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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
HOW LvNcA's LIFE WAS SAVED.

| wv" e1NST . LIFE WAS SAVED.
The news that Jeremiah C. Lynch
had been sentenced to death by a
eourt-martial in Dublin, after Asquith
had announced that there would be no
more executions Of rebels, shows that
the British Government in Ireland is
the same brutal and bloody institution
1t has been for more than seven hun.
dred years. Judging from the diff
Guilty that Ambassador Page had in
obtaining information about the case
after Lynch's friends in New York
mad cabled him, it is quite plain that
the military authorities in Dublin had
| determined to shoot Lynch without
taking the trouble to inform the civil
Government, and that, but for the
prompt action of those friends another
name would have been added to the
list of the murdered.
| A transparent effort is being made
to give President Wilson credit for
making spontaneous and successful
effort to save Lynch's life. The Presi-
dent made no such spontaneous ef-
fort. He only acted after Senator
| O'Gorman, in response to kilograms
from New York. had done consider
able hustling to find him and laid the
case before him. Then he acted, but
his action would have been too late
but for the action of other men, which
was taken promptly. He was to have
been shot at o'clock in the morning,
Dublin time, on Friday, May 10, which
means a little after midnight in Wash
ington. That fact, was mentioned in
one of the kilograms to Senator
O'Gorman and he did not let the grass
grow under his feet But the British
military authorities in Dublin were
also warned by cable, and they stayed
their hand. Mr.. Richard F. Dalton, an
intimate friend of Lynch, cabled to
Ambassador Page. to Mr.. Asquith, and
to General Maxwell, that Lynch was
an American citizen and that the
proof was here. He also wired the
same information to Secretary Lam
sing. That President Wilson did his
plain duty in the matter after all
these things had been done there is
no doubt. All he asked for was stay
OF execution until the facts could be
investigated, and in the official state.
ment given out it was distinctly stated
that no appeal for clemency was
made. This showed some dislike of
the responsibility. Lynch's friends
had not asked for clemency. They
merely asked that his rights as an
American citizen should be safe
guarded.
Lynch would undoubtedly have been
shot on the morning of Friday of last
week but for the prompt action of his
friends in New York. They are very
thankful to Senator O'Gorman for his
quick action and they freely acknowl-
edge that President Wilson did his
duty under the circumstances
lie Am.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
PREMIER DEFENDS CATHOLICS
Says the Catholics Have Done More
Than Their Share Of Work
for French Republic.

In France the war has wrought
marvellous changes, and it is pleasant
to find M. BRAND, the premier, and
erstwhile bitter enemy of the Church,
condemning root and branch the evil
methods Of calumuiators of the
Church and her priests. A grave
scandal has arisen regarding the cam
paign of certain anti Catholic papers,
which accuse the priests with the
army of cowardice; and various pro-
tests have ended in deputation to
M. BRAND composed of deputies of the
Independent groups of the chamber.
He received the deputies with warmth
and associated himself with them in
indignation of the attacks made on
Catholics, who. he said, had done
more than their share in every work
for the country in this great moment
of her existence. AS head of the gov
eminent, he formally reproved these
attacks, which are utterly unjustified
and which are opposed to the Sacred
Union, by which alone victory can be
secured. He later confirmed these re-
marks in letter. to the delegates, in
which he again paid tribute to the no.
BILE and generous manner in which
Catholics had fulfilled their national
duties.-Western World.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
CATHOLICITY IN CHINA

One Christian out of three hum
dred Pagans is the proportion to-
day in most of China, and it is re-
called that only ten years ago the
figures were one out of four hun
dred.
Peking. however, has made a
record nothing short of marvellous
during the past year. The Pro-
curator of that Mission, Father
Planchet, Vincentian, writing to
the American Foreign Mission
Seminary at Maryknoll, states
that his mission registered 1920
adult baptisms-more than a hun
dred day-and that out of every
twenty-five inhabitants in that
section of China-Chih-li-one is
IA Catholic.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
WAR CRY WRITER.
Nun Passes Away Who Used to Be
Salvation Army
Worker.

