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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-12-28
WILSON MAY UPSET SOME
BRITISH CALCULATIONS,

If President Wilson had not the splendid courage
of his convictions that he has demonstrated On many
occasions he might have remained in Washington
rather than run the gauntlet Of criticism and de-
nunciation elected by his decision to the
in his determination clinch the great military vic
tory of the Allies by international agreements for
the prevention OF war in the future. He could have
escaped the broadsides of censure that have been
discharged at him by his political opponents and
by some of the big newspapers of the country by
the evasion of what he deemed to be his official and
personal duty in the premises.
In addition to this he doubtless would have in
creased his popularity in Britain had he chosen
exercise his prerogatives and influence at the Peace
Conference by cable or wireless messages from the
White House-a fact Of which he himself was
doubtless we'll Deep down in their hearts
he knew that the British politicians and diplomats
had little use for his high ideals of democracy and
his altruistic declarations for the rights of the weak
and oppressed smaller nations. He would have
played the game into the hands of Britain by con-
filming himself to preachments and lofty generalites
without as it taking the witness stand himself
in behalf of his enunciated principles. The British
ers we'll understood that his testimony will have,
perhaps, the determining influence in the verdict
to be found at the worlds court They are par
tlcularly fearful of the evidence he may adduce re-
Ireland and making every effort in advance to
counteract the force of that evidence.
With respect to the Irish issue they are in des-
perate straits to find any justification of present
conditions or any defense OF the past that will bear
the scrutiny of an unbiased and impartial tribunal
that are in consonance with those automatic and
elemental principles of democracy for the main
tenance of which in the civilization of the world
America contributed her decisive weight to the
cause of the Allies.
How would the voice of the puny Carson sound
before this international tribunal if he attempted
there to introduce his customary plea for Ulster
that majority government of Catholics would
deny religious freedom to Protestant minority?
How absolutely convincing this plea would be to a
man like President Wilson, Marshal Foch or King
Albert of Belgium! Would the cross and brazen
Orangeite, with his record of intrigue with the
Kaiser we'll known to his auditors, Still have the
teerity to proclaim his fetish worship before the
Conference? Would the British representatives
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-12-28
Saturday, December %, 1913


head Seismographc instruments in certain locali-
ties and institutions will be apt record violent dis
Alert observers we have no doubt will be "on the
JOB" to warn their less vigilant brethren of the sg
nihcance of this ominous conjunction of these two
great uuminaries of the world. The potentialities
OF such an unprecedented event apt to afford
fertile field of representation and speculation
among the soothsayers and prophets who have be-
come experts in this line of divination Surely we
would have had a copous crop of these forecasts
before now, were it not that the news of the pro-
posed visit came suddenly and found the Cassan-
dras totally unprepared for the wonderful oppor-
tun'ty to get in their work. It may be assumed,
however, that by this time they have sensed the pos
sibties of the situation and will soon be in full
action The public of both America and Europe
would be disappointed if the usual crop of protests
were not Forthcoming when phenomenon of this
kind has happened or is about to happen.
Is the incident to pass without the diversion of a
few bowls from the watch-dogs of anti-papacy in
America? Or they asleep at the switch while
President Wilson is concoctng schemes with the
Pope for some awful happenings in the religious
world?
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-12-28
HOLD YOUR BAG, FATHER BAETH1N.

