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The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
DILLON SAYS that
He Was MIsQu0TED
Declares That His Attitude Toward I'm.
prisoned Leaders Was Mis-
represented.

John Dillon, M. P, leader of the Irish
Nationalists, has expressed his indig.
nation against the English propaganda
in America against Ireland. He says
he has been deliberately misquoted in
American papers and denies that he or
his party have assailed or attacked
other parties or any of the imprisoned
leaders. He has given the following
to the Associated Press:
Cali the machinery of propaganda
controlled by the British Government
has been set in motion to blacken the
name of Ireland in America and to
prejudice the American people and the
American Government against the
Irish nation. We feel it our duty, as
the elected representatives of the Irish
nation, to appeal most earnestly to the
people of America and the American
Government not to be deceived by
these e propagandists' misrepresenta-
tions, but to listen to the statement Of
Ireland's case coming from Irishmen
in sympathy with the national aspira-
tions of the people of Ireland and quail
fed to speak on behalf of the Irish
nation"
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
SCHOLARSHIPS At
ST. THOMAS SCHOOL
Successful Candidates at the Recent
Competitive Examinations of
ParochiaI Pupils.

The following boys, graduates of the
eighth grade of the parochial schools
in the Twin Cities, have been award
ed scholarships in the College of st
Thomas for the coming year. At the
competitive examination which was
held at the College on May 25, one
hundred and two candidates, repre-
senting nearly all the parish schools
in ST. Paul and Minneapolis, partici
pated. A scholarship entities the sue
cessful candidate to the sum Of seven
ty-iive dollars, the amount covering
the cost of tuition in the College fol-
one year.
Edw. Aydt, 1853 Randolph Street, St
Paul; Clarence Barrett, 2021 Sixth
Street No, Minneapolis; Edw. 7. Bar
rett, 1921 Hillside Avenue, N. Mime
apolis; Frederic Bieter, 2012 Selby
Avenue, st. Paul; George O'Bryan, 500
Marshall Avenue, st. Paul; John Col
Inns, 2429 Clinton Avenue, Minneapolis;
Thomas Diehl, 1853 Seventeenth Street
Minneapolis; Frank M. Donnelly, 410s
Lyndale S., Minneapolis; Richard T.
Doherty 4O2 Marshall Avenue, st.
Paul; Donald Hurley, 24O9 Sheridan S.,
Minneapolis; Francis Marin, 1914 F.
Nineteenth Street, st. Paul; Ed. Mae
der, 1919 Irving NJ, Minneapolis; AL
phons Matt, 643 Fuller Avenue, St.
Paul; Clarence Mulqueeney, 2S9 e.
Tenth Street, st. Paul; Edw. O'Connor,
1856 Osceola Avenue, st. Paul; Roland
Plante, 87S Charles Street, ST. Paul;
Thomas Shanahan, 1853 Fourteenth
Avenue, Minneapolis; Eugene Smith,
272 Stevens Street, st. Paul.
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
paper takes ISSUE
WITH THE CARDINAL
Gaeljc-American Resents Attitude of
Cardinal Farley on Priests
Activity at Irish Meet.

The Gaelic-American, of New York,
which advocates the absolute indepen-
dence of Ireland, in it's issue of last
week takes issue with Cardinal Farley
and large number of prominent Cath
olic men and women, most of whom
are resident in New York. The article,
which takes up two columns on the
first page, is captioned Cardinal Far
ley Bows to Anti-Irish Bigots." The
paper says that Cardinal Farley "infer-
! entially condemns the whole Catholic
Hierarchy and nine.tenths of the peo~.
pie of Ireland" =. ..,,7t.K
The attack on the Cardinal is based.
on the letter written by Mons. Carroll,
the secretary to the Cardinal, to Mrs.
Francis G. Barlow, in which Mons.
| Carroll, speaking for the Cardinal, said.
that Father Peter E. Magennis, assist
| ant general of the Carmelite Order,
will not be permitted to remain in
the Archdiocese Of New York" if he
attempts to preside at such meetings
as the recent Irish mass meetings in
Madison Square Garden. Father Ma
gennis presided at that meeting, which
was held on May last, and which
proved to be one of the bitterest anti
British gatherings ever held in New
York.
Among the persons named by the
Gaelic-American as "antiIrish bigots"
are Mrs. Grenville T. Emmet, Mrs.
Montgomery Hare, Arthur Iselin, Mrs.
Nina Larry Duryea, Mrs. Francis Men.
Bacon, Gilbert Colgate, Mrs. Brayton
Ives, Mrs. Pierre Jay, Mrs. William
Jay, Rush Taggart, and Howard N.
Potter.
The Gaelic-American adds that the
Irish Catholic population of New York,
has been shocked by this unprece-
dented and wholly unjustifiable action"
of the Cardinal Archbishop of New
York.
Needless to say" the Gaelic-Ameri-
can asserts, referring to Mons. Car
rolls letter to Mrs. Barlow, "it created
painful impression among Irish Cath
olics because it assumed that the i'm,
pudent claim of the bigots that plead 1
ing for Irish liberty is disloyalty to
the United States"
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
viseount Bryce Offers Advice
to Both English and French
Parliament Should Pass at Once a
Comprehensive Home Rule Bill and
ireland Should Join WholeheartedIy
in Fight for Liberty, Says Winnipeg
Review.

