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The Irish standard., 1916-11-04
1RITAIN's PEcksNlFF PRESS.


The sycophantic, lickspittle press of
Great Britain is still busy explaining
why John Bull had to exercise a pain
full duty in expelling the International
News service and administering slap
upon the wrist of Mr.. Hearst, but any,
one can see, with unprejudiced eyes,
that England's indignation arises not
so much from "garbled news" as it
does from the fact that the news was
not garbled to suit. If this news SER
vice made the most extravagant ex-
aggerations in favor of Great Britain
1t would have been received with cum
bersome mods of appreciation, with,
perhaps, a whispered comment that
those blarsted Yanks are really intel
ligent fictionists, old top! However,
it didn't happen that way, and the
news service let out the truth that
England hated to hear. Something
had to be done so Parliament pressed
the button, the ministry cracked it's
whip, and yelps of protest arose, duti.
fully, from the trained whelps of Fleet
street.
When it is remembered that Eng.
lands press has deliberately lied
garbled facts, contorted views and
twisted ideas at the behest of it's min.
istry to suit national purposes, it is
not matter for wonder that the bald
truth hits her like a wet rag in the
face with surprise; nor can anyone
familiar with the false and tickle poll
cies of that country's administration
be amazed when John Bull arises with
a wall, and with Pecksniffian wrath
expels an alien news gatherer who
dared tell things that panied all but
England's foes.
If England's press is such an ear
nest truth-teller itself, why has the
world not known the truth abou,
Roger Easement? Why have Satanic
lies centered around Catholic and Irish
patriots who have been strung up tc
die as malefactors, while England's
own arch-traitors, Carson, Smith and
others, have been passed on to prefer
ment and the adulation in an hour Of
crisis? Why does the press of Eng
land conceal facts, or lie about them
in covering conditions that mean sc
much to the Mother Church in Eng
land? And why does the press Of
England not tell the common people
the truth about the war-the truth
which means that France, Belgium an6
Italy are being used as cats-paws tt
pull chestnuts from the burning fire
Of war from which England aims al
grabbing all the honor and gain?
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

In recent address DR.. Charles H.
Mayo of Rochester, Mimi, warned
against the lack of ideals which is
becoming more prevalent in American
life. He declared that we were "des.
tined to become commercial nation,
one of the meanest of types. In a
commercial nation everything is based
on commercial basis. The dollar
rules the nation. This business is al
ways the forerunner of social degen-
Grafton"
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

Very Rev. Augustine Mueller, D. D.,
who during the lifetime of the late
Archbishop Quigley was his private
secretary and also canonist of the
archdiocese of Chicago, has left Chi.
cago to become the canonist of the
archdiocese of Milwaukee under Arch.
bishop Sebastian Messmer, and also
to take charge of the work as visitor
and spiritual director of the various
religious communities of nuns in that
archdiocese.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

In a recent address to young minis
tiers at Wheeling, w. Va, Bishop
Franklin Hamilton of the Methodist
Episcopal Church is reported as say
ing: Every minister should either
preach sensational sermons and create
a sensation in his church and town or
get out of the business"
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

The Anglican Bishop of Birming-
ham, England, speaking recently at
Aston, said that in France members
of the Church of England who had
gone to fight had seen the Catholic
Church at its best and when they came
home they would want to find their
own church imbued with the same
spirit, more democratic, and forming
part and parcel of the everyday things
of life.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

The harshness Of the British mill.
tary government in Ireland is we'll ex.
emplified in the following item taken
from an Irish paper just received:
Denis Delaney, the well-known Irish
piper, has been arrested at Mount
Below under the Realm Act, it being
alleged that he played Who Fears to
Speak of Easter Week?' The prisoner
is considerably over 80 years of age
and blind"
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

Sister Mary Baptist Mogan, who had
devoted sixty years of her life to deeds
of charity and religious service, died
on Sunday, Oct. 1, at St. GATHERINGS
home in San Francisco at the age of
IS. She was the last surviving men,
Der of the original Mogan family who
went to California as pioneers in the
days of '49. Sister Baptist was a ma
tive Of County Galway, Ireland.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

