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The Irish standard., 1918-12-07
Cardinal Gibbons Great Address

Americas Grand Old Churchman,
Cardinal Gibbons. of Baltimore, on
Victory Sunday, addressed the follow
ing patriotic and religious sentiments
to the officers, soldiers, nurses and
prominent citizens present at Mass,
celebrated at Liberty Field, Camp
Meade, Maryland:
Before l pronounce the last bless
ing OF this Mass, l want to call upon
you and the people of this country to
thank God for the great and glorious
victory that we have won. l want to
ask you to thank God from the bottom
of your hearts for having led us safe
ly to the heights Of triumph and for
having blessed our arms We should
worship Him in all humanity and all
reverence.
I'VE have conquered because we
have believed that Righteousness ex-
alteth a nation. We have conquered
because we have fought for the eter-
' iitl W lllSlPleS VI llulI ullu because
we realized that our hope and depend
ence, our trust and our success re.
posed in Him. who is alike the God OF
battles and of justice,
I'VE commenced This war by bow.
ing down and worshipping the over.
ruling justice of God, who has created
all things by His wisdom, who gov
erns all things by His providence and
who watches over nations as we'll as
men,
I'VE should be thankful today and
there should be jubilation in our
hearts, even while we sorrow fol
those who have gone from among us
And yet while we are thankful and
while we are rejoicing, we must &C
cept the decision in all humility anC
with a deep realization of the rcspon
sibilities that are come upon us. We
must enter upon the era that stretches
before us with the same union O.
hearts and minds with which we have
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that the Catholics of Alsace-Lorraine
will have their churches, seminaries
and monasteries seized and their
monks and nuns eNiled by being in
corporated in France. Even if this
great injustice were to occur, the net
gain to the Catholic Church from the
allied victory would still be enormous.
1t is for the French Republic, how
ever, to guarantee that this persecu-
ton will not happen, and a declaration
to that effect is in order. Sensible
Frenchmen have long ago conceded
this point, and the inhabitants of AL
sace-Lorraine will doubtless prevent
such an injustice if it be threatened
The second and only danger is that
since the Holy See, owing to Italy's
fear of an international consideration
OF the Roman question, may not be
represented at the Peace Congress.
adequate international safeguards may
not be given to secure complete reli-
goius liberty in all countries. To over
come this disadvantage. it is the duty
of the Catholic public, from now till
the peace treaty is signed, to agitate
for an international guarantee OF re-
ligious liberty to all races and to all
crecds. Let us not be guilty Of that
pusillanimous form of patriotism
which would not strive for the great
+, est of all NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. liberty
for fear Of inconveniencing some Brit
ish or allied statesman. 1t will be oul
fault, If we Catholics, who have con.
tributed the majority Of the soldiers
of the allied armies, do not enjoy 6
proportionate influence at the Peace
Congress. While it is idle to imagine
that we can inaugurate the millen
ium, we are much to blame if we dc
not close the era of religious persecu
ton.
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race should lack liberty.