If Father Baethin and his excellent bag are still
extant (as we hope they are) some excellent ma
ser1al tor the omnum gatherum may be found in
the following, which vouched for by the Los
Angeles Times genuine extracts from letters of
inquiry received by the war department from the
families of drafted men:
ust line to let you know that I am widow
and four children.
Previous to his departure we were married to a
justice of the piece.
He indicted into the surface
have four months baby and he is my only
support.
AS I needed his assistance to keep me enclosed
Gin clothes)
Owing to my condition which haven't walked
IN three months for a broken leg which is No. 75
[ am left with child seven months old as she is
baby and can't walk.
Your relationship to him? Answer: Just mere
aunt and few cousins. e
received my insurance Polish and have since
moved my postoffce
[ am his wife and only air.
You ask for my allotment number have four
boys arid two girls.
Please correct my name as could not and would
not go under consumed name.
Extract of letter from boy to his mother "I
am writing in the Y. NJ C.. A. with the piano plav-
ing in my Uniform
Please return my marriage certificate, baby hasn't
eaten in three DAYS.
need him to see after me-
Both sides of our parents old and poor.
Please send me wife's FORM
have been in bed Is years with one doctor and
intend to try another.
Dear Mr.. Wilson, I have already written to Mr.
Headquarters and received reply and if I don't
get one am going to write to Uncle Sam hisself
We have your letter. I am his grandmother and
grandfather and he has been kept and bred up in
this house according to your. instructions
amt received no pay since my husband has gone
from nowhere
l., have not received my husbands pay since and
will be forced to lead an immortal life
am writing to ask why I have not received my
elopement His money was kept from him for the
| elopment which never received
You have taken my man away to fight, and he is
the best fighter ever had
Now you will have to keep me or who in the hell
will if you don't?
My boy has been put in charge of a spittoon
| My son is in the - Company 158th Infantry
Please tell if he is living dead and if so what
| is his address.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-12-28
A RHINELANDER IN NAME AND SPIRIT

Among those invited to accept honorary positions
as V1ce-Presidents OF meeting held during
the first week of December at Philadelphia was the
head OF the Protestant Episcopal Church of the
Philadelphia diocese, Bishop Rhineander. In his
refusal to accept the invitation he writes
Quite apart from the question as to whether
ireland has so acquitted herself during this war as
to deserve consideration i'll this any other form
by us or any of the Allied nations this proposed
action by American citizens would most certainly
be taken by Great Britain as an unfriendy act It
would necessarily imply belief that Great
Britain OF herself is either unwilling or unable to
solve this most difficult of all her imperial problems
rlghteously and wisely.
Such meeting would play into the hands of the
d1ssension between the United States and Great
Britain.
commenting on the Bishops letter, Judge Eugene
T. Bonnlwell who the Democratic candidate
tor Governor at the November election has we'll
remarked, "Were it not that Bishop Rhinelander
is diocesan title holder of the church of Phila-
delphla, one could really believe that he was a
Bishop OF the Church of England, by the tone of his
letter."
We submit, however, that the Philadelphia Bishop
is but living up to his name, Rhnelander The
Rhineanders have stood up for Junkerism in Prus-
sla and this American Rhinelander becomes now the
defender of Junkersm in Britain. There are good
many more Rhinelanders in America, too, who are
trucking to British Junkersm; who have evinced
so little of the American spirit of justice and democ
racy that they fail to raise their voices or scratch
their pens in behalf of the victims of the Junker-
st1c autocracy of Britain which even after an arm
stice has been signed still detains in prison and
without trial two hundred men and women leaders
of the Irish people.
Such are the spirit and methods of the Rhine
anders and the Rhineland
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-12-28
GIVE HIM THE PLEDGE.

Father Healy, noted Irish wit and humorist, was
very friendly with Lord Plunkett, the Protestant
Archb1shop of Dublin Once during meeting of
the Protestant Synod in Dublin, Archbishop Plum
kett invited Father Heay to meet number of the
Protestant ministers. 81 want to ask you ques-
ton" said Archbishop Plunkett, after Father
Healy was seated "A former Catholic priest (nan1-
ing him) of the Dublin archdiocese has come into
our church. What orders should we give him!"I
Give him the pledge" was Father Healys la
comic response. He told the Protestant Archbishop
that when Catholic priest went over to the Protes
tants the change was always attributable either to
Punch or Judy. In the particular case mentioned
Punch was to blame, he sad-Cathoic Register
(Kansas City,.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-12-28
ARE THE ANTI-PAPAL BOW-WOWs
Asleep

About the time President Wilson makes his visit
to Pope Benedict at the Vatican watch out for hows
OF and protest from the usual sources of
such demonstrations whenever recognition or cour-
tesy is shown to the Catholic Church or its official
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-12-28

