The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-01-19

bers observe Tuesday as a National
meatless day, that, with Friday, which
has always been meatless day for
Hibernians, will be two meatless days
a week.
Rebuke Seditious Utterances.
!. No Hibernian should permit the ut.
terance of palpable sedition to pass
unrebuked. Encouraged by the secret
agencies of the enemy disloyalty is
fomented by covert means, the most
common ofNwhich is the spreading of
false reports and the utterances, of
criticism Of the Government. These
inimical agencies seek to delude the
thoughtless, and to array certain, hos
tile elements into opposition to the
Government. They would assail any
party that supports the Government,
and it is your duty to defend the Gov.
7ernment on every occasion, both de.
,cisively and vigorously. Domestic dis
sension, when America is assaulted by
foreign; foes, is insupportable, and
every member of our race should re-
gard. SANDER on the Government of
America as an insult to his intelligence
and an affront to his loyalty.
It is the traditional character of our
race to rush foremost among the de-
tenders of America, and to endure the
trials of war with that fortitude which
has stood triumphant in every station
Of life and in every post of honor dur
ing every war on this continent. We
shall endure this crisis. with honor,
proud of our country and sure of that
day of destiny which shall establish
her, with our glad sacrifices, secure
and victorious. We are confident that
the members of our Order and of our
race will justify the esteem Of their
fellow citizens, so clearly expressed by
a former president of the United
States, who wrote: "The Irish race is
masterful and of rugged character
a race the qualities of whose woman
hood have become proverbial, while its
men have the elemental, the indispens-
able virtues of working hard in time
of peace and fighting hard in time of
war;" ..,
The National Hibernian.
The reasons which made it neces-
sary for us to ask for an additional per
capita assessment of five cents, to pay
for the increased cost of publishing
our National monthly magazine one
year ago, are more intense now than
they were then, prices of the essentials
FOR it's production and distribution hav-
ing, on the whole, advanced. Besides,
conditions today are such as to make
a Hibernian magazine more indispens-
able than ever before. Through it we
are able to meet attacks and misrepre-
sensations, open and covert, on our
race and Order, as we'll as set forth
month after month the achievements
of both (the race and the Order) in
establishing and preserving the free in
situations of America. Hundreds of
unprecedented men, of men who are
thoroughly competent, because of actu-
al experience, to pass on matter of
this kind, have assured the publisher
that they wonder how he accomplishes
so much, in these times, at so small an
outlay, declaring that they believed
the 25-cent assessment was insufficient
for even the production and distribu-
ton Of ''The, National Hibernian." We
thank all those who so nobly respond
ed to our call for the additional five
cents per capita-thirty cents in all
last year. and we thank beforehand all
who will comply, cheerfully,,. and
promptly, to the appeal for it's contin-
uance in 1918, which we hereby make.
-. .Fraternally: yours,
JOSEPH MCLAUGHLIN,
''~4 y % -, National President
PATRICK F. CANNON.
+. :. National President. ;
PETER J. DOYLE,
..,t. Canadian Vice. President. =.
MICHAEL w. DELANEY.
-. National Treasurer.
THOMAS j.. MATHEWS, :.
=: =. National Secretary.
1861 Westminster ST., :.
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James J. Regan, Edward: R. Hayes,
John E. Healy, James Clancy, Myles
F. Mcfarland and Philip j.. Sullivan,
National Directors. 800 &,
Rt. Rev. Dennis J. O'Connell, Ma
tional Chaplain. - s:--.>~s
N. BIO: be read at two consecu-
tive meetings of all Divisions, begin.
ming with the one Immediately follow,
ing, the receipt of this, official communi-
cation
=, JOSEPH MCLAUGHLIN, -,
vi National President.
AN APPRECIATION 81:
PROFESSOR MICHAEL e ROMAN