Rev. P. Fallon of st. Mary's Church,
Paris, ILL.,, administrator of the estate
of the late Father j. J. Mccarthy, has
filed suit in the circuit court against
the Big Four railroad for $4,000 dam
ages for the priests death several
months ago. while returning in an au-
tOmobile from funeral.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

Writing to "The Field Affair."" Rev.
Father Kennedy, S. j., of Shanghai,
China. gives an interesting account of
the celebration of the sacredotal COL
den jubilee of Rev. Simon Dang, a
native Chinese priest. The venerable
priest was surrounded on the auspi-
cious occasion by fifty-four other men,
bers of the native secular clergy.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

During his lifetime John Pagan, who
lived in Fox township, near Waterloo,
Ia, was deeply interested in the poor
of all creeds. He was frugal in his
habits and when he died he left a
goodly estate, all of which was willed
for the benefit of the poor.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

Rev. A. ]. Shaw. priest of Sydney,
Australia, who was the inventor of a
wireless telegraph system now in gen.
eral use in Australia, died suddenly
on Aug. 10. The Australian Federal
government was negotiating with
Father Shaw for the purchase of his
patent rights with the object of max
ing the entire wireless system the
property of the government.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

most shameful treatment any
government has been subjected to
since the Holy See was despoiled
by the Italian Government. Eng
land, the protested defender of
the rights of smaller nationalities,
is the cause of Greece's present
pitiable plight. Her King tried to
pursue a policy of neutrality as
regards the belligerent nations.
He did not wish to expose his
country to the danger of an in
vasion by German army, which
would have been the immediate
result of his siding with the
Allies. He had seen Serbia vir-
tually annihilated for doing what
Greece was asked to do. He
wisely and periodically turned a
deaf ear to England's solicita-
tons. For doing this his country
has suffered outrageous wrongs.
The navy of Greece has been
seized, also the Notifications and
the principal railway. The Greek
army has been demobilized by
order of the Allies and Greek har-
bors have been blockaded. Greek
territory has been invaded and
held by foreign soldiers.
Finally, Athens has been occu-
pied by forces landed from En-
glish and French ships. The City
Hall and other strategic points in
the city have been seized in an
ticipation of popular outbreak
in consequence of the shameful
outrages against Greek sovereign
ty. King Constantine's touching
words in his address to the Off
GERS and sailors of the Greek
navy, who were forced to quit
their ships, have gone straight to
the heart of the Nation. Here
are its opening sentences:
Officers, Sailors: In these
hours, when stricken and with
bleeding hearts each new moment
forms new wounds deep in OUT
souls, which so short a time age
were proud in united and vic
torious Greece. My Government
has been obliged to order you tc
leave the ships upon which you
brought the news of the freeing
OF our liberated brothers; you
came with tortured hearts and
eyes wet with tears, every man
faithful to his oath, to the side OF
your King.
II thank you and congratulate
you, O my faithful sailors.
thank you, not only as King and
chief of the fleet, but as the rep
Preventative Of the Fatherland yor
love SO much, to which you have
given so much, for which you are
ready to give and suffer all"
Greece is despoiled and tram.
|pled upon because she has not al
her command the physical means
for resisting her oppressors. 1t is
the latest exemplification of the
doctrine that might makes right
In 1870 that doctrine was put in
practice when the Holy See was
robbed of its temperatures. To,
day it is applied to one of those
smaller nationalities'' of which
England has so much to say
when she proclaimed to the
world that she had taken ur
arms i'll their defence. The rank
Hypocrisy of that declaration is
now made evident by England's
Treatment of Greece.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

The Polish Catholics Of Luzerne
county, Pa, have purchased tract of
ten acres of land in Newport town
ship as a site for an orphanage. A
building costing close to 100000 will
be erected.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

Twelve Catholic institutions receive
from $1,000 to $4,000 each under the
will Of the late Thomas H. O'Connor.
trustee of the Emigrant Industrial
Savings Bank, New York city, who
died Feb. S.
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04
ANOTHER NATION SACRI.
FICED.