race should lack liberty.
Gain No. s. The Catholic Maronite
Syrians of the Lebanon. at present
decimated by an artificial famine, will
be free ever from the blighting tyran-
ny of the Turk. Referring to the lib
GRAFTON of the Holy places by British
troops, the Cardinal-Secretary of State,
the Pope's official mouthpiece in dip
lomatic matters, has written: "On
several occasions l have stated that
England, preferably to any other power,
would inspire absolute confidence, by
her perfect impartiality, her entire re-
spect for vested rights, and her zeal
Tor progress in the Holy Places
Gain No. 8. Latin Jacobinism, so
prevalent before the war, will be seri-
ously undermined at least by the UNI
selfish and heroic patriotism of the
priests and of the practical Catholics
of France. Italy and Portugal, which
has contributed essentially to victory
The greater France, and the greater
Italy, there is every reason to believe
will return to more friendly relations
to the great society which was the
chief factor in their progress and the
chief glory in their history, the Cath
Ollie Church.
Gain No. TO- English-speakins
Protestants of Great Britain anG
America, having allied themselves, moi
with the Protestant nations of Europe
not one of which was on their side
but with France, Italy, Belgium ant
Portugal, the peoples, if not all the
governments, of which are IS per cen
Catholic, having fought for ...'erty il
Catholic lands from Ostend to Venice
will, in a much greater measure thar
in the past, form a truer idea of the
world position and world mission O
the Catholic Church.
Il On the other side of the balance
against these ten certain gains arr
only two dangers. The first danger il
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the schools. A victorious Prussia
war, inevitably have waged new
Kulturkompf against the only power
in the world capable of withstanding
her-the Catholic Church. The de-
feat of Prussia has saved the Catho-
lies of Germany from an almost in
evitable persecution, and has weak
ened beyond measure the strong anti
Catholic neo-pagan German Kultur
party.
Gain No. 4. The greatest change
on the map of Europe will be the in
dependent, Polish State, with access to
the sea. This will mean the reappear-
ance of a Catholic European power of
at least twenty million Catholics.
Gain No. 5. Instead of Czaristic
Russia, the chief and most violent en-
envy of the Church in the nineteenth
century, here will exist democratic
Russia, guaranteeing freedom of re-
ligion. Hence the Catholic Church of
the Ukraine will once more be allowed
to live, and the Lithuanians and Let's,
whether independent or merely auton-
omous, will enjoy religious liberty.
Gain No. G.. Belgium, a Catholic
nation, with Catholic government,
instead of becoming a vassal of Prus.
STA, will have it's freedom restored and
secured. The University Louvain, the
leading Catholic University of the
| world, will, in a free Belgium, be able
to resume it's intellectual leadership.
Gain No. z. The Slavs of the Aus
trian Empire who are in majority
Catholics, will enjoy liberty, which
will afford greater opportunity for re
ligious activity. 1t is common error
not shared by the Vatican nor by theil
own Bishops, to suppose that Catholic
interests of these Slavs are better
served by their remaining under the
rule of the Hapsburgs. 1t can never
be the interest of the Church that any
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6. The Common will of mankind"
should be substituted in the case of
Ireland for the particular purpose of
England in her regard, and the en-
forcemcnt of that will would not alone
rebound to the honor and glory of
these United States, but would be a
benefit to the whole world, which is
now deprived by English sellishness
and greed of the valuable contribution
which an enfranchiscd Ireland would
make to the sum of human happiness.
z. This brief plea for American in
tervention in behalf of Irish freedom
does but scant justice to the subject,
but ut says things in the plainest
words that can be found" and with
sincere and absolute respect for the
Government of this Republic, because
we believe the present international
situation requires that all vital issues
be stated with perfect candor.
!! We pray that God in His infinite
wisdom may guide the President and
Congress in the solution of the great
est problems in all human history, and
that our plea for country and a race
which has rendered such priceless
services to America, and to the cause
of human freedom, may receive the
consideration to which millions of our
citizens know it is entitled.
JOIIO DEVOY, New York.
MATTHEW G. LYONS, New York.
EUEGENE CURAN, Boston, Mass.
MARTIN l.. SWEENEY, Cleveland.
PATRICK BOYLE, Detroit, Mich.
CON. K. O'BYRNII, Denver, Col.
JOS. L. CURRAN, Youngstown, o.
JAMES RYAN, Lynn, Mass.
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CLAN-NA-GAEL PETITION
PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS

To the President and Congress of the
United States:
We, the delegates of the Clan-na-
Gael, assembled at the Central Opera
House, New York, on September 80,
1918, representing an organization in
all parts of the United States, which
has worked continuously for the indie
pendence of Ireland for the past fifty
one years, submit the following petit
ton and earnestly request your favor
| able consideration thereof
1. 1t is superfuous to renew or
reaffirm our loyalty-the blood of our
kindred now being poured out on the
battlefield of Europe is the best proof
of the devotion of our Race to the
| United States. The supreme sacrifice
they are now making is but repeti-
ton of the stand our people have ever
taken in every crisis of the Nations
history
2. We respectfully submit that
Ireland is entitled to the re-establish-
ment of her independence by virtue
of:
| First - Her continued and historic
struggle against foreign domination;
Second-Her geographical position;
| Third = Her homogeneous popula-
ton;
| Fourth-Her great natural wealth !;
| And, finally and above all, by the
expressed will of her own people.
| England holds Ireland by the right
of might only, and she has augment
ed the original wrong by centuries of
disagreement and injustice which
are continued to the present day, even
under the. Ministry now in power,
which has broken faith with the Irish
people and violated every pledge they
made to them. The policy of repress-
ing the will of the majority, now in
force in Ireland, the daily violation of
elementary human rights, the whole
sale deportations and imprisonments
of her chosen leaders, the suppress
sion of the right of public meeting and
free speech, are direct negation of
the solemn Declarations Of our Presi-
dent as to the objects for which the
war is being waged and are scandal
to civilization.
3. Therefore, we view with intense
eradication the Declaration made by
President Wilson in his great speech
in New York on September ~ re-
garding the issues for which the
United States stands, for which her
armed manhood are pouring out their
blood. namely:
Shall the military power of any
nation or group Of nations be suffered
to determine the fortunes of peoples
over whom they have no right to
rule except the right of force?
Shall strong nations be free to
wrong weak nations and make them
subject to their purpose and Interest?
Shall peoples be ruled and domin.
ated, even in their own internal AZ
fairs. by arbitrary and irresponsible
force or by their own will and choice?
"Shall there be . common standard
of right and privilege for Ill peoples
and nations, or shall the strong do %
] they will and the weak suffer without
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The fact that the allies have won
the war will be untold advantage to
the Catholic Church. This statement
is not merely the expression of our
patriotic pride, but an induction from
q complete examination of the facts.
The progress of the Catholic Church
in any country, in any time, is in a
large measured conditioner by the
amount of liberty she enjoys. The
one gift the Catholic Church asks
from the world is freedom of action
a free opportunity to bring her divine
doctrine and her divine means of sane
LITIGATION to men of good will. Be-
cause the allied victory will increase
tbs freedom of action, by removing
many obstacles, national, political and
moral, it will favor the progress of
the Church. Now the gains of the
Catholic church may be summarized
under ten headings:
Gain No. l. The establishment of
at least a fair measure of international
justice, with reduction of armament
and destruction of militarism, salts
fies all the essential aims Of the Papal
Peace Note of 1917 and removes
many obstacles which have impeded
the progress of the one international
religion-the Catholic Church.
Gain No. 2. One of the most far
reaching consequences of our victory
is that the freedom, integrity and
prosperity of the British Empire and
of the United States of America are
secured for the rest of the twentieth
century. This is of incalculable bene.
fit to the Church, for, during the last
epoch of the worlds history Chat is,
since 1870, in no portion of the world
has the Catholic Church enjoyed such
liberty and made such progress as in
the British Empire and the American
Republic.
Gain No. 3. Prussian Kultur is de-
feated in the field and discredited in
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MANY YANKS. LIE ON
HILLSIDE IN FRANCE

