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and spirit of the Irish cause
seemed incarnate in the gallant
three. Their lives, their hopes
and their deeds stamped upon
their actions the mark of sincerity.
Defeat itself is bitter enough,
when the hopes are so high and
the victory so important, but
when the penalty for defeat car.
ries with it the exclusion from all
considerations, the sacrifices that
are made, the punishments bitter
ly inflicted, and the temptations
refused, when manly virtues have
had thrown over them the heinous
mantle of a felon's memory, sure
ly it is not necessary to state that
only noble souls are willing to
pay the price. Every man and
woman in whose veins flows a
drop of Irish blood realizes that
their cause has been oft defeated.
But it is not their purpose and it
is far from their desire to have
the world neglect or cease to hear.
The fact that the Manchester
martyrs were considered nothing
more or less than political con-
spirators by England does not de-
tract from the value of the cause
for which they gave their lives,
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or the spirit which animated
them when they uttered their dy-
ing prayer, "God save Ireland"
No lover of Irish freedom can
read the account of their lives and
their tragic death without emo
ton. 1t excites regret and ad-
miration in the mind of every
man and woman of Irish birth or
ancestry to whom Irish patriotism
is not reproach. Their lives ex-
cite a sympathy because ennobled
by sacrifice made holy by gen.
erous effusion OF blood and tears.
The Irish people in every land
cling with a persistency which
has been the admiration of the
world to the hope that Ireland
may yet be free. No stronger evil
dence could be produced in favor
of the fulfilment OF this hope than
comes when contemplating the
sacrifices that have been made for
Irish freedom, and on November
q the prayers OF every man anti
woman capable OF feeling one iota
of the sentiment of Irish patriot
ism will mingle his prayers and
his hopes with those of the Man
chester martyrs and conclude in
the words, God save Ireland"
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grown up sons and daughters, with

grown up sons and daughters, with
the shame attaching to families
through the fgnominy of divorce. To
advocate divorce is to advocate the
degradation of woman to the state in
which she was in the pre-Christian
era, and when, during the ages of
Rome's highest culture, the divorce.
court was always busy breaking Nm
the homes. Woman, more so than
man, is ever the most tragic victim Of
the principle, for she clings, as a man
rarely does, to the love of children.
GENERALLY, too, she depends on her
husband for support and re.marriaee
1or ner is far more difficult than for
hi~. Finally, 1t is a sin against "a.
!'e1on and against God. since divorce
invariably brings atheism and sacri.
lese In its wake, and this being 40
tsays the Jesuit). it remains a sean.
dal to Christianity that Protestant
are today compromising on
this question Of divorce and treason.
aoiy playing into the hands Of the
Of Christ and humanity
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"Had GERMANY titled her soil

"Had Germany titled her soil
in the same proportion as the soil
of Ireland is titled the war would
have been over months ago." was
the declaration of Thomas Rus
sell, a member of Parliament,
speaking before a Belfast audi
ence under the auspices of the De-
partment of Agriculture. Ireland
tills 10 per cent of her arabic land,
while Germany tills IS per cent.
In many districts land that was
formerly titled is now pasture
land because there is no one to
work it. Ireland has barely one
half of the population she had
when she was, in her more pros
porous period, the period before
the time when England decided
to ruin Ireland as a competitor.
If such is the condition now,
what will it be if Redmond had
his way and drains the country of
every able-bodied citizen capable
of tilling the fields.
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THANKSGIVING DAY.