At this writing Greece is on
the brink of civil war;, which, if
it comes, will be the result of the
The Irish standard., 1916-11-04

st. Joseph's Church, Rochester.
N. Y. in charge of the Redemptorist
Fathers, will celebrate it's diamond
jubilee on Nov. IL.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07
is II RETRlBUTION?
Richmond Timcs-Dispatch)

(Richmond Timcs-Dispatch)
If the Russian account Of the tor
pedoing of the hospital ship Portugal
in the Black Sea is accurate, 1t was
one of the most brutal acts OF an IN
credibly savage policy. It's ruthless
;nhumanity, to say nothing OF Its dis-
regard for elemental rules of civilized
warfare, set it apart as peculiar!
hideous manifestation of frightfulness.
In all probability. the great mass oil
the German people, if they learn the
truth. will be as sickcncd by It's
cruelty as is the rest Of the world.
For those who lost their lives:
French and Russians, only pity may
be felt. And to the French nation
too, the sympathy of the world goes
out. But to Russia. the Russia that
rules. the act may be considered al
most form of retribution. For the
newspapers that carried the Russian
statement Of this atrocity, this time
committed by Russia. Through no
fault, re crime, no hostility even
: number of Galician Jews were
seized by Russia and held by her as
hostages early in the war. They were
held in the city Of kiev, already &
Ia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

,carmanv that was set forth at the
beginning of the war. Then Germany
over all was advanced as literal
expression of the nations view that
of it's destiny to command the destin-
les of urope. Then the cry Of Ger
man kultur was gravely supported
as indicating the German destiny to
extend its kultur over the world.
Then the cry for force as the ulti-
mate right of nation was gravely
supported by the best German writ
ers. Then the idiotic Nietzsche was
hailed as the very genius of German
national philosophy.
If the aims of Germany were con-
strued as of the most ambitious Or
der, German expressions, opinions and
claims were to blame. II Germany
now simply wanted to hold its Dor
ders and to maintain a military sys-
tenn sufficient for the ordinary ends
of national existence the fact indi-
Gates wide reversal from the original
position. But the Allies arc not dis
posed to believe that the German
chancellor means to renounce any OF
his countrys ambitions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

which may be accepted for what it is
worth--but he does not tell rs that
Germany will respect American ira
velers on the ocean. On the contrary
he says Germany will not permit its
arms of defence to be wrested
from its. hands. In other words, Ger
many is going to persist in her sub
marine warfare. ;
What is the practical moral for US
in the international defiance just en-
changed between the two Chancellors,
1t is spelled in one word-Prepared-
ness! Mars may issue his summons
any day for the United States to ap-
pear in the arena.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07
LETTING WELL
ENOUGH ALONE.

1t is significant that in the demo-
cratic primary election in Virginia
last Tuesday the Mayors of all cities
were nominated to succeed themselv-
es, although in every case the ncum-
bents faced opposition. Harry Wood
ing had two antagonists for chief exc
cutive of Dan"ille, but he received
clear majority over all the votes
cast and a plurality over his highest
opponent Of $50 votes, or margin
Of more than 20 per cent. of the
total vote.
In Richmond Mayor George A. Aims
lie was rcnominatcd; in Norfolk May
or Wyndham R. Mayo, was again nam
cd by his party, while in Roanoke
Mayor Charles NJ. Broun won over
cx- Mayor Joel H. Cutchin, who op-
posed him. In Lynchburg, Mr.. Roy
ston Jester, who won handsomely in
4 contest q year or TWO ago Tor the
Office, then made vacant by death,
received a handsome endorsement Of
his service, winning over d clean and
able opponent. Thomas A. Fisher, Of
Alexandria was rcnomInatcd for an
other term of four years.
The Danvillc Register suggests that
it may bc seen from these results
in various Virginia cities tnat the
incumbent of the Office has d decided
advantage over any other aSp'ranl
for the honor. This may be partially
explained by the fact that many Vot,
ers know little Of the merits 81 TIC
candidates, and so feel that 1t Is
wiscst to let well enough alone. IN
q word, i9 a voter has not especial
personal interest in the success of
a rival candidate, he is likely to vote
FOR thc incumbent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07
EFFICIENCY CRIME
{ Richmond Journal)