Upon the eastern slope of Mount
Valerian, near Paris, are buried the
2S0 American soldiers who have died
in Paris hospitals. Although the GEM
etery has been in use only three
months, it is sought out by reverent
American visitors, and the graves,
marked by the intertwined colors of
the two republics, are constantly dec
GRATED with flowers.
Not content, as godmothers, with
adopting the American soldiers who
return to Paris on furloughs, French
mothers whose sons have died in the
war have adopted the boys from the
United States even in death. TO each
cross on Mount Valerian there is
pinned a card showing that some wom-
an has vowed the grave never shall
be without wreath or vase of
flowers.
From the slopes of Valerian the
beautiful panorama of the Paris region
spreads out, for the imposing hill is
one of the most effective defenses of
the city. The Oldest grave in the Gem;
etery is that of Private Bought of the
One Hundred and Second Infantry,
who died March 26 last. Most of the
plates tackled to the wooden crosses
bear more recent dates, however, and
the majority say the soldiers lying
there belonged to the marine corps.
Mort Poul la Parie," read the in
scriptiOns.
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The next were four bright little
girls too young to have committed
any evil acts. They went into heaven
at once. And as it went-up to a
grand climax-when chorus of the
girls Of Wieque appeared to ask adj
mission for the good cure and to sing
all his kindly act.
In it all supposed that the princi-
pal parts were taken by the sisters
themselves. To my surprise I found
that the girls did it all. Since years
of war the 8-year-old girls had be-
come 12-year-old girls and the 12-
year-old girls have become 16 and
there are two who are now twenty.
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tionalities were more or less jumbled,
but there it was, a merry company
with a fine sense of comradeship. Up
at the front we don't breed bigotry.
Veal's head stands out in my mind
as prominent thing at the feast. 1t
and potatoes, too; peas and young
carrots cooked together and two big
birthday tarts or pies that Sister
Elizabeth had made. The table was
bright in color from plates of dark
red currants, yellow gooseberries and
red and yellow cherries, picked on the
place.
At $3.50 we went into the assembly
or celebration proper. In the old days
in the United States it would be called
a school exhibition, or today, per-
haps, Sunday School Christmas tree
without tree. There was the same
exhibition of little ones, but with
much harder tasks, longer things to
sing or say, and they didn't falter
once.
There were two little plays given,
one serious and one funny, but the
old priests laughed so at the serious
one that I hesitate to so classify it.
It was representation of the gates of
heaven, with st. Peter on guard and
entrances handy by to heaven and
purgatory. He'll didn't seem to ap-
pear.
With golden pasteboard sites, cot
ton board, white surplice over her
dress, st. Peter stood behind table
on which were scales or balances and
by which was a huge book, evidently
the work of the recording angel. One
by one came in the candidates for
heaven, carrying sacks in which all
the good actions were done up in
brown paper parcels. There was
much reading from the book, strict
weighing of parcels and strong argu-
ments over the contents of the pack
ages containing evil actions. Here is
where the humor seemed to come in.
I could understand enough to know
that putting water in the milk made a
lot of fun. This was old Petrenalla.
Her other bad fault was gossip. But
she had been faithful with Peters
pence and she just squeezed through
with a few ounces to spare. But the
heavenly choir sang glad song when
the old thing hobbled in.
There was young girl with forty
nine Kilograms to the bad and only
twenty-five to the good. She got
twenty-five years in purgatory, and
the choir sang a sad but not very des.
pairing song.
Two little girls came in together,
and it seems that stealing plums,
pears and sugar were their worst
sins. They were sent to pureatory
for one day and went of quite happy.
Then came one speaking French, a
fancy young woman. who ridiculed
the Flemish tongue although st. Pet
or was using It, ALI I'D satchea
full Of paints and powders and al
kinds of vanities. She had seventy.
five kilos of bad sets and only seven.
teen and . half OF good. She was sent
to purgatory for IN indefinite time.
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CITY OF CONTRASTS IS
YPRES; CITY OF BLOOD

The town of Ypres has become his
toric. An interesting article entitled
"The Children of Ypres," by Maj.
John Van Shaiel, Jr., appears in the
Queens Work for November. 1t is
in part as follows:
Ypres is intensely interesting.
When visitors from the front arrive,
the place above all others, they want
to see is Ypres. Ypres is an awful
place, the men say repeatedly. Ypres
is shelled and gassed as few other
places. And yet, Ypres is still males
tic in ruins. More sacred than the
bricks and mortar and fallen stones
of the city are the people Ypres.
Only twenty some miles back of
Ypres there live today some children
of the city in Belgian orphanage,
which the American Red Cross,
through it's Belgian commission, is
supporting. They can see the gun
flashes at night and the German
planes by day. They can hear the sui
len roar of the guns when the wind is
right and the bombs dropping on the
villages near by.
Here is the cure Of the church OF
st. Pierre, Ypres, the good Father
Delaere, with eight religious sisters
from the orphanage of Langemarck to
help him, and 131 wisest young girls
who find shelter here.
We came back here to celebrate the
Blyde feast van enien eerweerden
beer Pasteur on Won enze eerweerde
Meeder Happy fast of our pastor and
of our mother).
Picture, Il you can, half dozen OF
his holdest and best friends in the
priesthood coming to help him cele
brate-a young priest coming thirty
or forty miles across the country on a
bfcycle-a British Red Cross and an
American Red Cross man as special
guests of honor, eight sisters flying
around doing the honors and 131 lit
tie girls in best frocks doing theil
best to help.
I have never seen happier acting
children. 1 have been there many
times expectedly and Unexpectedly.
have found them clean and we'll cared
for. have found them content with
their simple fares and cheerful with
all kinds of household tasks, for they
are taught to work as we'll as pray;
they are given a chance to play, and
into everything they enter with zeal
1t is largely question of person
mel. The sisters are more refined and
better educated than the average and
lust as devoted. The cure is a true
father. used to think it was a pose
when the tots ran to him so much.
have come to see what suspicious
fool was.
Comes now the birthday dinner. Al
the head of the table is the cure; next
comes Monseigneur de Drawers Of
Ypres; then brown-robed barefoot
ed Carmolite, Pere Donates of Ypres;
beside him the mother superior, and
hast of all, because the last to enter
Father La Croix. Breton born, d
Male, but twenty-five years in New
Zealand and here - chaplain with the
islands troops. Races, religions, M
The Irish standard., 1918-12-07