Viscount Bryce, former British am
bassador at Washington, says de-
spatch from Dublin, in a statement
yesterday in reply to the appeal of
Mrs. Max Green, daughter of the late
John Redmond, on May "a, endorses
her appeal for unity between England
and Ireland. She urges the British
parliament to hasten the passage of
an adequate Home Rule Bill, but at
the same time asks the people of Ire
land 'to make it plain to the world
that the Irish people stand in. line
with Britain, America, Italy and
France in their determination to save
the world from the menace of German
ruthlessness and tyranny.
Viscount Bryce says in part:
"Up to 1886, there was marked op-
position between the majority of Irish
men and the majority of EngIshmen,
because both the great English parties
had failed to understand the grounds
on which the claims of Home Rule
were based. Since 1886, sentiment
and sympathy for. Ireland had been
strong in the Liberal party, and today
this feeling is no longer confined to
the Liberal party.
There is now among the bulk of
Englishmen of all parties wish, as
far as possible, to meet and satisfy
the Irish desire for large measure of
self-government. It is not too much
to say that the question of Home Rule
is now question not between Eng
land and Ireland, but one between two
sections of the Irish people.
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
US. Figures Prove
Irish Not SIackers
Official Count Shows Our Estimates
Were Far Too Low-What
Britain Is Doing.

A newspaper article released short
time ago by the Committee on Public
Information of the United States gov
ernment contains numerous facts of
especial interest to Catholics of Irish
birth and ancestry. Harvey O'Higgins,
assistant chairman of the committee,
declared, when dealing with enemy re-
ports circulated in America for the
purpose of discouraging the people:
And there is the report that millions
of British soldiers are held in England
while the allies are doing their fight:
ing for them'-a falsehood that is suf-
ticiently discounted by the fact that the
British empire has 100000 men in
the field and half million in her fleet:
that Of the British troops in France 20
per cent are English, per cent Scotch,
6 per cent Irish, and 16 per cent Can.
adams, Australians, etc."
These figures are interesting in light
OF the charges recently made by Ger.
tain Experimentation American pa.
pers of Carsonite politics that the Irish
and slackers. Six per cent of 100000
is 100000. This does not include the
Irish in the navy. The United States
has to send four and one-half times as
many men into the war as she has in
her army here and abroad at present
In order to reach the Irish record.
Remember that these figures are Off
cial. They come from the Committee
on Public Information. 1t must be
presumed that Mr.. O'Higgins, writing
under such auspices, was correctly in
formed. 1t is true, as you notice, that
the figure 100000 refers to all troops
In the field, and that the percentage
statistics given refer only to the troops
in France. But since an overwhelming
majority of all the troops in service
are stationed in France, there cannot
be much change, If any, in the figures.
The Irish figures include both Cath
olics and Orangemen, we suppose. But
1t is an undisputed fact that the Cath
olics are considerably better repre-
sented than the Orangemen.
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
Many Stories Against the Church Are
Refuted by Committee on Pub
lie Information.