CHURCH CALENDAR WEEK DEC %, 1918,
TO JAN. 4, 1919.
Dec. -Saturday-Holy Innocents.
Dec. 29-Sunday Thomas.
Dec. 3O-Monday-St. David, B.
Dec. 3l-Tuesday-St. Sylvester.
Jan. l, l9l9-Wedresday New Years Day.
Feast of Circumcision.
Jan. 2-Thursday-St. MaCarus.
Jan. 3-Friday-St. Genevieve.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

aroused he can be impeached, such course
is practically impossible"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

neers, a professor of sanitation, a canal ex-
pert, one or two trade unionists, one or two
manufacturers, and representative Of the
Home Office or the Board of Trade Any
man of position who has shown interest in
public affairs may be asked to sit on q royal
ommission--provided he is not novelist.
Only one novelist has attained so giddy a
height-Sir Rider Haggard How it hap
pened is not known; it must have been a
mistake. We are not weighty enough,
serious enough, to be called upon, even if
our novels are weighty and so serious
that hardly anybody can read them. We
are gay tribe Of Ariels, too light to dis
cuss even our own trade. For royal COM
missions concern themselves with our
trade, with copyright law, with the restric-
ton of the paper supply.
HXou might think that for instance.
l. paper supply concerned US, for we
use cruel quantities, yet no recognized
author sat on the commission; a publisher
was the nearest approach Apparently
there were two great consumers of paper,
authors and grocers, but the grocers alone
were consulted.
What is the matter with us? Is our
crime that we put down in indecent ink
what we think and feel while other people
think and feel the same, but prudently keep
it down? Possibly our crimes are our
imagination and our tendency to carry this
imagination into action.
"RiRmarck said that c%o+n
the lines of the Sermon on the Mount would
not last twenty-four hours; perhaps it is
thought that state in the conduct of which
novelist had share would Immediately
resolve itself into problem play. Some
thing like that, though in fact it is unlikely
that Ariel come to judgment would be much
more fanciful in his DEGREES than the his
toric Solomon.
"All this because we lack solidity-and
yet the public calls us commercial, self-ad-
vertisers, money-grubbers. It is thought
base that we should want three meals a
day, though nobody suggests that we can
hope to find mama in the street, or drink
in our parks from the fountain Hippocrene.
We are told that we make our contracts too
keenly, that we are grasping, that we are
not straight-and yet we are told that we
are not business men. What are we to do?
Shall we form trade union and establish
a piece rate? Shall we sell our novels bv
the yard! May we not be as commercial
and respected as the doctor who heals with
words and the lawyer who strangles with
tape?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

stands by the country. It is patriotic to
support him in so far as he efficiently
serves the country. 1t is unpatriotic not
to oppose him to the exact extent that bv
inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty
to stand by the country. In either event Il
is unpatriotic not to tell the truth-whether
about the President or about any one else
save in the rare cases where this would
make known to the enemy information Of
military value which would otherwise be
unknown to him.
"sedition, in the legal sense, means to be-
tray the government, to give aid and com
fort to the enemy; or to counsel resist
ance to the laws or to measures of gov
eminent having the force of law. Thera
can be conduct morally as bad as LEGAL
sedition which yet may not DO violation
Of law. The president-any President-
can by speech or action (by advocating an
improper peace, or improper submission to
national wrong) give aid and comfort to
the public enemy as no one else in the land
can do, and yet his conduct, however dam
aging to the country, is not seditious: and
although If public sentiment is suficientiv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
A Message from General
Pershing
Ce7,tu,.1/

GENERAL PERSHING sent thu FL,
lowing message, published in tho
ay Century to Mr.. Charles 81.
0rasty, to Be used Al 1oreword to hi.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
FREDERIC HARRISON Is not 1t
all nleased NTH H.. ~Y..~- .t.aa

