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1t is common thing through
out this liberty-loving republic of
ours on or about election time to
have the Catholic Church accused
of political activity. Every now
and then an effort is made by
some unfortunate apostate to drag
in the Church solely for the pur-
pose of gaining his selfish ends.
Catholics form no political party
and the Church is no training
School for politicians. The Cath
Ole Church stands sponsor for no
man in political life except inso-
far as he abides by the eternal
laws of honesty and justice. But
Catholics do ask for fair play and
no wanton discrimination against
them for conscience's sake. The
public has been deluded long
enough by the startling accusa-
tions that the Church is a political
machine, and by repetition, the
charge has gained the force of con-
viction in the minds of great
many. But what pulpit is freer
from discussion of political and
secular topics than the Catholic?
What is there in the teachings of
our schools, colleges and semina-
ries that savors of political inter-
ference? What has our literature
to say that is detrimental to the
highest conception of American
citizenship? No one, even the
most fanatical, can ever truthfully
say that the Catholic Church has
ever stopped to the underlnanded
methods INDUCED in by some peo-
pie who have only their own in
terests at heart in making this
cheap, silly appeal to religious
prejudices. Fair-minded nom
catholics regret and condemn
such policies heartily and do not
hesitate to brand such statements
as utterly false. There is a GER
tain category of irreligionists who
style themselves patriots and
imagine they are America, who
believe that the government and
the sacred institutions of our
country belong to their precious
selves, but their pretentions are
as empty and unfounded as their
accusations against the Church.
Never in the history of the
Church, since its foundation in
America has it been proven to use
its influence, do or say anything
that could be construed as detri-
mental to any candidate, party,
sect or creed.
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K. OF K.
Kitchener of Kl,artoum is

Kitchener of Khartoum is no
more. The most wonderful
British soldier of modern times
has met with a soldiers fate.
Death, the ancient enemy that he
had encountered so many times
before and came away unscathed
has at last been the victor in the
unequal struggle, Death came
unexpectedly and took him away
at the height of his power, but
England should be thankful that
the Almighty saw fit to spare him
during the trying days of the
autumn of nineteen hundred and
fourteen. and that he was able to
accomplish his greatest task, that
OF raising and equipping volun-
teer army OF one million men.
Despite virulcnt attacks made on
him by certain English news
papers during the past few
months, at the time of his death,
he still remained the popular idol
of the British public and there
was no man i'll the whole OF
Britain who was held in such
high esteem, albeit awe, as was
"old man Kitchener" as he was
affectionately called. He was
appointed Secretary Of state for
war at the beginning of the pres
ent conflict and his power was
autocratic. 1t is said that he
ruled with an iron hand, but GER
tain it is that he obtained results
and accomplished more than any
other of the British leaders, with
the possible exception of David
Lloyd-George. during the trouble
some days of IA and the early
part of the year rs. His fame
throughout the British Empire
was based principally upon his
conquest and subsequent rehabili-
tation of the Sudan, but in the
years to come his name will be
linked with his more recent &C
complishment in bringing the
British army up to its present
quota.
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evening paper that he knows moth