Thursday, November 18th, has
been designated by the President
as Thanksgiving Day. The proc
lamation of the President has
gone forth as call to a people OF
the United States who, consider
ed as body of citizens, are God
fearing and God loving. The
people of the United States are
called to public devotion to mani
fest national gratitude to the God
of nations. We have a special
reason to pause amid the cares
and turmoil of the world in spe-
cial reverence and Thanksgiving
on this public festive day in 1915.
Peace and plenty have been our
lot in abundance. The Prince of
Peace has held undisputed sway
within our borders and his mis-
sion has been especially manifest
among us. Spiritual gratitude
should hold dominion over us in
a very special manner on this day
of public thanksgiving which has
been set apart by the nation,
when America, the proud mistress
of the western seas, is asked to
bend her knee in humble spiritual
recognition of the blessings re-
ceived from kind Providence.
On November 18th we are asked
to .kneel i'll spiritual submission
and patriotic recognition of our
graces and blessings. We have
every reason to do so with CRATE
full hearts.
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despottsm Of the rulers of italy and
Dahomey-in the case Of Naples with
what indignation did they speak of
the ruin of families by the detention
OF It's head or some loved member in
a prison. Who have not heard their
condemnations of the tyranny that
would compel honorable and good men
to spend their useful lives in hopeless
Punishment"
"They cannot find words to express
their horror of the cruelties of the
King of Dahomey because he sacri.
feed 1000 human beings yearly, but
why don't those persons who pretend
such virtuous indignation at the mis-.
government of other countries look at
home, and see II greater crimes than
those they charge against other gov.
ernments are not committed by them.
selves or by their sanction. Let them
look at London, and see the thousands
that want bread there, while those
artstocrats are rioting in luxuries and
crimes. Look to ireland; see the
hundreds of thousands of its people in
misery and want. See the virtuous,
beautiful, and industrious women who
only few years ago-aye, and yet
are obliged to look at their children
dying for want of food. Look at what
Is called the majesty of the law on one
side, and the long deep misery of a
noble people on the other. Which are
the young men of Ireland to respect
the law that murders or banishes
their people, or the means to resist re-
lentless tyranny and ending their
miseries for ever under a home gov
eminent? I need not answer that
question here. 1 trust the Irish PEG.
pie will answer it to their satisfaction
soon. am not astonished at my con.
viction. The government of this
country have the power of convicting
any person. They appoint the Judge;
they choose the jury; and by means
of what they call patronage (Which is
the means Of corruption) they have
the power of making the laws to suit
their purposes. am confident that
my blood will rise a hundredfold
against the tyrants who think proper
to commit such an outrage. In the
first place, say I was identified i'm
properly, by having chains on my
hands and feet at the time of identifi-
cation, and thus the witnesses who
have sworn to my throwing stones and
firing a pistol have sworn to what is
false, for was, as those ladies said,
at the Jail gates. thank my counsel
for their able defence, and also Mr..
Roberts, for his attention to my case" -
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Father Yorke, In "The Leader"
San Francisco.

On Saturday evening, before a little
group of old ladies of both sexes,
Lady Aberdeen, better known as Mrs.
Microbe, lectured on something or
other in the Scottish Rite Hall. We
do not know what she really did lee
ture about, but anyhow the subject
was immaterial, for the few toadies
who gathered to drink wisdom from
a real If recently made aristocrat
would have found their wants satisfied
by lecture on almost anything that
she cared to select. The only essen.
tial of the lecture was that it should
be delivered by some one who had
shined the shoes of British Royalty
or had some equally intimate connec.
ton with that elusive commodity. But
If some people want to crawl and
kowtow to rather vulgar old lady
because her husband got title for
doing work that an honorable man
might well be excused for refraining
from doing, that is their affair. It is
only when this titled notoriety hunt
ing humbug speaks in the name of
Ireland that it becomes a matter of
necessity to protest against her un-
limited and illimitable impudence.
When she dares to picture the condi.
ton Of Ireland, its prosperity and it's
poverty, and associating herself with
the few lickspittles, policemen and
Castle hacks who surround her, tell
what 1--WE" have done to make condi.
tions better in Ireland, it is enough
to make decent Irishman sick with
shame.
When, in '86, Aberdeen, as a reward
for piece of political treachery, was
appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
the country was going through the
turmoil of the land war, and the pow.
erty-stricken and rack-rented tenants
were making a last effort to save
themselves from wholesale eviction by
the hangers-on of Dublin Castle, her
ladyships diplomacy was first tried in
Ireland. Baby clubs and tea fights
were to cure all Ireland's ills if the
people would only leave those horrid
agitators alone and become good and
loyal citizens of Queen Victoria. But
that scheme did not work; the people
refused the thirty pieces of silver, and
short time afterward she went back
to England with the most bitter of
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Under the name of Cumam Ma
M-Ban, patriotic women of Ire
land have bound themselves to-
gether for the purpose of aiding
young men who have declared
themselves thoroughly Irish in
every sense that the word implies.
Young Irishmen who have re-
fused to take the Kings shilling
and fight England's battles in
French trenches. A branch of the
organization has been established
in New York to render assistance
in every possible way to the or
ganization in Ireland.
The head hunters were busy
people in Ireland. The hyphen-
hunters represent their prototype
in America. Both were bent on
discriminating everything Irish
because it stood in the way of a
propaganda that both were
preaching. The English govern
ment realized that before an Irish
man would part with the tradi-
tons of his race and the faith
which was his promise of eternal
happiness he would first give up
his life. The descendants of the
head-hunters have not the physi-
cal courage of their ancestors.
Their mode of action is therefore
more insidious. They have ever
been present in American history.
The American who espouses the
cause and becomes interested in
the TRADE of the hyphen-funter
forgets that it is the old, old story
in new setting. The ancient
spite in the garb of a questionable
patriotism used for the purpose of
discrediting the sincerest portion
of Americas citizenship. Those
who are unable to recognize or
understand how bitter the hy-
phen-hunter becomes and the ex-
tent to which he injects himself
into American politics and to
American political life, need but
refer to the words of General
Thomas Francis Meagher, who
felt the necessity during the clos
ing days of the Civil War, to re-
buke the hyphen-hunters who
were questioning the sincerity
and the patriotism of the Irish
Americans, while their blood was
flowing and their wounds were
still fresh, as evidence of their
unselfsh devotion to the preser-
walton of the Union.
There is nothing new in the
propaganda Of the hyphen-hunt-
.er. He is not a new creature. He
is not the creation of the modern
circumstances effecting American /
political life in the European con-
fict. The pet phrases of the chief !.
of the nation and the
ranting Of Roosevelt are as old as
the prosecutions of ireland at the
hands Of Great Britain.
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The fact that the enemies of
the Papacy are so active is strong
proof of the fact that the Euro
pean conflict promises to bring
about an international recognition
of the one power in all the world
which is battling not for the
rights of domain but for the
rights of man and promoting the
ends of national justice. The su-
premacy of the spiritual order of
things is bound to come in for
full recognition. While this rec
ognition has come more or less
grudgingly, it is bound to come
with a more cordial respect, as the
efforts of the papacy have played
such an important part in allie
waiting the sufferings of the vic
Tins of the war. The enemies of
the papacy are fearful that large
measure of spiritual influence will
fall to the lot of the papacy and
they are unable to see this in any
other terms than that OF temporal
power, which they associate with
the sovereignty of the Holy Faith
er. The Roman question, when
ever settled, will be settled in due
accordance with the spiritual, po-
litical, and social influence which
prevails at the time. No jealousy
of the position of the Holy Father
will prevail against a recognition
of the offices of the papacy dis
played in the interest of human
ity.
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THE MANCHESTER MAR
TYRS