L>REDERIC HARRISON Is not 1t
all pleased with the slangy styid
that has come into vogue In Tie
press and in the utterances Of public
men since the war began. He writss -
follows in 1.-THE FortnightIy Review:
ut is sad to see how the slang d tAs
trenches and the camp, tle rage 10 b
toplcal and up to date, 10 injecting ms
our higher journalism and our per
liamentary and platform oratory. Thiar
are described with preposterous over
statement or under statement, or an =.
ferred to with literary and historical ssp-
monplaces, nicknames and catchwords, M
til the ordinary man can hardly guess TIE
sense, and is certainly worried by iuess'
SAINT tropes. Why not use plain WORDS
instead OF trying to be so tediously funny,
so smart? Why describe everything n
ccmical illusions? Then come thope.
stale American phrases which catch on
statesman now 10 out for victoryj ~
Is up against pacihsm, and is all for %.
knock out He has . card up his slssye
by which the enemy are at last " -
'euchred!' Then fierce fight in which
hundreds Of noble fellows are manglsd o.
~~S""SA 40 scrap. WuCu
murder civilians and burn churches tn
is mot cricket To criticise politics.!
Is to call for his scalp or for his hses
on . charger One minister is top dssI
the other fellow il beaten TO . frassl&
His supporters bark and howl or ~
offer mere eye wash Some one j. ses.
ever riding for fall and the eternA
red herring still misleads the pack Tha
the iteration Of some pet term--sorisnms
tion,' mentality a different angle. auls
essentially solidarity and 'selS-deser
minstion.' Boishsvism 10 running iss'
guage ~ we'll ~ society. l
ut 10 natural that our hns 3slIowe -
the trenches and In the ships should go
out Of horrible carnage and call W.
9iveliness,' or . pretty thing. But ~
Gus writer's at home need not talk q W.
heroism Of our men with round o. us1
some slang. And what bores ns even 81 II.
is to and the most acute problems q u
reslsd OF with phrases manufactursa
Of popular novslssF So :
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
The Reign of Terror
Everybody

RLAND WHITLoCK'S belgium"
- continues to be the most promi-
nently featured Offering in EVERY
body's Magazine" The instalment ap-
pearing in the May number is called
1.-THE Reign Of Terror" Writing Of the
German invasion Of Dinant Mr.. Whitlock
declares that
suddenly, early on the morning Of the
2Sd, German troops began pouring into
the town from all four quarters. They
came by the Lisogne road, by the Cinev
road, by the Froidevaux road, but prjnci-
rally by La Montague de St. Nicholas. and
while the shells exchanged by the Ger
man artillery on the citadel with the French
across the river were screaming overhead
the soldiers turned the inhabitants out of
doors, set the dwellings, on fire, herded
the people in mass, and marched them
across the city, their hands above their
heads, to the Place d'Armes. The men were
separated from the women and children.
ranged In line, and from time to time dur.
ing the day few were selected, led ont
and shot. In the Leffe quarter alone the
Germans shot thus lao, and at evening they
shot the Argentine Consul and forty work.
men in factory. The terror lasted ali
that day and night. The Germans locksd
whole crowds Of people In barracks, In sta
blss, IN factories. surrounded them by
soldiers ready to Are at any moment, and
IN the st. Roch quarter they imprisoned q
group IN . building, placed bundles Of straw
al around the house and set it on FIRE.
out ~ fortunate chance the Germans
overlooked collar window, and the peo-
PIE crawled one by one out Of this and a.
capped. s''s 80"
Women and children wers forced 70 stand
BY and witness the murder Of husbands
and fathers. One woman, Nine. Amin.
WHO had given birth to child three DAYS
before, was borne forth on mattress by
German soldiers, who said they would com.
pei her to look on while they shot her
husband, but her cries and applications
nnA!ly moved the soldiers TO spars the
husbands .Nfe.s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Leading Articles in the Current American Magazines
Forthcoming book, FLASHES from the
'front.':

Forthcoming book, FLASHES from the
Front:
"This great war is teaching new things
every day. War on such a scale affords un-
precedented opportunity for originality.
While methods change, human character
remains and, other things being equal, char
acter will decide the last battle.
This war found us nation nakedly un-
prepared, but our people had the stamina
the moral sense, the instinct for the lpht
and the. right 1t is fine thing to us
soldiers in the service to look toward home
and see mighty people responding to the
call OF ldealism, turning nobly toward duty
IN the splendid spirit expressed in the
phrase, the utmost for the highest We
may make mistakes here and there in this
detail or in that, but we have the practical
mind, and with each new experience we
snail move to higher level of excellence.
W the human material that America is
sending to this war l can speak with exact
ness. 1t is the best, and with enough of
such material there can be no doubt of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Rat-a-tat-tat and a Bugle
Call
Sunset