evening paper that he knows moth
ing regarding the statement Of
The Daily Express that Sir Roger
Easement has expressed the wish
to be defended by him and that
there was no likelihood that he
would accept the brief. The
Daily Express, no doubt, conjec-
tured that, considering the char
acter of his own speeches in
Ulster, Sir Edward Carson would
find the defense of the ex-consul' a
rather delicate task. But it would
be much easier for him to appear
as counsel for the defense rather
than witness. If, for instance,
Sir Roger Easements advocate
were to ask whether his client
was not entitled to break every
law he could quote the ex-attorney
generals own words as a justi6-
cation for holding that he had such
a right. Again, if he claimed
the right to rebel, he could point to
Sir Edward Carson's example in
setting up provisional govern
ment. But if Sir Edward were in
the witness box, the most interest
ing feature of the case perhaps
would be his cross-examination by
the present attorney general. See
ing that Sir F. E. Smith was ap-
pointed galloper to Sir Edward
Carson's rebel forces, his ques-
tons respecting the iniquity oil
rebellion could not fail to be in
structive. The public will look
forward to the exercise of extra
ordinary legal ingenuity by Sir F
E. Smith if he takes part in the
forthcoming trial."
The time for complying with
the obligation of receiving Holy
Communion during the Easter
season will terminate in a few
weeks. All are bound to fulfill
the precept of the Church, and
those of the faithful who live
where there is no priest, should
try to reach one before it is toe
late. We have heard of a good
man who went one hundred and
twenty miles OH horseback in
order to make his Easter duty
but he was one of the old style
Hurry up, if you have not yet
proclaimed your loyalty. If you
haven't registered you can't vote
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Justice Brereton of Athlone,
who was made prisoner by the
revolutionists at barricade near
the Four Courts, made the follow
ing statement after his release:
"The rebels were not out for
massacre, for burning, or for loot.
They were out for war, observing
all the rules of civilized warfare
and fighting clean. They fought
like gentlemen. They had possess
sion of the restaurants stocked
with spirits yet there was no sign
of drinking. I was informed that
they were all total abstainers.
They treated their prisoners with
the utmost courtesy-in fact they
proved by their conduct what they
were-men of education. incapa-
bic of brutality"
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God assembled from the cross and
took His seat forever unon the

God assembled from the cross and
took His seat forever upon the
throne of God-mother, who to
this sin-darkened world gave the
Infant Jesus, God and Man, who
to heaven gave the Lamb of God,
who is the light of heaven
mother, standing not beneath the
shadow of the cross, but beneath
the glory of the throne of God
and of the Lamb, that throne now
resplendent with the glory with
which thy Son has enshrouded it,
one and all we rise up and call
thee blessed and place upon thy
brow our richest diadem. We
crown the queen of our hearts
we give thee the first place in all
of Gods creation"
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
CLOSING OF TRINITY COLLIE,

CLOSING OF TRINITY COLLEGE.
commencement week at Trinity Col
lege, Washington, was inaugurated.
last Sunday morning with solemn
pontlfical mass by Bishop Thomas J,
shahan, rector of the Catholic Uni.
Verslty, with Rev. John A. Fenlon as
assistant priest; Rev. William Turner
and Rev. John A. Ryan, deacons Of
nonor; Rev. Charles A. Dubray, of the
Marist College, and Rev. Thos. v.
Moore of st. Paul's College, deacons
OF the mass; Very Rev. Geo. A.
Dougherty, vice rector of the Uniyer-
sity, and Rev. Nicholas A. Weber.
master of ceremonies. Rev. John H.
Melody, Of the Catholic University.
preached the baccalaureate sermon.
On Thursday morning Most Rev.
John Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate, con-
ferred the degrees on the thirty.four
successful students, and the address
10 the graduates was made by Thomas
w. Churchill, of New York.
This closes the most successful
year in the history of Trinity College,
which was founded in 1897, by the
Sisters of Notre Dame, whose mother.
house is at Namur, Belgium. Over
two hundred and twenty-five students
were enrolled this year, composed of
young ladies' from all parts of the
United States.
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Augustine Birrell, the late chic