November % marks the forty
eighth anniversary of the execu-
ton of the Manchester martyrs,
Allen, Larken and O'Brien, three
of Ireland's sons in the flower of
their strength, in the bloom of
their manhood, paid in response
to a demand that was made for
their lives by the unrelenting
vigor of English laws. The de-
feat of Ireland and Ireland's cause
was again repeated in the execu-
ton of these three men. The po-
litical, social and financial prostra-
ton into which Ireland has fallen
has in some quarters removed
from the minds of many a great
amount of that interest which
would otherwise be taken in
dwelling upon the value of the
lives that have been sacrificed in
the name of Irish liberty. Had
their hopes become realities and
the lesson of their sacrifice been
acted into deeds, the true value
and true meaning of what they
accomplished would be wildly
impressed upon the world instead
of being consigned to oblivion as
far as the tyranny of British rule
has been able to consign it. Were
it possible for the green banner of
Ireland to float over the ramparts
or ruins of Dublin castle and had
the banner of England, the en-
blem of servitude, been trampled
beneath the feet of a subjected
people, no orator, writer or poet
but would have drawn inspiration
from the men whose lives were
declared forfeited to the crown on
November e, 1867. The genius
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cannot be known to any mere princi-
pie of political or state conventions.
Man, the church holds, was made
for marriage, since it creates for the
couple an altruistic relation in regard
to the family and society. This rela-
ton is founded on love, and purely
individual self-interest and pleasure
are incompatible with it..
But is the individual to be sacrificed
and deprived of happiness, because
through no fault of his own, the
marriage for him has proved failure?
Better that an individual suffer loss
than that the collective body be de-
stroyed. Better, a thousand times, the
continuance Of isolated cases of I'M
happy families than that countenance
should be lent to a principle which
would destroy the happiness of the
race and drain the very sources of the
joys of marriage and the sweetness
of home. Besides, says the Jesuit,
there is alienation in case of dire
necessity by means of a separation
which, though deplored by the
Church, is tolerated as a lesser evil
than divorce, since it admits of a
reconciliation which not infrequent-
ly follows. The teaching of divorce
is doctrine of despair.
It is also held by many materialists
that the one-wife principle is a bar to
national welfare and human progress.
This, says the Jesuit, must be put
down as quite as baseless as the rest.
Marriage is the first foundation of the
family, and the family is the basis of
society. When the domestic relation
Is weak and lax, civilization is en-
feebled and precarious; but when it
is strong, great nations repose upon
Its strength. The Christian teaching
on the subject of marriage and the
family is a powerful prop of material
civilization and Of national and hui
man progress.
The charge which the Catholic
church brings against the materialists
Is that the doctrine of divorce, as we'll
as the claims for its facilities which
they advance, form an outrage against
nature, a crime against society, a sin
against God. Divorce, says the Jesuit,
is absolutely an outrage against ma.
ture, since nature ordains that life
comm1ttal for man and woman is of
the essence of the contract. Termin.
able unions and leasehold marriages
consequently destroy the nature of
marriage. Further, the love of one
person only, while life shall last. ia
the condition and ideal of human wed.
lock which is outraged by divorce, and
Tor the reason that divorce implies
that human love cannot be eternal. It
Insults human wedlock by debasing It, !
Apart from these considerations, di. |
Vorce is crime against society, since |
It starts its devastations in the sacred |
social unit of the family and thence
'catters its destruction over the entire
'abric of social organization. Who
IAN think of the cruelty done to little
children by vile institution which
ears husband from wife and robs in.
locent children Of the strong love Of
heir own father or mother.
And then comes the Injustice tn
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Mans humanity to man has
been exhibited iii noble fashion
during the last eight months. 1t
is estimated that $5O,OOO,OOO have
been sent to assist the needy Bel
gium. Funds have been raised at
the rate of nearly $5,ooo,ooo per
month to aid suffering humanity
in the Old World. The savagery
of our human nature has been
somewhat redeemed by the char
ity of America which is so we'll
told in the bounty of our charity.
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The Church and Divorce