4 N ARTICLE in the May issue of
IA "Sunset Magazine" published
4 ~ in San Francisco, discusses the
why's and wherefores, as we'll as
the merits, of war songs which, sung
every day by thousands of American SOL
diers, promise to live as part of the
great story itself. The writer, Robin
Baily, lays special stress upon the sue
cess Of George M. Cohan's "Over There"
In one place he says:
Professor Arthur Conradi, master of
tho violin and lecturer on the science and
psychology OF music to the Affiliated Med
ical Colleges of San Francisco, declares that
Mr.. Cohan's work has all the essential mer-
its OF masterpiece. A composer is confined
70 certain limits In the art Of music, he ex-
plains There is nothing tangible in mel
ody. as In the case Of picture. The notes
60 IN at one ear and out at the other. The
musician must state his idea or motive. and
his only means of impressing it on the mind
OF the listener Is by judicious repetition.
when the idea 10 good and repeated with
out monotony. the composer has succeeded.
Inc most famous Of all instances Of the
majestic reiteration Of simple three-note
theme is Beethovens Fifth Symphony,
which many think tho noblest musical ut
ssranse OF all time. The great German
the Germans were great In his day--heard
: tapping on the door. It suggested the
tsp Of the hand Of Fate, and he wrote hi.
deathiess symphony. George N. Cohsn tool
nugls call. three-nots idea. like the rat
s-tat-tat on the door, and in The cola ana
Aysica! view OF serious musician ia.
~1'ssen war song that will live forever
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Do We Despise Novelists?
Immensely!
"Shall We Form Trade Union and Establish
Piece Rate?"
"HE English writer. w. L. George,
in an article published recently
Il in "Harper's," finds the position

"HE English writer, w. L. George,
in an article published recently
Il in "Harper's," finds the position
Of the novelist to-day, particu-
larry in England, pretty hard and
thankless one. eve novelists," he con-
fesses, "are the showmen of life. We
hold up its mirror, and if it looks at us
at all, it mostly makes faces at us"
Prestige? Well, he suggests
make an imaginative effort; see yourself
in the reception room of some rich man in
New York, where crush of celebrities is
taking place. A funky at the head of the
stairs announces the guests. He announces:
'Mr. Charles Evans Hughes! Mr..
W.. D. Howells! The Bishop of
Oklahoma!' Who caused swirl in the
'gilded throng'? The nv.ste cleric? The
former candidate for the Presidential chair?
Or your premier novelist? Be honest in
your reply to yourself and you will know
who, at that hypothetical reception, created
a stir. The stir, according to place or
period, greeted the politician or the bishop
and only in purely literary circles would
Mr.. Howels have been preferred.
"For the worship of crowds goes to power
rather than to distinctions; to the recog-
nized functionary of the state, to him whose
power can give power, to all the evanescent
things and seldom to those stockish things,
the milestones on the road to eternity. The
attitude of the crowd is the attitude of the
state, for the state is only the crowd, and
often just the mob; it is the chamberlain
of ochlocracy, the leader, who follows.
elm all times the state has shown it's in
difference, its contempt, for the arts, and
particularly for literature. Now and then
prince, such as Louis of Bavaria, Philip
of Spain, Lorenzo the Magnificent, has given
to literature more than respect. He has
given love, but that only because he was a
man before a prince. The prince must
prefer the lawyer, the politician, the gen.
eral, and indeed of late years what prince
was found to patron George Meredith or
Henry James?
CIT HE attitude of the state to the novel
l. list defines itself most clearly when
a royal commission is appointed. In Eng
land royal commissions are ad hoe bodies
appointed by the government from among
men of political influence and special knowl-
edge to investigate a special question.
GAS rule they are we'll composed For
instance, royal commission on water sup
ply would probably comprise two or three
members of Parliament of some standing,
the president Of the Institute of Civil Engi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Current War Poetry

IN charge and storm he saw her clear.
Upon the bed of pain, alone,
de heard her whisper, II am here,"
And when, to crown daring deed.
They gave him honors, glorifed
His eyes beheld dearer need
her vision, bright with joy and pride.
Dear Father, guard our gallant men
Within whose hearts is love enshrined
And bring them safely home again
10 those they cannot leave behind!
ARTHUR Guiterman, in McCyure,s