Sister Imelda Teresa, a Dominican
nun, formerly Miss Susie Swift, and
prior to her conversion in 1897 high
officer in the Salvation Army, passed
away at St. Clara College, Sinsinawa,
Wis, where she had been stationed
for the last three or four years.
Something of sensation was
caused in American and English cir
cles in 1897 by the decision of Briga-
der Swift, as she was known in the
Salvation Army, to join the Catholic
church. She was graduate of Vassar
College, and her intellectual and execu-
tive ability were of high order. She
was one of the most brilliant writer's
on the editorial staff of the "War Cry"
and there was CONSERVATION in Booths
army when the detection of Miss Swift
was announced.
in America" the gifted convert gives
an interesting story of her religious
experience and of the successive steps
ION the long, winding, dusty road to
Rome
Miss Swift shortly afterwards en-
tered the Dominican Sisterhood and
had served that order in various ca
pacities. Her experience as a social
worker before her conversion-she
having hopn one Of tho niOnoorS of
work among the waits of London
made her valuable addition to the
Sisterhood. She served for some years
as directress of the Dominican Col
lege of Our Lady Help of Christians,
Havana, Cuba, and later was asso-
ciated with converts in Newport, r.
l., and in Albany, N. Y. Sistem Imelda
was about So years old.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
THE "NATIvE SONS" MOVE Al
WASHINGTON,

That the administration is plainly
catering to the native sons or "a. p
A. element" is evidenced by the fol
lowing which we have just received
from the Catholic Press Association s
Washington correspondent. The cor.
respondent says:
/ Secretary of War Baker has or.
dered the dismissal from Government
vessels which are to plant mines of
all members of the crews who are not
native-born citizens. A similar order
bars from the civil service of the War
Department all naturalized citizens.
Congressman William S. Bennett, of
New York, asked in the House of Rep.
resentatives:
What would happen to the Presi.
dents Cabinet if such an order were
issued as to it?'
AT least two members would have
to resign replied Representative
Johnson.
"The two are Secretary Lane, of the
Interior, who was born in Canada,
and Secretary Wilson of Labor, who
was born in Scotland.
Suppose suggested Representa-.
tive Greene, of Vermont, that such an
order had been received by the Union
commanders in the Civil War; they
would have been obliged to dispose OF
men like Siegel and Carl Schurz and
General Meagher.'
The congressman who made these
points are talking sense and true
Americanism. 1t may be good politics
in some sections just now to kick
around the foreign-born citizen, but in
November next the much abused for.
eign-born element will have a chance
to prove how it likes the process.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03

John Dillon in the House of Com.
mons few days ago: eff Ireland
were governed by men out of Bedlam
they could not pursue a more insane
policy. You are letting loose river
OF blood between two races, which,
after 300 years of hatred, we had near.
ly succeeded in bringing together
You are washing out our whole life.
work in sea of blood" Verify, says
the Augusta Chronicle, these are words
that should set England to thinking
But if not, then the world at large is
thinking for her. For we'll the world
knows that Belgium has suffered no
horrors that have not been duplicated
in Ireland a hundred-fold.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03

The Baptists in their conven-
ton recently held in this CITY
teemed with it's usual bigotry and
narrow -mindedness as will be evil
dent from the resolution passed
while in session, which is as fol-
lows:
1--WE reaftirm our traditional
doctrine of the separation OF the
church and state as the guarantee
of religious liberty; that we de-
sire this religious liberty for all
men as we'll as ourselves: that we
view with grave concern the dis
position of the Roman Catholic
church to tax us through the state
with the support of its institu-
tons: that we especially oppose
being compelled as taxpayers, to
pay for the maintenance of paro-
chial schools, which are and
should remain purely private in
situations.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
THE MONTH OF ROSES.