Socialists and labor union philoso-
ply is mysterious. In some OF the
government work shops an efficiency
system has been introduced. Under
it men are timed accurately to ascer-
tain the amount Of work they do and
Fare paid bonuses for extra production.
There is no increase in time or hours
of labor. The idea is to encourage
. the individual workman to speed up
and increase his earnings by fast ana
accurate toll That continuing null
sance, ever restless feather head and
curious political accident, Represen-
tativc Clyde Tavenner, has introduced
a bill to forbid all this, making it a
crime punishable by fine and. impris-
onment to hold stop watch on any
man to ascertain what value he is
giving for the money paid to him. Mr.,
London, the Socialist representative
from New York, is backing the meas
ure energetically. At a committee
hearing in Washington on Tuesday
he was quite eloquent in talking of
what an outrage it is to induce
man to improve his own efficiency and
add to his own value to his employer,
even when that employer happens to
be the taxpaying citizen Of the coun-
try.
1t would be interesting to know now
far these statesmen and reformers
would carry us back. According to
their teachings, every improvement
and discovery that increases the pro-
ductive power of the human being Is
an outrage against humanity and
new menace and means Of oppression
Carried 10 its logical conclusion,
,,teir doctrine would abolish cleo
tricity, the locomotive, even the horse
and carry US back to human labor as
the one means for transportation and
conveyance because that method
would provide employment for
larger number of persons. We snould
throw the linotype cut Of our news
paper and printing offices and go back
to hand setting and the printing pres
ses operated by man power, destroy
all our factories and make every
thing by hand.
The whole idea is vicious and de-
structive. Underlying it all is the
fool notion that labor should be
taught and encouraged to get from
employers and capital the greatest
possible pay and give the least pos
sible service for it. Mr.. Tavenner ana
Mr.. London probably think they are
thinking along advanced lines. the
truth is they are doing their puny
,,ttcrmost to stand in the way of pro-
rress, to obstruct development, 10
repress the highest, the noblest and
the most generous thought and I'M
pulse, including loyalty and individual
ambition to achieve.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07
GERNANY'S CALL FOR QUARTER
baltimore Amcrican).

Chancellor Won Bethmann-H ollWcg
in his speech to the Rcichstag laid all
emphasis upon the declaration that
Germany is not fighting for ag-
grandiscment but for its very exist
ence. He holds the preservation OF
Prussian militarism as the very life
of:thc state. This declaration Of the
official head Of the government is
,tantamount to call for quarter from
The foe. II is, in very different
-traia from. he to.s.ful program! fc-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07
WAR THEN
AND NOW.

A few Alexandrians now living re-
member the first battle of Bull Run.
We heard the roar of the artillery
about twenty-five miles southwest OF
us on that bright July day, but we
had no anxiety that we would even
smell the powder from that conflict,
although the soft summer zephyrs
were being waited from that dlrec-
ton. We were behind stockades and
Notifications. There were no air.
ships in those days, and there was
no danger of bombs being dropped by
the Confederates upon Alexandria,
the base of supplies for the federal
army.
But the fighting machines have
changed since those days. 1t IS not
only the soldier on the firing line who
is risking his life, but children, hum
dreds of miles from battle fields, have
their lives menaced while nesting In
their cradles.
There was but one casualty from
the Zeppelin raid upon England on
Wednesday The victim was a little
child. Three days ago a wall of an
guiSh went up in our city when a
small boy had his life snuffed out by
an automobile. The funeral of the
little one yesterday afternoon attract
ed general attention and brought
forth many expressions of sympa-
thy for the distressed family as 1T
tie boys school mates Of thechild who
who had met violent death, bore
his remains. But this waA
the result Of an accident.
Let us imagine the torn hearts OH
the other side of the world when
mutilated remains Of little ones, vic
tins of airships, are picked up by
sorrowing parents after a Zeppelin
raid.
We arc assured that our works fol-
low us. Napoleon is represented as
having the finger of scorn pointed at
him by thousands in Tartarus. A
more terrible retribution awaits the
aerial bomb throwcr. He will not
only be pointed at with contempt by
many in Tartarus, but little ones, at
tired in immaculate white, in the far
away land of the blessed, will be to
him as the fire that shall not be quen-
ched and the worm that dieth not.
Count Zeppelin and Admiral Tir-
pitt may DC great men in their Gay
and generation-to Germany. But the
souls of little ones whose earthly tab
ernaclcs have been swallowed up
in the sea Or shocked to death al
their mothers knees will cry for ven
geance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