Augustine Birrell, the late chief
secretary for Ireland, is known to
all students of English letters as
literary man with many fasci-
mating volumes of essays to his
credit. In one of these "Obiter
Dicta," he asks What Did Hap
pen at the Reformation? ?" in which,
he laughs to scorn the silly pre-
tensions of some non-Catholics
lat there was no break in the con-
tinuity of the Anglican church and
that they are members of the same
church as that of St. Anselm and
St. Thomas Beckett. He urged
vehemently that the Eucharistic
Sacrifice was abolished by Protes-
tantism, and that this change was
fundamental and cut off the Eliz-
abethan Church from all that had
gone before; that Catholics alone
are the representatives OF those
who built the glorious cathedrals
of Catholic England.
+
"Sir Edward Carson has in
formed the editor of a Liverpool
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and feels war at home-we shall have
peace abroad-not till then. The task
of civilization must be, surely will be
to destroy British immunity from inva.
sion, so that the responsibility for her
intrigues abroad and alliances with
others to foment war elsewhere shall
fall on the shoulders of the principal
as we'll as of his "allies."
London and Louvain.
If London suffered what London
has caused Brussels, Louvain, Liege
to suffer-there would be no war in
Europe.
1t is because London and all it shell.
tiers of Imperial greed and cupidity
is immune and feels it can never suf
fer, that England has begotten this
war of horror against Germany.
l have heard it plotted and planned
for years. saw it designed steadily
in the F. o. and l have again and
again warned them there of where
they were driving. They meant to
drive there. They know it was a
crime but-Delenda est Carthage!
Germany's crime was German higher
efficiency in the walks of international
commerce and in sea affairs. The day
she decided that she, too, had future
on the seas, that day her doom was
decreed.
England fights for one thing only
her interests as the World Emporium
She has two ends in view-frst to de-
stroy Germany as rival; second, to
rope the United States into an ALI
ance of world partnership in the EN-.
porium line.
Decoying America.
She will fail in No. ultimately
even though she wins today. Ger.
many is too great and has too good
blood in her veins. Even if England
gets her down, with the aid of Russia,
France, Japan and the Silver Bullet
Germany will rise again.
But England may succeed in No. 2
l see the signs of surrender here on
all sides. The virus of British I'm
perialism is being inoculated steadily
already the press is thoroughly pois.
oned and most of the politicians and
so-called public men" (you have at
the outside perhaps two men in
America who could be called states
mem.
The attractions of a World Empire,
to be called a democracy" whereby
wealth can be acquired by systematic
pillage called trade" or finance"
without the need of fighting
greatly to the class of people who d.
rect things here. German methods
appal them. They wouldn't fight any
more than the English. They want to
dine in peace and have the fine
things of life through exploitation
not through embattled strength. The
English way of getting what you want
appeals to them-it is discreet, ere
spectacle" and sanctimonious. I pref
er the German-the brutality" of
men not afraid to die for their coun-
try or to pour out their blood in rivers
for their faith in their fatherland.
All that I ever did that was unset.
fish or chivalrous in public life-and
I have striven to be both in all my
public. service-has been done with
the image Of Ireland before me. I
worked for Ireland always-for Ire
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A number OF mysterious gentle
men have sprung up telling the
American people all about the ris-
ings in Ireland and all that under
lies the Irish movement, and
under the thin cloak of anonymity
they profess to tell what would
have happened in Ireland if Home
Rule had not been delayed.
Every one of these is a hum
bug, and their contributions to the
daily press are merely efforts to
acquire money OH false pretenses.
Some of these contributions have
been copied into the Irish papers
as Gospel. We note that in one
of them it is stated that if Home
Rule had been an accomplished
fact, every one OF the leaders
would have been in a Home Rule
Parliament. This is no doubt in
tended as tribute to their ability,
but it is a lie. They were all men
OF ability, men who knew that
Home Rule was a sham and a
fraud, that it gave no measure Of
liberty to the Irish people; that,
on the contrary, it perpetuated all
the worst principles of English
rule in Ireland and added new
evils of taxation, graft and job
berry. ~
The men who died for Ireland
were men who intended Ireland
to be as free as God meant it..
Men who had no use for a bridge
across the Irish Sea, or tight
rope OH which petty politicians
could dance to places in the
British Empire.
Fancy Clarke, after eighteen
years i'll a British cell, being joined
to the British Empire, or Pcarsc
or MacDonogh or Connolly, who
were Irish of the Irish. thinking
that any arrangement could ever
be good under which Ireland
would be in Redmond's words
"the most loyal portion of His Ma
jcsty's dominions."
To the men in America who
know the leaders who were shot,
and the men in every county in
Ireland who made the revolution,
any suggestion that they ever
were or would be Home Rulers is
merely an outrageous piece of ex-
travagance.
Let it be understood. The men
who made the Revolution were
men who were actuated by the
principles of Tone and Emmett,
men who inherited the Fenian
faith i'll all its purity, and who
took the Fenian oath to establish
an Irish Republic. Let us be done
with all this rot about Home
Rule and the "Home Rule Party"
which, without exception, is the
meanest set of political prostitutes
that ever disgraced nation
Leader.
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and Day Nursery. He is known
from coast to coast as friend of
the down and out. He is a big
man, doing mans work in the
world, and a great credit to his
faith.
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Dublin, May 25.-sending or receiv-
ing letters or other written commune
cations OF any kind, except through
the mails, which are subject to in
spection and censorship. has been
proclaimed a breach Of the Defense of
the Realm Act in Ireland by General
Maxwell, the British commander.
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"Sir Edward Carson has in
formed the editor of a Liverpool
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The Washington herald., 1916-04-10
u. S. AGAIN TO SEEK
RELEASE OF IMPORTS
New York Importers Ask State Depart
ment's Aid in Negotiations
with Britain.