The, month of June is conse-
Grated in a special manner to the
practice of devotion to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus. she celebration
of special feast in honor of the
Sacred Heart, to be observed on
the octave of Corpus Christi, was
extended to the whole world by
our late Holy Father. Plus TX.
1t was timid, humble nun in
a small town in the South of
France that Heaven marked out
to be the apostle of the Sacred
Heart. In the beginning the de-
votion was scoffed at as an inno-
walton and met with storm OF
opposition. Blessed and fosteretl
by the church, it ultimately spread
to every land and the fruits which
it produced were the best evidence
of its heavenly origin.
Devotion to the Sacred Heart
is most touching. 1t reminds us
OF God weeping, suffering, labor
ing and dying for us. 1t is a most
consoling devotion since it shows
that our own sorrows existed long
ago in the Sacred Heart OF Jesus.
The devotion to the Sacred Heart
touches the most responsive chord
of our nature. 1t demands love
for love- The brain of man is the
instrument of intellectually. The
right arm of the knight, painted on
his shield, betokened his strength.
The heart is the abode of affcc-
ton and love. The great rays of
light that originate in the Heart
of our Saviour shine across the
world in undated fervor and TN
dinmed brilliancy for all time.
They speak to us not of Gods
judgment, but of the sacrifices and
the generosity of Gods humanized
love and the debt of gratitude
which we owe Him for all that
He has done for us.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is
the living Heart of God Himself
1t is the Heart of our Saviour, our
Friend, our King. who has hcapcd
upon us infinite benefits. 1t is the
Heart OF Jesus still filled with that
goodness and mercy to which we
owe our redemption. That Heart
still feels kcenly all our miseries
1t still burns for love OF us upon
our affairs. Often during the beau
tliul month OF June we should APP
peal: Z" csus meek and humble OF
heart, make our hearts like unto
Thine"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
WELL-KNOWN NUN
PASSES AWAY
Continued from page ~

lyta, Ashland, Wis.,, and Ven. Sister
Seraphia, Odanah, Wis.
Out of town relatives of the de-
ceased were Mr.. P. M. Kerst, Mrs.
H. Schreiner, Mrs. Eugene Villaume,
Mrs. Mary Schmitz, Mr.. Joseph
Schmitz. of St. Paul; Mrs. John Helm
en-, Miss Cecilia Heinen, Miss Bar
bara Heinen, Mrs. Henry Schoen, of
Hastings, MIMI
The remains were laid to rest be-
side those OF her sister, Reverend
Mother Scholastica Kerst, o. S. B., in
the Convent Cemetery of Gethsemane.
ReQuiescat in pace!
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03

In the British Isles great vic
tory has been won. Eight Irishmen,
leaders of revolt have been shot to
death. All were men of education and
culture, idealists. What right have
fdealists to live in a world that wor-
ships mammon and permits mammon
worshippers to have-all the power?
Western World.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
\ certain anti-Catholic new

A certain anti-Catholic news
paper has grown hysterical be-
cause former Governor Eberhart
attended the farewell banquet re-
Gently given to Bishop Lawler in
St. Paul. The Ex-Governor is
charged with having lent his pres
ence to the gathering solely for
political reasons. Everyone knows
that Bishop LAWYER was a men,
Der of Eberhart's staff and be-
cause of his friendship for him the
ex-governor attended this farewell
testimonial. We fail to see where
anyone can attach any political
significance to such a move.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
LUIGI MARTlNUCCl WAS THE
OLDEST LAY EMPLoYE OF
THE VATICAN PALACE.