FOR SALE-One 1913 Overland q
passenger just overhauled. Cne
1914 King, first class condition. Two
1914 Fords, good as new. Bargains
if sold quick. Fletcher-Demaine Co..
123 South Alfred St.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

William Erodc, aged 10 years, son
Of Mrs. Lcia BrDGc and the late
George Broie, Of Hoffman, Nd, was
killed Tuesday night when he climbed
a steel pole carrying he high trans
mission wires Of the Edison Hum
mating Company. OF Cumberland. and
touched live wire The lad fci! TO
the ground and was dead when his
companions reached his side.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

Broker in health and ignored by
her formcr friends, Mrs: Jane Liam
aron, the pretty Auburn N: " so,
CITY girl who clopcd with d parolcd
convict of Anhurn Prison year ago,
lid r@slerl,' = broken hsarl.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07
CLASSIFIED ABS

MARRY IF LONELY-For Wealth
and happiness; hundreds ricn ana
attractive willing to We'd eonhdeh-
tial, reliable; years Of experience;
descriptions free. ''The Successful
Club, Mrs. Purdie, Box $50, Oak
land Calf. ''
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

FOR SALE OR RENT-315 South
Pitt street, room and bath, wash
house, large yard, cellar, hot-air
heat, apply to S. D. DeNaughan,
200 N Royal st. 31-2w.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

A subcommittee Of the House Nav
al Affairs Committee, headed by Re-
preventative Rortlan, Of New York
yesterday reported favorably the Tai
bolt bill, increasing annual leave Tor
civilian employees Of naval yards, ar
senals, and naval stations from fifteen
to thirty days. At the same time the
Mahcr bill, revising The rules gov
crning wage scales in tho varlofs
navy yards, was reported favorably.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

GARAGE-For rent. 80. 90
per month. Apply T. M. Cragg,
527 N. Columbus Street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

JUST RECEIVED-We have prrch-
ased contents of house, full OF
furniture, and is now on sale al
bargins ;also 2 very fine brass beds.
$50 pair shoes, bought at auction,
very cheap. 8 sets fine buggy
driving harness. Large lot OF CHINA
and granite ware on sale. bern:
heimer and Company ~.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

Philip G. Water, sexton Of st.
Paul's Church the oldest religious
cdi!ice in New York, committed sui
eide yesterday by hanging himself
in the belfry.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

WANTED-2 rooms furnished fol-
light house keeping, by couple with.
out children, address p o. box 176.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

A seditious movement organized
in Rio de Janciro, by the federal de-
putty, Maurice Laccrda, has been put
down by the police and various ar
rests have been made.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

Holland has demanded from Eng
land the return of valuable securi-
ties and documents seized in the mails
taken from Dutch ships by vessels
of the British navy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

FOR RENT-Houses 405, 400, All,
n West St., 6 rooms and bath $14,
per month. 1915 Princess street, e
rooms and bath. S13. 80; 1917, 6
rooms S12. 0G; Water rent included.
Keys at Leachman and Saum store
Cor. Queen and Payne Street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

WANTED Antique square and up
right pianos, Hugo Worch, No. ITO
G street, Washington, D. c. 18tf
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

The three masted schooner Elsie
A. Baylcs, which stranded near New
Inlet coast guard station Wednes-
day is breaking up, according to re-
ports received in Norfolk last night.
The vessel is 100 yards off shore. Her
decks are submerged.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

Three Americans and n Spaniard.
all employees of the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company of Mexico, were
murdered by bandits near Rosario
Sinaloa, Wednesday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

4 German submarine was suns yes
tertay by squadron Of French and
British warships The crew of the
submarine was captured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

The bodies of Mrs. Corinnc Wheel
or, 76, and Mrs. Kate Swift, So, form
crly of Carthage, Mo-, were found at
Seattle, Wash, with their heads
crushed. Three thousand dollars in
cash, supposed to have been kept ii
the house, was missing.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

A large transport belonging to the
entente allies has been sunk off the
west coast of Greece. Many lives
were reported lost.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07

100 MEN WANTED
S1.5O per day. Good ac-
comodations provided. APP
ply to Gwynn Tompkins
or Frank Luke, Warren
ton, Va.