In a previous article we have noted
how the German agents in this country
are using their whispering propagan-
da" to set us against the French, the
British, and the Japanese by circulat-
ing among us all sorts of ISLANDERS and
ill reports against these allies.
In the campaign to promote domes-
tic disunity the pro-German rumor
monger has been even buster. He is
working here, exactly as he worked
in Italy, upon religious prejudices. He
has spread the report that the Mason
ic orders have protested to the gov
ernments against the knights of Co.
lumbus being permitted to build rec
reation huts in the camps. No such
protest was ever made. He has cir
culated stories that Catholic nuns were
refused permission to do Red Cross
work unless they wore Red Cross uni
forms, and that Catholic soldiers-and
Jewish soldiers-were being discrim-
mated against by Red Cross officials.
All such stories are outright inven-
tions. At the same time he passes
around every kind of rumor of Cath
olic disloyalty, such as the famous one
that President Wilson's secretary, a
Catholic, had been executed for trea-
son.
He has filled the mails with printed
copies of an alleged "bloody oath of
the Knights of Columbus" giving it
on the pretended authority Of the Con.
gressional Record. It was printed in
the Record because it was read into
the debate before the house of repre-,
| sentatives on an election protest, in
order that it might be denounced as a
forgery and libel upon a Catholic
candidate. A pro-German agent has
been caught distributing copies of this
"bloody oath" in New Jersey and scnt
to prison for it.
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
Labor Missions 4
Visit to Dublin
The States, the War and Ireland
kindest Of Feeling Expressed for
Ireland and Irish People.

The American Labor Mission dele
gates visited Dublin on the eve of
their return to the United States and
called on John Dillon, M. P, and con-
ferred with him for about an hour,
and they had also an interview with
received a deputation from the Execu-
tive of Cumann nam Ban, who "laid
the Irish Republican point of view be.
fore them" The party were enter
tained at luncheon by Lord Decies,
and left Kingstown by the evening
boat for England. Asked how they
had enjoyed their visit, M. F. Ryan
said, on behalf of the delegates, that
they were delighted with the people,
their kindness and their hospitality.
He would carry back to America and
convey to Irish-Americans what he had
seen and heard of the situation dur
ing their brief stay. Mr.. Mccartney
Filgate, D. L., accompanied the dele.
gates to the boat.
Luncheon at the Gresham Hotel.
At the luncheon which was held
in the Gresham Hotel, the City
High Sheriff GA. Beattie) said it was
a mistake to think, as number of
English people thought, that Ireland
had sent no soldiers to the war; they
had sent great many soldiers. He
did not know what President Wilson
would say to the Lord Mayor of Dublin
when he went to the United States
Although he (Mr. Beattie) had three
sons in the war, fourth; when he
went to the United States, was con
scripted there.
G. O. Mccormick, Vice President OF
the Southern Pacific Railway, replying
said the Americans had entered the
war to save their own bacon; there
was no altruistic motive at all. C.
Wright, International Typographical
Union, said they must either win the
war or go back to bondage that would
be fntolerable. They would have ne
intercourse with the Central Powers
while their militarism remained men
ace to the world. The only argument
they had for those Powers at present
was their armed forces. That was
the feeling of Labor in America.
Americas "Sweetheart."
Miss Joy Higgins, an employe of the
United States Government of Omaha
who proposed the toast of ireland,
said that probably there was no coun
try in Europe so intimately associated
with the United States as this. Sht
had heard England spoken of as theil
Mother and France as their 1nspira
tion, but they spoke of Ireland as theil
Continued on page y
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
British o-Popery Wave Dies Because
Common People Openly Urge Home Rule

The more news that comes from Eu-
rope in regard to the Irish question,
the more apparent it becomes that the
forces fighting Irish Home Rule are
the real traitors to the Allies cause,
not those who uphold the Irish, as is
charged by ignorant American writer's.
The Colorado papers that are taking
up cudgels against the Irish, especially
the Denver one that has been regaling
it's readers with articles by hitherto
unheard-of authorities under the head
ing "The Clouded Mind of Ireland, y
should waken up to the real facts.
They are being victimized by mercen-
cry propagandists.
Most of the Catholic papers recent
ly carried little item saying that the
"No-Popery" cry that arose in England
over the action of the Irish Bishops,
who urged their people to fight against
conscription without Home Rule, had
died down. The reason why it has
died down is now known in this coun'
try. The English working people would
have nothing at all to do with the anti
Irish fight! They are with the Irish.
Americans should remember that the
House of Commons has voted for Home
Rule three times, and a few politf-
clans, for weak reasons, have failed to
put it into force. Every Scotch par
Humanitarian but one is a Home Rule
man.
The Catholic Times and Catholic
Opinion, of Liverpool, in it's issue of
May II, the last to reach America,
said:
More sensible people, including all
the working classes, shrugged their
shoulders, smiled, and went their way,
thinking the No Popery cry too absurd
for words They regarded the whole
thing as piece of tomfoolery and an
insult to the intelligence of the Brit
ish nation. The working men OF Eng
land know that there is no need to go
to the Vatican for an explanation of
the troubles in Ireland. Is not organ
lied labor committed to the cause of
Home Rule? Do not the laboring class
es know and feel that the men who
have oppressed the people of Ireland
were the men who oppressed the peo-
pie of England and that the men who
today misgovern Ireland are misgov-
erning England too? Lord Northcliffe's
appeal to Englishmen to start No
Popery campaign, on the ground that
the Irish Catholic Bishops and clergy
had acted as citizens, exercised their
political rights, and made common
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
j. S, DEN0uNCES anti
CATHOLIC LIES OF ENEMY