The Holy See has lost faithful
servant. one who had worked for the
Roman Pontiffs almost as long as did
Cardinal Gotti. After sixty-two years
OF labor under the roof of the Vatican
Luigi Martinuui is dead The good
old man was the oldest employee in
the Vatican palace. At the age of
twenty he entered the vast household
OF Plus TX. as clerk in one of it's many
offices. Merit and time brought pro.
motion, so that when he died he had
reached the position of Secretary to
the Project of the Apostolic Palace.
Popes came and went, but old Marti.
nucci went on forever. Were he to
write his "reminiscences of Piux X,
whom he knew, and of Benedict XIV,
whom he knew as boy, we should
have volume of interest.
There is something wonderfully in
teresting about the lay employees of
the Vatican. They grow old in the
service. Not truer to the oak is the
ivy than are these men to the walls
of the oldest palace in the world.
There is always lot of dignity
about them, no matter what may be
their posts. Their work and fidelity
are rewarded as years go by. A fair
salary. a decoration in keeping with
their station and, when past work, a
pension to keep them in ease and re.
spectability come to them from their
master, the Supreme Pontiff.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03

The oldest Catholic citizen of Cow
ington, KY, passed away on May IA in
the person of Cornelius Mulcahey.
who had attained the good old age of
LOG years. Mr.. Mulcahey. a native Of
Ireland, was pioneer resident of
Covington, and was one of the foun-
ders of st. Patrick's parish and lived
therein continuously.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
IRH5E slp&s|coyEcIL'
>a}s1 = -:
THE LITTLE GREEN ISLE

Never in the history ct the
world has there been SO much
kindly consideration shown to the
Irish race as recently. 1t was not
a question as to the good sense or
otherwise of the revolution: but,
rather, the manner in which the
situation was handled by the Brit
ish government. For instance, al
most every daily paper III the
United States spoke a friendly
word. Many of them went to I'M
usual length to show their disap-
proval of the military regime. and
all voiced the thought that, in this
day at least, government by OPP
preston cannot be success and
must not be tolerated. Over all the
world, even in England itself, the
word goes out that Ireland de-
serves better, and that at last the
dav of retribution is at hand. Let
us hope SO.
1t has been long night for
Ireland. Years came and went,
cycle followed cycle, aye, even
century followed century, but still
ever the cup OF the enemy, rich
and rosy as it looked, was dashed
to the ground. and fidelity to the
faith and fatherland dominated
and was preserved.
What glorious history! What
story of heritage! What STU
pendous birthright the Celt can
look to--a page without blem-
ish, a race true to God and coun-
try, record matchless and inn
perishable! For such result
every member of the Celtic race
can find a place of honor and be
thanked. Bishop and archbishop,
priest and doctor, lawyer and
statesman, soldier and civilian,
skilled and unskilled, poor and
rich, gentle and simple. all have
their names on the roll of honor.
But beyond all, in the order Of
men and in the vanguard of Gods
distinction, has been, as it still is
and ever will be until time shall be
no more-the motherhood of the
race, the sentincls and protectors
and angels of the frcsidc and the
home! To them we owe the his
tory and the devotion of these
most loyal people of the Church
and heroes of the world. To them
we lift our swords in Difference
and our hearts in affection, and
i'll our inmost souls reverence, as
we pray
GOD SAVE IRELAND!
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
"A GREAT NATION HUI
INFLATED.