Possessed of power of attorney to
act on behalf Of the various Polish
committees in the United States, Ig-
mace J. Paderewski has sailed from
Europe to further the interests of his
cOmpatriots.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-30

Here Is Americas first definite program for reconstruction. Is out
lined at the Rochester Reconstruction Conference. called by the Ma
tonai Municipal league. which has been la session In Rochester for u
wch.
1 President Wilson should appoint "a reconstruction commission
composed of some ofrhe abh~t business and civic leaders Of The coun
try-Nor rOIIIICINNs-to wm, along lines similar to those followed
by the reconstruction ministries Of France and Great britain
:. Government control Of the railroads. teIegrspbs md telephones
operation. or private ownership and government operation.
must extend their spheres te bring about closer cooperation bctwcu
the employ q and the employee
1 Federal control Of business practices must be continued. and
corporations must be brought under federal rather than state ineor
poraiion procedure
D. Factors Of the u trade board organization. which ar- valuable
for ,t"nSon OF foreign trade. should be preserved. The shipping board
and Ia merchant marine must not be dropped.
g The governments control ~ basic resources thru the food
served. rronto~rtng must be prevented In peace u In war.
I The labor departments buryau of Industrial housing should
extend it, activities 60 the creation of garden cities" and garden
suburbs" such as have been constructed In England for Industrial
worker, To make t~nun-nt. In eiu~ "a thing II the past.
T. Every effort must he cser~i toward making the return of a
soldiers IN than a brass band. flag waving welcome. tngiands po
gram Of Decentralization. which cont~-nplai~~ holding every soldier in
the army until n job Is open for him In industrial life. should be pat
termed af~r.
. Tho health Of u returned soldiers as well ~ Of industrial
wcrhfTs must be proteted thru federal cooperation with local auihori
u~ regarding health and moral conditions
10. \ federal bureau Of municipalities should be created 90 AID
american tiles In working ont th- reconstruction problrmA An
cities and towns " urged to renew their fight for homo rule, freed
fresh outside legislative and political control. ~ n part Of the program
Of national and social reconstruction.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-30
HOUSING
WORK ~ COMMENDED

The york Of the government In
housing Ia armies OF Industrial
workers was highly commended. The
conference holds that the govern
mcnt's interest in he welfare OF
workers should not now lapse. but
the labor departments bureau OF in
dustrial housing should be continued
and Its powers should be broadened
TO include educational work and re-
search into the problems of housing.
The conference also took an inter.
est in the subject Of public health.
urging that. TO protect tho health OF
cur returning soldiers. as well ~ "a
industrial workers during tho recon.
~struction period and after. the FEEDER
al government continue TO exert It's
influence on local governments. The
fight against vice also must be o
unued.
The government was asked to in.
augurate a federal bureau Of munici.
palitics as a part OF the department
OF the interior. its function 10 be- TO
collect and distribute information on
municipal problems. Cities and towns
were urged to take advantage OF the
opportunity now offered To obtain n
full OF home rule.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-11-30
100000 Worth of
Salmon Condemned

D-ecomponssd salmon 10 tho extern,
Of ssT .sss cans worth 800. ooc orig
inaIly. will be destroyed by local
federal agents early In December.
The salmon. in 1880 esuH-s. was
seized at tho q-uarteTfnanter pier. y,
was Intended for army consumption.
An additional SD cannr at n local
warehouse were HciErd Friday. Tho
cans will first be smashed with axes
after which means will be devised
10 completely destroy tho contents.