In Spain and the Catholic countries
of South America the kaiser poses as
the champion of Catholic Bavaria
and Catholic Austria against Protest
ant England, infidel France and So
cialistic Italy, the enemy of the Vati-
can" He does not preserve that pose
in Catholic Belgium or Catholic Po-
land.
And in America the kaiserite uses
this very claim of his master to arouse
enmity against the Catholics, just as in
Italy the German agent used it in an
unsuccessful attempt to seduce the
Italian Catholics, and now in America
accuses the Italian Catholics of hav-
ing succumbed to the seduction. AS q
matter of fact, the Catholic chaplains
in the Italian army were among the
first to discover this propaganda
among the soldiers, reported it to the
officers, and combated it diligently.
Various persons and publications
that made living out of sectarian ami
mosities before the war are uncon,
sciously doing the work of the enemy
by assisting the spread of anti-Cath,
olic and anti-Protestant slanders. They
can only be stopped by an appeal to
public reprobation.
They are representing the trouble
in Ireland as purely a religious trou.
BILE, and the opposition to conscription
in Quebec as the same sort of thing
Even Rudyard Kipling recently fell
into the trap and denounced the Pope
and the kaiser and the neutrals in
one breath.
This is war of nations, not OF
creeds. Prussia is as Protestant a ma
tion as England is, and Belgium and
Poland as Catholic as Austria. Any
one who raises the religious question
in America today is acting as Ger
man agent, whether he knows it OF
not, as truly as if he were blowing ul
munition plants. All loyal citizens
should discourage him.
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22
The Catholic Press Associations
London correspondent says:

London correspondent says:
Events have been moving very
quickly here in regard to the Irish
question. Following on the repudia-
ton of the attitude of the Irish Bishops
by the Catholic Union of Great Britain,
has come the reputation of the Catho-
lie Union by the Stafford Catholic Fed
Grafton, and also by the Bishrop and
chapter of that Diocese. The Catholic
Federation in its resolution says that
the Catholic Union has no right to
speak for the body of British Catholics
and that it is unknown to the large
majority of Catholics outside London.
The Bishop and chapter of this north
ern stronghold of Catholicity consider
that the attitude assumed by the union
is mischievous and beyond their
sphere. Bishop Dunn, of Nottingham,
has written a long letter to the press
upholding the attitude of the Irish
Bishops"
Certain American papers have been
upholding the Orangemen of the North
of Ireland as the only honest-to-good-
ness patriots there. And now, 10 and
behold! the Orange press comes out
| fiat against conscription. The Catholic
Irish reject conscription because they
cannot vote OH it themselves, not be.
cause they are pro-Kaiser or towards.
But the North Of ireland crowd dislike
it for its own sake. Carson has found
that he has no support in his conscrip-
tion campaign.
But Ireland still has her Protestant
patriots, as always. 1t is a fact little
known in this country that most of her
truly great leaders have been Protest
ants. Archbishop CroZier, the Protest
ant primate of Ireland, has stood up
for Erin in her recent trouble. The
Catholic Times and Opinion says of
him:
"In Ireland itself the Protestant pri
mate, Archbishop Crozier, told cor
! respondent of the Daily News: You
may say that l do not attribute the
present situation in the slightest de
gree to the agency of the Vatican
There is quite enough to account fol
it here in Ireland without going so fal
afeld' Those words do honor to the
Protestant prelate; he refuses to mud
dy the water in the hope of catching
eels. And he is as honest and broad
minded in another matter. Upon the
subject of Home Rule, says the same
| correspondent, he declared that he was
at one with Cardinal Logue in standing
for the ideal of All Ireland from Cape
Clear to the Giants Causeway,' and
| that his hearts desire was to- find some
scheme which would crafty the legiti
mate aspirations of the Irish party, al
lay the fears of the southern Unionists
and win even the reluctant consent o1
northeast Ulster. What contrast be
tween the mind of this Protestant pre-
late and the ideas of the Catholic
Council! He does not rebuke the Cath
olic Hierarchy of Ireland. He acquits
the Pope. He does not even ask thu
Vatican to intervene. He minds hi!
own business"
The Irish standard., 1918-06-22