"A GREAT NATION HUI
INFLATED.
The end of negotiations with
Mexican leaders will leave this
country just where it started. We
may look for another illustration
of "watchful waiting"
General Carranza agrees with
everybody else that Villa must be
captured and his army destroyed.
He agrees that the people along
the border should be protected. He
Will not agree to any method for
dong this except the method de
v'sed and promulgated by Venus
t'ano Carranza. To all our eff
forts to capture Villa or to reach
an agreement for military cooper
alton. .Carranza makes the only
reply-Set out of Mexico. The
American public has come to the
conclusion that something hap
pened in Mexico long ago and the
public would like to know WHY
something in the way of real ac-
t'v1ty to right that wrong is not
seriously started. Tampico would
have been enough to warrant de-
clSlvc action; Columbus added to
the injuries. Obregon treacherv
is characteristic of the present
Mexican leaders. and Carranza's
yelled threats, and sncaking, living
diplomacy indicate clearly that
there is only one road left for the
United States to take. The massa-
ere at Glen Springs was a loud call
to arms. From the rampico Incl
dent to date there has been an in
eXplicable succession of plumbers
in connection with Our troubles in
Mexico. The famous salute was
never fired; the deaths of the Co.
lumbus slaughter were never re-
venged; the outrages of Parral
were never paid for by Mexico.
In his preparedness speech
President Wilson warned the peo-
pie that war might come at any
time. He urged adequate prepa-
ration. The utterances of the
President were vague, and he was
asked to define specifically his
idea of adequate preparedness that
it might clarity and crystalline
public opinion. If the President
knows the facts and is silent as to
the dereliction and duty of con-
gross. he cannot escape account
ability. If he would Justify him
self he must demonstrate that he
has exhausted his every power to
obtain from congress the neces-
sary measures. The President is
charged with the duty OF advising
congress of the conditions and
needs of the country. In all for
eign relations Mr.. Wilson has
steadfastlv refused to take either
the people or congress into his
confidence. The President is the
head of the administration. lie
is the leader of the people and
their representative in govern
ment. They look to him for coun-
sci and guidance and depend upon
him to guard the interests of the
whole country and to voice its
needs and demands. He cannot
with impunitv evade his duty If
the country is confronted with
the danger of war. If disaster
and humiliation follow what Mr..
Wilson's friends call COMPRESSION
al neglect, his record must be
clean or he will have to answer
for the consequences.
We are now Inundated and
embarrassed in dealing with Mex
leo. We have not the soldiers
necessary to maintain an ade-
quate force to capture Villa and
to patrol the border. When Gen
eral Funston was asked if he in
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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03

Bishop Duane of Peoria, Illinois,
has won his suit against Rock Island
county, in which he sought to prevent
the building of a new county Jail
within 200 feet of St. Joseph's
Church, Rock Island.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03
ARE WE NEUTRAL?

There is a growing feeling in this
country that the Department of JUS
tice and District Attorney Marshall's
office in New York had advance in
formation of the recent revolt in Ire
land and that this information was
forwarded to the London authorities.
A dispatch from London dated the
18th of May says that the Admiralty
knew of the coming trouble in Ireland
but that they did not attempt to dis.
arm the Volunteers, fearing great
bloodshed. The question naturally
arises, from whom did this informa-
ton come? 1t is very improbable that
an Irish informer was responsible, be-
cause England does not make prac-
tice of hanging men who betray Irish
instructions and every man who was
in position to know the details of
the rebellion was put to death. 1t
will be remembered, however, that
about the middle of April a party of
U. S. Secret Service men broke into
the office of Wolf Won Igel, German
attache, and confiscated all his papers
and that the press within the course
OF a few days came out with huge
scare-lines denouncing the German
propaganda and disclosing the fact
that the details of an Irish plot with
German cooperation and connivance
had been found among the attaches
private papers. Now then, how did it
happen that London knew of the pro-
posed combined land and sea often
sive by the Germans, when no one in
Ireland was aware of the fact, while
at the same time, the fact was known
to the U. S. Secret Service? The
whole incident is but another example
of our so-called "Americanism," the
kind of "Americanism" that originates
in London and seems to have the
hearty sanction of the present ad-
ministration and whose apparent OBJ
ject is to do all possible, save actual
war, to render assistance to the
British Lion in his present difficulty.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03

Bishop-elect Dougherty, of Buffalo,
arrived in Philadelphia on last Satur.
day. He was accompanied by the
Right Rev. Monsignor James P. Nc
Closkey, V. G., of Jaro, and the Very
Rev. Monsignor Daniel j. Gercke, V.
G., of Nueva Caceres. They were es-
corted to the Archbishop's residence,
where Bishop Dougherty will be a
guest for several weeks.
Bishop DOugherty will be installed
as Bishop of Buffalo on Wednesday,
June Z.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-06-03

Of the 100000 population
Italy, aver IS per cent is Catholic.