The worlds case for divorce and its
increased facilities is as follows:
marriage, though distinguished by the
special solemnity of it's character, is
essentially an ordinary civil contract
between two parties Consequently it
is under the authority of the state and
Is subject as well, in regard to its
validity, as to it's obligatoriness in
duration, to the enactments and dis
pensations Of civil law. It is also a
natural function, and must, therefore,
be allowed to harmonic with the
natural claims of life, marriage being
for man, not man for marriage, and it
must not be allowed to be the enemy
OF freedom for either the man or the
woman. So, then, if either party fails
irretrievably in the contract, the law
should be allowed to step in and di-
vorce the two.
The case for the church consists in
a direct denial of all the foregoing
statements and the establishment of
the contrary position on the basis of
revelation and reason, says Father
Day in his book Catholic Democracy,
1ndiv1dualism and Socialism" Mar
riage is not mere civil contract be-
tween two persons; God enters into
1t and it is a Divine ordinance, one
and indivisible and is a sacrament of
grace. And (says the Jesuit), though
1t be true that the cause of marriage
Is a contract, yet 1t is a contract that
stands alone and differs in all par.
ticulars from ordinary contracts. In
these a man transfers his temporal
goods, his fortune, or his services, but
In the contract of marriage he gives
himself and with himself the sacred
and exclusive rights of conjugal life.
In the church's view. the end of
marriage differs from that of the
world which considers selfish pleasure
or worldly ambition to be it's first
object.
According to the Christian ideal,
conjugal union is the merging of two
lives In one; one intellect mingles
with another; one nature supplements
and perfects another. And in this
union, husband and wife, far from
seeking primarily their individual in.
'erests and pleasures, subordinate the
nobler altruistic ends of the welfare
OF their children, the good of society,
the honor of the church and the glory
of God.
Furthermore, in marriage husband
and wife are bound together, not by
simple force of their own wills only,
but by mysterious power from which
they can never free themselves, the
power which unites them being a
Divine power. And so the union has
always had q religious Il. Q. binding)
and sacred Il. 9. inviolable) character
which distinguishes it from every
'ther human convention and makes it |
Divine institution. The authority Of |
he state is powerless before it.
Again the church does not hold that |
is q purely natural function. |
n the New Law 1t was exalted by
christ and He established its sacro.
anctity under its religious guarantee
q sacrosanctity the like Of which ]
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"The watch dog of America" is
the significance which the Irish
Voice attached to "The hypl,en. !"
"No wonder the midnight mar
auder, otherwise known as an
Anglo-maniac, cries Away with
him. adds P. ]. Boylan in COM
ment in the BROOKLYN Tablet"
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THE cHocTAW PAYMENT.

How long win it be before ths
Choctaw Nation can get simple Jus
Nee at the hands of the govern
nentg
Again there is "a bill before con-
gress authorizing the payment Of ans
money which the government owes
these people and has oweu them lor
sears. There is honestly due the
Choctaws some theree or four mill
ion dollars from the sale Of town
sites alone. This money has been
ksot in the treasury by schemins
politicians for rears when the In
dians we're al. laely in need OF u.
Their needs A-e s9eater this year
owing to low cotton and the genera
depressed condition, than ever be
fore. Tle question is win this con-
gress, in the face Of the recommenda-
ton of Secretary Lane, follow IN me
steps Of previous congresses anu uS
prive. 10 the point Of starvation
these Indian wards Of that whlah
righdFuily and honestly belonss 70
them?
viii the lobby REPRESENTING tns
attoneys for the Mississippi Gaoc-
taws and their spurious claims again
y able to block the government IN
en- act Of justice to the indian? rms
treatment of these people is one OF
tie blackest records Of congress ana
is equally chargeable TO both demo-
cratic and republican congresses, iof
they have been repeatedly denied DS
each, alike