realized in Ireland. There need be
no fear of return to the unfortunate
conditions of fifty years ago, when
mistrust and suspicion were estrarg-
ing the two peoples. These condi-
tions have passed away forever.
"It is, nevertheless, true that what
appears unwillingness in Ireland to
help in the fight against Germany,
has caused some irritation in Eng
land, just as the attempt to force COM
pulsory military service on Ireland
had re-awakened suspicion there. To
the Irish Nationalist it has seemed to
be the exercise of arbitrary authority
of one nation over another.
MANY Englishmen do not under.
stand this attitude because they do
not realize that centuries of conflict
have made the Irish people sensitively
jealous of their own nationality, and
the Irish mind has been so turned
upon itself, so much occupied with
Ireland's grievances and claims, that
it has not grasped the real meaning
of this war. Englishmen are accord
ingly disappointed that Ireland does
not show stronger desire to join in
the conflict against German aggres.
sion.
What is most wanted today is that
the people of both countries should
get to understand each more COM
pletely. A true understanding of one
another's character and ideas is the
basis of friendship among nations, as
among men. Today the two peoples
are nearer to a just comprehension
and genuine friendship than seemed
possible years ago.
"There need be no fear in Ireland
that the English democracy, bewil
dered though they are by the reckless
violence and wild language of the Sim
Feiners, have any intention of going
back on the Home Rule policy which
parliament has solemnly sanctioned
The British people desire with all
their hearts to see prosperity and con
tentment in Ireland under Home
Rule parliament, and they hope that
when Ireland sees this she will, o1
her own accord, join in vindicatine
against Germany those very principles
of liberty and nationality upon which
she POUNDS her own claims.
"This is not a war which England
has undertaken for her own benefit
1t is a war for right and humanit!
and victory will be won for IRELAND
as we'll as the rest of Europe.
"Englishmen who have been press
ing the claims of Ireland for thirt!
years have no doubt of what is need
ed now. Parliament ought to brin.
into effect large and effective Hom'
Rule measure. This ought to be dom
without delay. Ireland on her par
ought to make it plain to the worl,
that the Irish people stand in lin
with Britain, America and France
which peoples are giving all that
dearest to them in their determine
tion to save the world from the mer
ace of German ruthlessness and tyrar
ny. If Ireland loves liberty and jus
tice, how can she fail to feel wit
them, and to wish that her son
should fight beside them in such
cause"
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-11-21
Page two

eminent ownership ~ telegraph. tc'o.
phone and cable lince
immediately after Senator * lluTg'y
statement. senator Lewis OF illinois,
democrat whip introduced @ reaUiu-
ton proposinE permanent so, arpmtut
ownership uf 'kclegiaphs telephones.
ships. rails Dads and other pu'.s 20 ii.
Ties.
1T demonstrates beyond o1i sues
tiun that there never was u war noccs.
fltl Senator Kellogg said of IA. tuk-
inF over the cHhlss
senator CumWius Of Iowa. asked
whether the ulNu uf tho president 60
visit Europe might not present an ep-
Urgency that hat something to To- with
the assumption ~ the cable limos.
Canr't see, senator KclioFE ro-
piled. how the president visit r,u
in any way nave made an excuse for
taking over the cable lines"
The Minnesota seu9tof recalled thar
when the wire control resolution wa,
before the senate. Senators Undo.
WOOD Of Alabnma. and Lewis o. lIli.
nois, whom he described as admins.
tratiuh spokesmon. nssured the s"uuto
that there was no present war enc.
EtuCJ.
Protests from President Ma,a1s OF
the Commercial cable coWu3u.
against the cable order Wa piesot',
by senator KellorF. who sail fhl.
government operation Of telegraph.
and telephones had caused increased
costs e. the public.