to give it up. She does not
build her dreadnoughts to yield this
dominion of the sea to the pleading
Of liberty and justice. America, by
greatly increasing her army and navy,
may be able to protect her people at
home, but by force of arms she may
not be able to enforce her rights upon
the sea.
She has the means to enforce her
rights upon the sea without fighting.
America has power which cannot
be destroyed. BY this power, If she
uses it NOW, she can force England
to give up her piratical warfare on
our commerce AT ONCE and FOR
EVER, and can compel her to acknowl-
edge once and for all our equal rights
upon the sea. If America WANTS
the freedom of the sea, SHE CAN
HAVE 1T BY TAKING 1T NOW.
America lays claim to the inalien-
able right to enjoy, without hindrance,
friendly commercial intercourse with
all nations; and hereafter will not al
low any government on earth to de-
prive her Of this sacred right, nor to
dictate to her what she may or may
not sell to any nation except her own;
and will, as far as possible, enforce
and protect her rights by peaceable
means.
Therefore, If hereafter any govern.
ment opposes our dealing with some
other nation, then we will stop dealing
with her own nation; and If she
opposes our shipping wheat OF
cotton, or arms to some other
nation, we will stop shipping
wheat, or cotton, or arms to
her and her own nation. And this
will remain in force until she recedes
from her unfair and unfriendly course
and settles that question satisfactorily
to all concerned.
But there is one way whereby she
may lawfully seek to withhold Ameri
can products from her enemies. Lei
her send her agents with plenty OF
money and instruct them to buy all
the goods we can spare and thus obtain
the right to dictate the disposal OF
them"
II America makes and carries
through such declaration, then the
neutral nations will at once be drawn
unto her and will speedily send out
similar proclamations. England, who
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04
PROTESTANT TRIBUTE TO-,
BLESSED THOMAS MOORE
British Essayist's Praise Of the Great
Lord Characteristic Anniversary
Of More's Martyrdom.

Tuesday, the sixth Of July, is the
three hundred aha eightieth anniver-
sary of the execution of Sir Thomas
More, the Lord Chancellor of England,
who gave up his life at the zenith
of his power rather than sacrifice his
faith or acknowledge the vicious Hen
ry VIII. as head of the Church. A
great jurist, who was long after re-
for the impartiality of his
decisions and the despatch with which
he disposed of litigations, an extensive
writer and clear thinker. More stands
out as one of the great men Of the
age in which he lived. But these abili-
ties and the success which came to
him could in no way detach him from
the religious principles to which he
firmly held. After seven years study,
he told the representatives of Henry
che could find no color for holding
that layman could be head of the
Church" His stand caused his fall
from the highest place in the kingdom
and his death; Leo XIII placed his
name among the blessed.
More's nobility of character has ex-
cited the praise of more than one non
Catholic writer Sir James Mackin-
tosh, the well-known British essayist,
is among these. Although he misun-
derstands some of More's ideas, par
ticularly his views on celibacy, he can
not restrain his admiration for the
whole life of the chancellor and his
courageous stand for the right. In
speaking Of Mores character he says:
"Of all men nearly perfect, Sir
Thomas More had, perhaps, the clear
est marks of individual character.
His peculiarities, though distinguish
ing him from all others, were yet with
held from growing into moral faults.
1t Is not enough to say of him that
he was unaffected that he was natural,
that he was simple; so the larger part
of truly great men have been. But
there Is something homespun in More
which Is common to him with scarcely
any other, and which gives to all his
faculties and qualities the appearance
of being the native growth of the soil.
The LONELINESS of his pleasantly puri-
fies it from show. He walks on the
scaffold clad only in his household
goodness. The unrefned benignity
with which he ruled his patriarchal
dwelling at Chelsea enabled him to
look on the axe without his being dis
turbed by feeling hatred for the ty-
rant. This quality bound together his
genius and learning, his eloquence and
fame, with his homely and daily duties
-bestowing a genuineness on all his
good qualities, dignity on the most
ordinary Offices of life, and an access.
ible familiarity on the virtues of a
hero and a martyr, which silences ev-
cry suspicion that his excellencies
were magnifed. He thus simply per-
formed great acts, and uttered great
thoughts. because they were familiar
to his great soul. The charm of his
Unborn and homebred character seems
as II 1t would have been taken OF
by polish. 1t 10 this household char
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04

Information sent to Rome says a
leading Bishop in Ireland has publicly
denounced as q scandal the spiritual
neglect of Catholic soldiers in the Brit
ish army.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04

The Brothers of the Christian
Schools are negotiating for the pur.
chase Of . large mansion in the city of
Utica for the purpose of establishing
Catholic high school.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04

Archbishop Seton. who has been liv.
ing at Mt. ct. Mary's Emmitsburg, Nd,
for the past few months, will sail on
August 20 for Pau, France, where. It
is reported. he will make his perma.
nent home.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04

At the recent Provincial Chapter of
the Franciscan Order at St. Louis.
Mo-, the Rev. Samuel Macke, o. F. M,
OF that city was elected provincial in
succession to the Very Rev. Benedict
Schmidt, who was recently elected
General Defnitor of the order and will
reside in Rome. At this Provincial
Chapter a new province, that of Cali
fornta, was added to the three prov
inces of the United States by the SUBJ
division of the Sacred Heart Province.
The Irish standard., 1915-09-04

Rev. Mother Catherine, Mother Gen.
eral of the Sisters of Mercy in Iowa,
died recently in the Mercy Hospital,
Council Bluffs. Before entering the
religious life she was known as Miss
Deborah Shea and was born in County
Kerry, Ireland, fifty-three years ago.