Importers OF New York have appealed
to the State Department to send an I'M
Official trade ambassador to London to
negotiate with the officials of the foreign
office for the release of American-owned
merchandise valued at approximately
500, 900, 900 which is now detained at Rot
terdsm or at the fs&ories in Germany
and Austria. r. c. Mitchell, who repre-
ssnts more than 100 importers, announced
last night that he has been assured by
Counselor Polk, of the State Department,
that a representative probably would be
sent to London in the near future to pre-
sent to the foreign Office matters in
which the importers are interested.
Additional time will be asked for by the
importers in which to present applica-
tons for the release of merchandise pur-
chased prior to March l. 1915. and a de-
termined effort will be made to obtain a
concession for the safe transit of mer-
chandise contracted for between March
l, 1918, and March 10. 1915, the date of the
PRONUNCIATION of the order in council.
1t is understood that DR.. Charles A.
Holder, the foreign trade adviser who
has been representing the State Depart
ment in the unofficial negotiations at the
British Embassy, will be selected by Sec
rotary Lansing to carry on the unofficial
negotiations with the British foreign Of
flee.
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'PERSH|NG CALLS
FOR ASSISTANCE
More Men Needed in Mexico
or Forces There Must
Use Railways.
VILLA FAR In ADVANCE
sertion He Is Ready to Deal
with Bandit Alone.
VILLA FAR In ADVANCE

In view of the serious situation arising
from Villas continued flight, and the
gradual lengthening OF the army's line
OF communication, Gen. Pershing has
asked Gen. Funston for further instruc-
tons. army officers heard yesterday.
The facts as told in unofficial advices
are that Gen. Pershings force has been
reduced by the necessity Of maintaining
guard over +00-mile line of communi-
cations, and his movements have been so
hampered by inability to use the Mexican
railroads that he is in a quandary.
Gen. Pershing is understood to have
asked that more troops be sent to re-
enforce his columns, or that he should
be given permission TO use the railroads
to facilitate the pursuit of villa.
Villa, in the opinion of army officers, T..
so far in the interior. and his forces have
so increased, that 1t cannot be said the
bandits have been dispersed.
On the contrary, there Is evidence that
he Ii moving forward to a junction with
Gen, Reyes. with the Ultimate intention
Of joining Zspata.
IT was indicated by one of the high
officers last night that here Is Official
news from the border that Gen. Perish
ing has learned there Is force of sot
Yillistas about sixty miles ahead OF him
Beyond this force Is the vanguard OF
Villas army, So that the chieftain has q
large force between this own army and
the pursuing Americans,
A significant statement given out by
the Mexican Embassy last night was in
terpreted as an indication that Carranza
is preparing to assert his ability to deal
with Villa. This bulletin said:
'Eliseo Arredondo, ambassador-desig-
nate Of the de facto government Of Mex
leo, Is today in receipt Of a telegram
from Mexico City advising him that Of
ficial notice has been given by his gov
eminent that no further contracts will
be made with foreign firms for arms and
ammunition in view of the fact that the
recently established national works are
now capable Of supplying the entire de-
mand of the government"
The Washington herald., 1916-04-10
HOUSE DEMOCRATS TO
DEVISE "GAG' RULES
Majority Leaders Find All Efforts tc
Speed Up Administration Legs
lative Program Useless.

Majority leaders of the House of Rep
resentstives, whose plans for speeding
up legislation have been to no purpose,
have come to the conclusion that legis-
lation by gag rule" must be undertaken
IL the mass of legislation proposed by
the administration Is to be passed' with
In a reasonable time 5-- &
The Rules Committee will meet prob
ably tomorrow to devise a system by
which special rules will be brought in
to put through bills which will lead TO
extended debate. An effort will be made
to secure an agreement with the minor
lty as each measure Is presented II this
cannot be obtained the parliamentary
spurs will be applied, and a lively fight
against gag rules" may follow.
The House still must pass twelve ap-
preparation bills; among them such i'm
portant measures as the naval appro-
priation bill. the largest fortihcations
bill ever reported, the agricultural, dip
lomatic and consular, and sundry civil
bills.
The President has also laid down an
extensive legislative program, still I'M
finished.
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Thespians, with Rubber Stilletos,
Would Train for Real War, Says Actor

The martial spirit Of preparedness has
invaded the ranks Of the theatrical pro-
fession, The Hamlets in their doublets
and hose, who stride before the foot
lights with swords a-dangling. the villains
Via stab their victims with rubber
stlettos, and the men OF the chorus who
carry tin-pointed spears, all wish to be
trained as real soldiers. At least this APP
pears to be the inference to be drawn
from a letter which Secretary Of War
Baker has received from Hal Pierson.
Pierson spent all last week in Washing
tOa. During the day he absorbed the
atmosphere of preparedness. OF night he
caEOrted before the footlights of q local
The Washington herald., 1916-04-10
To Give Concert for Blind.

The following concert program is to be
presented for the blind at the Library of
Congress tomorrow evening at Sis
o'clock in Pavilion Z: Love Song
(Flegier), violin obligato; "A Song of the
Woods" Draper, AT Parting" CRogers),
Nora" CPigotD, Miss Emma Cohen
"Mazurka" (MlynarskD Air for G
String" CBach). The Bee" (Schubertl.
Samuel Wardell; die Nachtigall" ala
bierD, ITO a Messenger LA Forge). "a
May Morning" CDenEa), Sing, Smile,
slumber' (Gouno0 violin obligato), Miss
Cohen.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-10
SOLDIERS HOME BAND
GIVES FINAL CONCERT
Orchestra Will Resume Tri-Weekly
Programs in Open-Air Next
Sunday.

The Soldiers Home String Orchestra
gave its final concert Of the season last
night In the auditorium OF the home un-
der the leadership Of John 8. N. thinner
Manu. nine selections, including a vocal
solo, composing the program.
The control shown by the bands leader
was noteworthy. The program from be-
ginning to end was excellent, and al
though the band begins its tri-weekIy
concerts on April II, the evening will not
soon be forgotten.
The program was as follows: March,
numbering Cannons (Fucik); overture
William Tell (Rof1ni; vocal solo, by
MIS-. Josephine n. Barnhill; grand selec-
tioh' fhannhauser" CWagner); char
acteFistic, "swanee River CNiddIetonI,
rag oddity, "Oh, You Lovable Child
Van Alstyne); waltz, "A Summer Night
CHalD; finale, Alabama Jubilee (Cobbl
"star-spangied Banner"